Example sentences of "be that [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that they left the gate open when they went , and Joe just trotted out . ’ |
| 2 | Their crime seemed to be that they had sung the song ‘ Hernando 's Hideaway ’ too loudly . |
| 3 | In this case it would possibly be that they had the name of the subscriber but … |
| 4 | It could equally be that they had spotted my men following them and were attempting to shake them off . ’ |
| 5 | No , because it may well be that they said oh we 've covered audio description before , nothing new |
| 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 | The further assumption must be that they gave each other a great deal that was worth having and keeping . |
| 9 | Erm we also offered everything from sort of secretarial help and er use of photocopiers and duplicators , to the tenants ' group , through to I guess being able to perhaps suggest to them who in the council it might be that they needed to speak to , or perhaps tactically how to go about achieving their particular aims . |
| 10 | But may be that we had a description , want to get the description out to as many people as possible , to see if anybody recognizes the person described , er then we 'd come to you there , give you the description of the |
| 11 | You know it seemed to be that we had a working rule that had functioned reasonably well over the years and all of a sudden he was tearing up various paragraphs that did n't suit him , and altering bits you know and changing them round just to suit the company , and all to our disadvantage . |
| 12 | It may be that we felt this time we ought to have voted Labour , that this was the more altruistic , moral , even noble , choice . |
| 13 | He did not say what it was but it may be that we found it in the safe this morning . |
| 14 | Perhaps she was not feeling well , or it could be that she resented Lissa 's intrusion into the office . |
| 15 | He had watched until the night nurse had left the office and now he was as sure as he could be that she had gone below for a meal . |
| 16 | Could it be that she had retraced her steps , worked out that the house was Littlecote and the perpetrator of this heinous crime was Darrel ? |
| 17 | And best of all the pictures that flew through her mind so happily as she jolted onwards was Michael Swinton 's gratitude and delight , how touched he would be that she had thought of him , how she would seem to him like some sort of Christmas spirit , glittering in a thousand jewels , her arms laden with bounty … |
| 18 | In vain she had remonstrated with the powers that be that she had to be on the air in the Docklands by six , and when she finally pitched up , I had been put back on the phones for another session of ‘ And your address is — can you spell that please ? ’ |
| 19 | Could n't it be that she had needed to loathe him so that she could smother the awakening of her real feelings for him ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It may be that she commissioned the piece under the influence of the Norman history written for her brother Duke Richard II by Dudo of St Quentin , while some have thought it political propaganda intended to influence events after Cnut 's death . |
| 22 | On and on she heard herself ranting ( could it be that she heard echoes of her own past self , the speaking , ranting , resurrected ghost of that ephemeral figure Liz Lintot ? ) and heard his vague , evasive grunts and answers : yes , he said , he and Henrietta would marry as soon as possible , Henrietta wanted to go to New York with him , she 'd had a thin time herself lately , he needed her in New York , Henrietta had n't been well , needed to settle … and as Liz spoke and listened she was aware of a simultaneous conviction that this was the most shocking , the most painful hour of her entire life , and also that it was profoundly dull , profoundly trivial , profoundly irrelevant , a mere routine , devoid of truth , devoid of meaning : nothing . |
| 23 | In a rape case the typical defence argument is that the woman consented to intercourse , while in sex murder the defence may be that she provoked him . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | It may well be that he took the place of Thomas Hitchcock who had been apprenticed to the same master nine years previously . |
| 26 | It may be that he took new insignia after the subjugation of Norway , and that he left his old crown in Winchester , in much the same way that Henry II of Germany had , at his imperial coronation in 1014 , hung his former crown above the altar of St Peter 's , where Cnut would almost certainly have seen it thirteen years later . |
| 27 | gentleman came to this house it seemed to be that he challenged the establishment and many of us welcomes that view it seemed to give a breath of fresh air , but now it seems to me that he 's become entirely institutionalised , can he explain that to the house ? |
| 28 | Could it be that he had invented the entire tableau , he wondered ? |
| 29 | But Meg , it might be that he had stole her cubs , was not for his surrender . |
| 30 | That is , it might be that he had fully internalized the requisite mental structure , but for some reason lacked the capacity to use it . |