Example sentences of "[be] that [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And who is that whooping it up at the bar with a glass in his hand ? |
| 2 | The first point to note is that sending someone a contract of employment does not involve any re-formatting of text . |
| 3 | The problem with this is that discovering what untrained ( or ‘ naive ’ ) speakers feel about their own language is not as easy as it might sound . |
| 4 | The first is that sorting itself takes time . |
| 5 | On the one hand generality is built into the account : the normal justification of authority is that following it will enable its subjects better to conform with reason . |
| 6 | The difficulty for the Company in England was that establishing someone who had crossed to North America took an initial investment equal to about a year 's wages , so the investors had to keep on providing supplies without seeing any sign of how the colony would repay them . |
| 7 | I know we said it so many times in Seville but even then there was that feeling it was so unreal . |
| 8 | The essential reason for obeying the sovereign power was that keeping it in power was inevitably better for the security of each than the chaos of civil war , or a society without government . |
| 9 | And the worst part of it all was that having him there all the time had n't lessened her longing for him by one tiny jot . |