Example sentences of "be that [adv] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 What lends this observation particular piquancy however is that remarkably few players sound particularly good .
2 The point is that normally such parents would prefer that their babies were not defective and would welcome a non-controversial cure were it to become available .
3 The answer is that probably all shapes are capable of supporting a successful but restricted marine community .
4 One cost is that clearly some services are being cut in terms of how good they are .
5 The major rule applying is that generally most predators will attack only fish smaller than themselves , although some large mouthed predators such as lionfish and large groupers are capable of swallowing prey of almost their own dimensions .
6 What is perhaps most startling is that so many agents of educational change — local education officers and education committees — remained so untouched by the principles .
7 But what is more remarkable is that so many farmers were sentimental ( and some impecunious ) enough to keep their hedgerows in for so long .
8 The other is that so many jobs are likely to need a great deal of capital equipment behind them that there will be a shortage of capital equipment and jobs will therefore not be created quickly enough to maintain full employment .
9 The great thing about tea drinking is that so many varieties are available that you can always find a brew that is appropriate to the occasion .
10 The point is that very few firms now invest large sums of money in a new venture unless they are very sure that there is a demand for it .
11 One of the damaging implications of the recession is that very few employers are now able or willing to offer employment to trainees .
12 The catch is that only those states which have signed or acceded to the convention by then can take part in any votes .
13 This can be useful ; the only thing to bear in mind is that too many icons in here will increase the time taken for Windows to get going , so it 's best to keep Start Up for the real essentials .
14 The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place .
15 Eliot stressed that his own opinion was that once these abstractions had developed in the course of several generations within a civilization they required either renewal or else replacement .
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