Example sentences of "[noun sg] be that i [verb] " in BNC.

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1 the the reasoning being that I 've gone into the aspects of erm income support and that and basically i it 's about seventy pound a week to live on .
2 The wood is alder and the deal is that I scaled down the body a little bit .
3 My biggest comment on football is that I do n't like Sunderland … or Gazza ( Gascoigne ) .
4 ‘ The end result is that I 've large arrears on the centre 's mortgage , and now the building society is threatening repossession in the new year , unless we can clear the arrears .
5 So now I know , but the result is that I 've had two years of injury , followed by two years of doing completely the wrong thing . ’
6 Further , it makes me angry with myself to find that the perfectly natural and utterly unfair result is that I begin to dislike Paxford , no exercise of the will convincing me that it is not the unfortunate P. who is boring me with his views on everything under the sun .
7 This went smoothly and is a great improvement but in order to create the compressed drive and double the hard disk capacity the SuperStor program took my hard disk ( drive C : ) and seemed to create a compressed drive D : it then swaps drive D and drive C so that the compressed drive is now C : The result is that I seem to be locked out of my old drive D in Rom which has one or two useful bits on — like a hardware check program .
8 Therefore , the result is that I dismiss the claim as against the second defendant .
9 My reply is that I have sought to identify some of the congeries of qualities of the legal institution of marriage , not to identify its ‘ essence ’ .
10 The disadvantage of being the Society 's spinster is that I spend all weekend smelling of sheep .
11 ‘ The greatest irony is that I thought he could help me in my research on rape , ’ she says .
12 ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’
13 and the biggest tragedy is that I know you know what you want to say
14 He told TODAY soon after the tragedy : ‘ My only crime is that I fell in love with another girl . ’
15 There was no attempt to persuade and the result was that I blew up .
16 The result was that I chaired a session and I got Pam Mills from the BBC to speak at it and everyone agreed it was one of the best sessions of the conference .
17 My reply was that I doubted if any such plan had a remote chance of success , and that I would want to be assured of the truthfulness and authenticity of the document he was planning to send me .
18 The thought uppermost in my mind was that I had always wondered how young horses felt when I knocked wolf teeth out of them .
19 Why else should I still be yearning after a man whom I knew to be a murderer while shrinking from the innocent Syl whose only crime was that I found him unattractive ?
20 The positive things that have come out of the divorce are that I have a much better relationship with my children and I can read a book in bed and not have a jealous partner by my side trying to prevent me .
21 The wonder is that I write
22 The wonder is that I write
23 ‘ The main benefit is that I 've enjoyed it ; that 's my yardstick . ’
24 ‘ The main benefit is that I 've enjoyed it ; that 's my yardstick . ’
25 The answer to the second is that I agree that Crime Concern , which enjoys all-party support in the House , does excellent work .
26 What clouds the issue is that I have caught hundreds of bream , of all sizes , and from a variety of waters , when the surface of the water has not been broken once by a fish .
27 ‘ The answer to your question is that I do n't know .
28 Yes well the , the question is that I notice in the assets that investments at cost were twenty five million , the present market value is twenty eight million , indeed since that 's been written it may even be more and when I looked down to the other side of the accounts , I noticed interest on capital of twelve hundred and four pounds and I wonder where the interest from the twenty eight million has gone to .
29 ‘ His criticism of my sermon was that I had not gone far enough , ’ continued Father Kipling .
30 I think that the real reason that I wanted to do Total recall was that I knew it might make me famous which then might help me get better parts .
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