Example sentences of "[adv] [be] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final reason for ignoring human actors can only be that they do not matter . |
| 2 | If I were looking for a fault with the conception of the series , it could only be that it lacks a single volume overview of the whole of the development of quantum theory , a volume concentrating on the broad sweep of ideas and leaving out the mathematical detail . |
| 3 | Nor did she think he could ever feel anything but shame for the way he treated them ; if he was now ready to pretend otherwise , it would only be that he saw some advantage in it . |
| 4 | And the net result of all of these things together is that it narrowed the cost value differentials between U K and overseas holidays . |
| 5 | That 's what I 'm saying , right , now , what I 'm saying is there 's a , that , that , is , there 's , there 's , there 's , there 's things , there 's things , there 's guides to be able to do that , right , and the guide is there 's certain things you do and certain things you do n't do , because what you do basically is that you close him on his final objection which is what you 're just saying you did , right , but you close him on his final objection , how did you manage to close him on his final objection ? |
| 6 | Where many dieters fall down is that they concentrate on cutting down on food , cutting out pleasure from their lives . |
| 7 | Majority voting satisfies conditions P , I and D. Where it breaks down is that it does not satisfy U , as we have seen with the example of the voting paradox given earlier . |
| 8 | The only conditions the Taxman lays down is that you give the same amount regularly for at least four years and that you are a UK taxpayer . |
| 9 | We also showed that grade two do significantly better than grade three , but most importantly perhaps is that we showed that patients with a vascular count that are less than twenty one do significantly better than patients with a vascular count of greater or equal to twenty one . |
| 10 | One reason why that will be so is that we have a coherent approach to Europe , not one that changes every weekend . |
| 11 | His motive for doing so is that he thinks that English verse has been ill-served by prosodists in the past . |
| 12 | The ICRF is such a worthy cause and what makes it particularly so is that it uses just 8p out of every £1 for administration , meaning 92p really goes on advancing the research , ’ she said . |
| 13 | She and this animal treated each other with mutual contempt , like an old unhappily married couple , and I always thought that the only reason he did n't bite her or she have him put down was that they disliked the rest of the world even more than each other and would have been even more miserable and lonely than they were in their trap of hostility . |
| 14 | The difficulty with writing it down was that it became real to the extent of being in a book , there were two lives , the one in the book and the one which he lived to collect the details for the book one ; he could go further in his head than on the page , the words slowed him down . |
| 15 | Er I mean it could just be that they do n't like it , so anything which they do n't like is grating or |
| 16 | It may not be that we have become too sophisticated but that we are so confused we seek salvation even from out there . |
| 17 | ‘ We have interviewed 25 of our key customers across the on , off and export markets and the message which is coming through is that we need to get much closer to our customers in order to respond to their changing needs , ’ said L&QA CSSO On Trade Manager . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the strategy is placing renewed pressure on LAG : ‘ Lignite Action 's position has always been that they do not want to allow any form of boreholing or test-drilling by the company because this will give them a foothold into the area and once in , it will prove more difficult for them to be ousted again ’ . |
| 19 | Perhaps part of the fascination of movies has always been that they trigger off so many memories but what is interesting about so much film-making in the 1920s is that movies are so closely associated with that age of the masses that had come at the end of one century and the beginning of another . |
| 20 | ‘ For the railway monopolies , it has always been that they wanted the data network modernised . |
| 21 | Now , now I , now I , personal arguments has always been that we raise people 's standards , out there , throughout the world . |
| 22 | No my philosophy with customer relations has always been that you do n't give somebody a refund , you give them some tickets to fly again so it 's keeps them flying |
| 23 | Gaily 's quiet defence had always been that he liked a certain monotony . |
| 24 | Do you think it will always be that we have one ? |
| 25 | In this case it would possibly be that they had the name of the subscriber but … |
| 26 | You were saying that the , the reason why the multinationals sell coffee very cheaply is that they buy in bulk . |
| 27 | The great appeal of methylation as a means of shutting genes off is that it has a known mechanism for perpetuating itself during cell division and thus ensuring its own inheritance . |
| 28 | The problem with modernity , Enlightenment man 's home is that it masks the reality of his hopelessness from him . |
| 29 | She had to admit , however , that the main reason that she had phoned the Symses and answered their appeal so promptly was that it took her out of the house , and away from the strain of being with Mark in public while the incident of the night before still divided them . |
| 30 | What was stranger still was that she seemed stressed and worried , and kept raising her wings into the wind and bending forward at it and then letting it lift her off her stand to the top of her cage where she stuck out her talons , hovered for a moment and then flopped inelegantly down again to the bare branch . |