Example sentences of "be that [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The particular benefits of this approach for this study were that it provided quantitative data on important treatment/intervention issues in a population where group-comparison studies alone would be inappropriate , because of the individual nature of each person 's challenging behaviour and the small number of potential subjects . |
| 2 | One apparent stumbling block to mounting more research is that we lack qualified people to do it or the resources to employ or deploy them , but as so often , a wider and less conventional look at the problem reveals one possible solution . |
| 3 | The result is that we kill 5,000 people and maim a quarter of a million on our roads in the name of personal convenience . |
| 4 | The transformation which God works in our lives is that we become real people . |
| 5 | I am sure that one of the things that prevents us from accepting help is that we think other people wo n't do things the way we do them . |
| 6 | I said the thing is that I pay sixty pence for five well I said it costs me another sixty pence to come and change them ! |
| 7 | The thing is that it costs 40 lira to go up now , but if he had waited just one hour more , till the 11 a.m. departure , he would have had to pay only two lira . |
| 8 | The answer to this question was that they had other means of transport . |