Example sentences of "be [adv] that [pron] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , there is no alternative to understanding the world through interpretations and models and hence through what are , in the last analysis , intellectual fictions whose warrant is only that it is as if they were true . |
| 2 | For example , it is often the case that the essential characteristic of a " slave " is not that he is in a servile position or economically disadvantaged but that , not being a kinsman , he is denied the rights of a full human being . |
| 3 | ‘ It is not that I am in favour of it , it is what is happening . |
| 4 | But , ‘ It is just that we are in sympathy , ’ he said . |
| 5 | I was just gon na say Dick , can you , I 'll , I 'll give you a ring back it 's just that we 're in the middle of eating |
| 6 | It 's just that I 'm in a hurry to get away . ’ |
| 7 | It 's not that they 're in rehabilitation , it 's just like seeing that person is locked away in the prime of their lives revenge . |
| 8 | It 's not that I 'm against autobiographical writing I just generally do n't think it makes good , or true , fiction . |
| 9 | It 's not that I 'm against them in their place , |
| 10 | When I asked Roger Forster whether they had ever started a new congregation without a full-time worker he replied that it was not that they were in principle against it , but in practice they had not done so . |
| 11 | " It was n't that I was in love with him , you know , " she said , from time to time , as chorus to her main argument , " it was n't as though I was in love with him , you know . " |