Example sentences of "[be] that it [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What constitutes the novelty of the Hellenistic age is that it gave international circulation to ideas , while strongly reducing their revolutionary impact . |
| 2 | The real clincher was that it made better tea and beer than the pump muck . |
| 3 | The benefit of the system was that it demanded that society intervened for those who were under great pressure and could not take the stress . |
| 4 | Another criticism of the Leeds adjournment system was that it added further stress to socially disadvantaged people already living under stressful conditions . |
| 5 | The main point of the case was that it involved domestic property where the client would suffer ( as a private purchaser ) a relatively great loss if the report were negligent , while the risk that would have been undertaken by the surveyor , if he had accepted liability for negligence , would have been relatively low , since it was a routine survey of domestic property , and for him , as a businessman , the value of the property in question was not relatively a great amount of money . |
| 6 | One notable feature of the gold standard was that it allowed automatic adjustment to take place via changes in expenditure and output . |
| 7 | One of the good things about the school was that it overlooked open countryside , where there were usually buzzards and kestrels flying around . |