Example sentences of "be [vb pp] that it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , to some extent it can be said that it fulfils some of the functions of the preambles in Community texts to which I have just referred . |
| 2 | In defence of Maxim 's interpretation , it should be said that it comes closer than usual to the notated metronome marks . |
| 3 | Marxism has sometimes been regarded as a positivist approach since it can be argued that it sees human behaviour as a reaction to the stimulus of the economic infrastructure . |
| 4 | Where the board can effectively determine its own composition it has generally been assumed that it becomes immune from direct shareholder influence and hence that control has shifted from the owners to managers . |
| 5 | The Duma discussed foreign policy only once a year , when the ministry 's budget came under scrutiny : it has been estimated that it spent less than 1 per cent of its time on foreign affairs . |
| 6 | A child under 10 incurs no criminal liability for its acts ; a child over 9 , but under 14 , incurs no such liability , unless it is shown that it had sufficient capacity to know that its act was wrong . |
| 7 | The cricket section , despite being joint owners , have been advised that it seems likely that if one of the owner clubs should decide to sell they could well proceed unilaterally . |
| 8 | It was claimed that it made rural communities vulnerable to guerrilla reprisals . |
| 9 | I was told that it became hand-tamed almost immediately , and I wondered whether this had anything to do with those eyes . |