Example sentences of "be [adv] [that] [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been then that I was blown up by the land-mine , which may well have knocked out Private Prescott as well . ’ |
| 2 | It 's only that I 'm sharing text books with the others |
| 3 | But before I can do that I need to establish something even more basic : what it is exactly that I am inquiring into . |
| 4 | It is just that I am trying to find ways of helping him through the first bad spell of his career . |
| 5 | At the moment it is just that she is missing . ’ |
| 6 | It 's not that the expressions are n't spontaneous or genuine , Bernice said to herself , it 's just that they 're edited . |
| 7 | It 's just that we 're going to make it into a theatre . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It 's just that we are having a party — after the competition , ’ she added hastily . |
| 9 | It 's just that he 's coming for it at three so if I get my camera I want it before three . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's just that he 's suffering from a temporary loss of memory of our previous days — and nights — together . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It 's just that he was passing the house as I came in and he looked at me really strangely . |
| 12 | It 's just that it 's running out rather quickly , |
| 13 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 14 | It 's just that I 'm saving . |
| 15 | Yeah that 's right no reflection on you it 's just that I 'm thinking oh I ca I just ca n't see the time when I would ever drive through a gap like that that confidently that 's all . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm so scared of you my spine has turned to jelly , it 's just that I 'm suffering from an overdose of terror right now . |
| 17 | I do n't know if it 's just that I 'm missing you … |
| 18 | It 's just that I 'm going to send |
| 19 | It 's just that I 'm planning to write a book which is rather in his field , and I wanted his advice . |
| 20 | It 's just that you 're munching peanuts and all |
| 21 | It 's just that you 're going to get that on . |
| 22 | Thirdly , it is not only that the approaches give different ‘ answers ’ , it is also that they are asking different questions . |
| 23 | It 's here that he was caught fishing out of season by National Rivers Authority water bailiffs . |
| 24 | The first difference is simply that we are allowed to specify less in the way of " conditions or data " in order to fix the state . |
| 25 | It is simply that I was brought up in the East of Scotland and have lived in places whither the Orangemen walketh not , neither in triumph nor provocation . |
| 26 | The mark of the adjudicator is simply that he is called upon to decide what parties in dispute should have done or should do in the circumstances of a particular case . |
| 27 | The recommendation is simply that it be noted and I wondered if anybody wanted to make a contribution , or ask any questions , put anything forward , on Appendix A. Councillor |
| 28 | It is there that I am putting up . ’ |
| 29 | In the autumn , the sweeping tracts of it on the lower , treeless hillsides are the colour of rust , and it is then that it is scythed down , to provide bedding for the animals during the winter and , once suitably impregnated , fertilizer for the fields the following spring — in a neat ecological cycle . |
| 30 | And it 's then that you 're gon na work out how much you need |