Example sentences of "that be [conj] it [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | never , no , and that is that it is constrained by a very tight village envelope which has actually just been defined and statutorily approved as an alteration to the rural areas local plan erm , and th the effect of that village envelope is to limit the possible amount of development to I would say no more than three or four hundred house . |
| 2 | However , the predicate displays at least one of the characteristics of a semantic dependant , and that is that it is expected to bring to the construction semantic traits not encapsulated in the subject ; furthermore , in cases of pleonasm , it is the predicate whose specificity must be increased to achieve normality : |
| 3 | That is unless it 's sold to the sort of person who blasts half of his land away to quarry gravel for motorways , like someone I can think of on the west coast . |
| 4 | That 's before it was smashed up . |
| 5 | " I ca n't make this out , " I say ( as myself , not the alien ) , to which several children respond : " No , that 's because it 's written in the alien 's language . " |
| 6 | If it sounds like the opening words of an episode of Star Trek , that 's because it 's aimed at attracting schoolchildren to the world of science . |
| 7 | That 's because it 's going round in a circle — like the Shuttle , and me on my space walk . |
| 8 | Firstly the criteria for the mean electorate size for a European parliamentary constituency has previously been used as a justification for ignoring the case for Cornwall , yet concessions have been made in other areas establishing such constituencies that do not meet the size requirement an that 's because it is accepted that European parliamentary constituencies should be created along the lines of natural communities , communities of identity and communities of interest . |
| 9 | I have n't heard of anyone dying from a broken ankle — that 's if it is broken . ’ |
| 10 | Well that 's cos it 's going down . |
| 11 | but that was n't with flood water coming over , that was because it was coming up the drains , cos it could n't drain into the river |