Example sentences of "[to-vb] that it be [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furious , he got up to complain to his neighbour , only to discover that it was his own dog which he had accidently shut outside before going to bed . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , ’ argues Paul , ‘ you have to remember that it 's our first album and it 's , like , our album for the world . |
| 3 | Of course the sceptics and the doubters will sneer at the influence on the affair exercised by Dicky saying that the former route was unsuitable and geographically unstable , and they will point out that such conditions have been overcome in other parts , for example , the West Highland , the Liverpool and Manchester and the Settle and Carlisle , but then those conversant with Dicky o' Tunstead will continue to believe that it is his malign influence which kept the rails away from Tunstead Farm . |
| 4 | She has no reason to believe that it was anything other than an accident . |
| 5 | She has no reason to believe that it was anything other than an accident . |
| 6 | For a split second , I have sometimes failed to recognize that it is my own face that is being reflected back at me . |
| 7 | Prince Bernhard had said no such thing , but Sharpe had decided it would be more efficacious to assign the opinion to the prince than to confess that it was his own view . |
| 8 | She seemed to think that it was her own child and showed signs of distress when Carrie took the baby from her . |
| 9 | Ten years ago I remember I used to think that it was our mental hospitals which later generations would regard as the most staggering and incomprehensible blind spot of our time , on which they would look back as we do upon the generations which burnt witches or tried by ordeal . |