Example sentences of "be [adv] [noun] that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 They just wiped the cities out completely , raised them to the ground , but there were still people that survived it .
2 And it were n't Brian that sent it .
3 But then going the direct way to get to Beckenham , it 's only Bromley that holds you up .
4 But I knew he might not take this view — it is only hindsight that makes you take it , and he was not old enough for hindsight .
5 It is not religion that drives it , or theory ; and the rejection of Marxism now looks , in retrospect , like an inevitable part of its natural growth .
6 ‘ Really it 's just things that interest me , ’ says Logan , and in the deserts of ad-get publishing it 's a formula to gladden the heart .
7 It 's not hunger that brought you , I know .
8 It is often circumstances that dictate what fish have been put together .
9 I always thought it was only Canada that do it with
10 For , after all , it was not humility that restrained her from believing herself to be at first sight infinitely interesting , for she believed herself to be the equal even of Clelia Denham : it was simply a deference to the law of probability .
11 It was not wickedness that led him into crime but a cheerfully impulsive nature and an almost complete lack of reasoning power .
12 It was not life that connected them so firmly , but death .
13 This time , however , it was not indecision that held him , but relief — relief at not having to play a role any more .
14 It was not compunction that restrained him , but an inherent sense of economy that objected to seeing time and effort and pain squandered uselessly .
15 Yet it was not God that kept me going but my critics .
16 She realized that it was not shame that made it cower , but further fear .
17 But it was not bashfulness that made her avert her eyes ; it was a deeper , stronger feeling : one that she tried to hide not only from the watchful T'ang , but from herself .
18 ‘ It was really Corsham that did it , ’ my mother said .
19 But it was n't duty that took her from her bed creeping down the stairs .
20 Yes , but er it was actually Mike that got it back up here , Mike and Grace , John 's first wife that started it up .
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