Example sentences of "be [that] it [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The most telling comment on the wealth of the metropolis is that it had more men worth upwards of £100 than most other towns had taxpayers of all grades ; indeed , the number of four-figure assessments equalled the total taxpayers of some tiny market towns . |
2 | The information available to me , provided by Liverpool city council , is that it accepted 397 households as homeless in the second quarter of this year . |
3 | The whole raison d'etre of that early Christian community was that it believed certain things of Christ — at the very least , that it was he whom God had raised from the dead . |
4 | It has been shown above that those with larger mortgages and those on higher incomes benefit most from MITR , but one of the main arguments originally put forward to justify its existence was that it benefited first-time buyers , enabling them to purchase a house which would otherwise have been beyond their means . |
5 | The positive achievement of this tradition was that it allowed different communities , and their claims over their members , to be acknowledged and valued with a new , official respect . |