Example sentences of "[noun sg] be that [pers pn] do n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jones finished off by saying : ‘ The good thing about English football is that they do n't roll about the pitch if they are not hurt . |
| 2 | My biggest comment on football is that I do n't like Sunderland … or Gazza ( Gascoigne ) . |
| 3 | ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’ |
| 4 | The only real problem with QBasic is that it does n't come with any sort of printed documentation — this is where we can help . |
| 5 | Another plus-point of Ark is that you do n't have to duplicate formulae on each row of data . |
| 6 | The tragedy is that he did n't need any ; he had more than enough kudos of his own from his motor racing , ’ she said sadly , ‘ but that 's the way he thought . ’ |
| 7 | I mean that that 's another alternative is that we do n't bother with pictures . |
| 8 | My only regret is that he did n't turn up at court to watch his Pyrrhic victory . |
| 9 | Sir Stanley 's only regret is that he did n't play for a few years more . |
| 10 | And the failure of IBM management is that it did n't understand — and still does n't understand — the extent of the mischief the genie of open systems it let out of the bottle with the original open IBM Personal Computer , could wreak . |
| 11 | The main outstanding issue is that we do n't know how colour-coding receptive fields are constructed out of wavelength-coding receptive fields at other stages in the system . |
| 12 | ‘ The answer to your question is that I do n't know . |
| 13 | ‘ The trouble with the test is that you do n't have to be competent to drive . |
| 14 | The likelihood is that it does n't . |
| 15 | All he would say in return was that he did n't think it was working out ! |
| 16 | The difference is that we did n't know then what we know now , we did n't know what would become of us ’ ; or ‘ We were so young and spilling over with everything inside ’ . |
| 17 | The difference is that we do n't recognize and celebrate this story — and the Japanese do . |
| 18 | Given that he does n't want to see you and your suspicion is that he does n't want to see you because you have as it were the fingerprints of Gerry Adams on you now you 're tainted because of your relationship with Gerry Adams , what do you now do ? |
| 19 | One of the clever and pleasing touches about this process is that you do n't have to tell the program which lead you 're using . |
| 20 | I think they ought to much more than they do , but the plain truth is that they do n't . |
| 21 | For some people , the joy of being a tourist is that they do n't have to think , everything is done for them . |
| 22 | But we did n't have to , what I mean the point is that we did n't have to tell , have to tell them , they already knew . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , yes , man , but the point is that I did n't leave it , and now these confounded women have taken possession of the cottage . |
| 24 | But the point is that I do n't see myself as a playwright in the same way I would see myself as a prose writer . |
| 25 | The truth was that she did n't want Sam to be in love : not seriously in love with an older man , and the boy in the bistro was n't really a boy at all , being at least twenty-two . |
| 26 | Not that it mattered , she thought ; the truth was that she did n't give a damn about herself . |
| 27 | The truth was that I did n't know how to effect such an aim , and if I found myself eating any more than the minimum — that is , enough for me to remain undetected by the authorities-I considered myself guilty of backsliding , and had to punish myself by eating even less the next day or at the next meal . |
| 28 | And the whole point of credit cards and other forms of revolving credit is that they do n't come to an end . |
| 29 | My only criticism is that it does n't come out often enough . |
| 30 | The thing about Back is that you do n't refer to his stature when within ear-shot . |