Example sentences of "be [art] [noun sg] that it be " in BNC.

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1 Er it was ne it 's never been the road that it was prior to that .
2 Most significant of all has been the fact that it is now possible for banks to engage in a full range of securities related business along the same lines as the German universal banks , a practice which had hitherto been avoided in the UK through the imposition of self-imposed constraints .
3 Ironically , the Great War would not have been the war that it was if it were not for the machine .
4 Until now my only objection to living in a water-mill had been a conviction that it was bound to be dark , water-mills having a habit of being in valleys , Nigel explained , but it was wonderfully light up there , with two large , deep-set windows .
5 Well , erm , what kinds of changes can be performed on me and still it would be the case that it 's me ?
6 Now it will not always be the case that it is optimal for the less risk-averse party to take on all the risk .
7 As that subsection gives the court a discretion to stay or suspend execution of the order , it can not be the position that it was intended that the landlord could take the matter into his own hands .
8 If you produce a lovely little item which fits perfectly on a particular radio programme , or newspaper , and that happens to be the week that it 's the county show , or an earthquake , or something like that , there 's no way you 're going to get it in , because there 's too much competition , and the next week it 's dead .
9 Well his 'll be a thousand pound for the operation , being a major operation , it will be the fact that it 's skull .
10 There can be no doubt that it is a growth area , which has had distinct achievements in many countries .
11 Though not yet illegal to discriminate on health grounds , there can be no doubt that it is immoral and unethical to do so . ’
12 There can be no doubt that it was Ine who set the seal on the creation of the historic kingdom of Wessex and defined its horizons as a Christian realm in which monasticism and men of letters flourished amid active involvement in an overseas mission .
13 There can be no doubt that it was a major factor in the complex pattern of conditions which lies at the heart of the disorders in Brixton and elsewhere .
14 I I if it can be done in the greenbelt policy it must be done in E two and there can be no argument that it is not too detailed a matter in greenbelt policy but too detailed a matter in E two .
15 The trust is invalid on several counts : no property has been bequeathed to the curator so the principle of benefit is infringed ; if the curator had been validly appointed , which he has not , then he would be able to exercise some control over the foster-child 's use of the land ; but even then , since he would not be owner , it would be a problem that it was he who was charged with the trust for distributing shares in the income from the land .
16 The fact that the Sun is producing far less of these enigmatic particles than expected could well be a symptom that it is going through a quiescent period — although it could equally well be that there is something wrong with our theories concerning what makes the Sun shine .
17 Action means movement and where there is movement there must at least be a claim that it is movement in a particular direction .
18 Thallium was an Alfa Romeo among poisons , its charm being the fact that it was almost impossible to detect .
19 Again , does " If it were raining the balcony would be wet " mean something about other ways that the world would be different , over and above the balcony 's being wet , if there were the difference that it was raining ?
20 He states , for example , that Freudian psychology leads inevitably to the conclusion that love is a force immanent in the world , and is not just a product of the human psyche ; and he states that ‘ It is a condition of there being a world that it be lovable by beings like us . ’
21 Is the problem that it is too much like a repetition of other areas of the glass ?
22 When the Iran operation was blown , North was struck by Secord suddenly remarking , in his terse way , ‘ I do n't know why this is the problem that it is .
23 The reason that it 's able to hide that fact is the idea that it 's a creative industry .
24 Equally flawed is the idea that it is possible to legitimate the power of corporate managers by structuring the internal division of power in the company so that the managers are prevented from deviating from the narrow path of profit-maximization .
25 Against rigorism , is the sense that it is rather absurd to lump all who are not utilitarian saints with actual wrongdoers .
26 The crux of this argument is the contention that it is impossible to attribute consciousness of its interests to a class ( even to the revolutionary proletariat ) , without interpreting this notion in terms of the intentional properties of its members .
27 This is the thesis that it is social or cultural factors that determine a person 's moral view-factors such as environment , upbringing and social context .
28 The second example , a frequent concomitant of the first , is the notion that it is good primary practice to have the different groups pursuing different areas of the curriculum at any one time , because only thus can the goals of ‘ seamlessness ’ and ‘ flexibility ’ in curriculum and learning be achieved .
29 Equally unavoidable is the conviction that it is not in the public interest for any profession to become the subject of so much unwarranted regulation and criticism ( not to mention claims ) that it is unable to retain or recruit individuals of the required calibre .
30 He asked about Lloyds , he is quite right that that is not covered er by these orders but it is the case that it is a condition of the appointment of ordered , er of auditors into syndicates er that they shall report , they have a duty er to report er where these situations arise .
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