Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [that] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it be that some machines have been neglected all summer ? |
| 2 | It is that two years , two and a quarter years ago I established a procedure in the Labour Party … ( uproar from audience ) . |
| 3 | It is that such questions can only be properly pursued in the company of the disciplinary studies . |
| 4 | the real politics of it is that those labels are attached , and you know that as well as I do . |
| 5 | Some groups of pieces may still form parts of the picture , but the more you shake the box , the more likely it is that these groups will get broken up and the pieces will be in a completely jumbled state in which they do n't form any sort of picture . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | erm Clevedon , or wherever it is that these guys hang out . |
| 8 | Whatever it was that these men planned , Trent remained certain that it was too sophisticated to have been plotted by the murderers of Colombia 's drug trade . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | Consequently , all that embryology tells us is that both areas are part of the neocortex . |