Example sentences of "[pers pn] be that the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it be that the first creatures to leave any sign of their existence were as complex as worms and molluscs ? |
| 2 | The the the buggeration of it is that the next time round that something goes wrong , it 'll be again something that you 've encountered before ! |
| 3 | How cruelly ironic it was that the first man to capture her heart and awaken her senses , the man she had waited and longed for , should be metaphorically a ship passing in the night . |
| 4 | The difference between them is that the first regress can only be stopped by certain ( = infallible ) beliefs , while the second insists merely on the existence of beliefs which are non-inferentially justified . |
| 5 | And what they have told us is that the first body was too far decomposed to be very helpful . |