Example sentences of "that [pers pn] be [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this does n't mean that I am anything less than an enthusiastic supporter of Scottish rugby . |
| 2 | Tolonen 's appointment as General would certainly help in that regard , but I must also show them that I am my own man , not merely my father 's shadow . |
| 3 | The self-analysis is disarmingly frank , ‘ Keith Fletcher and Geoff Arnold have both said that I 'm my own biggest enemy , that I do n't believe in myself . |
| 4 | I feel secure in the sense that I 'm my own sort of person and I feel loved by Lucy . |
| 5 | Still she lifted her chin slightly and tried to ignore the media attention , knowing that it was all really centred on Ace and that she was nothing more than a decorative addition to his charismatic presence . |
| 6 | ‘ That you are anything more than good friends ? |
| 7 | Remember that you are your own best critic and only you can finally decide what it is you wanted to say . |
| 8 | This leads to the notion that we are nothing more than chemical and mechanical devices , albeit extremely complex and wonderfully integrated ones . |
| 9 | John adds : ‘ The problem we have as naturists is that we are our own worst enemies . |
| 10 | That they 're what this is all about . ’ |
| 11 | That they are their own sun |
| 12 | But the sailing date kept being put back : first for lack of volunteers , then because of uncertainty about the activities of ubiquitous Francis Drake — who disliked other privateers poaching prizes he regarded as his own — and finally for a wealth of reasons so small that Ann began to suspect that they were nothing more than a smoke screen , to hide her husband 's ever-increasing infatuation with Miss Jennifer Gristy . |
| 13 | But , the next day in court , these same stone-throwing anarchists complained that they were nothing more than innocent bystanders , who had been brutalized by policemen and thrown into Black Marias . |
| 14 | Now the poor are made to feel ashamed , that it 's their own fault , some shortcoming which they have . |
| 15 | And the maddening part of it is that it 's my own fault . |
| 16 | In this survey , I have elected to concentrate on English presses , in the belief that it is they that will be largely sought by English collectors ; but I am much aware of the many fine examples in other countries , not least in America , where such names as Bruce Rogers of the Riverside Press , Cambridge , Mass. , Frederic Goudy of the Village Press , Park Ridge , Illinois ( and later Marlborough , New York ) and Daniel Berkeley Updike , who set up the Merrymount Press , will always be honoured . |
| 17 | They will inevitably feel that it is their own fault — that they are in some way ‘ bad ’ or deserving of such treatment . |
| 18 | ‘ This is very interesting , ’ she said , ‘ but I 'm afraid that it is nothing more than a performance . |
| 19 | It would seem to cover the situation where the accused takes the victim 's umbrella dishonestly and the victim buys back the umbrella , not realising that it is his own . |
| 20 | For a split second , I have sometimes failed to recognize that it is my own face that is being reflected back at me . |
| 21 | ‘ The great thing about painting ’ , he says , ‘ is that it is your own individual interpretation of whatever view you have chosen . |
| 22 | If you can find someone else whose fault it is , then you can give up worrying that it is your own . |
| 23 | But Breeze still had an uneasy feeling that it was something more . |
| 24 | There was also the possibility that Myeloski was wrong , that it was nothing more than a string of coincidences . |
| 25 | ‘ I can only draw from this fact that the Careers Service did not destroy their copies of the incorrect documents and that it was theirs that was passed to the county councillors and Dr Ashok Kumar ( the Labour candidate for Langbaurgh ) , ’ says the statement . |
| 26 | She had obviously not noticed that it was her own number . |
| 27 | In her child 's understanding it seemed that it was her own liberation that was the cause of the celebration , and the arrival of the princess , the flags which appeared on all the buildings and the succession of functions for which her mother and Denzil put on their beautiful evening clothes and left her with the maid . |
| 28 | Doreen , a nineteen-year-old mother of three young children , felt strongly about this after her experiences , and correctly points out that it was her own choice to have her children , and she should be given the same respect as any older mother : |
| 29 | She seemed to think that it was her own child and showed signs of distress when Carrie took the baby from her . |
| 30 | Although she often maintained that it was her own choice not to attend , she told an American interviewer , I would love to go to board meetings where he [ Bernard ] is chairman but I 'm not invited . |