Example sentences of "it [be] that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | who else could it be that we know , you know ? |
| 2 | Could it be that we encourage more of the public to buy books ? |
| 3 | Could it be that they do not have the stomach for the hard grind which seems to be necessary to pick up those all important computer points ? |
| 4 | ‘ Might it be , I 'm only hazarding a guess , you realize that , but might it be that they want you to get them out here again ? ’ |
| 5 | At the time of her conversion , she was sometimes ecstatic with love ; on one occasion she returned home , and was so on fire with love which God had manifested to her that all she could utter was : ‘ O Love , can it be that thou hast called me with so much love , and revealed to me , at one view , what no tongue can describe ? ’ — Von Hugel . |
| 6 | Could it be that someone had an interest in keeping it alive ? |
| 7 | Could it be that someone took him up on the extravagant wagers he offered constantly during the election and that he 's been forced to three ball his monkey suit to meet his gambling debts ? and then there was the letter in Saturday 's Darlington and Stockton Times from stop-at-home Nick ThorneWallis , Labour chairman of Darlington council 's transport committee . |
| 8 | With stress on ‘ comes ’ , could it be that she gets a lift back ? |
| 9 | Could it be that she had retraced her steps , worked out that the house was Littlecote and the perpetrator of this heinous crime was Darrel ? |
| 10 | Could n't it be that she had needed to loathe him so that she could smother the awakening of her real feelings for him ? |
| 11 | On and on she heard herself ranting ( could it be that she heard echoes of her own past self , the speaking , ranting , resurrected ghost of that ephemeral figure Liz Lintot ? ) and heard his vague , evasive grunts and answers : yes , he said , he and Henrietta would marry as soon as possible , Henrietta wanted to go to New York with him , she 'd had a thin time herself lately , he needed her in New York , Henrietta had n't been well , needed to settle … and as Liz spoke and listened she was aware of a simultaneous conviction that this was the most shocking , the most painful hour of her entire life , and also that it was profoundly dull , profoundly trivial , profoundly irrelevant , a mere routine , devoid of truth , devoid of meaning : nothing . |
| 12 | Can it be that you condone his actions ? |
| 13 | ‘ Can it be that you do not remember me , Mikhail ? ’ he pleaded . |
| 14 | Can it be that you have no idea of the power a young , nubile girl can exercise over a young , impressionable male ? ’ |
| 15 | Could it be that he had invented the entire tableau , he wondered ? |
| 16 | Could it be that he 'd resented Doreen 's attack on herself ? |
| 17 | Could it be that he did feel something other than sexual desire for her ? |
| 18 | I do n't know whether it 's that we want much , too much |
| 19 | If we go to an exhibition together we find that we like the same paintings ; so I think it 's that we have an empathy in our way of painting , in the whole attitude to painting . |
| 20 | Mostly it 's that they do n't travel well , whatever flightcases you use . |
| 21 | It 's that they have equal decisions , really so you ca n't say . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's that it does n't suit you . |
| 23 | Not you , it 's that it 's , it 's been on show . |
| 24 | It 's not so much that , it 's that I prefer my cooking to your cooking . |
| 25 | I think you 're , you 're often asked to do reactive tasks when I 've done all my tasks , you know I 've got all my staff doing this , and then I 've got to help down on the shopfloor , and it 's not that I 'm doing something that I 'm , you know , I should be doing as a manager , it 's that I 've done all of mine , and I 'm going out to give them a hand . |
| 26 | Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the |
| 27 | It 's that I do n't want it . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's that I think you 're gay ! |
| 29 | It 's that you 've got to put on , so |
| 30 | So a lot of , a lot of the problems with some of the areas of the work is because you do it so infrequent it 's not that you ca n't do it , it 's that you feel |