Example sentences of "[be] that i [verb] be " in BNC.

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1 There were one or two that were that I think were a little bit careless and did n't quite get the construction correct for them .
2 The point 's that I think is trying to be made is that there are a lot of people here tonight who do wish to express an opinion and that opinion is not necessarily formulated in question form .
3 I went and told them , ‘ One way or another , what 's happened to me is that I 've been burgled … ’ .
4 The reason for installing QRAM is that I 've been repeatedly informed that one should always free up as much Conventional memory as possible .
5 ‘ My problem is that I 've been too open and trusting , ’ she says sweetly .
6 She said : ‘ All that has held us together for years is that I 've been working for you .
7 The , the thing is that I 've been concerned for some time when it 's finally helped , f f found for next month , because
8 A further point is that I have been strongly advised that we should take out cover against the need to indemnify owners against not being able to occupy their units due to events such as fire , flood or damage by previous occupants .
9 What I am most conscious of is that I have been regarded as a controversial figure : until the age of sixty I was seen either as a subversive or as an enfant terrible .
10 You are a very intelligent girl and you have read a great deal — no , I mean it ; one thing you ca n't say is that I have been trying to flatter you — but you do n't know everything , you do n't know the French , the real French ( though the Fourniers are quite an example of one kind ) , you can have no idea of what life among us is like , the attitudes , the demands ; if you like , the values .
11 But we both know , although I have n't said it , that the consequence of her unfaithfulness is that I have been able to take the high ground .
12 My excuse for this lengthy and amateur digression into history is that I have been trying to show how I think geology got into the hands of the theoreticians who were conditioned by the social and political history of their day more than by observations in the field .
13 But the important thing was , the impression that everyone er had , who read the paper , was that I had been interviewed by the press .
14 They would n't understand how earth-shaking it was that I 'd been dreaming at last .
15 ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at .
16 What was also disturbing was that I found being the centre of attention quite attractive .
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