Example sentences of "be [that] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's always been surrounded by people who think everything else he does is marvellous , but one of the points of our relationship has been that I 've always criticised his work , and for me those double portraits of the Seventies came perilously close to Photo-Realism . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It could be that I 've simply never felt strongly enough about anyone , ’ she cut in , instantly wishing the words unsaid as she realised how much they revealed about her feelings for him . |
| 3 | If I left a table in Fif 's that I 'd just acquired , I might attract attention . |
| 4 | What I mean is that I 've finally been forced to admit that the large-animal side of veterinary practice is still controlled by men . |
| 5 | Part of the problem is that I 've already been through all this pregnancy stuff with Wife Number One . |
| 6 | The upshot of this is that I 've now become a resident , which makes a weekly tour of junk and antique shops even more vital . |
| 7 | It can be a very hard game sometimes , but the most important thing for me is that I 've now got my mind right . |
| 8 | The result of this strategy is that I 've never missed a plane in twenty-eight years of international travel — except once . |
| 9 | Yes , but the difference is that I 've never seen those houses but I have , I can see those . |
| 10 | For what is being suggested is that I knew today and not yesterday , despite the fact that there was no difference between the two days that I could tell at the time . |
| 11 | What , what you 're saying is that I mean broadly this is , is quite an incentive based system , at least on the face of it |
| 12 | The fact is that I had already begun to give serious consideration to the possibility of doing away with Dennis Parsons . |
| 13 | The fact is that I had never seen it , or known what I was seeing , until that day : … |
| 14 | ‘ The thing I remember about my first visit is that I had never sung so much before . |
| 15 | ‘ The truth is that I had never even met him . ’ |
| 16 | The first is that I sit here , hit this bottle of Old Bedwetter and fall into flashbacks of lost loves and hard times past . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But all that means is that I know damn well what not to do . |
| 18 | What matters is that I need never question that there is a course which is objectively the best for me , and that when most aware I am nearest to it . |
| 19 | Now my view is that I think rather like your comment on Christian doing concerts , Scottish Amicable er Standard Life Scottish Hydro , Scottish Power , Scottish Nuclear I do n't necessarily see it as making influence to make a decision to make a purchase or to recommend a purchase to the third party in another part of Scotland |
| 20 | ‘ I suppose the unusual thing about the allotment is that I grow just about everything , ’ he said . |
| 21 | The physical and mental experience had made us healthier people and proof of the excitement and joy of the trip is that I have now become one of the greatest bores on mountain biking in the Swedish Arctic . |
| 22 | Right , well I 've been waiting since er what is it twelve o'clock this morning , what on earth this question can be and I certainly did n't er come up with this possible , erm all I can say is that I have always got on extremely well with Tony and . |
| 23 | ‘ THE most disheartening thing is that I have always had a really strong idea about what I want the group to be and I 'm not very good at relating to people who think that their version of what my group should be is more important than mine , ’ complains Stuart Adamson , singer/guitarist with Big Country . |
| 24 | One thing I can say of him with total confidence is that I have never met a man less interested in money . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm bowling a bit quicker , but they main difference is that I feel more confident and settled this time , ’ he explained . |
| 26 | The second element was that I had just started working at the London School of Economics in October 1970 , which was exactly the same time as GLF started meeting there and LSE was in one of its periods of turmoil which involved me as someone working on the staff and excited me politically . |
| 27 | The thought uppermost in my mind was that I had always wondered how young horses felt when I knocked wolf teeth out of them . |
| 28 | ‘ I think my trouble was that I had too much help and felt as if my boobs were all anyone was interested in . |
| 29 | I suppose the problem was that I had never been told about it officially — that is , by an adult — and so I had somehow blocked off the information , not connecting it with myself , with my own body . |
| 30 | In fact , barn owls are reckoned to be one of the hardest breeds to hand-rear and train , and they are n't recommended for beginners — though I did n't know that then , What I did know was that I 'd probably lost the battle with this owl before I 'd started : I suspected he would be impossible to train , but I was so hooked on the idea of having my own bird that I could hardly drag myself away when I was looking at him . |