Example sentences of "[be] that [pron] [verb] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may well be that he considered payment of the levy was a necessary prerequisite of obtaining the licence and hence amounted to a form of compulsion . |
| 2 | The answer appears to be that it arrived courtesy of the Romans . |
| 3 | The force of law is that it becomes part of common sense , and makes ‘ common sense ’ prescriptions about public order , theft and hard work . |
| 4 | An equally important reason for God 's giving music to us is that it forms part of our response to him . |
| 5 | For Ford , the virtue of slow change is that it permits retention of the organizational bases of current market strength and profitability , a virtue which outweighs the inevitable tension between the long-term goal of employee involvement and the short-term necessity of maintaining shopfloor discipline . |
| 6 | Thus it was that we made use of every method in the book to fan into flame the natural resentment of the public against a big and unfair bully kicking a man when he was down . |
| 7 | The only flaw was that he got hold of information so easily , but maybe it was no more easily than Cobalt had done . |