Example sentences of "be [that] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And erm er my view would be that either of the north north east or southern sectors could accommodate suitable levels of development to meet local need .
2 Not at the time no it did n't it bothered me when it was done because I thought you 've probably done something and the outcome would be that so at the time it did n't bother me because I was n't interested in the situation
3 What is clear is that either through the use of broadband distribution or by means of data compression-decompression , multimedia will play an important and innovative role in a range of online applications in the 1990s .
4 All I know is that probably during the course of the year something will happen and I might have to chip in you know , a thousand pounds or a million pounds or whatever , but I do n't know how much it 's going to be .
5 But I think that sex can be a fleeting thing and sometimes I believe that if it is that alone as the basis of a relationship , then all the finer and better qualities are thrown out of the window .
6 But the fact is that gradually from the heyday of the detective story in the 1920s , " 30s and " 40s new tendencies crept in .
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