Example sentences of "be that a [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It may be that a third party would be prepared to accept the commitments for a limited purpose without becoming a party to the treaty .
2 The recommendation before , therefore is that a second phase of the county experiment be implemented for a period of three months to six months , whichever is felt necessary , to allow the effects of
3 In the end the government was forced to make a minor concession , and the present position is that a second ballot will be held if fewer than 50 per cent of those eligible record a vote on the first occasion .
4 The suggestion then is that a fourth clause be added requiring that there be no other truth such that Henry 's believing it would have destroyed his justification for believing that q .
5 The irony for him now is that a third success could relegate the club he supported as a boy .
6 The outcome was that a second room was negotiated and the students returned to the pattern of separate and segregated groups .
7 In many of the above examples the claim was that a third party had become bound by the treaty in whole or in part , and had ceased to be a third party .
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