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

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1 However , the basic thing for me is that most piano music is far more than something which is tailor-made for a certain instrument .
2 But what it meant to both of them was that all the money was frozen because there was a dispute over whose money was what and how much money had been spent — that was a problem for David and for Tony .
3 So really they the benefit of this to those of you is that that this end of Portugal is like that is it .
4 The pity of it is that this happens to be as beautiful a cat as the Sphynx is ugly .
5 And the worst of it is that this disturbing new trend has extended beyond the mall and into the magazine .
6 the real politics of it is that those labels are attached , and you know that as well as I do .
7 ‘ Apart from selling many more Reed titles , ’ he says , ‘ the key fact to come out of it was that more than half the customers who came into our shops to buy a promoted Reed title at a lower price bought on average two-and-a-half books at full price , and so the venture , as far as we were concerned , was highly profitable . ’
8 Nevertheless , perhaps the most startling statistic contained in it was that some one-third of the rail route mileage carried only about 1 per cent of the freight and passenger traffic , while one-half of the route mileage accounted for only 4 to 5 per cent of total traffic .
9 The trouble for him was that this manifesto — ‘ the longest suicide note in history ’ — had also made his party entirely unelectable .
10 ‘ What I feel you are saying to me is that this previous relationship is something you do n't want to talk about in front of Tom .
11 All that matters to me is that this technology will save Carly 's life . ’
12 What is important to us is that all the areas will now use the same software for interrogation purposes , and as we develop new enhancements , details are released to all other areas .
13 What is particularly boring about it is that all the arguments are circular .
14 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 .
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