Example sentences of "be that [adv] [det] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 What lends this observation particular piquancy however is that remarkably few players sound particularly good .
2 But the worst aspect of this whole affair is that so many people do not care about the quality of life for old people .
3 IT is seldom remarked how curious it is that so many people need to find a meaning to life .
4 Yet the reality is that very little money spent on science is spent on improving social welfare ; as Rose ( 1986 ) has pointed out , 50 per cent of the government 's science and technology budget in 1981–2 went on military research and development .
5 An example in the past was that too much butter had been produced .
6 Eliot stressed that his own opinion was that once these abstractions had developed in the course of several generations within a civilization they required either renewal or else replacement .
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