Example sentences of "be that it was [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | cos I would always thought Marks were that it was one day |
2 | One possibility was that it was Roman material introduced when the drain walls had collapsed , for the drain had been cut through Roman deposits . |
3 | What she did n't find out until too late was that it was one thing to jump a gap but quite another to stay put on the landing stone when the surface was wet and slippery . |
4 | More to the point was that it was some compensation for the lower salary . |
5 | When I was young , all we heard about ozone was that it was bracing sea air . |