Example sentences of "it [be] that [pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it be that they do not have the stomach for the hard grind which seems to be necessary to pick up those all important computer points ? |
| 2 | ‘ Can it be that you do not remember me , Mikhail ? ’ he pleaded . |
| 3 | I do n't know whether it 's that we want much , too much |
| 4 | Mostly it 's that they do n't travel well , whatever flightcases you use . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's that it does n't suit you . |
| 6 | Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the |
| 7 | It 's that I do n't want it . |
| 8 | If Armstrong has a disadvantage , then it 's that he has n't got a passenger seat . |
| 9 | If there is any difference , it is that they have now taken over all the station and the upper classes have generally disappeared . |
| 10 | Thus it is that we know as much as we do about the Orynthia and her voyages in the late 1830s . |
| 11 | I do n't know whose idea it is that it goes on and on . |
| 12 | there 's no , there 's no need to sort of rush at the , I think we wait and see what they 're going to offer us in er whenever it is that it comes up for renewal . |
| 13 | The long and the short of it is that he came in to replace Andy … |
| 14 | I 'm just asking Professor for my own clarification at this stage , and it is that he does not agree to accept Mr 's addendum . |
| 15 | Even though the new series looks good ( with one of its highlights promising to be the small-screen debut of Paul Whitehead ) and he has at least three other projects on the go , Harry Enfield still has n't figured out what it is that he does exactly . |
| 16 | The speaker must monitor what it is that he has just said , and determine whether it matches his intentions , while he is uttering his current phrase and monitoring that , and simultaneously planning his next utterance and fitting that into the overall pattern of what he wants to say and monitoring , moreover , not only his own performance but its reception by his hearer . |
| 17 | Erm how do people sort of beco when you become a member of a group , usually in some way the group changes you as you go through different stages of it , your values may change as a result of interacting with people in the group and th this process of erm somebody 's come up with how it is that you start off in a group , how it is that you become an active member of a group , how it is you may even become involved in the maintenance of the group and the leadership of it and then you sort of die away and that 's the y'know retire from the group . |
| 18 | ‘ The mystery of the coming of a new creature is a great mystery ad incomprehensible , Mrs Virginsky , and what a pity it is that you do n't understand it . ' |
| 19 | And the worst of it is that you do n't even see those people you knock over as you charge along . ’ |
| 20 | Well the problem as I see it is that you do n't know what the variety of this peach is , if it was bought out of greenhouse variety and is reasonably tender then I do n't think whatever you do with it in Preston it 's going to make any difference . |
| 21 | SALESPERSON : Could you tell me exactly what it is that you do n't like the look of ? |
| 22 | You built a little plan , that if I leave at ten past eight , I miss that traffic , or I , whatever it is that you do n't often plan till the holidays , but after a while it stopped being a decision making process . |
| 23 | The Air Force will write to his mother if there 's anything to tell , and the awful part of it is that I do n't know where she lives . |
| 24 | ‘ If I have learned anything , ’ she says , ‘ it is that I do n't believe in justice any more . ’ |
| 25 | If it is that I do not , on the grounds that had I heard about the invitation my justification would have been defeated , you have a duty to give some account of why the ( unknown to me ) truth that my wife has refused the invitation does not somehow redress the balance . |
| 26 | So it was that they went on to do other things , but separately ; a ‘ beautiful ’ working relationship was thereby broken up , and two highly creative thinkers had their play-writing ambitions stillborn . |
| 27 | Naturally June could n't understand why it was that I went on cutting her . |
| 28 | So it was that I set out laboriously to catalogue the very schema of my own sanity , to list exhaustively the full range of my personal habits . |
| 29 | Laing was at pains to stress that at no time did he feel under pressure : ‘ It was that I 'd never been caught before and I did n't know what to do . |
| 30 | Indeed , why it was that she felt so breathless now . |