Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The only thing I can think of is that there is a convent near where I live , and they take a few elderly people . ’ |
| 2 | The closest analogy I can think of is that it is very much like fishing , you never know what you are going to catch , you have to pull in the small ones when you are hoping for the big one , but occasionally a big one comes along when you least expect it . |
| 3 | and the biggest pro for a fax that I can think of is that you can send the message and that 's that , there 's no risk of it dribbling on into , into doubt |
| 4 | When we first started with him , even when we were rehearsing properly with him , all we could think of was that he could n't sing . |
| 5 | All he could think of was that he wanted to sneeze . |
| 6 | I thought for a while and said that the only thing I could think of was that the British government did not — although it would have been slow to admit it — at that moment cut much ice with the South African government , but the United States government cut considerable ice . |
| 7 | All she could think of was that they 'd all been in on this — a kind of family Mafia , working behind the scenes to make sure that Lucenzo ended up with everything , his empire untouched . |
| 8 | All I could think of was that I knew that a Lee Metford was the forerunner of the Lee Enfield .303 rifle and almost became standard issue to the British army before WW1 . |
| 9 | Luke Calder was nothing but a ruthless manipulator who made people do what he wanted when he wanted it , yet all she could think of was that she wanted to feel again the hot urgency of his mouth ! |
| 10 | She had all that to fill her heart with but at this moment all she could think of was that the stranger had left her side . |
| 11 | The solution to ‘ He was not really afraid of any landlady ’ might appear to be that we have here a masked first-person avowal , and that it is simply an indication of Dostoevsky 's boldness that it should be surrounded by authorial statements which are firmly outside and ( so to say ) on top of Raskolnikov in the classical omniscient third-person mode : for example , information about his poverty , irritable frame of mind , withdrawal from society , his ‘ not naturally timorous and abject ’ disposition . |
| 12 | The answer , in the light of the Mandla case , would appear to be that the school would be acting unlawfully . |
| 13 | Lotze 's own notion would appear to be that in addition to the experience of the touch we have a visual image of the whole body , with one part , as it were , highlighted . |
| 14 | Again , the better view would appear to be that an announcement is sufficient . |
| 15 | Today , the better view would appear to be that directors owe shareholders fiduciary duties in special circumstances . |
| 16 | It is small wonder that Dr Underwood finds it a ‘ little disconcerting ’ as the inference of the inquiry , as far as it has gone at present , would appear to be that it is better for a child to stay in East London sleeping irregular hours in ill ventilated shelters and eating fish and chips than to have fresh air conditions in one of our Camps with regular hours of sleep and plenty of well prepared wholesome food ( in which vegetables fresh from the garden play a large part ) forming a diet balanced in accordance with the best advice obtainable from the Board of Education and others … |
| 17 | The clear implication would appear to be that an individual cost-benefit approach is appropriate , with each monopoly situation being judged upon its own merits only after a careful weighing of the gains and losses . |
| 18 | The hidden agenda could easily appear to be that " our drama is the least important thing in the school " . |
| 19 | The simple explanation would appear to be that Jacques worked in the family business on the rue du Harlay with his father and older brother Jean , Martin 's successor in 1712 , until Jean 's death in 1720 , when , as noted above , the workshop ceased , at which time the remaining stock would have been liquidated for reasons of inheritance . |
| 20 | The potential problem would appear to be that any people attracted to the list as a result of these publications may take offence at what/how things are said . |
| 21 | So then I decided I would like to be that I knew there was a job going on the electricians , so I thought well I 'll I 'll go in for the electrical side . |
| 22 | The best we could hope for is that she 's had a brainstorm , and I do n't know how often that happens outside of books . |
| 23 | And the best a mother can hope for is that they 'll occasionally pop home |
| 24 | The most we can hope for is that we do n't actually believe it . ’ |
| 25 | But the best that a virtuous woman can hope for is that she be reborn as a man . |
| 26 | The most I can hope for is that I might meet him over a pint and get him to be indiscreet-tell me if there is any dirt on Desmond Seymour-Strachey , for example . ’ |
| 27 | If he is unlucky , then there will be a battle at sea , and the best he can hope for is that none of our sea-borne army manages to make a landing . |
| 28 | That does n't mean it necessarily worked or was good ; but , once the script is settled in your mind , the best you can hope for is that the finished film reflects those ambitions . |
| 29 | The best she could hope for was that someone would come along and abuse her in various disgusting and incomprehensible ways . |
| 30 | In such cases the most that an employer could hope for was that by his treatment of his workers he could obtain some minimal loyalty . |