Example sentences of "be that it [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This proved to be a fateful oversight since one of the most devastating criticisms to be levelled at Keynesian macroeconomics in recent years has been that it has such shaky foundations in microeconomics . |
| 2 | The most telling comment on the wealth of the metropolis is that it had more men worth upwards of £100 than most other towns had taxpayers of all grades ; indeed , the number of four-figure assessments equalled the total taxpayers of some tiny market towns . |
| 3 | The disadvantage of this is that it creates all the lingering resentment and hostility of ‘ win/lose ’ situation . |
| 4 | One of the chief attractions of the Reader 's Digest DOUBLE PAYOUT PLAN , however , is that it does more than offer you family financial security in the event of your death . |
| 5 | The chief virtue of a private property system is that it achieves this dispersal and is therefore structurally antagonistic to coercion . |
| 6 | The problem with such a characterisation of pluralism is that it bears little resemblance to what pluralists actually say pluralism means , and consequently it is hardly surprising that even the most cursory of empirical investigations can show such a naive version of pluralism is untenable as a description of the distribution of power in Western liberal democracies . |
| 7 | is that it helps all the 910 missionary dioceses of the world through a central fund , to which all countries , including the missionary countries themselves , contribute . |
| 8 | The value of a condensing boiler is that it retrieves most of the expensively generated heat from flue gases and puts this heat back into the system . |
| 9 | Therefore we want to think ahead to future access to the information in the Journals , and the price is that it takes more time now . |
| 10 | 2.2 Business secrets The particular importance of an express clause covering business secrets during employment is that it avoids some of the problems encountered in Bjorlow ( GB ) Ltd v Minter ( 1954 ) 71 RPC 321 . |
| 11 | One of the reasons it thinks that COSE is interested in its participation is that it has some key technology that in typical DEC fashion , it has failed to trumpet . |
| 12 | If the objection to a hatchback is that it means more noise in the cabin , the Safrane is an exception . |
| 13 | One of the work 's main strengths is that it covers all social positions . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And the bleak conclusion is that it makes little difference whether the intruding whites are well- or ill-intentioned : the result , for the Indians , is disease and destruction . |
| 16 | His basic criticism of the system is that it makes little sense on the level of integrity because it makes only superficial sense of human desire and action and , therefore , only poor sense of human happiness . |
| 17 | A particular advantage of the telephone interview method is that it makes less demands on the time of managers than conventional ‘ face-to-face ’ interviews . |
| 18 | The most obvious definition for labouring poets is that it includes all those whose support normally depended on manual work , either their own or that of their families . |
| 19 | A second important contribution made by the notion of implicature is that it provides some explicit account of how it is possible to mean ( in some general sense ) more than what is actually " said " ( i.e. more than what is literally expressed by the conventional sense of the linguistic expressions uttered ) . |
| 20 | That 's up is that it looks that way . |
| 21 | Which in some senses , defining it crudely , is that it matters more what you are than what you do . |
| 22 | BUYER : The problem with your tractor is that it costs more than your competition . |
| 23 | The advantages of this technique is that it puts less strain on the legs than straight front pointing and the uphill foot ( the one most difficult to flex when flat footing ) is kept horizontal . |
| 24 | The problem with this type of promotion is that it undermines any sensible perception which purchasers of children 's books might have of what constitutes value for money . |
| 25 | The first is that it introduces more subjectivity into the accounts . |
| 26 | The only advantage of being dumped by Clive was that it made this a lot simpler . |
| 27 | ‘ Thirty years ago Julian Huxley and Eliot Slater speculated that the reason why the disadvantageous schizophrenia gene was not progressively eliminated from the gene pool was that it conveyed some biological advantage such as resistance to infection . |
| 28 | The benefit of the system was that it demanded that society intervened for those who were under great pressure and could not take the stress . |
| 29 | What Lorentz liked about this dramatization of the notorious Düsseldorf sex murderer was that it had all the feel of a newsreel for ‘ there is no acting in the picture … . |
| 30 | But the trouble with the Garden of Eden , Lindsey found herself thinking , was that it had some rather disturbing connotations , not to mention the odd serpent ! |