Example sentences of "it be [that] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it be that someone had an interest in keeping it alive ? |
| 2 | With stress on ‘ comes ’ , could it be that she gets a lift back ? |
| 3 | Can it be that you have no idea of the power a young , nubile girl can exercise over a young , impressionable male ? ’ |
| 4 | If we go to an exhibition together we find that we like the same paintings ; so I think it 's that we have an empathy in our way of painting , in the whole attitude to painting . |
| 5 | It is that everybody understands the idea of having diarrhoea and it is not pleasant , but you do not die from it . |
| 6 | Now , it is that they have no need to do anything so rash . |
| 7 | This objection helps to reveal why it is that we regard a hierarchical classification as natural . |
| 8 | It is that we have a single conception of effects , rather than several . |
| 9 | Those ultimate motivations will be the subject of the next section , but here we are interested in exactly what it is that we expect a pragmatic theory to do . |
| 10 | While the merits and demerits of this argument have been explored extensively , one major objection to it is that it begs the question of who identifies and defines the ‘ need ’ for an expansion in public intervention , and how a perceived need results in specific policies that produce an expanded state sector . |
| 11 | There seems to be no particular difficulty with exigo , unless it is that it takes the form not of a request ( like the wordings in Gaius ) but of an instruction . |
| 12 | In short , it is that it offers a way of by-passing ‘ the awkward corner ’ , Nearly twenty years ago Professor Joan Robinson observed that the predictable consequences of the attainment of near-full employment must , if institutions and attitudes did not accommodate themselves to the new circumstances , be so far to strengthen the power of the trade unions as to prompt a vicious spiral of wages and prices ; and that it would become chronic . |
| 13 | If I have any criticisms of this section it is that it underestimates the difficulties of writing software and ignores the influence the historical development of computing has on the acceptance of new ideas ( what Seymour Papert calls the QWERTY phenomenon ) . |
| 14 | The complaint is really a litany of er a whole host of the old grievances there that we have heard several times er before and we will be dealing with the matter in the proper place through our U S council in the U S courts , in terms of er suggestions that it is that it surrounds the question er of monopoly we certainly er do not accept that thirty eight percent of slots at Heathrow in any way constitutes a monopoly it certainly does not . |
| 15 | The great difficulty with it is that it makes the assumption that there is a coincidence of interest between all of these actors which will lead them to reject the maximisation of their own special interests in the search for unified position against the rest of society . |
| 16 | It will be B format at £5.99 on 23rd September , and the main reason I believe it is that it has a new hardback ( Big Hole and Baby Universes ) simultaneously . |
| 17 | As can be seen from the above it is possible to give questions a greater focus of purpose by considering what process it is that you wish the pupils to go through . |
| 18 | Erm how do people sort of beco when you become a member of a group , usually in some way the group changes you as you go through different stages of it , your values may change as a result of interacting with people in the group and th this process of erm somebody 's come up with how it is that you start off in a group , how it is that you become an active member of a group , how it is you may even become involved in the maintenance of the group and the leadership of it and then you sort of die away and that 's the y'know retire from the group . |
| 19 | it is that I have an appointment |
| 20 | This regular weekly contact , together with the organised group visits , meant that the students approached teaching practice knowing that they could organise a lesson in terms of defining in advance what it was that they wanted the children to learn how to do ; and then , by working backwards , sort out their materials , activities and procedures . |
| 21 | Now it was that I had a chance of discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar off and imitated in fairly cold blood . |
| 22 | ‘ People say how sad it was that he had no relationships . |
| 23 | If there was another thought about Barnes it was that he needed a strong-willed centre at his shoulder to offer the occasional reminder that the three-quarters could use some more work . |
| 24 | The two went into a long drinking session , and the end of it was that he bought the man 's seventeen-year-old daughter outright , with the last of his grant . |