Example sentences of "it [be] that i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's that I 'm so skinny , ’ Rab said . |
| 2 | It 's that I 'm afraid I would disappoint you . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's that I think you 're gay ! |
| 4 | Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the |
| 5 | I think you 're , you 're often asked to do reactive tasks when I 've done all my tasks , you know I 've got all my staff doing this , and then I 've got to help down on the shopfloor , and it 's not that I 'm doing something that I 'm , you know , I should be doing as a manager , it 's that I 've done all of mine , and I 'm going out to give them a hand . |
| 6 | It 's not so much that , it 's that I prefer my cooking to your cooking . |
| 7 | It 's that I do n't want it . |
| 8 | ‘ If anything can be concluded from this book , it is that I was born , ’ writes Sisson after touching on that event , which occurred 75 years ago in a building since occupied by the Bristol Rovers Supporters Club . |
| 9 | If I 'm depressed at all it is that I think that you could make this process slightly less obtrusive and violent and spark-generating if there was more systematic analysis and discussion beforehand , going back a long way . |
| 10 | ‘ What 's interesting about it is that I have both worlds , because I play with Phil Collins ’ band as well as Genesis , and with Phil I do all the records too . |
| 11 | The Air Force will write to his mother if there 's anything to tell , and the awful part of it is that I do n't know where she lives . |
| 12 | But what it is that I measure I do not know . |
| 13 | ‘ If I have learned anything , ’ she says , ‘ it is that I do n't believe in justice any more . ’ |
| 14 | Moreover , different and indeed contradictory things happen to B according to which component of A it is that I choose to measure . |
| 15 | Thus an instantaneous influence propagates from A to B whose effect depends radically upon exactly what it is that I measure on A. |
| 16 | If it is that I do not , on the grounds that had I heard about the invitation my justification would have been defeated , you have a duty to give some account of why the ( unknown to me ) truth that my wife has refused the invitation does not somehow redress the balance . |
| 17 | As I lie uneasily in the cab , I wonder why it is that I feel propelled to barge in here . |
| 18 | Can I put to you , Mrs , my problems as an inspector on this , and perhaps then you 'll understand you know why it is that I am trying to get this er all written material before the end of the enquiry . |
| 19 | It is that I loved Mama the best … |
| 20 | And the more obvious it is that I 'm the best , the more convinced they are that under the surface , in some subtler way that only a more discriminating critic would appreciate , they are … |
| 21 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 22 | it is that I have an appointment |
| 23 | Erm the way that we see it is that I would appraise Kevin , Bill and Cath , initially and that , oh this is just York 's is n't it ? |
| 24 | My main job as I see it is that I 'm the exactly the same as a vicar in a civilian parish . |
| 25 | I mean part of it is what I think and part of it is that I think that I like it because it works , that these things — I basically am unconvinced much of the modern tradition . |
| 26 | Now it was that I had a chance of discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar off and imitated in fairly cold blood . |
| 27 | There it was that I really began to read . |
| 28 | Even now , I 'm not sure what it was that I wanted to say , and talking to my new friend is the only way I am learning . |
| 29 | While waiting for Mr Knightley to arrive , the rest of us were invited to tour the grounds , and so it was that I and about ten others led off to the banks of the River Avon by a ruthlessly hearty philanthropist extraordinaire , Lady Patricia Rutherford . |
| 30 | I can not explain this sentiment unless it was that I observed that the members of the household appeared not to have perfectly learned their parts and also that having seen and known the Emperor for so many years in such a totally different position , his present one looked like a dream or a play ; but when each actor becomes acclimatized by time it will be a magnificent Court , with a Sovereign who will command the attention of all Europe . |