Example sentences of "[be] [pers pn] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So good am I that I turn round on the runners to photograph Tony . |
| 2 | ‘ What am I that you hate so much ? ’ |
| 3 | How confident are you that they are correct ? |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , but how certain are you that it 's one of the three ? |
| 5 | ‘ For all I know , it could be you that I must be wary of ! ’ |
| 6 | So in earnest are they that they do n't even recognise that being in earnest is the act . |
| 7 | Tell me , how sure were you that he had a gun ? ’ |
| 8 | Do n't have to talk about an just a good chat you know just I do n't want to I do n't want to talk about good people or all about that I do n't want to talk about that I want to talk I want to talk to that person out there who will feel now that it is them that I am I am appealing to I am appealing I now . |
| 9 | It is them that I am appealing to somebody because of the erm the the th thought transference that I am using is feeling now compelled to pick up the phone O nine O four six four one six four one . |
| 10 | Well do you know , when I met , I , I 'm meeting old chaps through this very excellent marriage agency , I 've never expected any thing like it , they are marvellous , and the sent me a nice old lad , but I knew I was onto a looser when he said , of course I go to my daughter-in-law every Saturday for lunch , she absolutely insists because she says , she wants to make sure that I 'm eating properly , now this is a very healthy old man with a very good income who could afford to buy any food he wants and the fact of the matter is his that he 's son is probably not , he does n't want to upset his old dad , and it 's handy to have him to come on Saturday for lunch and be done with it as it were , but I thought surely Bernard your own sense would tell you that nobody want 's their old father and father-in-law every Saturday of their life , for lunch oh . |
| 11 | So it 's you that we seek . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , you mean how is it that they can afford the pukka style if he is n't successful ? ’ |
| 13 | Why is it that they bestow their ardour upon the well-adjusted , wholesome architects of pop 's fatal new maturity ? |
| 14 | ‘ What is it that they 're frightened of , whoever they are — whether they are Labour , Conservative , Liberal , ’ Connery asks , in his dangerous knowing voice . |
| 15 | Is it that they lack the processing space to monitor the input effectively ? |
| 16 | Given the long-standing behavioural problems that the pupils attending these sites have set the teaching staff in schools , how is it that they can be brought together in a seemingly improbable admixture with the results , orderly and controlled , as described above ? |
| 17 | Is it that they will not be bothered by maximum working hours or minimum wages , or is it just that the trade union movement in this country has been crippled by repressive legislation over the past 12 years ? |
| 18 | Is it that they do not exert themselves enough ( we know that the English work as quickly as they work well ) ? |
| 19 | Or is it that they are being manipulated by people in the soft wood trade … to tarnish the good name of tropical hard wood ? |
| 20 | By all means let advertisers bring in history to help to sell their wares , but why is it that they so often mangle and corrupt it in the process ? |
| 21 | I say wonders will never cease I have just written a receipt for Mrs and I have put it in her envelope and I have written my name in , in on , I 've put from and put my name and crossed out caretaker and put treasurer and I have put underneath we do not have a caretaker so we will see what happens How did , how is it that they got to go back with them ? |
| 22 | Or is it , is it that they 've become a sort of exclusive club , arising al almost always through the ranks of the of the law , and gradually , gradually got withdrawn from the way that ordinary people think and feel . |
| 23 | Why is it that they should have had more faith ? |
| 24 | ‘ How is it that their entertaining is so — er — reliable then ? ’ |
| 25 | So what is it that we want to know ? |
| 26 | Why is it that we fear to allow God to take control of our lives ? |
| 27 | Having suggested that the National Curriculum is a constraint , what is it that we are being constrained from ? |
| 28 | How is it that we have blindly come to think that animals and other creatures have no inner life when their every action tells us that they do ? |
| 29 | And just what is it that we are objecting to ? |
| 30 | Of course , when we test Hartley 's philosophy against experience an immediate problem comes to mind : why is it that we are so often unable to link a face with a name or remember the title of a book we were reading only last week ? |