Example sentences of "be that [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Doc says the best bet , given the mark on her cheek is that someone slapped her one and she fell back . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | And then after a brief explanation , ‘ The only reason I write to you is that you warned me this would happen . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The nicest thing is that you consider me intelligent . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The major challenge of this development is that it makes it possible to move the emphasis from teaching to learning . |
| 10 | The other is that it makes it easier to encourage prickly China and France to join in . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His real problem is that he believes it all . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | You know they do But anyway the point I was making was that they call it distant intimacy . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Her biggest regret was that she found it necessary to keep its existence from David . |
| 19 | erm no what happened was that he gave me some bones that were far too big for the dogs . |
| 20 | Why else should I still be yearning after a man whom I knew to be a murderer while shrinking from the innocent Syl whose only crime was that I found him unattractive ? |
| 21 | ‘ All I meant was that I find it hard to imagine myself setting up home with someone else again . ’ |
| 22 | The significance of Rookes v. Barnard was that it made it clear that a threat of a breach of contract was unlawful for this purpose but the criticism has been made ( and this indeed was the opinion of the Court of Appeal ) that if intimidation is extended to threats to break contracts ‘ it would overturn or outflank some elementary principles of contract law , ’ notably the doctrine of privity of contract , which holds that one who is not a party to a contract can not found a claim upon it or sue for breach of it . |