Example sentences of "be [that] it [is] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Industrial drug research is facing a crisis ’ was the headline of a British Medical Journal editorial recently ; and all the indications in Cured to Death are that it is going to get worse . |
| 2 | It is too often assumed that if a law is not designed to protect one man from another its only rationale can be that it is designed to punish moral wickedness , or in Lord Devlin 's words ‘ to enforce a moral principle ’ . |
| 3 | The probable significance of all this is that it is mistaken to attempt to generalize about employers ' attitudes to young workers . |
| 4 | The chief significance of this from the ‘ separation of ownership and control ’ viewpoint is that it is said to restore ‘ integrity to the goal-specification and policing process ’ that is lost through the attenuation of shareholder control . |
| 5 | The sting in the tail of the AS/400 announcement ( IBM never knows when to leave well enough alone ) is that it is to start making a niggling handling charge for software upgrades . |
| 6 | However , the predicate displays at least one of the characteristics of a semantic dependant , and that is that it is expected to bring to the construction semantic traits not encapsulated in the subject ; furthermore , in cases of pleonasm , it is the predicate whose specificity must be increased to achieve normality : |
| 7 | What is being said is that it 's intended to keep what 's regarded as a highly successful regime going on existing lines . |