Example sentences of "be that [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | It is not an obligation on the taxpayer , because the promoter wants to build a harbour , bridge or whatever it might be that requires parliamentary procedures . |
2 | The first is that stopping popular schools from expanding because spaces are available at other less-popular schools nearby is a fundamental contradiction of the Government 's education policy . |
3 | The truth is that learning new skills does take time , and progress may appear to be very slow . |
4 | But the bigger point is that pursuing wrong priorities discredits greenery as a whole — just when it needs friends to defend it from hard-pressed businessmen and rabid deregulators . |
5 | The central idea of long-wave theories is that advanced capitalist economies go through a regular cycle of boom and slump with each trough or peak occurring approximately fifty years apart . |
6 | However , one suggestion is that acquired human retroviruses ( such as HIV ) might act as superantigens , and that this property could contribute to the T-cell abnormalities they produce . |
7 | The rub is that measuring nanomolar changes in an ion , with minimal cell disturbance , has been a physiologist 's headache for decades . |
8 | The necessity of a supply bag to the parachutist is that dangling twenty feet below him on a cord it hits the ground first , a useful precaution when landing in the dark . |
9 | Perhaps the strangest case on record is that described five years ago in The Lancet ( 1978 , vol 2 , p 952 ) by Dr M. Loughhead and two colleagues at the Royal Hobart Hospital , Tasmania . |
10 | The most irritating assertion of the anti-downsizing lobby is that distributed open systems end up costing more because of all the hidden training and support costs . |