Example sentences of "[be] [adv] that [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BBC documentary that alerted people in Britain to the implication of the silicon chip ( Ed Goldwyn 's Now the Chips are Down that we mentioned in Chapter 1 ) ended with the alarming questions : |
| 2 | If scio was not thought adequate at classical law , the reason can be only that it did not make sufficiently clear that the testator intended a trustee to be legally obliged to make property over to a beneficiary . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | How long ago would it be now that you had it all done ? |
| 5 | About what Margrida d'Arcos 's opinion of her might be now that she knew she had indulged in apparently frivolous love with her son . |
| 6 | This is how it would often be now that she had cast off in her own little ship of independence . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Firstly , nobody , but nobody would want to levy charges until it was a last resort , but if the alternative to levying those charges were perhaps that we had to cut the staffing levels in those adult training centres , then you get a different answer to the question , and I had a meeting about four weeks ago with the heads of some of our centres who 've been asking parents and carers that question . |
| 9 | Brown and Kulik ( 1977 ) were struck by the fact that people were generally able to answer this question without difficulty , the important point being not that they remembered the assassination but that they remembered apparently irrelevant details such as where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news . |
| 10 | ‘ It is since that I studied it , ’ said Greg . |
| 11 | So Doris said , Oh well I do n't know what 's on that she said . |
| 12 | Press hostility to this idea was scarcely free of self-interest , but there were bigger issues at stake and it is right that they prevailed . |
| 13 | I hope you do n't mind my telling you , it 's only that I thought you ought to know . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | What is incontrovertible is only that I had it , not that it was caused by anything ‘ out there ’ beyond my experience . |
| 16 | The striking thing about cases such as these is not that they failed — that is only to be expected — but rather that they contain suggestions that a proper claim might meet with success , although difficulty might attend mounting it . |
| 17 | It is not that they showed no mercy on the streets of Jericho . |
| 18 | ‘ It is not that he had abandoned or qualified his commitment to the principle of non-violence ’ . |
| 19 | But what makes Courtney especially dangerous is not that he abused his position as a doctor . |
| 20 | The reason is not that he ignored domestic issues . |
| 21 | At each stage the vested interests — of protected tenants , of council tenants , and of local and national politicians — in the system , grew stronger and more complex , so that the wonder is not that it lived so long but that two men were found at last , in Duncan Sandys and Henry Brooke , of sufficient courage and determination to lay the axe to the roots and start hewing a way back to sanity . |
| 22 | It is not that I wore sleeveless blouses they were always long sleeved and not Choli 's either but even then they disliked it . |
| 23 | It is not that I inferred from the resemblance in shape that it was a man , until I began to doubt I was not thinking about it at all . |
| 24 | I did n't want to quarrel in front of Flora — it seemed humiliating over something so small — so I said , ‘ Well , it 's just that they seemed so happy and fond of each other . |
| 25 | It 's just that they reminded me so much of the poor child my husband killed . |
| 26 | It 's just that we went down there . |
| 27 | It 's just that we thought the programme might benefit from a new face . |
| 28 | Right , it 's just that we had this issue in support of other research a questionnaire and in support key divisions , sorry , key departments have lists of named individuals who can authorise questionnaires . |
| 29 | In reality it 's nowhere near as bad as the Scouse hype during the 80's , it 's just that we found that a bit easier to take . |
| 30 | It 's just that we did n't know that I did n't hear what she said . |