Example sentences of "[adv] it be that [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps it 's that bloke who locked the gates in Gibraltar so they could n't get into Spain . |
2 | Or perhaps it is that life is simply not fair , and that skill and cunning are what we should be using to navigate its choppy waters , rather than making open displays of bravado against the odds . |
3 | Or perhaps it was that recollection , however poignant , was better than emptiness . |
4 | Perhaps it was that paradox — more than any other aspect of its nature — which would finally undo it . |
5 | ‘ Perhaps it was that bump we went over , ’ said Bob hesitantly . |
6 | Who was attacking it ? perhaps it was that letter from that bastard up in town . |
7 | Right okay so it 's that times |
8 | So it 's that lack of security , lack of confidence about the future , and they need to be ins assured that there is , hopefully , a light at the end of the tunnel . |
9 | So it 's that way . |
10 | So it 's that sort of process . |
11 | So it 's that sort of , if you like , unconscious and undeliberate bias that I 'm talking about ; those career breaks , the lack of day care for the majority of working women in this country . |
12 | So it was that night at Hampton Court . |
13 | Thus it is that Givon 1980 talks of verbs being reduced in finiteness and argues that the degree of reduction is related to the degree to which the event evoked by the complement is bound to the agent or experiencer in terms of his influence over it . |
14 | And thus it was that glamour had arrived for our heroine . |
15 | Thus it was that Rincewind , hurrying through the crowded , flare-lit evening bazaars of Morpork with the Luggage trundling behind him , jostled a tall dark figure , turned to deliver a few suitable curses , and beheld Death . |
16 | Thus it was that youth unemployment brought about , or at the very least greatly hastened , ‘ the new FE ’ , and with it the spread of courses for students with moderate learning difficulties . |
17 | It was never locked before 9 P.M. It was that night . |
18 | We 'll have more news and features later , but now it 's that time again : weather ; Lloyd . |
19 | well it was that area , our mother used to go fetch her she us she came into our yard two or three times but I know |
20 | Well it was that shop . |
21 | Then it 's that person 's prerogative it 's up to him if he wants to show everyone else where the water is . |
22 | You 've not talked to me all day and then it 's that sort of thing . |
23 | Indeed it is that aspect of the new arrangements which distorts the previous use of assessment by teachers , parents and children . |