Example sentences of "be [adv] that [pers pn] [am/are] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's been said that I am a much improved player this season ’ , Hamilton says , ‘ but I believe that the difference is merely that I am that much more confident . |
| 2 | One of the reasons for following a routine like this is so that you are less likely to make a mistake . |
| 3 | It is not that they are not used : vitamins are prescribed and bought on a massive scale for people without the slightest hint of a deficiency , and ginseng is now sold in chemists and health-food shops in the UK to the tune of no less than £7 million a year . |
| 4 | It is not that they are not capable of competing ; it is simply that there have been no great black performers in these areas in history ( due to lack of opportunities and facilities ) and no tradition exists . |
| 5 | It is not that they are too slow to avoid being hit , but that they simply do not hear the cars speeding towards them . |
| 6 | It is not that they are less likely to be murdered , raped , robbed , or assaulted — although the best scientific evidence based on victimization surveys shows this to be true ( Hindelang , Gottfredson , and Garofalo 1978 ) — but that in the criminal law , definitions of murder , rape , robbery , assault , theft , and other serious crimes are so constructed as to exclude many similar , and in important respects , identical acts , and these are just the acts likely to be committed more frequently by powerful individuals . |
| 7 | It is not that I am not eligible , |
| 8 | The first problem here is that the brevity of Scaevola 's response ( even by his standards three words is modest ) leaves it unclear whether he means that the debtors are not freed from any liability , or whether it is just that they are not freed from liabilities contracted after the first will was made . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's just that we 're not a noise band , ’ adds Mike , ‘ we do n't jump around the place but we 're totally comfortable with going out on a stage . ’ |
| 10 | I had a friend — well , I still do , it 's just that we 're temporarily out of touch — called Alison . |
| 11 | It 's just that I am so evil and perverted and encrusted with slime that it 's rather difficult for me to remember the fact . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I must thank you for all this and giving me food in the week and I 'm sorry for what I said , it 's just that I 'm not used to people being nice to me . |
| 13 | rush out , it 's just that I 'm not very hungry . |
| 14 | It 's just that I 'm all he has . |
| 15 | It 's just that I 'm too involved in what 's happening to play games — at least , to play games with you . |
| 16 | it 's just that I 'm never gon na get to up to . |
| 17 | Yeah , I 've got nice T-shirts , it 's just that I 'm really cold . |
| 18 | It — it 's just that I 'm so nervous . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It 's just that I 'm so lonely , sir ! ’ said the child . |
| 20 | Erm no not really I , I feel alright , it 's just that I 'm so nasty all the while and |
| 21 | You must think me very silly but it 's just that I 'm so excited ! |
| 22 | ‘ It 's just that you 're so young , ’ Aunt Lilian said gently , over the immeasurable gulf that stretched between her sixty years and mine . |
| 23 | I mean , if it 's just that you 're too close to it and you do n't want me to look at it , there are people I know who 're good at that sort of thing ; they can see the wood from the trees ; they could — ’ |
| 24 | It 's not that they 're not clean or anything . |
| 25 | Not as clear as that , it 's not a ris , it 's not that they 're either going to lose the six double O one and half a million , it 's the thing that 's , admit that they might , and it weakens our position . |
| 26 | It 's not that we 're not all agreed . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's not that we 're always this awkward , ’ the lady deputy editor told the waitress amidst the musical chairs , ‘ just that we usually are . ’ |
| 28 | It 's not that you 're deliberately staying away from London by any chance is it ? ’ |
| 29 | It 's not that I 'm not fond of her , you know that , May , but I daresay her life must suit her . |
| 30 | It 's not that I 'm particularly unhappy with the shape of my body or with my image , it 's just that I worry all the time about what people think about me , what impression they are getting . |