Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] be [that] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ The other vital thing for me is that I keep on learning . |
| 32 | However , the basic thing for me is that most piano music is far more than something which is tailor-made for a certain instrument . |
| 33 | It can be a very hard game sometimes , but the most important thing for me is that I 've now got my mind right . |
| 34 | BTW The bad news for me is that I 'll be unsubscribing at the end of the week when I finish working here — what a bummer ! |
| 35 | We remain convinced that full merger is the best way forward and the amendment will e enable the project to make progress If the Lib Dems have changed their mind Chairman and do support the forthcoming Labour amendment erm th the worst aspect for me is that I 've lost a bet because Bob bet me a year ago that the Lib Dems would not last the distance and he 's been proved right . |
| 36 | Now in fact what that means for me is that actually we 're all programmers — we always have been — but we have n't been used to explaining it in quite the way that computers need us to explain it , and of course that goes back to this question of understanding English that we were talking about last time . |
| 37 | The bonus for me was that the money was so much better than Whiteleys , Instead of getting 36 bob for Thursday evening and all day Saturday , Malcolm paid me three pounds 10 shillings — almost twice as much — for the Saturday only . |
| 38 | The lucky part for me was that I was able to go from school and do what I wanted to do . |
| 39 | But the fundamental point for me was that it involved a positive recognition of my identity and mutual recognition of our identities and that made it much easier to form more personal sorts of relationships on various social levels with other people you met naturally through the things you were doing , whether it was political or social or whatever . |
| 40 | ‘ I was teaching , but one of the reason things worked out so well for me was that I did n't have to worry how I would eat or where I would sleep . |
| 41 | ‘ But I have gone over it many times in my mind about why we lost so heavily in India and one of the main reasons for me was that we were not used to playing on turning pitches . |
| 42 | There must be a total retrieval now , the one good thing about which was that it might banish his dreams . |
| 43 | The essential feature of the life which Eliot had constructed for himself is that it contained as few surprises as possible : it has been said that , for over thirty years , he patronized the same tailor , the same tobacconist and the same wine merchant . |
| 44 | Studies in which rats have been fed ethanol have suggested that there is reduced ability of hepatocytes to bind to laminin , type I collagen , and fibronectin ; a possible explanation for which is that there is reduced expression or activation of specific receptors for these matrix components . |
| 45 | I agree what Rita asked for which was that it should all be archived in a central divisional higher , and I am taking it that they I think that the way we generally go about it that when we do n't get an enquiry erm , or when we do n't get a commission we keep a copy of it with the documents for a reasonable period of time . |
| 46 | You perhaps do not realize how long and desperately people have fought to keep Winston Spencer Churchill in the wilderness , and how furiously angry many of them are that he is back where he belongs . |
| 47 | One of them is that for all Enzo Ferrari 's mythomania — and God knows he loves the pomp and circumstance of his legend and exploits it in his dealings with the outside world — the Ingegnere knows his stuff and can be perfectly straight when he wants to . |
| 48 | The best thing that can be said of them is that their contact with women is slight , the numbers who participate regularly are few , and whilst this reinforces the commonsense definition of poverty as being a result of apathy , it protects those who escape from the prescriptions of unperceptive need-meeters and from yet more management by misguided missionaries . |
| 49 | This might lead her to change her expectation of the average level of prices ; after all , if she is rational she must know that unpredictable movements in aggregate demand can occur and that one symptom of them is that the price in her island is higher than she was expecting the average to be . |
| 50 | The one thing that really , apar , well not the one thing , many things irritate me about the programme , but one of them is that they get people on so you 've got someone choosing who lives in Edinburgh choosing someone who lives down in Plymouth |
| 51 | But what it meant to both of them was that all the money was frozen because there was a dispute over whose money was what and how much money had been spent — that was a problem for David and for Tony . |
| 52 | One of them was that he opened his morning newspaper with an enthusiasm he had not felt for years . |
| 53 | One of them was that the nurse , robbed of her pleasure in subduing the hair , turned her savagery more directly on to Harriet and once in a temper broke both of her charge 's thumbs when she was forcing her into a new pair of white kid gloves for Sunday School . |
| 54 | He could n't manage it and he said that he felt that he had to stop being an MP er for several reasons , one of them was that he thought most MPs like he agreed he was at certain times , were out of touch . |
| 55 | What 's a good answer to that because I found a lot of people , we had that actually on our and one of them was that she . |
| 56 | A more revolutionary proposal of his was that England players should train together regularly , an idea derived from his visit to Holland , where the national players came together for coaching once a week , and were given lectures and ‘ homework ’ exercises . |
| 57 | There are many advantages of working this way , two of which are that the performance technique required is minimal , well within the abilities of the class to achieve a satisfactory result from their point of view , and that it allows the class and its individual members to control the emotional input . |
| 58 | What the third defendant is asserting is a statutory cause of action under the Act of 1978 , the only necessary ingredients of which are that a person or persons , namely the plaintiffs , have against the third party a cause of action in respect of the same damage as gives rise to that person or person 's cause of action against the third defendant . |
| 59 | Indeed , we make an effort not to use the phrase for a number of reasons , one of which is that we have been unable to figure out what it means ’ . |
| 60 | Job preferment stigmatises those who do not need help , starts a backlash from whites and reinforces the myth of racial inferiority , the most pernicious effect of which is that blacks have believed it as much as whites . |