Example sentences of "[vb pp] be that [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the trials of such war criminals as Klaus Barbie have revealed is that they really had to do very little work at all . |
| 2 | What they have n't been told is that you actually have to make a claim for benefit . |
| 3 | What is perhaps most curious about the characterization of Margery after the trick has been played is that she very soon drops all reference to — and therefore seems to be portrayed as forgetting — the threat she believes the clerk to pose . |
| 4 | One answer that has been proposed is that they somehow ‘ tunnel ’ their way instantaneously to another part of the Universe — or even to an alternate Universe . |
| 5 | And part of the reason of course the dialect is gone is that we unconsciously sort of translate what we 're going to say into good English so that we 're understood . |
| 6 | And what I 've asked is that they actually did and not separate it . |
| 7 | It is not enough to assume that all that has happened is that we no longer believe in hell , and that mutes , carrying black ostrich plumes , are out of favour . |
| 8 | Officially , the reason given was that it now seemed more sensible to store the highly active waste above ground for at least fifty years before disposing of it , probably in the form of glass blocks , and meanwhile allowing more of its intense heat to dissipate . |