Example sentences of "[prep] [be] that " in BNC.

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31 Erm oh well I 'll er the other thing I was thinking of is that er we could be looking er towards beginning , you know even now , to doing a trips network and things like that .
32 Er , we did it erm , er just after 1919 when er , er we started backing the white Russians and erm , before we write off erm everything the Communist er Government of er Russia has done over the last seventy years as being evil , what I think we 've got to be aware of is that we may once more be unleashing the forces of nationalism , which in 1914 , and I think of going up er in the period in the thirties very much lead to erm two world wars , and er I 'd like to know more about er some of the forces the so called democratic forces that are backing erm Mr Yeltsin .
33 Another characteristic of the inward investors that two authorities and ourselves have had experience of is that it 's likely that the user or users will want to have reasonably clean air , good water and the ability to work twenty four hours .
34 I think that the computer presents exactly that challenge and amongst the sorts of things I 'm thinking of is that erm it 's one thing to play with a computer toy , a game of some sort — we 've all seen them in the bar and elsewhere — it 's another thing entirely to devise your own game , to program your own rules in and then to bring your friend along and have them challenge it .
35 When we first started with him , even when we were rehearsing properly with him , all we could think of was that he could n't sing .
36 All he could think of was that he wanted to sneeze .
37 All I was conscious of was that everything had miscarried , and in my isolation , I was powerless to do anything .
38 What he was sure of was that she 'd disappeared , and that was inconvenient to him .
39 I thought for a while and said that the only thing I could think of was that the British government did not — although it would have been slow to admit it — at that moment cut much ice with the South African government , but the United States government cut considerable ice .
40 The first thing I thought of was that we 'd offended them in some way we did n't know — done a terrible insult to their gods or something .
41 All she could think of was that they 'd all been in on this — a kind of family Mafia , working behind the scenes to make sure that Lucenzo ended up with everything , his empire untouched .
42 One thing we were both sure of was that we would return in the near future with no carp tackle , but to fish purely for the cats , that is if we can get booked of course .
43 What Lupus could be sure of was that invitations would be sent : the attendance-lists of assemblies are evidence of invitations received and obeyed .
44 All I could think of was that I knew that a Lee Metford was the forerunner of the Lee Enfield .303 rifle and almost became standard issue to the British army before WW1 .
45 I mean if , if you er er the whole experience of was that you could get rent reduction and interest rate reduction relatively peacefully so you would n't get disruption etcetera and you would n't get disruption and what , what you might come to recognize as a more , a more viable agricultural system .
46 Luke Calder was nothing but a ruthless manipulator who made people do what he wanted when he wanted it , yet all she could think of was that she wanted to feel again the hot urgency of his mouth !
47 But one thing Rachel was certain of was that the revival of those memories had only intensified her dislike of her sister 's ex-fiancé , and when she arrived for work the following Monday morning and he was the first person she saw she found her resolve to have as little to do with him as possible had only been strengthened .
48 She had all that to fill her heart with but at this moment all she could think of was that the stranger had left her side .
49 Adam Burns was a hard man to get to know , but one thing she was instinctively sure of was that he 'd never back away from something simply because it was dangerous .
50 For , trying to analyse why she should want to see him again so badly , she realised that the only thing she could be positive of was that her wanting to see him again had nothing whatsoever to do with that infernal interview !
51 But the central and substantive argument that defenders of Roman catholic schools have had to deal with is that the dual school system in Northern Ireland encourages , supports , or at least reinforces the sectarian divide , and that it forms part of the vicious circle maintaining conflict in Ulster .
52 Clearly Helen has looked for ‘ explanations ’ to help her deal with such a painful experience , and the one she seems to have come up with is that she was picked on for the way she looks .
53 The first group of costs to contend with is that related to the purchase and transfer of ownership of land .
54 What Morrissey still ca n't come to terms with is that now , for some strange reason , hordes of people profess to have fallen in love with him and previous to the band , he often states , no girl ever even took him into consideration .
55 ‘ One thing I 've not been happy with is that I 've played so well during the practices , and whenever I step onto the court for a match there 's a bit missing from what I can do .
56 And the the policy now with is that this will ta now take place I know that there 's been somebody here for the last three years , but this will now take place every two years .
57 Yet another reason for the theoretical importance of considering how non-words are dealt with is that , according to some authors ( e.g. , Marcel , 1980 ; Shallice , 1981b ) , the visual recognition of letter strings uses the same recognition system regardless of whether the letter string is a word or non-word .
58 Yet what they seem satisfied with is that they initiate contact with the lawyer , and not the other way round , as and when they think he or she is needed .
59 Because , as I say , we 've got recycling credits on our side , we 've got the fact that we 've got this outlet in Exmouth which will take the paper , and that 's why we 're looking at producing this workshop area , so that a lot of this stuff that goes to landfill , I 'm talking about , fridges , tables , whichever else that can be repaired and reused er , I know this is only on a very small scale , but one of the things that I think is very important with is that we 're not purely a recycling centre , we also want to set an education project , to raise people 's awareness of what yo yet waste production is n't about recycling , it 's about not producing it in the first place ,
60 Amber 's Murray Martin is working with other independents on a strategy to counter the problem : ‘ One of the basic assumptions we have to deal with is that films made in Britain can not either break into the major circuit or survive in the market place , ’ he says .
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