Example sentences of "[pers pn] be that [pron] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main thoughts that worried you were that you were either having a heart attack or that you 'd pass out in front of your colleagues … . |
| 2 | ‘ Before she left , the PM told me how pleased she was that you were so frank . |
| 3 | If we 're talking about the same phone call , the reason it was a woman who spoke to you was that we were both travelling in my car at the time — and I was driving . |
| 4 | Khan that before this meeting ‘ all we knew about you was that you were a member of certain pacts — even though paper pacts — and we were doubtful and cautious about you ’ . |
| 5 | Much as we longed for another child , and overjoyed as we were that we were to have another daughter , we both said that it was the hardest thing we had ever done , to see a lovely young mother say goodbye to her daughter . |
| 6 | ‘ My dad thinks it 's because they were what they were that they were killed . ’ |
| 7 | Or could it be that you were the first rebel in the household and that Suzie 's only following your example ? ’ |
| 8 | Erm , I ca n't remember the exact conversation but the basics of it were that we were looking for somebody called Lawrence and he was at the present time at erm and that he was in possession of a gun and that the caller was concerned for the safety of the occupants of those premises . |
| 9 | Mr Goldring added : ‘ What is really significant in this case is not what happened to each child individually , it is that there were so many collapses . ’ |
| 10 | Mr Sandy recalls that the biggest challenge was just to get the name known in the major markets in Europe : ‘ Whether the message coming back was ‘ Unbekannt ’ or ‘ Pas Connu ’ the gist of it was that we were unknown and if you 're trying to sell whiskies people have n't heard of , then you have n't got much to go on . ’ |
| 11 | But in the meantime she was unwilling — no — afraid to know what secret thing it was that they were carrying . |
| 12 | The feeling of fear had subsided somewhat and I remembered looking into the rubble-strewn backyards and thinking how sad it was that they were now in ruin , as last time I was at the station they were occupied . |
| 13 | So the conjunction of these two words effectively prevents the raising of the question as to what it was that they were saying . |
| 14 | I could not understand how it was that they were discussing so placidly Jean-Claude 's current compositional ideas for the ‘ Chansons de Mani ’ . |
| 15 | Everyone in this part of the world had obviously been fighting against either the Russians or the Yugoslavs , but the devil of it was that they were prepared to do anything rather than surrender to either of these armies . " |
| 16 | You know or f or or you know always it was that they were men cos they came from during the strike . |
| 17 | The snow continued to fall as the Quattro clawed its way eastward towards whatever it was that they were seeking , whatever terrible things were waiting at journey 's end . |
| 18 | It was clear , notes Timothy West now , precisely what it was that they were expecting-as he says , ‘ a combination of ‘ Carry On ’ and ‘ Beyond Our Ken ’ . ’ |
| 19 | You have no it was that they were a bit big were n't they anyway I 'm sure we could possibly get it out you could try I suppose . |
| 20 | ‘ I was very impressed with the way he played , but then I realised how daunting it was that there were 20 or 30 guys on the Tour playing better than him , ’ he says . |
| 21 | The situation as we saw it was that there were no obvious leading firms er there were firms that had a particularly they were leaders in a particular niche markets for example 's being very aggressive , they were certainly nationally leading on insolvency and they were getting a lot of a lot of beneficial er publicity from that , locally we saw them er as erm th they were very good in the tax field and certainly in the consultancy field , having one of their major consultancy based in by the airport . |
| 22 | Anyway , it was part of your task to appear interested in a woman who , if not boring , was lonely and — ’ she gave a high-pitched mirthless laugh — ‘ shall we say , slightly unbalanced — so as to find out … well , whatever it was that you were enquiring into . |
| 23 | Immediately you should find this loud noise has interrupted your train of thought , often enough to make you forget what it was that you were thinking about . |
| 24 | Wh what I mean to say is I could n't in advance guess which field it was that you were going to want at any particular moment . |
| 25 | ‘ What angers me is that they were on a government controlled game reserve and planned it carefully . |
| 26 | ‘ All I can say about them is that they were a real joy , ’ Bill Pertwee remembers . |
| 27 | ‘ But I have gone over it many times in my mind about why we lost so heavily in India and one of the main reasons for me was that we were not used to playing on turning pitches . |
| 28 | But the point about them was that they were comparable : different , but not necessarily inferior . |
| 29 | Yeah , what I like about , what I liked about them was that they were dead flat like , you know if you , imagine it a sweet the weight for a sweet were from say ten ounces to twenty kilos |
| 30 | What matters to us is that they were independent of each other and , to the best of our knowledge , ignored each other . |