Example sentences of "[to-vb] that it be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My lord , I have good reason to know that it was you who said a word for me in his Grace 's ear , and gave me this day for thought , and even offered me arguments I was not wise enough to find for myself . |
| 2 | Furious , he got up to complain to his neighbour , only to discover that it was his own dog which he had accidently shut outside before going to bed . |
| 3 | Everything seemed to indicate that it was our friend Argol , or some flunkey of his . |
| 4 | Eric 's name was not given but it was not difficult to guess that it was him . |
| 5 | ‘ It does n't take a psychologist to see that it 's you who 's running . ’ |
| 6 | After my fourth or fifth lesson I was able to see that it was I who was causing myself the discomfort . |
| 7 | Obviously , it is in a ‘ plugger 's ’ interest to claim that it was his or her work which made a record into a hit , but if you employ a ‘ plugger ’ it is worth being sceptical when deciding what to believe . |
| 8 | If we resent this ( as we should ) , we ought to realize that it is we who are to blame for it . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , ’ argues Paul , ‘ you have to remember that it 's our first album and it 's , like , our album for the world . |
| 10 | ‘ No one , ’ said a judge who had watched Slime , ‘ could ever again look at a pond and fail to remember that it was somebody 's home , ’ |
| 11 | Either way , the word seems to suggest that it was their inability or refusal to suckle which was regarded as characteristic — a supposition exactly in line with my theory that they represent the masculine , aggressive , weaning mothers of early agriculture . |
| 12 | Though he never disguised his leadership ambitions , he continued to deny that it was his intention to challenge the Prime Minister . |
| 13 | Of course the sceptics and the doubters will sneer at the influence on the affair exercised by Dicky saying that the former route was unsuitable and geographically unstable , and they will point out that such conditions have been overcome in other parts , for example , the West Highland , the Liverpool and Manchester and the Settle and Carlisle , but then those conversant with Dicky o' Tunstead will continue to believe that it is his malign influence which kept the rails away from Tunstead Farm . |
| 14 | Easier to believe that it was hers , and there was something wrong with it . |
| 15 | Lutyens 's family were brought up to believe that it was their father who invented Nanna , and that it was from their own night nursery window in Bloomsbury Square that Wendy and the boys flew with Peter Pan to the Neverland . |
| 16 | She has no reason to believe that it was anything other than an accident . |
| 17 | She has no reason to believe that it was anything other than an accident . |
| 18 | ‘ You seem to forget that it 's my house , too . ’ |
| 19 | For a split second , I have sometimes failed to recognize that it is my own face that is being reflected back at me . |
| 20 | We have to recognize that it is our responsibility to ensure that the natural fears and concerns that people have are allayed . |
| 21 | Prince Bernhard had said no such thing , but Sharpe had decided it would be more efficacious to assign the opinion to the prince than to confess that it was his own view . |
| 22 | I was to learn that it was his way of controlling his temper . |
| 23 | She seemed to think that it was her own child and showed signs of distress when Carrie took the baby from her . |
| 24 | Ten years ago I remember I used to think that it was our mental hospitals which later generations would regard as the most staggering and incomprehensible blind spot of our time , on which they would look back as we do upon the generations which burnt witches or tried by ordeal . |
| 25 | But setting her misgivings about Tommaso himself aside , Caterina decided that she had been quite wrong to think that it was she who had caught his attention . |
| 26 | I I 've got to say that it 's somebody that 's got a personal project that has done it in one force ai n't it . |
| 27 | A , it 's part of , it 's linked to the fact that erm , the Council 's quite erm concerned to get , you know , community groups active in the town and responding to things as well as just the Council , Council Officer 's , but it 's also linked to the fact that we as Council Officer 's ca n't be overtly political , it 's far to say , and you know , what happens is groups get set up to resist things like last year when the hospital lost the fifty million pounds , there 's enough people on it now to say that it 's you people here that formed the bulk of thos e groups . |
| 28 | I have to say that it was me , I did that . |
| 29 | The usual instruction was to ‘ provide what is customary ’ , though this attitude led to extreme financial hardship for the poorer classes , though it would not be unreasonable to say that it was they who helped to perpetuate the meaningless and elaborate ritual well into the early decades of the twentieth century . |
| 30 | The 34027 Locomotive Group still retain the prestigious opportunity of being able to say that it was their locomotive which took the first train hauled by a steam locomotive into Waterloo after some 25 years . |