Example sentences of "be that i [vb base] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 It 's not so much that , it 's that I prefer my cooking to your cooking .
2 ‘ It 's that I think you 're gay !
3 The good thing about Sheff Utd ( from SCUMS point of view ) is that I doubt they would go there just to get a draw … they beat SCUM twice last year so might have thought they had a chance .
4 All I can say is that I doubt I will be asked to join the Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team .
5 But what it is that I measure I do not know .
6 The best thing about him is that I like him .
7 But what they ca n't stand is that I hate them when they do n't behave in their own way .
8 Although there was not much probability in my case , the answer is that I wish I had .
9 ‘ What I mean is that I wish I could snap my fingers and suddenly there 'd be a band playing some soft , slow music . ’
10 ‘ I 'm a businessman first and a boxer second , and the reason I 'm so successful as a pugilist is that I know my limitations better than anyone else . ’
11 I know they are saying ‘ she ca n't sing ’ but the important thing to me is that I know I can .
12 What annoys me is that I know I saw the damn thing not too long ago !
13 and the biggest tragedy is that I know you know what you want to say
14 ‘ One thing these workless weeks in Venice have taught me is that I need my profession .
15 My recurring nightmare is that I circle it for ever , never able to get off .
16 Now the point I 'm trying to make — the reason I sent you to that 2D universe — is that I reckon we 're making the same mistake — about the space of our universe .
17 ‘ All I 'm saying is that I think we need to be apart for a while , come down to earth , if you like .
18 So , I mean what I 'm saying is that I think we should have a league table if you like of , of attendances , I , I recognise that that may not be popular , but I think it 's going to be one way of sorting out those people who attend every opportunity , and sometimes just to pat an officer on the back .
19 What I will say , though , is that I think we killed off Kilmarnock 's challenge at the week-end and , if we do n't go up now , we should be put up against a wall and shot . ’
20 There 's another aspect to what we do , and that is that I think we are part of a very powerful developing movement in education , and it is based on the concept that education should not stop with the terminal rituals of school and college , and that education should be as much part of life , wanting to know , to find out , to get to grips with the body of information and knowledge that 's available in society .
21 One of the nice aspects of a task such as that is that I think we , as professional physicists — and I 'm a physicist too erm we , as professional physicists , feel there 's a right way of doing something because it 's the way we learnt and we 've got used to , and we tend to instil this idea into other people .
22 What does worry me though , is that I think he still thought it was a ‘ female sex aid device ’ !
23 I would say : if you want to talk of my thinking it in such circumstances then the least misleading thing to say is that I think it in saying it .
24 All I know is that I think it 's a safe distance for me to drive behind that car at any given time .
25 But at the heart of that issue I you know that specific issue I think is a good example of the of of the problem which I see you facing is that I think it 's more not so much about the noise but about the fact that we have a relatively privileged few people who are enjoying going to these May Balls I mean and enjoying the end of their exams , staying up all night , and I wonder in fact if it 's more a matter of sour grapes rather than environmental health .
26 Well , that 's , that 's up to you , but the , what , the point I 'm trying to make is that I think it 's important that you actually consider that before the interview is , is ever , ever takes place , because otherwise you could be caught very flat-footed .
27 ‘ What I mean , ’ said Robert , feeling a direct approach was required , ‘ is that I think I am having a nervous breakdown . ’
28 Gravedigger Jose Molina said : ‘ What scares me is that I think I 'll be her first victim . ’
29 Anyway , what I 'm trying to say is that I find myself looking around more .
30 All I can say in my defence is that I have nothing now in my life that I would need to hide from you . ’
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