Example sentences of "[vb past] that it be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she often maintained that it was her own choice not to attend , she told an American interviewer , I would love to go to board meetings where he [ Bernard ] is chairman but I 'm not invited . |
| 2 | She joked that it was her favourite occupation . |
| 3 | That night she dreamt that they were all , Larry and Philippa and John and Conrad and Demian and herself , dancing the hornpipe on the deck of a warship that was ploughing through a storm , but Demian 's leg was tragically maimed and would not keep in step and Conrad was shouting at him like a great actor-manager , and the tears were streaming down Demian 's face , or so she thought , until she realized that it was she who was crying , crying for the sick one , praying that her tears would heal his wound . |
| 4 | When questioned , Mason , the carpenter , agreed that it was he who had raised the flag , but said that he had done so because he had been prematurely informed of the relief of Mafeking . |
| 5 | The Aldershot method was particularly important for me because I realised that it 's something we use every day or we see every day er and it emotionally prepares the audience the listener for what I 'm going to say . |
| 6 | Suddenly Shelley could n't see , and she realised that it was her tears that had blinded her . |
| 7 | In some ways Donaldson realised that it was he that was actually doing all the learning-Bobo was using a vocabulary that she 'd already acquired , whilst he was struggling to adapt himself to it . |
| 8 | To us , the black laver bread looked dreadful , poisonous , but we understood and respected that it was something Welsh , something special . |
| 9 | Previously , she would have been driven by my father , but she announced that it was her intention to travel , alone , by train . |
| 10 | The Director of Public Prosecutions urged the Greater Manchester police to investigate the trial in the light of allegations of police corruption , while the Manchester police authority announced that it was itself to hold such an inquiry . |
| 11 | Anyway , the day after we all arrived in Newark , Tibby announced that it was his birthday , and Stanford had the idea of hiring a private dining-room at the Ram … ’ |
| 12 | ‘ The police and ambulance arrived on the scene very rapidly and the other driver admitted that it was her fault . |
| 13 | One farmer in North Wales admitted that it was his wife who had trained him in lambing techniques after having been on a training course . |
| 14 | By and large , those who approved of conscription when it came did so because they believed that it was everyone 's duty to serve in the armed forces in any case . |
| 15 | From the day I first got an inkling of ‘ where babies come from ’ and taxed my mother with the proposition that I was therefore no relation to my father , I believed that it was me and me alone who had been responsible for all that pain and trouble called my birth . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , in 7 BC this neat arrangement was interfered with in order to honour Augustus by renaming the month Sextilis after him ( he believed that it was his lucky month ) and assigning to it the same number of days as the preceding month that had been renamed after his murdered great-uncle by Mark Antony . |
| 17 | That he could do this without awakening the slightest resentment ill the boys was a sign that they recognised that it was their work that mattered to Basil , and in no way his self-importance , which , to a quite remarkable degree he did not have . |
| 18 | ‘ Although those problems were resolved , and gradually we got the level of performance , we recognised that it was our customers ' perception of the service , rather than our own , which mattered . |
| 19 | In her child 's understanding it seemed that it was her own liberation that was the cause of the celebration , and the arrival of the princess , the flags which appeared on all the buildings and the succession of functions for which her mother and Denzil put on their beautiful evening clothes and left her with the maid . |
| 20 | He stated that it was his intention to start a Salisbury delivery but great-grandmother said that whilst she would n't change , her daughter who was about to marry might be interested . |
| 21 | Last time we went the , the came on and declared that it was your birthday and wished you a very happy birthday and you were standing up there , bouncing up and down . |
| 22 | At a recent press conference in Lahore , Nawaz Sharif claimed that it was his peace mission which brought about the joint US-Soviet communique which embarrassed the Bush government on the eve of Bush 's ‘ State of the Nation ’ address . |
| 23 | My interest was aroused when he reasoned that it was his blackness which constituted the major drawback in his life at one level , but at another , proved an indispensable asset to his eventual success . |
| 24 | But it started to make me feel scared that it was something I was going to have to bring up for the rest of my life . |
| 25 | A searching moment indicated that it was my motives rather than her welfare that were under question . |
| 26 | Belinda wondered how on earth they were going to get it up the stairs and through the house , but she sensibly decided that it was their concern , not hers , and anyway the bedroom needed to be vacuumed first . |
| 27 | When Mussolini took over in Italy , Anna decided that it was her duty to make her protest on Italian soil as an Italian citizen ( a not too vulnerable one for the time being , but she tried her best ) . |
| 28 | About six months ago , we mutually decided that it was something we could do without . |
| 29 | They simply , and it seems correctly , decided that it was none of their business . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , he also clearly implied that it was none of the legate 's business . |