Example sentences of "that it [be] [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , ’ he insisted threateningly , when it seemed she might find her voice to make some vigorous protest , ‘ if you value your job , which I 'm sure you do , you wo n't breathe a word to him that it 's all a put-up affair . ’ |
| 2 | It crossed her mind that perhaps she should , despite her employer 's ‘ … if you value your job , you wo n't breathe a word to him that it 's all a put-up affair ’ , explain some of it to Travis . |
| 3 | You seem to think that it 's all a game , a make believe . |
| 4 | I kept telling myself that it was all a mistake , some kind of ghastly mistake . |
| 5 | Basically , he avoids discussion of his amazing wartime adventures , preferring to indicate that it was all a mistake . |
| 6 | How could he tell her that it was all a mistake ? |
| 7 | You 'll explain that it was all a mistake . ’ |
| 8 | Just before the verdict was announced he told Central South that he never attempted to gas his wife — and that it was all a plot by her to ruin his life . |
| 9 | Would I perhaps welcome the security of a helicopter , or welcome the security of waking up in bed to find that it was all a dream and I had n't actually gone hill-walking at all because I had a date with Gerard Depardieu ? |
| 10 | The more I think about it , the more I veer to the conclusion that it was all a fantasy . |
| 11 | I thought for a moment that she had been re-reading " Das Kapital " in her spare time , but I suspect that it was all a charade . |
| 12 | She says that it was all a question of remembering rules and methods . |
| 13 | And there was a suspicion in Britain that it was all a bit of a plot to er to kind of isolate Turkey . |
| 14 | I had my hair cut very very short and I just all of a sudden realised that it was all a bit serious ; that something else was about to happen . |
| 15 | He fell to thinking of the shape in the well-pit , and then dropped into a drowsy half-dream , in which El-ahrairah said that it was all a trick of his to disguise himself as Poison-tree and put the stones in the wall , to engage Strawberry 's attention while he himself was getting acquainted with Nildro-hain . |
| 16 | He was almost sure that it was all a revelation to her and he watched her in sad silence as she covered her face and shook with sobs . |
| 17 | In vain did he protest to the shopkeeper that it was all a joke . |
| 18 | The whole jape took on a rather serious complexion when the police refused to accept that it was all a joke . |
| 19 | That first day or two , I kept on thinking he would telephone , that it was all a sort of whim . |
| 20 | When Rebecca Kraemer remarked , as the last murmurs of the slow movement died away , that it was such a pity the conductor was still following the now-discredited Haas edition , she was telling everyone within earshot — which included half the audience — everything that Alison could have wanted them to know but naturally would n't have dreamt of mentioning herself . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've always thought you were so pretty , and that it was such a shame to hide that behind those thick glasses , and that studious pallor . |
| 22 | And she shuddered at the chore the whole thing would be in the winter — if she lasted that long — seeing that it was such a drag in the mildness of summer . |
| 23 | And he , he thought that it was such a touch of class about it . |
| 24 | It was easy to imagine how the tiny volume might have been overlooked , more difficult to conceive that it was half a millennium old . |