Example sentences of "be [det] [noun] that [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may have been this connection that took him to Nottinghamshire in 1580 , to work for Arundell 's brother-in-law , Sir Francis Willoughby , at Wollaton Hall . |
| 2 | I felt that there were several factors that caused him to want to continue living , and I think they 're normal everyday factors . |
| 3 | Mr Sullivan says it was this incident that prompted him to stage the break in . |
| 4 | On leaving school he went as a labourer to Hunts Farm ( visible from the 6th green ) and it was this work that brought him to the course . |
| 5 | It was this casualness that led him , as Edmund Wilson reported , to be humorous in private about his own reputation , and " offhand and vague " about matters he had once taken seriously . |
| 6 | It was this condition that brought him close to his parishioners . |
| 7 | Convention , technique , and an empathy with the popular mind all went into the perfecting of the Chaplin act and it was these things that enabled him to become Sennett 's most accomplished pupil and which allowed him to create the cinema 's most appealing and most universal symbol . |
| 8 | Perhaps it was these journeys that made him realise to the full how many of the world 's species were on the brink of extinction . |
| 9 | As for Forrester , Whelan , Bowman etc I got the impression that it was more desparation that made him turn to the younger players , granted their performances were top notch but I think the injury situation had more to do with it than Wilko 's judgement , after all where are they now ? ? ? |