Example sentences of "[verb] be that [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basically erm I agree with what you say but that the County Council itself of course is a landowner of erm some quite attractive erm areas of land that could be used for below cost housing , but the problem in the past has been that they always had to sell erm at the market price . |
| 2 | I think that there 's a lot for your Lordship to read but I think it might be beneficial in the long run , it was certainly , our experience has been that it certainly would take time in the long run but to deal with it this way . |
| 3 | I have had lots of tanks almost from the beginning , and have probably worked out most of my fantasies regarding sizes from 15″ × 10″ × 10″ up to 48″ × 18″ × 18″ — the only problem has been that I always want to keep more species than I have room for . |
| 4 | What is actually happening is that you also get a high tide on the other side of the globe as well like that . |
| 5 | What we do know is that they simply say it 's too far round er the diversion in distance terms is too long . |
| 6 | All I do know is that it truly happened . ’ |
| 7 | This was just an excuse : the real reason they wanted to come was that they very much needed food at home . |
| 8 | What she did know was that she never wanted to go away again . |
| 9 | What the trials of such war criminals as Klaus Barbie have revealed is that they really had to do very little work at all . |
| 10 | What this approach soon reveals is that you often spend large amounts of time not on the things that matter but on activities which are relatively easy to devote time to , while the more difficult tasks tend to be pushed aside simply because they are more difficult . |
| 11 | What they have n't been told is that you actually have to make a claim for benefit . |
| 12 | What actually happened was that she somehow became separated from the others , decided to walk to work and fell in a ditch on her way up the hill . |
| 13 | What probably happened was that she suddenly decided the time was right for her to do some publicity and she had something to talk about , her book , Elizabeth Takes off . |
| 14 | Now the problem with that model of proceeding is that you then end up with you can end up with the exploitation of complain procedures for a wide variety of , not all of which you want to countenance , and some of the universities ' and colleges ' experience of trying to run complaint procedures in connection with sexual harassment has been deciding when to try to cool someone down and when a complaint is someone that should be run along with . |
| 15 | So , what I would suggest is that you certainly have a word with the police and draw their attention to it and if anybody listening has parked their car there , do please consider just how safe it is where you 're parking and think of other people . |
| 16 | What is perhaps most curious about the characterization of Margery after the trick has been played is that she very soon drops all reference to — and therefore seems to be portrayed as forgetting — the threat she believes the clerk to pose . |
| 17 | All I know is that she never said so , and they 'd have had precious little opportunity , one or other of them being on call for two out of any three nights . ’ |
| 18 | The reason could very well have been that he simply desired to do it . |
| 19 | Well , but we , no we 're not saying that , what we 're saying is that we so all we 're trying , w w w that they were saying we ca n't go from cap er from feudalism to socialism but we do n't want to go just from feudalism to capitalism , we want to go into er if you like a capitalism with socialist characteristics . |
| 20 | What he is saying is that he always wanted to drive , his family was against it and he defied them and did it |
| 21 | What he probably is saying is that you more than likely get unless you actually . |
| 22 | All that I am saying is that I strongly suspect that those periodic catastrophes make more showing in the stratigraphical record than we have hitherto assumed . |
| 23 | ‘ You see , the trouble with guitars that are designed to project is that they just do n't sound good to the player . |
| 24 | One answer that has been proposed is that they somehow ‘ tunnel ’ their way instantaneously to another part of the Universe — or even to an alternate Universe . |
| 25 | similarly no information held in-house relating to those companies should be assessed , ie the principle to adopt is that we only access information available in the public domain . |
| 26 | And part of the reason of course the dialect is gone is that we unconsciously sort of translate what we 're going to say into good English so that we 're understood . |
| 27 | Even though she has become Princess of Wales , the price Diana will probably pay is that she never gets to wear a crown . |
| 28 | Like people saying PJ Harvey will be amazing when she gets outside herself … what they do n't realise is that she already has . |
| 29 | And what I 've asked is that they actually did and not separate it . |
| 30 | What I did n't realise was that she then felt she had a right to run my life . ’ |