Example sentences of "[adv] [be] that [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were looking for a fault with the conception of the series , it could only be that it lacks a single volume overview of the whole of the development of quantum theory , a volume concentrating on the broad sweep of ideas and leaving out the mathematical detail . |
| 2 | In this case it would possibly be that they had the name of the subscriber but … |
| 3 | The result will often be that he wins the race . |
| 4 | Secondly , he was a glaciologist and it may well be that he persuaded the pilot to swin' away to the east . |
| 5 | It may well be that he took the place of Thomas Hitchcock who had been apprenticed to the same master nine years previously . |
| 6 | It ca n't be that you have no principles . |