Example sentences of "be that he [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Ebert had been paying for Axel 's debauchery , the chances were that he was behind the death of the girl . |
| 2 | ‘ The great thing is that he 's over his glandular fever and has ended all the speculation about his future by signing a new contract . |
| 3 | Thing is that he 's in er he 's in such a pickle , he 's doing what I can understand him doing it cos I 'd do it , he 's kind of just putting it off having to sort it out . |
| 4 | ‘ All I know is that he is with the naval air forces . |
| 5 | latest on Ronny Johnsen is that he is at — Spurs — for a trial together with fellow norwegian international Oyvind Leonhardsen of Rosenborg , Trondheim ( where halvard live ) . |
| 6 | The advantage to the developer is that he is under no obligation to exercise the option and proceed with the purchase , whereas the landowner must sell the land to the developer if the terms of the option are met . |
| 7 | The real tragedy of Tony Bland is that he is in the public eye . |
| 8 | His point is that he is in effect running the equivalent of a small assessment unit but he is not actually getting paid for running the equivalent of a small assessment unit . |
| 9 | News on Ronny is that he is in fact at Tottenham for the second week now . |
| 10 | The official history is that he was in the Communist resistance . |
| 11 | ‘ The last I heard was that he 's on the run from the authorities in Beirut . ’ |
| 12 | The only meaning to that part was that he was on top of — i.e. , surpassing — her in public . |
| 13 | Erm , once she walked into W H Smith 's and saw her father , the only difference was that he was on the front page of a magazine so she got quite a shock because she did n't expect to see him . |
| 14 | ‘ The last I heard was that he was to be given a good education at the public school which Sir Philip 's son was attending . |
| 15 | A clause in a lease was silent about the status of the rent reviewer : all it said was that he was to be a surveyor . |
| 16 | But all Gouzenko could say about the other Elli was that he was in ‘ department five of Military intelligence ’ and had been told this by a colleague called Lubimov , or possibly Liubimov , who had worked with him in the GRU code room in Moscow . |
| 17 | Darling 's points were credible in the circumstances ; the only plausible explanation of Shill 's actions after the crime was that he was in a drunken stupor . |
| 18 | ‘ All he said was that he was in trouble and that he needed some money to get out of the country . |
| 19 | Despite the rumour that he could fly , all this really meant for Henry was that he was in the saddle so much that he suffered from sore legs . |
| 20 | Davide was walking now down the street which intersected with the woman 's shop ; she still gave sheets of pink blotting paper for change , and a photograph of her son was pinned up on the shelf behind her till ; the news was that he was in the army , but Davide was ashamed to inquire what that report concealed . |