Example sentences of "[noun] be that it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The importance of Cockburn 's work was that it integrated studies of local political activity into this wider view of the capitalist state . |
| 2 | One defect was that it required proof of the likelihood of a breach of the peace as a result of the defendant 's conduct . |
| 3 | The importance of the Positive School is that it focussed attention on motivation and on the individual criminal . |
| 4 | One of the reasons why this proposition was distasteful to many of Bruno 's contemporaries was that it deprived humanity of a privileged place in the cosmos . |
| 5 | The essence of Hollywood was that it used actors who became real before the camera ; they were not ciphers there to be manipulated by an all-powerful director but they were actors who were able to combine natural qualities and varied skills and techniques in such a way as to create an on-camera identity . |