Example sentences of "that it [be] [adv] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I mean I think I 'd like to comment on the way some of the discussion was going earlier , because although it 's true that it 's largely men who are seen as creating the problem , there are certainly large numbers of men in positions of authority in the university who are very concerned about it , and who have been led to re-examine their own behaviour , and who now comment on how uncomfortable and constrained they themselves feel .
2 Which is why the eternal words , ‘ Do you think that it 's about time we started a family ? ’ rarely fall from men 's lips .
3 When reviewers criticise software for not including such a facility the manufacturers often reply that it 's only journalists who are interested in this feature and that ‘ ordinary users ’ find a word count irrelevant .
4 I will continue Mr Mayor that it is not meanness it is practical caring Conservative policy to ensure that this happens .
5 The key notion is that it is not events themselves which produce depression , but their meaning to the individual person .
6 Such is the efficacy of propaganda for the global capitalist system that it is rarely capitalism itself that is targetted in such cases , but the symbols of American or European national power .
7 Their mother and father have told them that it is about time they started helping a bit more at home .
8 Secondly , although certainly important , the current preference by some writers to relate creativity to the affective forms of psychosis should not divert us from the fact that it is actually schizophrenia which has inspired most of the theorising — and generated a good deal of the empirical evidence — about how psychotic and creative traits might be related to each other .
9 Indeed , it could be argued that it is only problems which are set within this framework that are viewed by the legal community as being properly legal .
10 Please pray that the German people will buy , read and live by the Bible ( not that it is only Germans who need to do that ! ) .
11 This strongly indicates that it is only males who have the status and power to provide , in the eyes of the relevant professionals , a credible challenge to the GP .
12 The subject had bored me witless at school , but on Sheila 's lips it all came alive , and forced me to the conclusion that it was n't history which was boring , but those who tried to teach it .
13 When I faltered as the realization hit me that it was n't Mum who 'd neglected me , but I who 'd neglected Mum , Pyke said gently , ‘ I think you may like to be in my next production . ’
14 Recognising that as movement caused him to return to his normal self , he would soon realise that it was not Elizabeth who had found him , Sarah took one last chance .
15 She had striven to make her work perfect — forgetful that it was not perfection which life required , but completeness .
16 Rostov thought that it was undoubtedly Alexei who was the attraction , especially for the women .
17 After reading some of the criticisms from readers in the past few months I felt that it was about time I wrote in .
18 Suddenly she realized that her phobia was beginning to make her a prisoner in her own home , and that it was about time she sought help in overcoming it .
19 stated that it was only Keele they were excluded from .
20 Damn him for dissembling ; for pretending to Daniel that he was n't wounded to the core at being passed over , pretending that it was only Anna who was suffering , as if it were she who could not bear the lack of advancement , of increased prosperity .
21 So that it was only Creggan who heard old Minch 's final words : ‘ Help lies beyond the power of our wings and strength , it goes where our spirit goes .
22 However , closer examination of how these deprivations were experienced within care-giving households suggests that it was often carers who bore the brunt of them , while trying to protect the living standards of the disabled or elderly person :
23 In his heart , he still regarded this as women 's work , and felt humiliated that it was now Joshua who acted as Marcus Judge 's chief assistant at the dockyard .
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