Example sentences of "[adv] be [pron] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , so bowled over was she initially that she had actually gone out to dinner with Travis one night . |
| 2 | I had lost you once before because of my stupidity but now here was something else that completely undermined me — a tiny baby , a hold over you that I could never compete with . |
| 3 | How was it then that all these ordinary people seemed to manage it with effortless ease ? |
| 4 | Why is it lately that I go to , before I start my my work |
| 5 | Why is it then that the film fails to deliver ? |
| 6 | Why is it then that these halls have been recalled with so much pleasure in so much twentieth-century writing ? |
| 7 | Why is it then that we have no difficulties in practice in observing magnetic fields ? |
| 8 | Why is it then that he refuses to acknowledge that the defence is bad and needs improving ? |
| 9 | Why was it then that he could n't remember where she had been shot ? |
| 10 | Why was it then that she almost envied the girl ? |
| 11 | Why was it then that , even from the first moment , the thought of Lorrimer in his sister 's bed had been intolerable . |