Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] be that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just said is that all we 've got ? |
| 2 | Legal aid is not available in any form for industrial tribunal hearings erm so what I usually say is that we assist the client up to the stage where s it means going er to the tribunal itself . |
| 3 | Most of the equipment is stored in the boot and the problem I now faced was that my new car had a smaller , different shaped boot . |
| 4 | What I really wish is that every evening could be like tonight . |
| 5 | Actually , it could have been ‘ See , you ! ’ — and I 've even told people since that it was ‘ See you , Jimmy ’ — but then and there , lying flat on my back looking up at Shifty-Eyes and still holding his foot , all I really registered was that the ‘ you ’ came out as just ‘ U ’ . |
| 6 | What I actually said was that Borges ' most important work , Fictions or Ficciones , was not currently available in the UK . |
| 7 | What I actually said was that the price that we would have to charge for burying the dead had to go up in order to ensure that in of the circumstances our standards could remain impeccable . |
| 8 | Another little problem which sometimes occurs is that , when going to a full needle setting from rib , you get a row of little holes between the two . |
| 9 | Also , what you generally find is that if somebody is reading as opposed to refreshing their memory from looking at a piece of paper and then letting it flow , if they 're reading from it it 's dull , it lacks sparkle . |
| 10 | And that 's where a lot of it and she still think 's that he 's |
| 11 | What she really meant was that the child 's affections were being alienated ; this was not wholly a fair charge . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , I see , ’ she murmured , but all she really saw was that the question which had come to her — had he driven to Mariánské Láznë last night after he 'd left her ? — had been answered . |
| 13 | I think she half meant it , though what she really felt was that this time she was going to wait . |
| 14 | However , if you pursue the associations and begin to delve into the latent content , what you often find is that those day 's residues , which are specific to that day , as Theresa was saying , relate to more general erm situations , or indeed to things that actually happened in the past which that particular aspect of that particular day might remind you of . |
| 15 | You can , of course , say that a certain bait catches more bream than any other , but what you really mean is that a certain bait is used more often than any other on the waters with which you are acquainted . |
| 16 | Um one of the things that you sometimes find is that the abuse is characterised is something special , something secret , something that you should n't tell anybody else about because it 's our secret and you know what happens to people who tell secrets ? |
| 17 | What she never admitted was that in the beginning , she had been terrified of this new mode of travel and the first few miles had been passed with her eyes tightly closed and her lips moving in prayer . |
| 18 | Well , when we say horrifying car crash what we really mean is that one of the two cars got a puncture and the other vehicle bashed into the back of them but you never know , it could have been worse . |
| 19 | When we have a hunch that somebody is telling lies , for instance , ‘ what we really mean is that their body language and their spoken words do not agree . ’ |
| 20 | A decision which has never had any legal effect can not be deprived of legal effect , and so when we say that certiorari quashes a decision which the decision-maker had no jurisdiction to make , what we really mean is that the order formally declares that from the moment it was purportedly made ( ‘ ab initio ’ ) the decision had no effect in law . |
| 21 | All we really claim is that such models may be useful in helping managers assess how much the value of the firm might be increased through investment in alternative locations on the portfolio grid . |
| 22 | It may be , of course , that what we really want is that some losses so caused should be compensated for if they result from illegal action , and some other losses compensated for regardless of whether they result from illegal action or not . |
| 23 | What we then see is that the hierarchy of use and need is itself directly related to the character of the organizing productive relations . |
| 24 | The answer we readily give is that it is significant because it sums up the gospel . |
| 25 | ‘ The main conflict they always had was that she wanted to work more and he would not allow her , ’ according to Jane . |
| 26 | The Court of Appeal 's decisions have wavered somewhat , but the test which they now favour is that D is reckless if he ‘ could not care less ’ whether the woman is not consenting . |
| 27 | What they really mean is that they can not find any acceptable community leadership to support . |
| 28 | She has such a good head on her shoulders , ’ they had said , when what they really meant was that whilst Paula was a beauty , she was really very plain but they had to find something good to say about her . |
| 29 | ‘ I think one reason why they never married was that Uncle Phil would n't have asked her . |
| 30 | What it basically means is that if someone makes a gift during his lifetime and-does n't die for a given period , that gift is free of estate duty , or partly free . |