Example sentences of "be [adv] that it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If scio was not thought adequate at classical law , the reason can be only that it did not make sufficiently clear that the testator intended a trustee to be legally obliged to make property over to a beneficiary . |
| 2 | At each stage the vested interests — of protected tenants , of council tenants , and of local and national politicians — in the system , grew stronger and more complex , so that the wonder is not that it lived so long but that two men were found at last , in Duncan Sandys and Henry Brooke , of sufficient courage and determination to lay the axe to the roots and start hewing a way back to sanity . |
| 3 | yeah well you know it 's okay well you know I well you know yeah it 's just that it worried me about this meeting here and three people out of the five people in the room did n't realise that it was a reservations and booking service . |
| 4 | It 's not hard , it 's just that it fell off my stick . |
| 5 | It is simply that it left us stranded . |
| 6 | It was thus that it acquired its unique form : 35 km long and about 1.6 km wide with steep sides sloping to a flat bed . |
| 7 | There was nothing wrong with the noble creed they were taught-it was just that it played no part in the actual operation of the military dictatorship . |
| 8 | It was here that it had all started , she thought . |
| 9 | Israel 's great sin was n't that it did not do good things — but that it did not obey the Law , the Torah . |
| 10 | It was then that it slammed into the back of |
| 11 | It was then that it occurred to me that there was some connection between Jean-Claude 's relationship with Ahmed and Meaulnes 's with Frantz . |
| 12 | It was then that it happened . |