Example sentences of "[is] [adv] that [adj] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sense is rather that this is how man 's lot came to be , and he should accept it . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's only that this is such a vast place , ’ said Snodgrass , firmly . |
| 3 | The point is only that this is as a direct result of the accounting method adopted rather than any policy decision . |
| 4 | The surpising thing is not that this is happening now , but rather that it was staved off for so long . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ said O'Rourke when they had calmed down , ‘ it 's just that that was the gesture Edmund Kean is supposed to have used on the ‘ Is this a dagger ? ’ speech in Macbeth at the New Theatre Royal , Drury Lane , in 1823 . ’ |
| 6 | Said they were going out it 's just that that was ages ago though . |
| 7 | It 's just that some are socially acceptable and available within the law , others are most definitely not . |
| 8 | there 'd just these straight powers of X , and you could do that and you 'd get to the same answer as we get to it 's just that this is a quicker way of doing it . |
| 9 | or , or whether it 's just that this is the best case that I can promote . |
| 10 | But it 's not that that 's keeping him away from tomorrow 's London marathon . |
| 11 | As the constable quoted above makes clear , it is not that all neighbourhood policemen defuse every situation by the display of patience , sympathy , tolerance , and understanding , it is more that this is their first choice and they use other recipes , by becoming ‘ heavy-handed ’ and resorting to arrests , only when this one fails . |
| 12 | That 's it like a desk that 's really that that was the American way of spelling it but we spell it that way now . |
| 13 | But the word is out that this is Claudio Chiappucci 's year . |