Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [be] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Maybe what upset Dustin was that he knew that , although he was the better actor , Steve 's performance in Papillon was superior , ’ commented Norman Jewison , who had directed McQueen in The Cincinnati Kid and The Thomas Crown Affair , but who never worked with Dustin . |
| 2 | In short , one way of understanding Burgess is that he is describing the moral careers of immigrants ; some successfully adapting and eventually living in what they and respectable Chicago society saw as the ‘ front regions ’ of the desirable suburbs . |
| 3 | What results from this is that we might be led to think that the problem with defining God is that there is a whole range of ideas about the divine being that tend to produce no very clear overall picture . |
| 4 | One thing I did learn from loving Paul was that I was n't in love with David . |
| 5 | Can I just say at this point that erm John will happ had a word with the landlady and the landlord of the Reindeer , with regards to this application , and what the landlady told John was that she and her husband would dearly like to do away with the breeze block garage that is there , that is totally out of character , and extend the car park way back to the garages , but the brewery are insisting that they do what is planned here and do away with some of the |
| 6 | It has been suggested that the real reason Judas betrayed Jesus was that he wanted him to be a popular Messiah who would drive out the Romans . |
| 7 | One of the most revealing facts about using BM is that you often discover that inadvertently you are either rewarding undesirable behaviour and hence encouraging it , or are mistakenly punishing good behaviour . |
| 8 | What puzzled Jack was that he himself was very happy at Bradley Fold West and he had settled into the routine and managed the duties without any problems . |
| 9 | cos I would always thought Marks were that it was one day |
| 10 | As well as the pun , I 'm sure the reason Malcolm chose QT was that it was the postal code around where Steve — who was still the singer at this point — was staying . |
| 11 | ‘ One of the reasons I chose London was that it 's a fast course and it would more special to break a record in front of a home crowd , ’ she said . |
| 12 | He says his only reason for deciding to kill Caesar was that he had committed himself to help the general public . |
| 13 | The union suspected that the real reason for preferring Asiatics was that they were cheaper and ate less . |
| 14 | The point of mentioning John is that he used to work at the massive Hoover plant in West London . |