Example sentences of "be [adv] that [pron] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , nobody , but nobody would want to levy charges until it was a last resort , but if the alternative to levying those charges were perhaps that we had to cut the staffing levels in those adult training centres , then you get a different answer to the question , and I had a meeting about four weeks ago with the heads of some of our centres who 've been asking parents and carers that question . |
| 2 | But Mr Bliss is right that we have to assume that the abductors are politically motivated terrorists — ‘ ' |
| 3 | It is merely that they wish to question me , for I had responsibility for the food last night . |
| 4 | It 's enough that you have to pay for the licence , which is erm , what is it eighty pounds |
| 5 | We have the greatest chance ever to rid the world of nuclear weapons now , yet the consensus in this country is apparently that we need to maintain three Trident systems and possibly build a fourth at a total cost of more than £23 billion . |
| 6 | Our charge against the metaphysician is not that he attempts to employ the understanding in a field where it can not possibly venture , but that he produces sentences which fail to conform to the conditions under which alone a sentence can be literally significant . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's just that we have to see the hearth if we 're to know you 're in an old farmhouse . |
| 8 | It 's just that he wanted to see Jenny in front of everyone else . |
| 9 | It 's just that he wants to let off steam , and you 're the only person he can lose his temper with . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's not that I mind wasting my time , it 's just that I like to know that I 'm wasting my time . ’ |
| 11 | No it 's just that I like to get all this out of the way . |
| 12 | Yeah that 's it 's just that I want to clarify that . |
| 13 | It 's just that I want to get it typed I s'pose . |
| 14 | Sorry , I did n't mean to pull back it 's just that I want to hear what they 're talking about . |
| 15 | I 'm sorry I was so tiresomely upset just now , it 's just that I want to protect you . ’ |
| 16 | It 's just that I needed to get in touch with my feelings . ’ |
| 17 | I do n't want to do something just for the sake of it , I do n't really care about being on the Council , it 's just that I wanted to do something about those wretched caravans . |
| 18 | I just … . it 's just that I wanted to tell her how sorry I am about … about what happened to your father and brother but , not knowing her , I did n't want to say it in a way that might upset her . |
| 19 | It 's just that I seem to have got very bored with it . |
| 20 | " It 's just that I have to lock up , " she said again . |
| 21 | It 's just that I have to look after both of them ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It 's just that I have to think about my future right now . |
| 23 | It 's not that he wants to stop them going to the toilet , we 've got to persuade these people to do it on a stagger basis … |
| 24 | It 's not that he wishes to set himself up as a leader . |
| 25 | It 's not that I want to die , but I just want to get out of my mind ’ . |
| 26 | It 's not that I want to play the most difficult things ; I really do n't . |
| 27 | It 's not that I want to offend you or anything , I … ’ |
| 28 | But her hair 's not that she needs to get |
| 29 | It 's not that she wants to make you feel cheap . |
| 30 | The defence of formalism is always that it serves to control an excess of feeling , but here in the absence of formalism there is nothing but empty pathos , artificiality in its weak form . |