Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] be [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was declared the best policy was for the ‘ sent down ’ youth to remain where they were so that they could make their valuable contribution to the motherland on the ‘ agricultural front ’ , as in previous decades . |
| 2 | And although you 're right that they 've been selling flowers for a long time , they underwent a massive re-fit recently . |
| 3 | She smiled then to soften any hint that she was annoyed that her mother thought she should be more home-orientated than she was now that she was married . |
| 4 | In previous generations it was much less likely than it is now that grandparents would have lived to know their grandchildren as adults ( see chapters 2 and 3 ) . |
| 5 | Leeds is now the third largest city in England and the 20th in Europe , so it is right that it should have international ambitions . |
| 6 | America is the closest thing to a financial laboratory for these sorts of questions , so it is there that most of the answers should be sought . |
| 7 | The ancient art of batik , a form of resist dyeing , has been perfected over centuries on the Indonesian island of Java , so it was there that Angela Newport went to learn the technique . |
| 8 | Everyone has some quality they like , even if it is just that you are kind to animals . |
| 9 | I wonder if it is here that the pictures are to appear , worrying that the seats are badly arranged , pointing the wrong way , that we wo n't be able to see them properly . |
| 10 | If it is simply that ‘ our heritage is our power ’ , and women gain strength today by looking to their sisters in the past , if what interests her is the vision of an equality between women and men , Schüssler Fiorenza might well be better advised to look to other communities in the ancient Near East . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is generally possible to isolate at least one compelling selling feature even if it is only that your client 's product is the cheapest . |
| 13 | I do n't know if it 's just that I 'm missing you … |
| 14 | I mean , if it 's just that you 're too close to it and you do n't want me to look at it , there are people I know who 're good at that sort of thing ; they can see the wood from the trees ; they could — ’ |
| 15 | He had stopped stealing , or , rather , Emmie thought he had : sometimes she wondered if it was just that she was n't keeping a proper watch on him . |
| 16 | ‘ If it were simply that it would hardly be convincing , would it ? ’ |
| 17 | He was , as I have said , correct in ignoring article 10 and the submissions based upon it if he was right that the law is certain . |
| 18 | His voice was low , easy , the faint accent she 'd barely noticed before more pronounced now , unless it was just that her senses had been heightened by that devastatingly thorough kiss . |
| 19 | The West Bank terminal was again the focus of job losses yesterday because it is there that the greatest loss of business has occurred . |
| 20 | This is , yes , contact that , this is important , because it 's clearly that there is an increase , there 's some evidence of an increase of these things as a sort of little tail end thing , it would have been perfectly good story but quite the other way round . |
| 21 | We look forward to an hour 's drive to an appointment , because it 's then that we dust off American Pie or Band On The Run or Led Zeppelin II or London Calling and snap it into our car 's entertainment system . |
| 22 | Perhaps the decision was made because it was here that Manzoni fell when attempting to negotiate a stairway with more enthusiasm than regard for his age . |
| 23 | Beck devotes more space to this project than any other and rightly so because it was here that Jacopo della Quercia poured forth his genius in psychologically charged narratives and compelling statuary . |
| 24 | He still retains an affection for the place , perhaps because it was there that he first encountered the inspiring sight of human beings at odds with , and frequently overcoming , an unpromising environment . |
| 25 | It was n't actually called Blood Rock , that was just their private name for it , because it was there that Jed made his confession . |
| 26 | ( It was , of course , the load at peak times which imposed the highest costs on the system , partly because it was then that the least efficient power stations were used for generating , but principally because , since electricity could not be stored , it was the peak load which determined expenditure on new capacity . ) |
| 27 | I was no more alert to my environment than a sick animal and I must have somehow been aware of that , because it was then that I remembered the starveling cat . |
| 28 | It 's not her dying while he 's there that panics him , I reckon ; it 's the thought of something messy or perhaps her dipping into another decade and making him one of the period characters . |
| 29 | This was the name of the place which he had visited five years before ; he had gone almost in the role of a pilgrim , since it was there that Nicholas Ferrar established a small Anglican religious community in the seventeenth century — a familial life led in poverty , discipline and prayer which was extirpated by Parliamentary troops in 1646 . |
| 30 | The first problem here is that the brevity of Scaevola 's response ( even by his standards three words is modest ) leaves it unclear whether he means that the debtors are not freed from any liability , or whether it is just that they are not freed from liabilities contracted after the first will was made . |