Example sentences of "[noun sg] be that [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The reason for thinking that chloroplasts have this origin is that they still retain their own DNA and their own protein-synthesizing machinery . |
| 32 | The thing that makes this worse is that they really have meant well and were , I believe genuinely concerned . |
| 33 | ‘ The answer to the latter question is that I very much doubt it . |
| 34 | What I will say in answer to the question is that I personally always use hypnosis as the first stage of any regression session . |
| 35 | My great regret was that I never recorded with Busch . |
| 36 | The only difference is that they now want to leave the skip on site for a week at a time . |
| 37 | The only real difference is that it now seems to have been taken over by the 22 clubs who , having escaped Football League control , no longer find their pursuit of commercial success frustrated by the decisive voting power of their poor relations . |
| 38 | The difference is that she never felt guilty about it , whereas I , who have devoured baby and child books since my first pregnancy test was positive , do . |
| 39 | The basic problem with budgetary reform is that it not only requires administrative reform , but also strong political support . |
| 40 | Part of the problem of having a broken human nature is that we easily deceive ourselves . |
| 41 | The good thing about the president 's intervention is that it publicly recognised a problem that needed solution the very antithesis of WRU custom and practice for most of the past dozen or more ostrich era . |
| 42 | The trouble with reading about population is that you really have to decide what you think before you choose your reference book . |
| 43 | But the truth is that they just wake up . |
| 44 | ( It is tempting to say that they are rare , but the truth is that they only seem rare because we avoid them . ) |
| 45 | The use of girls above ground increased after 1815 , but the truth is that we really know very little of the actual numbers of women working in mines . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | While Diana has been billed as the matchmaker in this royal romance , the truth is that she never noticed the romantic spark between her brother-in-law and one of her best friends . |
| 48 | They are said to be his own work , although the truth is that he probably has the final say . |
| 49 | The truth is that he only races as a personal challenge , or for the pure enjoyment of running . |
| 50 | Our initial reaction was that we just did n't believe it . |
| 51 | I remember asking on the shop floor of a division , the board of which had been reduced from fifteen to four , what the major difference was This was not because the fifteen previous board members had felt to be down the line , and was told , to my surprise , that the biggest difference was that they now knew what was going on . |
| 52 | The only difference was that they now spent some of their free time together , thus giving her even more opportunities to fall more and more deeply in love with him . |
| 53 | Only this time the difference was that I really cared — it was n't just hurt pride . ’ |
| 54 | The point was that it basically has to come from yourself and if you feel funny about yourself , then maybe you should go to the root of what 's making you feel funny as opposed to just taking downers and then taking uppers . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | The immediate outcome was that I now had someone to take me around , and I used to brag a bit about ‘ my ’ Corporal . |
| 57 | ‘ I think the success of our ‘ Hello Rodney , Hello Charles ’ routine was that it never sounded rehearsed — which I suppose it was n't . |
| 58 | THE NATIONAL MARRIAGE GUIDANCE COUNCIL ( now called RELATE ) recognised a long time ago that the fabric of society has changed and one of the reasons for the organisation 's change of name is that it now deals with all personal crisis situations . |
| 59 | The trouble with some of those who make much of their support for the health service is that they also oppose any measures taken to make it more effective . |
| 60 | As Colonel Gordon Wilkinson puts it : ‘ The big thing about services catering is that you never know what 's going to happen next . |