Example sentences of "[adj] it be that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , we 're just going out to have one , ’ said Penelope , thinking how typical it was that Ianthe should long for such a dull and essentially English thing as a cup of tea . |
| 2 | So he ought , thought Sally-Anne , and so he is , and , desperate to change the conversation , to steer it away from dangerous ground , she said , as brightly as she could , through numb lips , ‘ Sha n't we miss the last horse bus home if we do n't leave soon ? ’ thinking how fortunate it was that Stair had not told Dr Neil the other heiress 's identity — Sally-Anne Tunstall might have been a dead give-away ; she really ought to have changed her Christian name . |
| 3 | Does the case suggest that the worse the plight of the promisor ( for example , the bigger the penalty clause ) the greater the benefit to him and the more likely it is that performance of the contract will be held to be consideration ? |
| 4 | The more dense and multiplex the ties , the more likely it is that complexity will be maintained . |
| 5 | Hence , the smaller the amount of equity the more likely it is that debt holders may have to bear some part of any losses . |
| 6 | And the more unstable a relationship is , the less likely it is that contraception will be used . |
| 7 | The historian normally wants a longer perspective and the more time passes , the more likely it is that research will be concerned with change over time rather than with a ‘ snapshot ’ of 1991 . |
| 8 | A panel of medical and scientific experts based them on how likely it was that cancer had been caused by the victim 's working conditions . |
| 9 | And it shows , in Beerbohm and Bowra and as it survives today , how inevitable it was that Pound should have abandoned England and the English just when he did . |
| 10 | Well this is what she said ju just now , yeah well not just now , earlier on , she said about getting out there and I said well I 'm sure it 's that place she said well it 's the only one out there that she could think of . |
| 11 | IF THERE 'S ONE thing for sure it 's that backpacking makes you ravenous . |
| 12 | Miss Evans replied : ‘ I 'm sure it was that date . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm sure it was that meeting that was scaring him . ’ |
| 14 | One British observer has pointed out how curious it is that assessment of performance procedures has been developed ( by the APU ) without any reference to procedures for the improvement of performance . |
| 15 | Yeah oh good it 's that film on again . |
| 16 | The distinction is a very significant one , because all the great religions of the world have emphasized how important it is that religion and life are bound up together , that religion does not hive off into some remote corner unrelated to the real world ; all religions do bother about the secular in the first sense of the word — about how life is actually lived and what people are and do , and not just about what they say and believe . |
| 17 | How risible it is that art can not provide a better imitation of life , when we know that life itself is so illusory . |
| 18 | When she had finished she said to Piers , to hide her confusion , ‘ I — I always think how odd it is that turtle soup does n't taste of turtle . ’ |
| 19 | Well that 's right it 's that fear is n't it of of |