Example sentences of "be that [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , how glad I am that I did n't die . |
| 2 | All the signs are that it made virtually no impact at all . |
| 3 | According to her foster brother , another clue had been that she had so blatantly considered Vitor to be ‘ a real cool dude ’ , but she saw no reason to reveal that . |
| 4 | As I shall seek to argue , the opportunity was there ; and the Home Secretary 's failure has been that he did not grasp it . |
| 5 | His major criticism of Murder in the Cathedral had been that it contained too much obvious " poetry " , and in the new play he wanted to create a more flexible and less ostensible verse line which could handle demotic or rarefied material equally well . |
| 6 | Taking into account the fact that they made fewer comments about individual types of credit than men , women 's comments were more likely to be that they did not know how a type of credit worked than men 's ; and less likely to say that it was easy to understand and use . |
| 7 | It may also be that they did not want to listen to difficult questions we wanted to put . ’ |
| 8 | She was as sure as she could be that she had n't been followed , but she knew she would n't breathe freely again until she was airborne . |
| 9 | Of course it may be that she returned here with the deceased last night and he went out again on his own , but it does n't seem likely . ’ |
| 10 | That is , it might be that he had fully internalized the requisite mental structure , but for some reason lacked the capacity to use it . |
| 11 | His main concern appeared to be that he did not want too many parents to be able to read it because they would find it attractive . |
| 12 | ‘ I forgot the hour , ’ he added , and when Fabia , glancing at her watch , saw that , incredibly , it was getting on for three , she realised that when Ven was working it must be that he did n't give thought to food . |
| 13 | I wanted it to be that I had n't really been that big before I left — in other words , prove them wrong . |
| 14 | Your only defence would be that you did not publish the slander , which in this case would be very difficult , I feel . |
| 15 | It may be that it suited occasionally that the same parish priest looked after both of them . |
| 16 | We knew the weather conditions were calm enough inshore but fresher on the other side of the Channel so the indications were that she had probably crossed from France overnight . |
| 17 | And I mean being that he parked there it was perfect were n't it ? |
| 18 | He had , of course , known those grandparents whose glamour made Alexandra 's existence so difficult , but he saw them in a light so different from his wife 's that they seemed hardly the same people . |
| 19 | It was known at Cadogan 's that she had once fallen from a horse while out hunting and had broken her collarbone , but continued to follow the hounds for the rest of the day until she collapsed as they ran the fox to earth . |
| 20 | If I left a table in Fif 's that I 'd just acquired , I might attract attention . |
| 21 | Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the |
| 22 | Well , we , we as you correctly say er with the whole industry had a , had a difficult August , I think the good news for Rover is that we fell less in volume terms than most of the competition , and indeed we marginally increased our market share . |
| 23 | Well , perhaps the trouble is that we wrote down Maxwell 's equations in a stationary frame of reference . |
| 24 | I have forgotten the ins and outs of it : all I remember is that we argued as passionately as if the national survival was at stake . |
| 25 | yeah ten for the left and ninety for the right and the reason we talked about this and the way that 's involved in communication is that we said well if there 's a lot more power or a lot more contribution to the design of what we 're doing of a spatial nature and that is how the the audience 's brain work more powerfully in the spatial nature let's present what we have let's design it and then deliver it as close to a spatial nature as we can okay . |
| 26 | What I do n't like is that we went back did n't we , I do n't know if you saw my thing to David where we report back on a fax , report every month |
| 27 | The difference is that we did n't know then what we know now , we did n't know what would become of us ’ ; or ‘ We were so young and spilling over with everything inside ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ The only difference between this and other games is that we did n't put goals on the end of the performance . |
| 29 | ‘ What I regret is that we did n't force the bank into this situation 15 months ago when we first approached it over the demerger . |
| 30 | But we did n't have to , what I mean the point is that we did n't have to tell , have to tell them , they already knew . |