Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] be [adv] [that] " in BNC.

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1 It was declared the best policy was for the ‘ sent down ’ youth to remain where they were so that they could make their valuable contribution to the motherland on the ‘ agricultural front ’ , as in previous decades .
2 It 's not really clear whether this is a symbiotic relationship of some kind , or it 's just that the Gobies find the corals a convenient place to sit .
3 ‘ Not that I 'm all that well up in musical matters . ’
4 And although you 're right that they 've been selling flowers for a long time , they underwent a massive re-fit recently .
5 She smiled then to soften any hint that she was annoyed that her mother thought she should be more home-orientated than she was now that she was married .
6 But it 's a compliment it 's a compliment from the company saying we 've got a looking people that we 're quite that people can you know .
7 It 's not like that it 's just that I think it 'll help you to write it down and to think about it and to talk , talk to Kelly about it .
8 But you 've got to remember that it 's now that the whole question of Walter Machin has come up again because of the new interest in him , and the republishing of the books and so on .
9 And I mean it was er I accept that it 's hardly that that Russia perhaps was intervening in the interests of er of of erm of of of of er Russian policy in that area .
10 ‘ They do say that it 's there that thy Robemaker has his Workshops .
11 I 'm sure that it 's there that the police will be best advised to make their inquiries .
12 Having said that , it is entirely possible that one is being hopelessly naïve and that it is simply that the AIDS test has replaced the screen test as the sine qua non for any ambitious ingénue .
13 Does my right hon. Friend accept that it is right that he should restate the Government 's commitment to their policy in Northern Ireland , based on the rule of law ?
14 Unfortunately the single-copy fallacy , the idea that it is enough that there should be one copy of any book in existence , does have support even within the British Library itself .
15 We assume that it is enough that the new way will prove better than the old way once it has been tried for some time .
16 Let us pretend that it is only that Grainne is too far above me , and let us continue the pretence , for I do not think I can bear it any other way .
17 and I think we must recognise that it is only that many of the questions and questionnaire had they been displayed of what they wanted to propose .
18 I suppose I fancied him although I told myself that it was just that I felt sorry for him .
19 I thought that it was right that I should talk to you , try and build a better picture of Michael . ’
20 However , we believe that it was right that the statement should be made in the House , from which have come the decisions that , in our opinion , have done so much to encourage the IRA through the years .
21 Legend has it that it was here that Yusuf met his death beneath the hooves of his enemies , steeds ; here also that El Cid received a fatal wound .
22 One was large and rectangular ; Melissa guessed that it was here that Angy had kept the wooden block of kitchen knives that Lou had mentioned .
23 el-Kefevi ( followed by Ismail Belig ) adds the statement that Mehmed Sah was the first muderris at the Sultan medrese , which fact , if correct , would allow one to place Mehmed Sah 's appointment , and Fahreddin Acemi 's association with him , in the early 820s , since the available information indicates that it was then that the medrese was built .
24 In previous generations it was much less likely than it is now that grandparents would have lived to know their grandchildren as adults ( see chapters 2 and 3 ) .
25 Leeds is now the third largest city in England and the 20th in Europe , so it is right that it should have international ambitions .
26 America is the closest thing to a financial laboratory for these sorts of questions , so it is there that most of the answers should be sought .
27 The ancient art of batik , a form of resist dyeing , has been perfected over centuries on the Indonesian island of Java , so it was there that Angela Newport went to learn the technique .
28 We are multiplication work and there is n't should be tackled and we were very that we can not do this without and therefore we accept the grant grant fifty thousand in these four counties planning service which I would say servicing .
29 In Rangoon contemporary and colonial Burma continue to co-exist decades after the British departure and it 's here that you will spend your first two nights at either the Inya Lake or Strand Hotel .
30 Get some movement out there we had a young , a young lady who er she name and she 's up front in the cabinet you know every opportunity she had she was looking for round the room , but not sort of in the round the outside all the time and it 's just that she wanted to be with a group of people all the time .
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