Example sentences of "[be] that [pron] [be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were no words in the experience , but he became aware of the fact that he was keeping something at bay ; or another way of looking at it would be that he was wearing some rigid outer clothing , like corsets or a suit of armour . |
| 2 | Henry Calverley won the arrow at the first meeting at Scorton , but it was not held there again until 1754 , so it may be that he was keeping this promise . |
| 3 | It may be that you are investigating these evil people on behalf of your government , or it may be that you are ordered to co-operate with them . |
| 4 | So one is forced to conclude that the reason hundreds of dismayed tourists and walkers are stranded on stations up and down the length of the West Highland line at the height of the season , unable to squeeze into an already packed ‘ Sprinter ’ , if it arrives at all , is that somebody is doing this on purpose . |
| 5 | Well the interesting thing which is happening is that we 're getting better at preventing these things happening . |
| 6 | Anyway , just things to bear in mind , right , is that we 're having more fixtures next year against a higher standard of opposition , overall erm |
| 7 | The only difference is that we are setting that fact out clearly in the rules so that people know . |
| 8 | The net result of all of this is that we are deleting two words from point ten the rest of the procedure stands . |
| 9 | ‘ We 're playing some superb football but what is awesome is that we are getting better . |
| 10 | Mr Harvey Edgar , a disabled pensioner , said : ‘ The only thing the politicians have said about this island today is that they are pulling another bit away from us — a very large bit . ’ |
| 11 | Ironically , the best hope for the pilot whales of the North Atlantic is that they are becoming unsafe for humans to eat . |
| 12 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |
| 13 | Alright , because what you 're doing , is that you 're increasing domestic production . |
| 14 | The weight of the evidence is that it is growing stronger and more united and , as I shall go on to argue , this can be best explained within the context of the culture-ideology of consumerism . |
| 15 | The good news I hear from feminist friends is that it 's becoming old hat these days to involve the father in childbirth . |
| 16 | The likely explanation is that he is feeling contemplative , a little introspective , and he wants a quiet evening at home without the sort of chit-chat that might drown out the TV football commentary . |
| 17 | ‘ One of the odd things about it is that he was wearing brand-new clothes , ’ he added . |
| 18 | One of the consequences of the questionnaire which we sent to you a year ago was that we are making particular links with alumni who are teachers . |
| 19 | I think that 's what Priest , I mean I do n't know , Priest probably has a whole history of how he got is Esquire style , but Vincent went over there and had something to do with it , and I really think that taking the old style stuff and giving it a new spin helped , and the difference between what we 're doing and what the California crowd was doing — and this was also the time of punk rock — was that we were using traditional typefaces and they were |
| 20 | The reason was that we were touching three million unemployed at that particular point in time , and it was felt that the best way of making an impact was to highlight this in the way in which it was done . |
| 21 | But the point was that he was holding this place in trust , on my behalf . ’ |
| 22 | The clear fact was that he was having serious trouble knowing where to start . |
| 23 | Mr Livingstone argued that the move towards unity was merely the normal pre-election loyalty which the party usually showed ; the only difference this time was that it was happening 18 months earlier than normal . |