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

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1 Still drowsy and warm from sleep , she lay thinking of Johnny Latimer and whether Time or the house ( for she could not decide which it was that played the tricks and pulled the strings ) would let him come back to her again .
2 Well I do n't know who she is that sends letters out to your nana , but she 's bloody useless !
3 Er swearing the papers basically saying who you are that this is the will er that er the person 's died of course er a and that you 're the person entitled to be a .
4 Looking back , it seems a wonderful enough thing that I who am this , and she who is that , commencing so far away a life that , after such sufferings borne together and apart , ended so tranquilly there in a world so stable — that she and I should have passed through so much , good chance and evil chance , sad hours and joyful , all lived down and swept away into the little heap of dust that is a life .
5 In verses three to five the psalmist reminds us who it is that we are coming to .
6 I think too that we should reflect upon who it is that receives the blame er when policing falls below the standards which we would all think appropriate .
7 You know who it is that wants to make money on that ?
8 For when I inquired who it was that had arrived , Miss Kenton continued past me , stating simply : ‘ A message if it is urgent , Mr Stevens . ’
9 Still she wondered who it was that she had been responding to .
10 Belinda flinched as she saw who it was that had come out of the lift and addressed her .
11 All the same he had been rather cagey about Ianthe Broome , not saying who it was that had brought the oxtail .
12 ‘ You remember you asked me to see if I could find out who it was that had sent that news item about Leila in to Al-Liwa . ’
13 So the question I am wondering is this : does the person Albie owed money to — the man behind Vinnie Dirkin — know who it was that killed him ?
14 Then suddenly , while aware she had told him that she did not love Travis , she realised that here was her chance of clouding the issue of who it was that she did love .
15 Thus , in the following , he can naturally be interpreted as referring to whoever it is that John refers to : ( 39 ) John came in and he lit a fire We will return to anaphora , but just note here that it is perfectly possible , as Lyons ( 1977a : 676 ) points out , for a deictic term to be used both anaphorically and deictically .
16 I 've then got rolling I A P's with Rob and whoever it is that got to help us with individual action planning
17 Whoever it was that invented the phrase ‘ architectural antiques ’ is no friend of mine .
18 But whoever it was that made that claim obviously did not have a school day on which he was expected to use MY brain to do one of Mr Kent 's maths tests !
19 Whoever it was that took her never spoke a word the whole time , which made the whole experience worse .
20 Whoever it was that was menacing her with letters ( a letter , she corrected herself , but feeling certain there would be more ) , whoever it was that had anything to do with her mother 's death , that person , or those persons , would belong to her father 's age group .
21 And they had a system where erm they got this information and they It was that they I think there there was something about the time element , it had to happen at a certain time
22 That 's just me it 's that if your first name , although I 'll probably cross that out .
23 By the looks of it it is that as I say a screw 's keeping that thing on .
24 So what what I 'm that that that 's the sort of basic outline and I see it as an opportunity of putting the name in front of quite a lot of schools
25 ‘ It 's what you are that matters to me , ’ Alice said impulsively .
26 explain what there was that went on .
27 ‘ My dad thinks it 's because they were what they were that they were killed . ’
28 Clive James , whose Observer column had made him the doyen of television critics in the Seventies , wrote ; ‘ One has been kept from previous series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em by its awful title , but it is time to say what everybody is saying-that the show is a must .
29 Today we were close enough to the front of the plane to have a newspaper in English , and not have to settle for one printed in a strange dialect of Latvian ( or whatever it is that they use for those that are always left at the end ) .
30 Well , we do see a good deal of what is around us and not simply whatever it is that we happen to be staring at .
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