Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [that] [adj] " in BNC.

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31 I mean it 's that that
32 It 's that that little he could n't find it .
33 He said I bet it 's that that 's been , oh and then it jumped down and ran corner at g where ch caravan is , he said I bet that 's what 's been eating your bloody daffodil bulbs and that .
34 It 's not just that drama teachers are nostalgic romantics who hanker for a simpler way of life ( though there may well be an element of truth in that ) ; it 's that these self-contained communities can not easily call upon outside forces to solve their problems .
35 Well it 's that same with
36 It 's that same adhesive — it looks as if it will have to be withdrawn ; there 's definitely some harmful irritant in it . ’
37 Yes , that 's right , I mean it 's that most of you , most of you can , most of you can arrive at work in the morning and if somebody says what the traffic 's like you would n't know , because you do n't know how you got there .
38 It is that two years , two and a quarter years ago I established a procedure in the Labour Party … ( uproar from audience ) .
39 It is that two lexical units will be assigned to the same lexeme if there exists a lexical rule which permits the prediction of the existence of the sense of one of them from the existence of the sense of the other .
40 And it is that each local church , of whatever sign should be invited to nominate from amongst their elder division those elders who district council might consider and recognise as dividing elders for a stated period of years with authority to do , provide them all services of worship and meetings of that local church , as the need arises .
41 It is that such questions can only be properly pursued in the company of the disciplinary studies .
42 What is particularly boring about it is that all the arguments are circular .
43 It is that all your life you have been soft and this treatment shocks and stuns you .
44 ‘ Oh , I was just thinking what a pity it is that all good-looking men are such beasts , ’ she said , with more real feeling than she intended .
45 ( Care must be taken in interpreting these probit equations : note that positive because the higher the price the more likely it is that all will be sold ; is positive because as the horizon approaches one gets less fussy , and so one is more likely to sell at a lower price ; the other signs follow from similar arguments . )
46 It is that all young people under 18 who are not in full-time education or a job and who are seeking youth training are entitled to be offered and , if necessary , re-offered any number of times entry to a suitable YT programme and to receive such training .
47 The best which you can put it is that all the whole of the area of search is an area of of moderate quality which is appreciated by the people who live within it .
48 It is that that makes real and radical faith possible , faith which lives from nothing in itself , but solely from the promise and invitation of God .
49 It is that that defeated our Tariff Reform proposal — that and that alone .
50 Why do you think it is that that you get erm that you have got quite a few girls that become prostitutes , what do you think the reasons are for it ?
51 Now it was there that we became separated , I developed a very bad throat and could not fly , just before we were ready to leave for overseas as in his crew and the other crews that were there went on whereas I got held back and of course the way I feel about it is that that week that I got held back , saved my life .
52 The Miller knows himself : He recognizes too how it is that that his tale may offend the Reeve , and responds to the Reeve in conciliatory terms : Most pertinently , he eschews the generalization of the fabliau image of the world : The Reeve , too , in his Prologue , speaks more in relative than in absolute terms .
53 If there was a drawback to this grand strategy , it is that some of the gramophone recordings in recent years have lacked the startling intensity and insights of the theatre performances they have helped to prepare .
54 Life-positions throw light on why it is that some people tend to be winners and some losers in life .
55 Thus it is that some of the Khans may perceive influence where I have exerted none . ’
56 It is that those who are not currently working for money make no contribution to the nation 's gross national product — that they are consumers only , not producers .
57 How vital it is that those influential in the field possess this necessary understanding of children 's imagery and how they learn through what they draw and construct .
58 the real politics of it is that those labels are attached , and you know that as well as I do .
59 The conclusion is obvious ; and it is that those local searchers for a place here , who are being crowded out by the southerners , are most likely to be northern Catholics .
60 It is that these programmes , and the plutonium economy they seek to bring into being , encourage the Russian nuclear industry to think of plutonium as valuable .
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