Example sentences of "it [be] [that] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it be that we just select randomly , in free variation , perhaps to add a little variety for its own sake ? |
| 2 | Could it be that we encourage more of the public to buy books ? |
| 3 | Similarly , in the case of the universe , could it be that we are living in a region that just happens by chance to be smooth and uniform ? |
| 4 | who else could it be that we know , you know ? |
| 5 | Erm , I ca n't remember the exact conversation but the basics of it were that we were looking for somebody called Lawrence and he was at the present time at erm and that he was in possession of a gun and that the caller was concerned for the safety of the occupants of those premises . |
| 6 | If we go to an exhibition together we find that we like the same paintings ; so I think it 's that we have an empathy in our way of painting , in the whole attitude to painting . |
| 7 | Myers continues : ‘ Hopefully , it 's not that we 're stupid , it 's that we 're naive and uninitiated . |
| 8 | Er , a knowledge but erm , I would have to move that we can not accept this recommendation because , it 's not that we do n't er support the scheme within this paper , but it 's that we can not accept . |
| 9 | Yes , it 's that we can never over-emphasise the importance of being cost competitive . |
| 10 | I do n't know whether it 's that we want much , too much |
| 11 | So in that sense , it 's that we 're incestuous . |
| 12 | It 's that we 're struggling on . |
| 13 | So it is that we must also support voluntary action and volunteering as essential in a healthy democracy in a civilised society . |
| 14 | It is also said that he leaves the defence undermanned , but neither charge was proved on Saturday as Barcelona rode adversity in an absorbing match that emphasised , as one knew it would , how hurried and imprecise so much of the British game has become and how necessary it is that we cherish such exceptions as Liverpool , Norwich and Nottingham Forest if the art is not essentially to be driven out . |
| 15 | If they were not told the embarrassing source of these words — and perhaps even if they were — most Asians would give a vigorous nod of approval to the sentiments expressed by Neville Chamberlain when Germany annexed the Sudetenland in 1938 : ‘ How horrible , fantastic , incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing . ’ |
| 16 | The method concerns itself both with what the underlying unit actually is , and also with how likely it is that we are observing a real effect rather than some random one . |
| 17 | This objection helps to reveal why it is that we regard a hierarchical classification as natural . |
| 18 | The notion of an avant-garde sensibility here functions simply as the ‘ other ’ of existing television ( just as much of the most interesting experimental video refunctions existing television as its other ) , a point outside the discourse of actually existing television from which we can argue about what it is that we actually want . |
| 19 | Well , we do see a good deal of what is around us and not simply whatever it is that we happen to be staring at . |
| 20 | It is not that , in the face of a system of chattel slavery , we first insist on counting everyone 's interests equitably and then see if slaves should be liberated ; it is that we first recognise the moral imperative to liberate them , on grounds other than counting equal interests equally . |
| 21 | Apart from confirmation that in dictatorships , scientific corruption flourishes together with the more venal kinds , perhaps it is that we should not accept the recent predictions of Argentina 's early possession of an independent nuclear arsenal without some reservation . |
| 22 | In verses three to five the psalmist reminds us who it is that we are coming to . |
| 23 | If we could say ‘ I know ’ only when we could also say exhaustively how it is that we know , it would create just as much a problem for the sophisticated philosopher as for those of us who are simpler . |
| 24 | This is why all of us will doubt at some point , whatever it is that we believe . |
| 25 | Thus it is that we know as much as we do about the Orynthia and her voyages in the late 1830s . |
| 26 | So it is that we can apply to research of different disciplinary provenance general criteria of appraisal approved by the wider culture of intellectual enquiry . |
| 27 | They seem to have happened periodically over the last 900 million years , and may have been doing so since the early days of Earth ( the longer ago something happened , the less likely it is that we will have tripped over the evidence ) . |
| 28 | But such emotions are themselves informed by the way in which we see the world , by our conceptions of what it is that we find desirable or fearful . |
| 29 | We do not mean merely freedom to do as we like irrespectively of what it is that we like . |
| 30 | Our eyes do not wander randomly around the page when we are reading , but certain sorts of words are fixated more often than others ( O'Regan , 1979 ) , and this means that we must know in advance of a fixation where it is that we are going to look next . |