Example sentences of "be [adv] that they [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again these hidden costs have been part of the investment-need right from the beginning — it is just that they have not been looked at closely enough . |
| 2 | It is just that they have both been at it too often recently . |
| 3 | I did n't want to quarrel in front of Flora — it seemed humiliating over something so small — so I said , ‘ Well , it 's just that they seemed so happy and fond of each other . |
| 4 | It 's just that they 've probably got so tired of putting petrol in each year |
| 5 | Well that 's debatable I think they 've got plenty of people up here to do it it 's just that they do n't want to do it . |
| 6 | Meaning is not an issue that arises for the Russian Formalists , and it is here that they differ most fundamentally from the American New Critics with whom they otherwise have so many similarities . |
| 7 | The conclusion is surely that they do not place great store by our profession or its body . |
| 8 | She felt she had Roirbak and Malamute in a corner : it was just that they had n't yet looked over their shoulders to see the walls closing in behind them . |
| 9 | It was not that they went away , it was that they became interwoven with the strange elusive echoes and the memories that lingered in the vast dark Castle . |
| 10 | It was not that they did n't know about the brain . |
| 11 | He said that one of their reasons for lying was probably that they did not want to be publicly associated with the Carpenter Club . |
| 12 | It was then that they scooped out for the storage of goods the extensive vaults and cellaring that still run beneath the old town today . |
| 13 | What guarantee was there that they had not been stolen ? |