Example sentences of "be that it is [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main criterion for an effective service must be that it is staffed by experienced professionals who are appropriately qualified . |
| 2 | The only possible explanation is that it is employed by mother cats when out with their nearly fully-grown kittens , to help focus their attention on potential prey , as part of a general hunt-training process . |
| 3 | Another view of local budgeting is that it is dominated by habit , by small additions to or subtractions from the base budget . |
| 4 | One explanation for this unbridled production of HBV proteins is that it is fostered by concurrent mediations , including glucocorticoids and cyclosporin . |
| 5 | The explanation that is usually given as to why we do n't see broken cups gathering themselves together off the floor and jumping back onto the table is that it is forbidden by the second law of thermodynamics . |
| 6 | The proposed explanation of the volume-composition relation is that it is controlled by the recharge rate : rapid recharge leaves little time for assimilation , and produces large volumes of mantle-melt melts . |
| 7 | never , no , and that is that it is constrained by a very tight village envelope which has actually just been defined and statutorily approved as an alteration to the rural areas local plan erm , and th the effect of that village envelope is to limit the possible amount of development to I would say no more than three or four hundred house . |