Example sentences of "be that it [verb] [det] [noun] " 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 chief virtue of a private property system is that it achieves this dispersal and is therefore structurally antagonistic to coercion .
3 The problem with such a characterisation of pluralism is that it bears little resemblance to what pluralists actually say pluralism means , and consequently it is hardly surprising that even the most cursory of empirical investigations can show such a naive version of pluralism is untenable as a description of the distribution of power in Western liberal democracies .
4 Therefore we want to think ahead to future access to the information in the Journals , and the price is that it takes more time now .
5 If the objection to a hatchback is that it means more noise in the cabin , the Safrane is an exception .
6 As explains : ‘ The primary reason for promoting a positive quality attitude is that it enhances Scotland overall and the secondary effect is that it enhances each company as well .
7 His basic criticism of the system is that it makes little sense on the level of integrity because it makes only superficial sense of human desire and action and , therefore , only poor sense of human happiness .
8 And the bleak conclusion is that it makes little difference whether the intruding whites are well- or ill-intentioned : the result , for the Indians , is disease and destruction .
9 A particular advantage of the telephone interview method is that it makes less demands on the time of managers than conventional ‘ face-to-face ’ interviews .
10 That 's up is that it looks that way .
11 The advantages of this technique is that it puts less strain on the legs than straight front pointing and the uphill foot ( the one most difficult to flex when flat footing ) is kept horizontal .
12 The first is that it introduces more subjectivity into the accounts .
13 The benefit of the system was that it demanded that society intervened for those who were under great pressure and could not take the stress .
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