Example sentences of "[is] [adv] that [pers pn] can [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's mostly that I ca n't sleep . ’ |
| 2 | It 's only that I can not stand possessiveness , it diminishes people . ’ |
| 3 | " I hate to cut you short , " said Richard from the hatch , " it 's only that I can hardly expect my staff to be in time if I 'm late myself . " |
| 4 | The idea of the tour is so that they can actually er listen to it , but they can turn it off whenever they want and they can use their guide book to see what is in each room and if you look at the guidebook as we go round , you will find that that the things are illustrated , you know the pot . |
| 5 | I suspect this is so that we ca n't talk back or properly assess their charges or claims . |
| 6 | It 's so that I ca n't see his face , Merrill thought . |
| 7 | It is not that we can not remember characters ' names , but that minor characters are often not important enough to bother about . |
| 8 | When a person suffers from this lack of personal commitment , the problem is not that he can not genuinely believe something but that he will not genuinely believe anything . |
| 9 | ‘ It is n't that he has totally gone away , it 's just that I ca n't see him as I used to . ’ |
| 10 | Not that I want to look as if I shop at Next , or look cute , or anything , it 's just that I ca n't afford to dress the way I 'd like to . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's just that I ca n't understand French . |
| 12 | It 's not the buying them that 's cunning , it 's just that I ca n't help being grateful ( I did n't actually say I was grateful , but I was n't sharp ) , it 's that he presents them so humbly , with such an air of please-don't-thank-me and I-deserve-it-all . |
| 13 | It 's just that I ca n't help . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's just that I ca n't stand the slur on my grandmother 's memory . |
| 15 | It 's just that I ca n't bear to see someone like you , Ruth , made miserable so worthlessly , and until you get some feeling of respect for yourself you 're never going to snap out of it , and you 'll go on being used as a doormat . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's just … ’ she smiled tremulously at him through damp , spiky eyelashes ‘ … it 's just that I ca n't … |
| 17 | It 's just that I can actually hear it . |
| 18 | Although the money 's not important , it 's just that you ca n't keep asking a girl that age to come out . |
| 19 | say Chris , it 's not that he ca n't though Madge , he just wo n't |
| 20 | It 's not that you ca n't . |
| 21 | So a lot of , a lot of the problems with some of the areas of the work is because you do it so infrequent it 's not that you ca n't do it , it 's that you feel |
| 22 | The thing is , I ca n't do the environment , well it 's not that I ca n't do it when I was talking to er to the tuto the form tutors yesterday er they 're biggest keen I think Catherine had happened to notice some work that Sandra had done that she found er , interesting enough and where the kids should be knowing about , it was about banking how to sign a cheque , how to look after finances erm you know , do I have to buy a pair of trainers because it 's got Reebok on them , this sort of thing . |
| 23 | That 's why that you ca n't get I I appreciate exactly what Jim 's saying . |