Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] be that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it was that that made the soldier lower his rifle , out of a sense of pity . |
| 2 | So it 's that that we 're approving tonight . |
| 3 | And so it was that all Hollywood 's difficulties led somewhat accidentally to what Ralph A. Bauer has described as a period whose movies ‘ were perhaps as varied and intriguing ’ as the movies produced in any comparably short period in American history . |
| 4 | In the UK the CAA , too , had been fully involved in every stage of the investigation , and so it was that all the necessary corrective measures were taken as far as the Boeing 707/300–400 series was concerned and the respective airworthiness authorities were fully informed . |
| 5 | Scotland were found sadly lacking in the attacking department , and so it was that this was again highlighted against the English back line . |
| 6 | Thus it is that some of the Khans may perceive influence where I have exerted none . ’ |
| 7 | Partly it was for lack of anything else to be curious about , the usual island obsession with trivialities ; partly it was that one cryptic phrase from Mitford and the discovery about Leverrier ; partly , perhaps mostly , a peculiar feeling that I had a sort of right to visit . |
| 8 | Well it 's that same with |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Historians have to explain how it was that slower increase up to then permitted an expansion of the home market which the later faster rate of population increase did not reverse . |
| 11 | Maybe it was that that precarious balance in her nature — that he loved . |
| 12 | I 'd like to , just like to say that a woman erm , who can not have children erm and re has got to the end of the road , no medical mirac , miracles can help her , erm , if surrogacy is the only option for her then they 've , these pe , couples like myself have gone through such a long erm struggle to get where they are that any child that 's conceived is gon na be a wonderfully loved childed and explained , everything 's explained to the child as he or she grows up . |
| 13 | Life-positions throw light on why it is that some people tend to be winners and some losers in life . |
| 14 | Given that this is the case , it is interesting and instructive to reflect on why it is that these people have decided to call us their ‘ clients ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ I really am sorry , ’ he repeated and wondered why it was that these lunches , designed as an escape from responsibility , had begun to weigh on him with the weariness of marriage itself . |
| 16 | Hare wondered aloud on television why it was that English culture had lost the ability to state clearly that Keats was a better poet , for example , than Bob Dylan . |
| 17 | erm Clevedon , or wherever it is that these guys hang out . |