Example sentences of "[pers pn] be that [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The Regatta chairman talks about the way hospitality had taken over the regatta course and howm glad they are that it seems to be declining . |
2 | But all that happens to him is that he topples into the mud with his arm broken and his face bruised from where the broken arm was smashed against it . |
3 | I was too far away to observe what colour Enid Starkie 's eyes were ; all I remember of her is that she dressed like a matelot , walked like a scrum-half , and had an atrocious French accent . |
4 | What was interesting about those MPs who were swift to defend him was that they come from the traditional working-class wing of the parliamentary party — people like Jimmy Hood , or Aberdeen North 's Bob Hughes . |
5 | ‘ But why I mentioned her was that I heard by chance that she has married again . ’ |
6 | Today we were close enough to the front of the plane to have a newspaper in English , and not have to settle for one printed in a strange dialect of Latvian ( or whatever it is that they use for those that are always left at the end ) . |
7 | I mean we can Toyota can produce , you know , sufficient Corollas or whatever it is that they make at Derby erm , to sat to satisfy the whole of the world market for that particular car , just from one plant . |
8 | But the main thing that came out of it is that they need from us er the client reports . |
9 | Equally , the discomfort associated with gonorrhoea is usually of a greater order , and men who have suffered repeated attacks of both infections can usually tell which infection it is that they have on any given occasion . |
10 | Is it possible to define what it is that they have in common ? |
11 | It is that we tend to be left with an RE which effectively has lost its " R " . |
12 | Well , we do see a good deal of what is around us and not simply whatever it is that we happen to be staring at . |
13 | If the encyclopaedia has a weakness it is that it sits on the fence on controversial issues . |
14 | The only interesting thing about it is that it happened at all . |
15 | So can you give me a use of cast iron which ha one of the effects of it is that it relies on the occasional lubricating properties of the graphite in the iron ? |
16 | The only good thing about it is that it lasts for six months , then immunity is acquired . ’ |
17 | But of course the thing about it is that it works for any shape . |
18 | It is an imaginative use of the word , but what is significant about it is that it reappears in that sense in only one other place in the Old Testament , in the passage immediately preceding God 's appearance on Sinai . |
19 | I 'll ask Carolyn what it is that she uses on hers because hers gets rid of the weeds as well . |
20 | Could you now tell us what it is that you knew about Mr ? |
21 | ‘ I wonder why it is that you object to being laughed at by me , when you invite laughter in your stage show ? ’ |
22 | Thus an instantaneous influence propagates from A to B whose effect depends radically upon exactly what it is that I measure on A. |
23 | Sometimes we will be going upstairs to get something but , by the time we are there , we have forgotten what it was that we went for . |
24 | I chose residential care and so it was that I came to Le Court In September 1977 . |
25 | I tried to explain why it was that I went into the bushes , tried to make it sound reasonable . ’ |
26 | So it was that I lay in honeycombs of tiny compartments , stacked into loose piles and sheaves with onion-skin leaves of paper . |
27 | so it was n't the fact I was trying to lose too much speed , it was that I changed into first and did n't have |
28 | And thus it was that she came to be , that February evening , standing at the top of the tower block staircase , leaning against the wall and panting a little from her climb , pausing for a moment and thinking gloomy thoughts about life and death . |
29 | And thus it was that she came to be , on that February evening , poised at the very crown of the hill in Kensington Gardens , looking down the hill , with her back to Bayswater and home and trembling with the fear that she had at last grown up . |
30 | Do n't you know what it was that you came for ? ’ |