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

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31 But the chief advantage of the linguistic analogy in any narrative theory is that it allows literature in general and narrative in particular to be read as a self-contained system independent of any realist function .
32 the major benefit of the system is that it allows partners and managers to tap into the system directly .
33 One advantage of this approach is that it allows time to test the technologies that build the confidence on which sensible arms control rests .
34 ‘ The benefit of massage is that it allows patients to talk to someone on a one to one basis .
35 ‘ The benefit of massage is that it allows patients to talk to someone on a one to one basis .
36 The point of the idiom of companionship is that it allows individuals to form and to dissolve ties with one another with greater ease and frequency than would the idiom of shared substance .
37 One is that it displaces wage costs out of the more expensive core to the somewhat cheaper periphery ; another is that it leads to stable long-term relations with suppliers which open up multi-directional flows of information between the partners in the subcontracting network .
38 A more serious objection to Anderson 's account is that it assumes consistentalignment between left and right in politics , and ‘ progressive ’ and ‘ traditional ’ in intellectual life .
39 A third argument for state control is that it facilitates income redistributional measures .
40 A good feature of the Solution is that it offers flexibility in the depth of the decompression range , so that for an indicated ceiling of three metres it will accept that you are in the correct range if you are between nine and three metres depth .
41 The main advantage of forfaiting is that it offers 100% finance .
42 Moderator the convenor in his introduction and in the deliverance says that the church 's position is that it offers baptism to parents who are not er who , who is seeking to explain the church 's position to parents who are not communicant members or intending members of the church .
43 And although this research is industry-specific , the hope is that it offers insights and design lessons applicable in many areas .
44 Another argument for Quattro Pro is that it offers products in both the DOS and Windows worlds .
45 The reason is that it has muscles which work to resist gravity and other physical forces bearing upon the whole body .
46 And you place it carefully on the printing plate so there 's lots of spare paper round it because the essence of a good etching is that it has breathing space all the way round .
47 One of the consequences of the RUC 's dual role is that it has features typical of most police forces and qualities special to it .
48 The central characteristic of social action is that it has meaning for the people who are involved in it .
49 The major advantage of considering children 's language as a complex set of learned behaviours is that it gives rise to direct implications for language intervention .
50 The rationale is that it gives artists a share in the value of their work as and when it is resold by dealers and galleries .
51 The big advantage of film or video in teacher training is that it gives trainees access to a range of classrooms they could not otherwise enter .
52 The major attraction of a fully-fledged GIS is that it gives access to large volumes of cartographic and attribute data which can be manipulated according to the needs of the user and the flexibility of the system software .
53 The attraction of the book is that it gives clinicians an easily readable albeit superficial overview that will serve as a useful introduction : and even specialists in the field are likely to find useful information in one or more of the chapters .
54 What gives me greatest pride is that it means Courtaulds will end the century in the same business it started .
55 The value of a religious noviciate which asks novices to try out a variety of these functions in turn is that it exposes novices to the value of each .
56 As explains : ‘ The primary reason for promoting a positive quality attitude is that it enhances Scotland overall and the secondary effect is that it enhances each company as well .
57 The reason for being aware of sexism in language is that it biases experience constantly towards the male sex and gives little or no prominence to the role of women in society .
58 The only thing that can be said for astrology is that it makes money for those who write and publish horoscopes , despite being wrong on most occasions .
59 ‘ The problem with the Touche Ross report is that it makes assumptions that lead it to overestimate the savings associated with smaller , more numerous councils .
60 But the point is that it makes sense for him to reject such a statement as false on a given occasion , only if he is prepared to admit that in different circumstances the same statement could be true .
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