Example sentences of "it be that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can it be that one day , off it goes on , that one day I simply stayed in , in where , instead of going out , in the old way , out to spend day and night as far away as possible , it was n't far . |
| 2 | Could it be that some machines have been neglected all summer ? |
| 3 | In early ethnic models of settlement origin it was assumed that this was a Celtic pattern of settlement , but could it be that this pattern in fact represents the oldest arrangements in the landscape ? |
| 4 | It 's that same adhesive — it looks as if it will have to be withdrawn ; there 's definitely some harmful irritant in it . ’ |
| 5 | It is that two years , two and a quarter years ago I established a procedure in the Labour Party … ( uproar from audience ) . |
| 6 | It is that such questions can only be properly pursued in the company of the disciplinary studies . |
| 7 | Now it was there that we became separated , I developed a very bad throat and could not fly , just before we were ready to leave for overseas as in his crew and the other crews that were there went on whereas I got held back and of course the way I feel about it is that that week that I got held back , saved my life . |
| 8 | Life-positions throw light on why it is that some people tend to be winners and some losers in life . |
| 9 | the real politics of it is that those labels are attached , and you know that as well as I do . |
| 10 | Some groups of pieces may still form parts of the picture , but the more you shake the box , the more likely it is that these groups will get broken up and the pieces will be in a completely jumbled state in which they do n't form any sort of picture . |
| 11 | It is that these programmes , and the plutonium economy they seek to bring into being , encourage the Russian nuclear industry to think of plutonium as valuable . |
| 12 | erm Clevedon , or wherever it is that these guys hang out . |
| 13 | Given that this is the case , it is interesting and instructive to reflect on why it is that these people have decided to call us their ‘ clients ’ . |
| 14 | It is that same voyage of discovery that the organisers of The Jimi Hendrix Exhibition are hoping the public will experience through the 100 pieces of work they have put on show . |
| 15 | But it is that same obstinacy or , put another way , determination to win , that has not only made him a successful captain , but also into one of the most feared batsmen in the world . |
| 16 | It is that same KaDeWe — you pronounce it ‘ cardayvay ’ — where 60 years ago a Hungarian band played popular dance music favourites in the chic top floor restaurant . |
| 17 | It is that any work of art , of whatever kind or genre , must be experienced ‘ aesthetically ’ . |
| 18 | We have already seen how unlikely it is that any party would go before the electorate avowing such differences : an exhibition of disunity would be too damaging to its chances of success . |
| 19 | It is that further mortgage , which was in all major respects recreating the terms of the September mortgage , which is alleged to be in breach of the court 's order and is the subject of the application for committal for contempt . |
| 20 | How refreshing it is that this year 's number one is Whitney Houston 's I Will Always Love You . |
| 21 | M my view about this is that it 's it it is it is that this exercise is that it is er something which has been done very quickly and to my mind is not capable of providing the level of assessment that would be required . |
| 22 | It was that fiendish Perdita Macleod . |
| 23 | And the farther away they were , the more likely it was that one tribe would dominate the district . |
| 24 | And so it was that all Hollywood 's difficulties led somewhat accidentally to what Ralph A. Bauer has described as a period whose movies ‘ were perhaps as varied and intriguing ’ as the movies produced in any comparably short period in American history . |
| 25 | Historians have to explain how it was that slower increase up to then permitted an expansion of the home market which the later faster rate of population increase did not reverse . |
| 26 | Hare wondered aloud on television why it was that English culture had lost the ability to state clearly that Keats was a better poet , for example , than Bob Dylan . |
| 27 | And just as it was that the woman was instrumental in the fall of the human race , so it was that another woman was instrumental in its restoration . |
| 28 | Their general demeanour was like that of elderly clubmen determined that it should be clearly understood that they were men of the world , fully alive to all the tricks of your Tom , Dick and Harry ; yet their actual questions and comments revealed that they had not the remotest notion what sort of a world it was that these East End people they were listening to actually lived in , or how to evaluate their characters and the plausibility of what they said . |
| 29 | Whatever it was that these men planned , Trent remained certain that it was too sophisticated to have been plotted by the murderers of Colombia 's drug trade . |
| 30 | ‘ I really am sorry , ’ he repeated and wondered why it was that these lunches , designed as an escape from responsibility , had begun to weigh on him with the weariness of marriage itself . |