Example sentences of "[adj] be that all [noun] " in BNC.

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1 One reason for this was that all officers of the Associations were honorary and had other jobs which kept them busy .
2 While at school the following day there was a general rumour being passed around , this was that all pupils were going to be sent home .
3 Yet the conventional wisdom in the transport world of the 1970s was that all progress depended on public investment , public controls and , of course , public ownership .
4 The first is that all judges are ‘ conservative ’ to one degree or another ; they have to be .
5 One was that all people knew about me was that I was making trouble about the caravan site and a lot of them assumed that because it was at the bottom of my own garden , I must naturally be on ‘ their side ’ , whatever my political colour : that is , I wanted the site disbanded .
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