Example sentences of "[be] [adv] that he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dandelion , the dashing story-teller , so eager to be off that he jumped the ditch and ran a little way into the field before stopping to wait for the rest . |
| 2 | Since it took so long for Dobson finally to take over in Macclesfield , it may be either that he returned to Stockport as Master from some period or that the Goldsmiths forgot that they had appointed Escolmbe , or that Escolmbe himself never took up his duties . |
| 3 | . There has n't been one game we 've been there that he has n't or both of them have n't . |
| 4 | Afterwards Jared Tunstall had said to her mama , ‘ It was a question of a little hustler meeting a big one , and if it were n't that he has hurt Sally-Anne so badly I could almost admire the swine for his gall . |
| 5 | It is rather that he realigns fantasy and fact by using a set of ready-made and entirely artificial rules governing talking animals to explore the workings of a no less unnatural , controlled and rigidly inhuman system . |
| 6 | The complainant need not show he was aggrieved on the date mentioned in the summons , it is enough that he had been aggrieved earlier , otherwise as Darling , J. pointed out in Hilton v Hopwood it would be virtually impossible for an individual to bring an action under s.99 . |
| 7 | The old man explained his views on the matter afterwards to a Christian friend , ‘ For an ordinary man in normal circumstances it is enough that he believe faithfully in God . |
| 8 | It does not matter whether the party accepting the consideration has any apparent benefit thereby or not : it is enough that he accepts it , and that the party giving it does thereby undertake some burden , or lose something which in contemplation of law may be of value . |
| 9 | I mean it 's enough that he pays lipservice to it now which you know would n't have even been recognised . |
| 10 | The wonder is perhaps that he has time to do any writing and research at all after running two companies — Pluto Press ( Australia ) and PR agency Social Change Media — and with partner Stephanie Dowrick , also a writer , bringing up two children . |
| 11 | It is thus that he declares himself for Dunning 's sapphics , flashing out at ‘ any one who can not feel the beauty of their melody ’ ( my italics ) . |
| 12 | It is not that he does n't care , just that his sense of values are different — not better , not worse , just different . |
| 13 | ‘ It is not that he had abandoned or qualified his commitment to the principle of non-violence ’ . |
| 14 | But what makes Courtney especially dangerous is not that he abused his position as a doctor . |
| 15 | The reason is not that he ignored domestic issues . |
| 16 | ‘ It is not that he minds , ’ her mother said , wearily , as always , explaining and defending her husband to their daughter . |
| 17 | Our charge against the metaphysician is not that he attempts to employ the understanding in a field where it can not possibly venture , but that he produces sentences which fail to conform to the conditions under which alone a sentence can be literally significant . |
| 18 | Still , it is not that he wants biologists to give them more credit for maintaining the planet . |
| 19 | The individualistic bias that Rawls is accused of by Nagel is not that he rules out such conceptions but that he is not neutral regarding them because he makes their successful pursuit more difficult than that of individualistic conceptions of the good . |
| 20 | It is not that he lies about them , rather that only a patient and omnivorous prospector would have found the particular treasures which he quotes . |
| 21 | That 's not to say he aspired to being something of a genius himself , it 's just that he felt a tremendous affinity with those people . |
| 22 | It 's just that he went one way and I went another . |
| 23 | Everything else is alright it 's just that he gets that frustrated |
| 24 | It 's not her fault Petya wo n't speak to me ; it 's just that he turned against me when I divorced his mother . |
| 25 | It 's just that he seems so caring … in the work he does with the handicapped … ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It 's just that he looks like bottling the Tokyo job , ’ she said quietly . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's just that he worries if you are n't here . |
| 28 | It 's just that he makes it so damn difficult . |
| 29 | It 's just that he 's been used to having his own way for so long it does n't occur to him there are perspectives alternative to his own . ’ |
| 30 | It 's just that he wanted to see Jenny in front of everyone else . |