Example sentences of "be that you [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | All I 'm asking is that you bring back some relevant facts , answers , for me to piece together , ’ Cara stated , her voice all quivery . |
| 32 | All I ask is that you work hard . ’ |
| 33 | The trouble with you , Katherine Jardine , is that you look too good in anything and everything , ’ Portia said wistfully as Katherine slipped into the borrowed blue silk dress with ruched sleeves . |
| 34 | ‘ The trouble with using a Hasselblad is that you black out after each shot , and in the first session I 'd cut off the arms in one or two shots , so I had to go back and re-shoot those . |
| 35 | Erm how do people sort of beco when you become a member of a group , usually in some way the group changes you as you go through different stages of it , your values may change as a result of interacting with people in the group and th this process of erm somebody 's come up with how it is that you start off in a group , how it is that you become an active member of a group , how it is you may even become involved in the maintenance of the group and the leadership of it and then you sort of die away and that 's the y'know retire from the group . |
| 36 | But a a away from the the the politics and the necessity to mine coal yeah or nay , your personal worry is that you live close to the proposed site and it 's going to somehow adversely affect the quality of your and your family 's life . |
| 37 | The evidence is that you stand as good a chance of getting the choice of currency right as the experts if the return from the managed funds is anything to go by . |
| 38 | ‘ The trouble with you , ’ Doone said with disillusion , looking at the column of negatives , ‘ is that you have n't met enough murderers . ’ |
| 39 | The other thing of course is that you have n't got any choice anyway , because the yen to have children is about as basic as the yen to have sex . |
| 40 | The problem with keeping the original ( e.g. as a photocopy , with sections highlighted ) is that you have n't really done anything with it yet : you have n't assimilated it or made it your own , in the sense of fitting it with ( and so allowing it to affect ) your existing thoughts and knowledge . |
| 41 | ‘ The trouble , Kenny , ’ he told him , ‘ is that you have n't got a play . ’ |
| 42 | The first thing to remember is that you have not necessarily lost your place even if you have n't quite made the grades required . |
| 43 | The first is that you have probably developed a very poor selfimage which is reflected in your performance during interviews . |
| 44 | Your first problem as I recall from my masterly analysis , is that you have nowhere to live except a hotel that 's rapidly running out of vases . |
| 45 | ‘ What I mean is that you have already told me , ’ he cut in sharply . |
| 46 | Erm , the other aspect is that you have actually got line authority on this Phil . |
| 47 | On the other hand , if the reality is that you have mutually agreed to the ending of the contract , then you will not be entitled to dismissal rights . |
| 48 | The problem with training during the season is that you have so many other things to do — travelling , PR work and everything else on top of the racing . |
| 49 | The best news of all is that you pay remarkably little for all this bounty . |
| 50 | The oldest rule in the Westminster book is that you do not try to reach difficult decisions in the last week of July . |
| 51 | The trouble with playing from this distance , however , is that you do not require a full swing . |
| 52 | The reason for this is that you do not just calculate the length and breadth of the pool , but the various areas that are going to accommodate marginal shelves as well . |
| 53 | The good thing about a spreadsheet is that you do not need to worry about the order in which you list items — you can sort on any field later . |
| 54 | The advantage of Wysiwyg is that you do not have to keep switching from one to the other . |
| 55 | The explanation is that you lack control or feel at the end of the stick , and the reason is that you do not know where the end is . |
| 56 | The point is that you do not in this ‘ original position ’ know how to be biased and hence have to be fair : justice in this context would have to be ‘ blind ’ . |
| 57 | ‘ The mystery of the coming of a new creature is a great mystery ad incomprehensible , Mrs Virginsky , and what a pity it is that you do n't understand it . ' |
| 58 | The elder was contemptuous when the younger replied to his crushing arguments by the reply , the reason why you think like that is that you do n't say your prayers . |
| 59 | The advantage of this scheme is that you do n't need to remember to save the money which you would have paid to the Government later on ! |
| 60 | It 's a hell-raiser with 24-carat cuff-links and rounded vowels , it 's a freshly squeezed orange juice with a large shot of vodka — and like a Mickey Finn , the beauty of the Bentley is that you do n't know quite what you 've let yourself in for . |