Example sentences of "that it be [adv] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Which is why the eternal words , ‘ Do you think that it 's about time we started a family ? ’ rarely fall from men 's lips .
2 I will continue Mr Mayor that it is not meanness it is practical caring Conservative policy to ensure that this happens .
3 Such is the efficacy of propaganda for the global capitalist system that it is rarely capitalism itself that is targetted in such cases , but the symbols of American or European national power .
4 Their mother and father have told them that it is about time they started helping a bit more at home .
5 Secondly , although certainly important , the current preference by some writers to relate creativity to the affective forms of psychosis should not divert us from the fact that it is actually schizophrenia which has inspired most of the theorising — and generated a good deal of the empirical evidence — about how psychotic and creative traits might be related to each other .
6 The subject had bored me witless at school , but on Sheila 's lips it all came alive , and forced me to the conclusion that it was n't history which was boring , but those who tried to teach it .
7 When I faltered as the realization hit me that it was n't Mum who 'd neglected me , but I who 'd neglected Mum , Pyke said gently , ‘ I think you may like to be in my next production . ’
8 She had striven to make her work perfect — forgetful that it was not perfection which life required , but completeness .
9 After reading some of the criticisms from readers in the past few months I felt that it was about time I wrote in .
10 Suddenly she realized that her phobia was beginning to make her a prisoner in her own home , and that it was about time she sought help in overcoming it .
11 stated that it was only Keele they were excluded from .
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