Example sentences of "[noun] be [that] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | His final words were that she needed a nice long holiday after a few days in bed . |
| 2 | Her main fault is that she takes too seriously the allusive jokes in Asquith 's letters . |
| 3 | ‘ No , her great fault is that she 's vain . ’ |
| 4 | The gossip is that she is thinking of resigning from the practice and going back to her home town . |
| 5 | Her first crime is that she has n't clocked into an office for 16 years . |
| 6 | Blanche tiptoed over and remembered the face from the photograph of Tatyana 's that she had borrowed . |
| 7 | One claim guaranteed to draw fire from Kylie is that she missed out on a childhood because of showbiz . |
| 8 | I think one of my difficulties with Adam Bede is that she begins to lose interest a little bit in the figure of the beautiful , but not actually very bright , village girl , whose seduction is an important part of the story , and by the end of the book we feel that she 's actually bored with Hettie , is n't really concerned any longer to explore Hettie 's own sufferings as the other woman who has been badly treated by the rascally gentleman . |
| 9 | Jackie was asked if she would take a Thoroughbred mare who had been abandoned in a field and give her a home as a brood mare — but part of the deal was that she also took the pony who had been left with her . |
| 10 | But her value in his eyes was that she was his son 's future bride , through whom he would control Scotland ; he did not envisage her doing so herself as an individual monarch , and the secret agreements she made just before her marriage show how far she agreed with him . |
| 11 | The allegation was that she did not do enough to help her , and over a period of time this had made the carer extremely angry , and at the same time made their mother dissatisfied about the care she was receiving . |
| 12 | Rain thought she was trying for a dramatic effect , but she was a poor actress and the result was that she looked petulant . |
| 13 | Her reply was that she never cried and moreover had never talked about it since it had happened all those years ago . |
| 14 | The irony was that she actively disliked him . |
| 15 | But the irony was that she had lost Luke already . |
| 16 | The last thing on Anne Simonsen 's mind was that she would end the evening being drenched with a glass of rum and coke and would become the femme fatale in a low-budget ‘ B ’ movie called Hampden Babylon . |
| 17 | The great thing about Angie was that she was always for him . |
| 18 | Her only fault was that she was too saintly , and was thus exploited by too many people , out of greed and lack of consideration for a woman whose life was one of toil and devotion to her family . |
| 19 | professional advice about Elizabeth 's unhappiness was that she was in a state of ‘ mourning ’ and that time would improve matters . |
| 20 | He only knew that in his anxious and over-concerned life his second greatest fear was that she might leave . |
| 21 | St Mary 's had always been a home for Eve ; the fear was that she might find the sister house in Dublin more like an institution , and worse still she might find her own role-there not that of an honoured daughter , but more that of a maid . |
| 22 | Her foremost fear was that she might lose her mind , for trying to think made her feel as if her head were filled with cotton wool . |
| 23 | The chief , indeed only , reason for her appearance on the scene is that she gave birth to a ( male ) child ! |
| 24 | Charlotte goes into the marriage aware of Mr. Collins 's nature and his company actually boresome but her view towards the marriage is that she will gain something greater than happiness . |
| 25 | What is known about Jane is that she lived in a cellar in Wisbech , earning her living by reaping in the fields in the summer and spinning wool and flax in the winter . |
| 26 | Her attitude is that she wishes to continue with the treatment which she was receiving when the hearing of this appeal began . |
| 27 | Andrew 's opinion of the new help was that she looked well fed , but he had then further remarked to Peggy that he hoped , now that she had help , he would benefit for , being less employed , she would be less tired . |
| 28 | Her biggest regret was that she found it necessary to keep its existence from David . |
| 29 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 30 | She complained to an industrial tribunal that the main reason for her dismissal was that she was pregnant so that her dismissal was an act of unlawful sex discrimination contrary to the 1975 Act . |