Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pers pn] be [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He frequents a seedy restaurant — ‘ You see this wretched tavern I spend all my time in , and I enjoy it , or rather it 's not that I really enjoy it , but one must have somewhere to perch ’ : this is the form which the Dostoevsky no-home takes with him , likewise the transpersonal motif first voiced by Marmeladov in this novel , that a man must have somewhere to go . |
| 2 | Perhaps the enormity of what he was doing got to him — the difference , perhaps between hardened professional and gifted amateur — or perhaps it was simply that the holes became too tough for him . |
| 3 | Youthful confidence , I suppose , or perhaps it was simply that I felt I had no alternative , there was nothing else I could do . ’ |
| 4 | Glancing from beneath her lashes , Lindsey studied his profile , and found it unnerving , or perhaps it was simply that the confining space of the small car did n't allow much distance between driver and passenger . |
| 5 | Or maybe it is simply that a second to them is a vastly longer subjective experience of time than it is to us and other creatures , possessed of a slower metabolic rate . |
| 6 | Or maybe it 's just that Scotland is too familiar with lads from the back streets of Edinburgh claiming they have a license to kill . |
| 7 | Or maybe it 's just that when you are away from home you feel more adventurous . |
| 8 | Or maybe it 's just that there is a course that teaches advertising and marketing , which is relatively new in itself . |
| 9 | But I do n't know quite why it is — maybe that 's one area where I do find there 's a bit of segregation , or maybe it 's just that people do n't have the time available , but it 's a different sector of the community who are working with the basic things like helping the old and the infirm more , just being able to give cups of coffee to people , or chatting to them , or visiting them , or whatever . |
| 10 | That 's only because you 're looking at it in a very short- term perspective , they , the way they saw the communist revolution was by a very long drawn out process and so it was n't that the revolution had just created this was , this was an important step in order to lead to their ultimate goal . |
| 11 | And often it 's not that they never had anywhere to live , it 's just that they could n't cope with the responsibilities and the isolation of living on their own . |
| 12 | You know and maybe it 's just that that there 're so many people out there with nothing to do and they just it 's just a a boredom situation maybe I do n't know . |
| 13 | If he did see it he must have begun worrying , and maybe it was then that he started feeling sick . |
| 14 | ‘ To a farmer it 's an anathema not to produce on his land and therefore it 's not that he is not being responsible in meeting the challenges . ’ |