Example sentences of "it be that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it be that Sun Microsystems Inc president Scott McNealy 's voice is being heard this side of the Atlantic , after he reportedly told Novell Inc 's Ray Noorda to fire everyone at Unix System Labs except a handful of marketing guys and the engineers ? |
| 2 | Was the Universe destined to go on expanding forever , or might it be that gravity would eventually pull all the galaxies back together again until there was a ‘ Big Crunch ’ — later to be followed by a new Big Bang ? |
| 3 | Could it be that Europeanism is in direct proportion to dissatisfaction with one 's own political institutions ? |
| 4 | Would it be that head of the family ? or the coffin maker ? |
| 5 | I looked carefully about me , hiding behind one of those contorted shapes , and glimpsed Dana in the distance , walking away from the group of friends and joining a young woman , tall , pale , dark , distinguished-looking — could it be that dancer of his ? |
| 6 | ‘ Could it be that crime has become too easy , that violence has become too much a theme of television and videos , that respect for other people has gone too much out of fashion and too many young people see no stake for themselves in this society and see more of a future in crime and the black economy ? ’ he asked . |
| 7 | Might it be that living with Phillis had turned him patsy , a dope to any skirt ? |
| 8 | Could it be that Mathilde and her father had … |
| 9 | eh , it were that lady come quick and he |
| 10 | She said to me when they find out what it is she could soon have you on your feet , but she thought it were that shadow on me lung . |
| 11 | It were that skirt were n't it ? |
| 12 | ‘ It were that doctor with the yellow hair , were n't it ? ’ she said . |
| 13 | ‘ She reckons it were that chap she worked for , the one what lives in one of they new houses here in Upper Benbury . ’ |
| 14 | A peculiar light seemed shed over everything , by dint of it being that house and no other ! |
| 15 | Mmm , it 's that element of double checking that |
| 16 | It 's that Ripper bloke they 're all going on about . |
| 17 | It 's that pub in Limehouse , down by the river . |
| 18 | it 's that pub . |
| 19 | Right okay so it 's that times |
| 20 | People around me stated ‘ Oh hell , it 's that poncy twat from The Smiths that loves flowers . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It 's that Mildred Hubble ! ’ said Griselda , who was almost in tears . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's that building . |
| 23 | It 's that smile . |
| 24 | It 's that total I want . |
| 25 | Well I c I I 've seen so many things over the year I just do n't believe it until I actually see it and th literally four weeks ago , I 'd just got back from Germany , went on a meeting the following morning and it 's that gentleman there , Steve , and h he 's got some pictures in his pocket which will prove exactly what we 're talking about . |
| 26 | Yes , but it 's that support |
| 27 | I think when he was so near to death I thought bloody hell I bet it 's that nightmare but I 've not mentioned , do n't mention it |
| 28 | So how do we know it 's that Sunday ? |
| 29 | So I said well , no it 's not now is it , it 's erm , oh it 's that school that the . |
| 30 | But after the permission of the seventies , when sex was banalized by becoming available , it could no longer be the instigator of desperation ( it 's that state of mind that is indispensable to rock , not physical fin ) . |