Example sentences of "be [adv] that [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I bought this house and insisted she move in with me she took the path of least resistance and agreed , although even then if I 'd had the wits to see them all the signs were there that although she relished my role as provider she cared very little for me as a person . ’ |
| 2 | It is rather that until it is recognized as a convergence , and as a problem of convergence , the usual reaction , even when sympathetic ( and this , among an older and established generation , is comparatively rare ) is to see it as little more than a loose grouping of specialist studies either of communications , in their modern specialized form as ‘ the media ’ , or of the rather differently specialized field of ‘ the arts ’ . |
| 3 | It is right that when one pays for a pint of beer , one should get a pint of beer . |
| 4 | if I strike a child in a manner likely to cause harm it is right that if the child dies I may be charged with manslaughter . |
| 5 | It 's merely that if there 's more than 50 of them feeling it simultaneously on the same summit then I 'd rather be somewhere else . |
| 6 | It is merely that after the Glorious Revolution this element within Tory ideology became increasingly dominant , gradually supplanting the more absolutist tendency within Tory political thought . |
| 7 | And it 's going back to the point that Mr Curtis I think misunderstood me , that 's basically that if you concentrate new growth in one location you have the ability to plan to serve that development by public transport , whereas if you spread it out to all the points of the compass , you know , two hundred houses in one direction of York , two hundred in the opposite direction would become very mor more difficult to serve than would a concentrated er chunk of development , and that 's as simple as that . |
| 8 | All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry . |
| 9 | The reason , of course , is so that when the strap is being used the dye wo n't bleed onto the player 's clothes — which is usually the case with straps dyed on both sides . |
| 10 | This is so that when the end of the pattern is reached and the design is read again from the bottom , the uneven top block added to the uneven bottom block make an even number of rows . |
| 11 | The point of doing all this pre-planning is so that when you come to align columns across the page or to set text next to pictures everything snaps together neatly . |
| 12 | I think the problem is perhaps that when we love that we no , we never love the same degree , the two people do n't li , love exactly the same way that in every relationship there is one who loves and one who is loved , one who kisses and one who is kissed and I think perhaps this balance if the relationship is weak , this kind of works it out that , that then they eventually split up , that one goes the other way and the ca n't stay together . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's so that if somebody drops a bloody great boulder on yer nut it 'll bounce off |
| 14 | They say that 's so that if there 's an accident |
| 15 | It is not , indeed , ruled out by the logic of the naturalistic fallacy that degree of goodness and degree of pleasurableness might coincide , it is just that once one is free of the fallacy one will no longer see any reason to hold this . |
| 16 | This relationship is evidently not to be confused with a sexual relationship ; it is just that once you have entered into an artistic liaison of this intensity , the sexual shenanigans are likely to follow . |
| 17 | It is just that if you try to use the laws of physics , in a naive way , to understand the behaviour of a whole living body , you will find that you do n't get very far . |
| 18 | It 's just that once you 've started on a war , there 's no stopping it . |
| 19 | It 's just that while we 've been together it 's been the activity you 've indulged in most . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's just that after we went to live in South Africa it seemed a sensible choice for a third language , as the only non-English-speaking countries among the front line states are Mozambique and Angola . ’ |
| 21 | But I did n't do it with dieting — it 's just that as you get older , and I 'm 62 now , you do n't need as much food . |
| 22 | It 's just that when you first hear a record and do n't know how to make one , you think it 's too hard until you actually meet somebody who can do it , ’ offers Tony . |
| 23 | Or maybe it 's just that when you are away from home you feel more adventurous . |
| 24 | It 's just that when I see him I forget all that . |
| 25 | It 's not that I 've anything against audiences , it 's just that when they 're a blur they 're so friendly — just one big smiley mess . |
| 26 | It 's just that when he talks to people he gets a bit frightened . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's just that when you get two things happening like that , people say there 's going to be three , do n't they ? |
| 28 | And they can do maths , they just , it 's just that when you call it maths they say they ca n't do it . |
| 29 | It 's just that if in you need you want it explained to you in a way you understand do n't you rather than |
| 30 | It 's just — well , it 's just that if whatever killed Paula was a software virus rather than an accident , then someone would have had to infect the suitbrain . |