Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [noun] 's [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good reason then for thinking that it is not God 's will that women be ordained is that the church has never done so . |
| 2 | It is just Cork 's luck that the main championship is already over , Bertie Fisher having retained the title on the Ulster International at the end of July . |
| 3 | It was not Manvell 's displeasure that worried him , but Jane 's anger . |
| 4 | One night , long after the senator had chartered Wavebreaker , I had defended him to Ellen , saying that it was not Crowninshield 's fault that he had been born to wealthy parents , and that he had used his wealth well . |
| 5 | It was not Dubroca 's fault that the story gathered momentum and became a headline in the English-speaking media for nearly two weeks while the World Cup bandwagon was still rolling on . |
| 6 | It was always Lugard 's assumption that his reception by the emir of Kano as his ‘ honoured friend ’ owed as much to the emir 's respect for his qualities of character as to gratitude for the restoration of his own eminence . |
| 7 | Interestingly , when we tested slimming clubs recently , it was also Slimmer 's World that came out on top . |
| 8 | And consequently it was also Sky 's fault that for every one person watching Sky , six people choose to tune into Football Italia on Channel 4 on Sunday afternoons . |
| 9 | Or simply told the truth — told them there and now that it was n't Syl 's smile that repelled me but that I had an intuitive conviction that there was something unsound in him , something unwholesome by virtue of being undeveloped , something that would , sooner or later , cause me to turn on him with bitter cruelty as Nour had turned on me . |
| 10 | It was n't Sky 's fault that the Premier League football on display represented the biggest mis-use of the word ‘ premier ’ since Adam and Eve learnt how to spell . |
| 11 | And it was n't Sky 's fault that I used to watch better football at Barnet for exactly the same price as the weekly rental price of a satellite dish . |
| 12 | She could n't , because this was n't Vi McKeown standing here shaking , and it was n't Vi 's house that bomb had taken . |
| 13 | It was n't Luke 's competence that she was questioning . |
| 14 | It was a bitter summary of their unhappy affair , but compunction ensued , because it was n't Luke 's fault that he could n't love her , even if he had no right to despise her , so she added neutrally , ‘ There 's a Chinese tea-house or tea-garden — I 'm not sure what it 's really called — not far from here that intrigues me , and I 've been wanting to go and find out what it 's all about ever since I first passed it . |
| 15 | But it was n't Tony 's image that slipped past her defences and into her dreams . |