Example sentences of "be that [pron] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantages of longitudinal studies are that they make it possible to study change over time , though as a series of snapshots rather than as a continuous process . |
| 2 | One effect on the rest of us will be that we cause ourselves endless trouble by losing them . |
| 3 | Prior to his arrival Sotheby 's ( still specialising heavily in books at this date ) had an unwritten agreement with Christie 's that they sent them any pictures brought to their offices and in return Christie 's sent them any books they received for sale . |
| 4 | Perhaps the greatest truth ever discovered is that we create our own reality . |
| 5 | We are led to the conclusion that 11a is grammatically but not semantically deviant by the fact that substitutes for bake which normalise the sentence ( e.g. shake , forsake ) , as a class , have no distinctive semantic attributes ( that is to say , members of the class share no characteristic patterns of co-occurrence with other open set elements that differentiate them from non-members ) ; however , they do share a grammatical peculiarity , which is that they form their past participles with — en . |
| 6 | One problem that a lot of knitters have , to start with , is that they find it difficult to free the weaving yarn from the sinker plate when changing it from one side of the sinker plate to the other . |
| 7 | ‘ Doc says the best bet , given the mark on her cheek is that someone slapped her one and she fell back . |
| 8 | Erm , but , we had a , that was , that was quite good , but I must , there 's a trick to remembering names , and that is that you use it all the time , so any time , if you want to remember somebodys name , every time you see them you say hello and there name |
| 9 | And then after a brief explanation , ‘ The only reason I write to you is that you warned me this would happen . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The nicest thing is that you consider me intelligent . |
| 11 | Now that can happen both ways , but it 's very important that one feature of that is that it makes somebody uncomfortable . |
| 12 | The beauty of this method is that it makes you aware of the most harmonic choices that are avaible to you on any chosen scale degree . |
| 13 | The major challenge of this development is that it makes it possible to move the emphasis from teaching to learning . |
| 14 | The other is that it makes it easier to encourage prickly China and France to join in . |
| 15 | The advantage of thinking about paddle strokes in this way is that it makes it clear which style is the real stroke and which is the copy . |
| 16 | The clue to the GL 's satisfying performance is that it develops its maximum torque at a modest 2,500 rpm , pulling strongly from low revs , making it an easy-going cruiser without the need for constant recourse to the five-speed gearbox . |
| 17 | Another noteworthy aspect of Circumspecte agatis is that it reminds us that legislation at that time was by no means limited to parliamentary acts , but could result from decisions of the king and his councillors , expressed in general writs to his justices and sheriffs . |
| 18 | Look at Carlos Lopes — I would n't compare myself with Lopes , but the fact is that he ran his fastest 10K while he was training for a marathon [ Lopes ran the then second fastest ever 10,000m , with 17:17.48 in July 1984 , just one month before winning the Olympic marathon in a record 2:09.21 ] . |
| 19 | His real problem is that he believes it all . |
| 20 | The trouble with the hon. Gentleman is that he believes his own propaganda . |
| 21 | As for the former chairman himself the greatest pity of all is that he found it necessary to go without finding a successor for himself . |
| 22 | The tragedy of man is that he declares himself autonomous of God and in consequence is condemned to live East of Eden . |
| 23 | The dignifying characteristic of the professions was that they had their own codes of ethics . |
| 24 | 15% said they were badly affected — and of those , roughly one half said their main problem was that they found it difficult to pick up their usual programmes on LW . |
| 25 | The desire of biblical literalists to show that the story could have been history acted as a spur to the study of zoogeography , even though the eventual , and ironic , outcome was that they sank their own ship . |
| 26 | You know they do But anyway the point I was making was that they call it distant intimacy . |
| 27 | She did n't know ; all she knew was that she adored him more than before and she wanted him more desperately , therefore inevitably she was going to be more hurt than the first time . |
| 28 | Some of the girls had been looking forward to this as to the highlight of the trip , but Clara had been dreading it , and for a classic reason , which was that she had nothing nice to wear . |
| 29 | Her biggest regret was that she found it necessary to keep its existence from David . |
| 30 | erm no what happened was that he gave me some bones that were far too big for the dogs . |