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

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1 It 's just that a couple of ideas occurred to me , one of which will have occurred to you and one which you probably do n't know about .
2 It 's just that a few days ago I heard one of our members say something about Connie .
3 It 's just that a lot of the heads have worn they
4 Or maybe it is simply that a second to them is a vastly longer subjective experience of time than it is to us and other creatures , possessed of a slower metabolic rate .
5 It is simply that a feature , which seemed prominent in the stereotype , may appear insignificant in the performance , and vice versa .
6 It is simply that a permissive culture which makes increasingly fewer demands on the egos and superegos of its citizens where self-restraint , postponement of gratification and drive-inhibition in general are concerned must — unless it is to dissolve in anarchy — abrogate those restraining , controlling and inhibiting functions to itself and to its agencies of social control .
7 However , if it is right that a change is as good as a rest , you should now feel rested and ready to cope with anything .
8 But for a handful of obvious reasons , Lewis does not draw a picture of ‘ the whole man ’ in Surprised by Joy It is partly that a natural reticence made him draw a veil over the two greatest facts of his emotional history : his relationships with his father and Mrs Moore .
9 It is here that a massive scoreboard confronts the players , the numbers changed slowly , tantalisingly , by hand .
10 It is here that a true designing system will be based and will grow from an understanding of the conceptual activities , how they are developed and controlled .
11 IT IS HERE THAT A CITY AND ITS PEOPLE POSSESSED A PART OF MY SPIRIT .
12 It is here that a city and its people possessed a part of my spirit .
13 It is seldom that a week passes by without my having several letters on the same theme .
14 It is enough that a project satisfy the purpose of ‘ the advancement of knowledge in biological or behavioural sciences , ( section 5.3(d) ) , although the applicant must then justify the necessity of using animals at all ( 5.5 ) , and in specific terms if the use of larger mammals is proposed ( 5.6 ) .
15 It is then that a conflict of interests may arise .
16 It is then that a crisis of autonomy can be most nearly identified with a crisis of identity , and can be seen in many an act of teenage rebellion .
17 It is now that a man may pick the flowers and fruit of his lifetime , and complete his gardens of philosophy .
18 But Mr Michael Fallon , the Conservative candidate , said it was right that a quarter of the receipts should go on housing while threequarters went towards repayment of debt .
19 It was here that a friendly Johnny Marr , embarrassed by success , deliberately became a father figure to smaller local acts practising in the rooms next door .
20 Not that they needed a fire , it was just that a fire was more civilized .
21 It was just that a couple of times I 'd been looking out , or I 'd just glance up as I passed , and , well , I 'd seen her there .
22 ‘ At that stage it was just that a body had been found .
23 It was simply that a bottle of brandy , even of the kind intended only for the kitchen ( by which I do n't mean something not fit to drink , I mean something one prefers not to drink ) , somehow always turns out in fact to have been drunk by somebody just when it is needed for cooking and has n't been replaced , while whisky is a supply which is more or less automatically re-ordered as soon as it runs out .
24 It was then that a friend who was also a water-power enthusiast suggested a compressor .
25 It was then that a familiar figure detached itself from the shadows of the trees and moved out into the dim orange light of one of the streetlamps .
26 George Sandeman , the company 's general manager flew in from the Douro valley to present Witchery proprietor James Thomson with the award , and it was then that a decision was made to offer a unique dinner to readers of The Scotsman .
27 It was now that a more marked difference from the Parisians showed itself in their work , most obviously when they laid hands on Sermisy or Janequin for their own purposes .
28 Madras was the earliest British settlement among these cities , and it was there that a grand station in Romanesque revivalist style was built in 1868 .
29 It was there that a letter from his brother George eventually reached him , forwarded by one of Coleridge 's friends who had discovered the full story of his flight from Cambridge .
30 It was enough that a government official in the OEOB , with its mock-French , slightly creepy grandeur , right beside the White House , had told him not to tell anybody .
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