Example sentences of "be [pron] that it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can provide a precis only where the topic is something that it knows about , so that it has some sense of what conceptual relationships to expect in the story . |
| 2 | What else is it that it tells ya ? |
| 3 | ‘ Or is it that it does n't seem long ? he continued bitterly , knowing the futility of carping , but being unable to stop it . |
| 4 | But what sort of porn is it that it has to be brought all the way from the US of A ? |
| 5 | The problem in this case however is : What is it that it comes after ? |
| 6 | So delightfully muzzy was she that it seemed to her the night in Nice had never happened … |
| 7 | It was something that it had happened at all . |
| 8 | Removal of this national vulnerability and dependence on other nations became the prime aim , and so compelling an aim was it that it came to be achieved by fair means or foul . |
| 9 | How was it that it had taken him so long to see Parry 's daughter thus clearly ? |