Example sentences of "be [that] i [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have had lots of tanks almost from the beginning , and have probably worked out most of my fantasies regarding sizes from 15″ × 10″ × 10″ up to 48″ × 18″ × 18″ — the only problem has been that I always want to keep more species than I have room for . |
| 2 | It might be that there really is nothing else of importance , or it might be that I just do n't want to make the whole of me available . |
| 3 | The result is that I rarely hear students chatting about science — it would simply take too long to formulate a question and answer . |
| 4 | All that I am saying is that I strongly suspect that those periodic catastrophes make more showing in the stratigraphical record than we have hitherto assumed . |
| 5 | I think I think the only thing that I would disagree with there is that I strongly suspect that a lot of tutors in the university , not just women tutors but across the board , really have little idea of the level of sexual harassment that students that female students have identified as being problem in the questionnaire . |
| 6 | The reason I want to learn ISL is that I often go to Dublin and feel ashamed of my inability to communicate . |
| 7 | One is that I often stay at a first-class hotel to merge into the background . |
| 8 | But what 's really scary is that I often lie there for an age afterwards thinking , ‘ Just what will I do , if this dream should ever come true ? ’ |
| 9 | The worst of it all to me is that I never guessed anything . |
| 10 | The funny thing is that I never expected to be an artist . |
| 11 | The plain truth is that I once twisted my knee after falling down a ridiculously narrow flight of stairs at a crowded party in a terraced house in Highgate , and I found it so comforting and indeed so peculiarly elegant to lean on a good stout walking stick during the weeks that followed this mishap that I continued to do so long after my leg had returned to normal . |
| 12 | I think basically what I 'd like to say today is that I personally agree with what Ida 's saying that it is an attack on the Health Service , and it is the greatest achievement that the Labour Party has done in history in my opinion . |
| 13 | What I will tell you , and I will tell for the very first time , is that I personally dealt with people whose future may well have been considered under the terms of the AMO . |
| 14 | My main subsequent regret is that I only knew my father from the perspective of parent to child and not from that of adult ( parent ) to adult ( son ) whence different qualities and traits of personality come to be appreciated . |
| 15 | What 's important is that I still go on working with old friends like Ian McDiarmid at small theatres like the Almeida . ’ |
| 16 | The scary thing is that I hardly know him . |
| 17 | But the important thing was that I just wanted to be free . ’ |
| 18 | The fact was that I just did n't know . |
| 19 | All I knew by then was that I just did n't want change . ’ |
| 20 | The psychiatrist 's theory was that I simply had to come to realise that becoming a ‘ complete man ’ ( which presumably included being heterosexual ) would not involve any risk to life or , more importantly , limb , that I was a ‘ complete man ’ . |
| 21 | The immediate outcome was that I now had someone to take me around , and I used to brag a bit about ‘ my ’ Corporal . |
| 22 | When I was , shall we say , inducted into the SS , the deal was that I only operated against the Russians . |
| 23 | My great regret was that I never recorded with Busch . |
| 24 | The only disappointment was that I never did see them feeding , for I could have learned such a lot in those short but interesting hours . |
| 25 | That parallel world really exists , and what happened to me in 1978 was that I unwittingly blundered into it . ’ |
| 26 | My other main concern was that I really felt that I would not be able to do my job any more once I went back . |
| 27 | Only this time the difference was that I really cared — it was n't just hurt pride . ’ |
| 28 | There it was that I really began to read . |
| 29 | I do n't know whether David would agree , but my experience as a teacher was that I certainly encountered , I realize now , in my teaching career , children with dyslexia and yet no-one had told me , in my training , anything about this condition and I do n't think I was in a position until later , in a sense , to recognise that I had seen children with this difficulty . |
| 30 | The problem was that I still had a Jamaican passport and to run in a major meeting like that it was necessary to become a British subject . |