Example sentences of "it be that i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not so much that , it 's that I prefer my cooking to your cooking . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the |
| 4 | It 's that I do n't want it . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's that I think you 're gay ! |
| 6 | But what it is that I measure I do not know . |
| 7 | Thus an instantaneous influence propagates from A to B whose effect depends radically upon exactly what it is that I measure on A. |
| 8 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 9 | Moreover , different and indeed contradictory things happen to B according to which component of A it is that I choose to measure . |
| 10 | The Air Force will write to his mother if there 's anything to tell , and the awful part of it is that I do n't know where she lives . |
| 11 | ‘ If I have learned anything , ’ she says , ‘ it is that I do n't believe in justice any more . ’ |
| 12 | If it is that I do not , on the grounds that had I heard about the invitation my justification would have been defeated , you have a duty to give some account of why the ( unknown to me ) truth that my wife has refused the invitation does not somehow redress the balance . |
| 13 | ‘ What 's interesting about it is that I have both worlds , because I play with Phil Collins ’ band as well as Genesis , and with Phil I do all the records too . |
| 14 | it is that I have an appointment |
| 15 | If I 'm depressed at all it is that I think that you could make this process slightly less obtrusive and violent and spark-generating if there was more systematic analysis and discussion beforehand , going back a long way . |
| 16 | I mean part of it is what I think and part of it is that I think that I like it because it works , that these things — I basically am unconvinced much of the modern tradition . |
| 17 | As I lie uneasily in the cab , I wonder why it is that I feel propelled to barge in here . |
| 18 | It is that I loved Mama the best … |
| 19 | Even so … there is reason to say that I saw him , even though I then neither made , nor could have made any judgement at all , either right or wrong , about who or what it was that I saw . |
| 20 | I chose residential care and so it was that I came to Le Court In September 1977 . |
| 21 | I tried to explain why it was that I went into the bushes , tried to make it sound reasonable . ’ |
| 22 | Naturally June could n't understand why it was that I went on cutting her . |
| 23 | I forget how it was that I told Maurice Reckitt about it before Eliot , who usually received prior intelligence about my activities in this sphere . |
| 24 | So it was that I lay in honeycombs of tiny compartments , stacked into loose piles and sheaves with onion-skin leaves of paper . |
| 25 | Now it was that I had a chance of discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar off and imitated in fairly cold blood . |
| 26 | And how it was that I had rediscovered the gift in pubescence , as if prompted by my burgeoning sexuality . |
| 27 | I wondered , since my mother was principally concerned for my health , and Lili only for my dress , why it was that I had felt secure until my mother arrived . |
| 28 | I can not explain this sentiment unless it was that I observed that the members of the household appeared not to have perfectly learned their parts and also that having seen and known the Emperor for so many years in such a totally different position , his present one looked like a dream or a play ; but when each actor becomes acclimatized by time it will be a magnificent Court , with a Sovereign who will command the attention of all Europe . |
| 29 | So it was that I set out laboriously to catalogue the very schema of my own sanity , to list exhaustively the full range of my personal habits . |
| 30 | They would n't understand how earth-shaking it was that I 'd been dreaming at last . |