Example sentences of "be that it [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the considerable achievement of Michael Mann 's imaginative but faithful treatment is that it manages to make acceptable for the 1990s some of the outmoded attitudes of its characters , and yet refuses to go for that eco-trendiness that will make Dances With Wolves look dated by the turn of the century . |
| 2 | So the surprising feature of Ibstock Johnsen is that it continues to make any money at all . |
| 3 | One consequence is that it has caused substantial administrative problems for us . |
| 4 | A complaint made by radical criminology against its conservative counterpart is that it has ignored upper-world crime : fraud , corporate crime and white-collar crime . |
| 5 | One of the interesting aspects of the executive search business is that it has enabled some people , who have not been truly successful at other careers they have undertaken , to be more than successful in executive search . |
| 6 | The problem for the potential incumbent is that it has to get enough customers signed up to enable the prices quoted to be profitable . |
| 7 | The main difficulty with the HCF approach , however interpreted , is that it tends to jettison most of what is distinctive of religion . |
| 8 | ( c ) Another point which I take to be in favour of the theory is that it begins to make some theoretical sense of the intuitive feeling that what was wrong in the Gettier cases was that there was too much luck around . |
| 9 | One of the main criticisms of The Health of the Nation is that it fails to pay serious attention to health inequalities . |
| 10 | The point about [ 20 ] is that it seems to achieve most of its relevance through this range of weak implicatures . |
| 11 | One problem with the Royal College of General Practitioners is that it seems to equate general practice exclusively with being an NHS general practitioner . |
| 12 | One of the key main objections to the Accord was that it failed to offer sufficient protection to Quebec 's English-speaking minority . |
| 13 | Rain said nothing , reflecting that the odd thing was that it had taken Sabine Jourdain so long to outgrow her need of that relationship . |
| 14 | And then , when he was about eighteen , reality of another kind intruded itself and he said aloud , ‘ I did n't do it for Alice , I did it for myself ’ , and thought how extraordinary it was that it had taken four years to discover that fact . |