Example sentences of "be that [prep] [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It may be that on such a consultation the Lord Chief Justice will take a different view from that of the trial judge , but under the present procedure the prisoner will be unaware of any variation of the trial judge 's original advice .
2 The plain truth is that in such a situation , when the defendant was actually walking away from the scene , no further breaches of the peace were likely to be occasioned by him .
3 The obvious answer is to choose a licensee of undoubted integrity in a politically stable country ( the only problem is that in such a situation there there are probably more lucrative export arrangements than licensing ! ) .
4 The main judicial concession to the carriers ' interests was that in such a case , the burden of proving such breach was placed on the shipper .
5 But the interesting bit here for the Tories was that in 1916 a Welshman became Prime Minister .
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