Example sentences of "that [be] [conj] it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am satisfied , therefore , that the issue which arises for determination , that is whether it is in the children 's interests that the mother should be permitted to live with them in England or whether they should be brought up in Australia where they could have more frequent contact with their father , may properly be determined in either court . |
| 2 | However , the predicate displays at least one of the characteristics of a semantic dependant , and that is that it is expected to bring to the construction semantic traits not encapsulated in the subject ; furthermore , in cases of pleonasm , it is the predicate whose specificity must be increased to achieve normality : |
| 3 | and that is that it is |
| 4 | never , no , and that is that it is constrained by a very tight village envelope which has actually just been defined and statutorily approved as an alteration to the rural areas local plan erm , and th the effect of that village envelope is to limit the possible amount of development to I would say no more than three or four hundred house . |
| 5 | The reason for that is that it is we are operating in a in an environment of planning policy restraint . |
| 6 | The only problem with that is that it 's not necessarily going to be accepted . |
| 7 | ( All you can say about that is that it 's a change from bagpipes . ) |
| 8 | That is unless it is either an exclusion clause made unenforceable by the Unfair Contract Terms 1977 ( see Chapter 10 ) or a penalty clause . |
| 9 | That is unless it 's sold to the sort of person who blasts half of his land away to quarry gravel for motorways , like someone I can think of on the west coast . |
| 10 | That is because it is a magnificent structure , the supreme architectural expression of the heroic , monumental phase of power station design and the creation of a great architect . |
| 11 | That is because it is an area where Marx and Engels , misled by Morgan , went most wrong , yet where at the same time they made the best use of anthropology . |
| 12 | There is another reason for the reluctance to indulge in creative thinking and that is because it is often confused with original thought . |
| 13 | Could I walk home with you , that is if it 's not too early for you ? ’ |
| 14 | That 's 'cause it 's only light ! |
| 15 | If such music is totalitarian , that 's because it 's about total control and exploitation of your powers . |
| 16 | That 's because it 's a boutique . |
| 17 | I was worried about that and er I think that 's because it 's a German system and everyone is assumed to be over six feet anyway or six feet wide or something . |
| 18 | Chlorine has a residence time of infinity , that 's because it 's being recycled round all the time so it 's in the system forever , . |
| 19 | That 's because it 's going round in a circle — like the Shuttle , and me on my space walk . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's because it 's a legal document , ’ said Charles . |
| 21 | ‘ That 's because it 's in the English tea room , ’ said Daisy . |
| 22 | " I ca n't make this out , " I say ( as myself , not the alien ) , to which several children respond : " No , that 's because it 's written in the alien 's language . " |
| 23 | That 's because it 's late I 'm afraid . |
| 24 | It does but that 's because it 's like a huge atom bomb flowing hydrogen all the time . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's because it 's the only one made by Bernini himself . |
| 26 | That 's because it 's one of the delicacies reserved especially for 50 of the children at the local primary school . |
| 27 | If it sounds like the opening words of an episode of Star Trek , that 's because it 's aimed at attracting schoolchildren to the world of science . |
| 28 | That 's because it 's a breath of fresh air compared to some of the muck that passes for music in the popular music charts . |
| 29 | That 's because it 's a picture of Zurich . |
| 30 | That 's because it 's because you ca n't shoot people from like really far away |