Example sentences of "be that it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " 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 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 .
3 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 .
4 What constitutes the novelty of the Hellenistic age is that it gave international circulation to ideas , while strongly reducing their revolutionary impact .
5 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 .
6 The real clincher was that it made better tea and beer than the pump muck .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Another criticism of the Leeds adjournment system was that it added further stress to socially disadvantaged people already living under stressful conditions .
10 The main point of the case was that it involved domestic property where the client would suffer ( as a private purchaser ) a relatively great loss if the report were negligent , while the risk that would have been undertaken by the surveyor , if he had accepted liability for negligence , would have been relatively low , since it was a routine survey of domestic property , and for him , as a businessman , the value of the property in question was not relatively a great amount of money .
11 One notable feature of the gold standard was that it allowed automatic adjustment to take place via changes in expenditure and output .
12 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 .
13 What was impressive about the group was that it included six US Nobel laureates in economics and a broad bi-partisan collection of the best of American economic thought .
14 One of the good things about the school was that it overlooked open countryside , where there were usually buzzards and kestrels flying around .
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