Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] that they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Directors have sometimes been called trustees , or commercial trustees , sometimes they have been called managing partners ; it does not matter much what you call them as long as you understand what their true position is , which is really that they are commercial men managing a trading concern for the benefit of themselves and all the other shareholders … they are bound to use fair and reasonable diligence in the management of the company 's affairs and to act honestly . |
| 2 | And although you 're right that they 've been selling flowers for a long time , they underwent a massive re-fit recently . |
| 3 | Is he aware that among women serving life sentences in Bullwood Hall women 's prison for murdering their husbands there are several whose lack of command of English meant that they were not aware that there was anywhere that they could run to , that some women who had tried to run away from extreme brutality were dragged back by their families , and that some were terrified of leaving their children with a brutal partner , and that therefore they had to wait until they could do something about it and were driven to commit murder ? |
| 4 | It was declared the best policy was for the ‘ sent down ’ youth to remain where they were so that they could make their valuable contribution to the motherland on the ‘ agricultural front ’ , as in previous decades . |
| 5 | Well really that 's l by and large what groups is all about so it 's clearly that they do and there 's some cases here of sort of cyclists cycling harder and faster when they 've got they 're training with other cyclists or erm when they 're training against the clock . |
| 6 | And often it 's not that they never had anywhere to live , it 's just that they could n't cope with the responsibilities and the isolation of living on their own . |
| 7 | It 's not that they 're his nappies and he wets them — it 's nothing to do with that — it 's just that they 're endless . |
| 8 | If there is any justification in using them , it 's not that they accurately reproduce the eighteenth century , but that through them we can clear our way back to it through all the nineteenth-century ironmongery put in our way by what , musically , I regard as a particularly corrupting and polluting century . |
| 9 | It 's not that they need them , it 's because they know everyone else has got them . |
| 10 | It 's not that they 're fussy , it 's because they think it 's wrong . |
| 11 | It 's not that they 're not clean or anything . |
| 12 | But ano but what I think would happen when we get maybe Mike or Chris or somebody helping , it 's not that they 're taking work off Wendy , but that we will do more physical checks , do you know what I mean , with the stock control . |
| 13 | Not as clear as that , it 's not a ris , it 's not that they 're either going to lose the six double O one and half a million , it 's the thing that 's , admit that they might , and it weakens our position . |
| 14 | It 's not that they 're in rehabilitation , it 's just like seeing that person is locked away in the prime of their lives revenge . |
| 15 | It 's not that they passively resist you , it 's that they actively sabotage you , because the change is so graphic . |
| 16 | We are introduced to both characters at the beginning of each book and as we find out more about them , it 's not that they are rude offensive children , it 's purely down to the innocence that all children have at that age . |
| 17 | But I , but it 's not that they 're mild , it 's just that I do n't like the flavour , the taste of them is just dreadful they just taste awful . |
| 18 | I say , it 's not that they were n't good . |
| 19 | It 's not that they 're being racist |
| 20 | It 's just that they were not inclined to help him out . |
| 21 | And often it 's not that they never had anywhere to live , it 's just that they could n't cope with the responsibilities and the isolation of living on their own . |
| 22 | It 's just that they 'll make such a fuss . |
| 23 | I did n't want to quarrel in front of Flora — it seemed humiliating over something so small — so I said , ‘ Well , it 's just that they seemed so happy and fond of each other . |
| 24 | ‘ And also , when you meet them , they 're exactly the same people — it 's just that they 've got different accents . |
| 25 | The second , does anyone want to say any about that ? it 's just that they probably sent it to the appropriate people . |
| 26 | It 's not that they 're his nappies and he wets them — it 's nothing to do with that — it 's just that they 're endless . |
| 27 | It 's not that the expressions are n't spontaneous or genuine , Bernice said to herself , it 's just that they 're edited . |
| 28 | It 's just that they say if you 're doing physics sometimes you know this might help you |
| 29 | It 's just that they 've probably got so tired of putting petrol in each year |
| 30 | After all , some dot matrix printers can actually produce a greater number of dots per inch than a page printer , it 's just that they are bigger dots and tend to overlap . |