Example sentences of "of [pers pn] be [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You perhaps do not realize how long and desperately people have fought to keep Winston Spencer Churchill in the wilderness , and how furiously angry many of them are that he is back where he belongs . |
| 2 | One of them is that for all Enzo Ferrari 's mythomania — and God knows he loves the pomp and circumstance of his legend and exploits it in his dealings with the outside world — the Ingegnere knows his stuff and can be perfectly straight when he wants to . |
| 3 | The best thing that can be said of them is that their contact with women is slight , the numbers who participate regularly are few , and whilst this reinforces the commonsense definition of poverty as being a result of apathy , it protects those who escape from the prescriptions of unperceptive need-meeters and from yet more management by misguided missionaries . |
| 4 | This might lead her to change her expectation of the average level of prices ; after all , if she is rational she must know that unpredictable movements in aggregate demand can occur and that one symptom of them is that the price in her island is higher than she was expecting the average to be . |
| 5 | The one thing that really , apar , well not the one thing , many things irritate me about the programme , but one of them is that they get people on so you 've got someone choosing who lives in Edinburgh choosing someone who lives down in Plymouth |
| 6 | But what it meant to both of them was that all the money was frozen because there was a dispute over whose money was what and how much money had been spent — that was a problem for David and for Tony . |
| 7 | One of them was that he opened his morning newspaper with an enthusiasm he had not felt for years . |
| 8 | One of them was that the nurse , robbed of her pleasure in subduing the hair , turned her savagery more directly on to Harriet and once in a temper broke both of her charge 's thumbs when she was forcing her into a new pair of white kid gloves for Sunday School . |
| 9 | He could n't manage it and he said that he felt that he had to stop being an MP er for several reasons , one of them was that he thought most MPs like he agreed he was at certain times , were out of touch . |
| 10 | What 's a good answer to that because I found a lot of people , we had that actually on our and one of them was that she . |
| 11 | A more revolutionary proposal of his was that England players should train together regularly , an idea derived from his visit to Holland , where the national players came together for coaching once a week , and were given lectures and ‘ homework ’ exercises . |
| 12 | So really they the benefit of this to those of you is that that this end of Portugal is like that is it . |
| 13 | ‘ All I ask of you is that you please let me go . ’ |
| 14 | I was too far away to observe what colour Enid Starkie 's eyes were ; all I remember of her is that she dressed like a matelot , walked like a scrum-half , and had an atrocious French accent . |
| 15 | But the sharpest criticism of him is that while appearing to be a chip off the old block , he was in fact something else , representative of the politicization of public appointments . |
| 16 | I 'm ready to believe yowl admit of their recommendations all I presume to say of him is that he writes me he shall be really dilligent and the enclosed specimens he has grown which I hope yowl puruse make it look as if he would prove so . |
| 17 | But all that we are requiring of him is that , widening his viewpoint from himself to the community , he has taken account of the communal effects of theft , before , as himself not the weigher but the balance , he allows himself finally to settle against or in favour of taking the money . |
| 18 | I would n't call last season debacle making the right decisions , my own personal opinion of him is that he was the right manager to get us out of the second divsion , but I feel that given the players and money avail able to him he maybe could have done better . |
| 19 | All we know of him was that he had been involved in RAF mountain rescue in Anglesey , and had quite recently been on a posting in Lincolnshire . |
| 20 | The impression I got of him was that he was the world 's most cautious man ( which squares ill with his later reckless behaviour ) ; that he was a man who said nothing ; who had carefully devised a plan of life which rendered the use of words unnecessary except in an emergency such as fire or accident . |
| 21 | The only human thing that anybody whispered of him was that his wife , the daughter of the Eighth Earl de la Warr , had had to be divorced for granting bedroom favours to another . |
| 22 | One pet theory of mine is that the decline in the study of Latin has accentuated this interest . |
| 23 | The beauty of it is that you can easily move them around on the wood . |
| 24 | The worst of it is that one can not yet express a proper anger about the state of things , since it is just about possible that the Frauleins Krabbe , Breuer and Moller are innocent of any serious wrongdoing ( if that 's the right term ) in the affair of the Uniform Urine . |
| 25 | ‘ So , the fact of it is that you last went down that stretch of lane at four o'clock . ’ |
| 26 | The long and the short of it is that he came in to replace Andy … |
| 27 | The pity of it is that this happens to be as beautiful a cat as the Sphynx is ugly . |
| 28 | Anyway , the upshot of it is that he 's written a song , for his daughter , based on the Basil Brush thing . |
| 29 | With Elton , the joy of it is that at least you 're quite familiar with a lot of the stuff , and even if you have n't actually sat down and worked through it you know how the songs go . |
| 30 | The old tricks should be left alone , because the reality of it is that when I go on tour in a couple of months , I 'm going to be playing all these songs and I 've been careful never to repeat past compositional techniques . |