Example sentences of "be that it [vb -s] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More significant could be that it wants to guarantee supplies of ore to its tin smelter — the only one in Britain at Capper Pass , near Hull . |
| 2 | One principal advantage of an integrated approach is that it helps to spread employment throughout the year rather than to be concentrated in peak periods . |
| 3 | Another important feature is that it helps to overcome distractability so that people can focus attentively in prayer or meditation . |
| 4 | The second reason why playing the numbers game with female and male psychologists does not work is that it involves equating women with feminists . |
| 5 | Personally , I do not support that concept , but the fact is that it has given rise to a large number of settlements on the west bank and even in the Gaza strip . |
| 6 | One reason why this recession is causing such alarm is that it has touched parts of rich countries ' economies that other recessions did not reach . |
| 7 | The point is that it has taken players like Wallace and Hardenberger to contradict the cliches about the limitations of the instrument and to prove how flexible it really is . |
| 8 | One of the saddest effects of the radical trade unionism of recent years is that it has divided teacher from teacher , head teacher from staff , teachers from ancillary workers , schools from parents . |
| 9 | One problem with dependency reversal is that it tends to take development strategies for granted while it assesses the benefits , or costs , of particular activities . |
| 10 | One problem which remains , even in Dearlove 's formulation , however , is that it tends to present options in rather too clear-cut a fashion . |
| 11 | Another serious objection to this HCF kind of approach is that it fails to prepare pupils for the real world , helping them to appreciate the strength of religious conviction and extend to people of all kinds of religious persuasion , including those dubbed as " fundamentalist " or " extremist " , real empathy and desire to understand their positions . |
| 12 | Like the third objection to the HCF model , the fourth is that it fails to prepare pupils for the pluralist world with its confusions , contradictions and instability . |
| 13 | A parallel attraction of the theory is that it seems to constrain perception to be true — to be only about things that impinge on the nervous system ; that are , in other words , ‘ really there ’ . |