Example sentences of "be that [pron] [verb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The prevailing view of such work group resistance has often been that it stems from workers ' misunderstanding of management 's intentions .
2 If we have only indicators what his methodological reasoning suggests is that we look for patterns among indicators which might suggest that we have found something of substance and significance .
3 You might then wonder what the cutting of the hair had to do with it — well , one of the features of auto-immune diseases is that they cluster within individuals and sometimes within an individual 's family , and the reasons for that are that the immune responses that we have we inherit with our genes .
4 He can create overall rhythms and within them short phrase rhythms , but the basis of them all is that they exist in groups and by being efficient in action and appropriate to the context give pleasure to both the performer and the onlooker . ’
5 What is most striking about such groupings is that they provide for careers on the football terraces .
6 The danger in utilizing a theory of ‘ mind ’ to solve the problem of grounding the sociology of knowledge is that it depends on concepts that relate to individual and inaccessible behaviour — ‘ thought ’ , ‘ consciousness ’ , etc .
7 ( One theory is that it arose from scribes ' attempts to make the word more legible .
8 The main problem with nitrogen oxide is that it contributes to forms of photochemical pollution such as ozone , which in high levels can cause eye , nose and throat irritation and affect the respiratory system attacking the lungs .
9 The trouble with fitness is that it leads to mistakes about evolution because it makes people think in terms of qualitative terms .
10 One way in which modern history is distinctive is that it deals with societies which are increasingly aware of such facts as these , and therefore try to come to terms with them .
11 One of the few established facts about psychotic illness is that it runs in families and only the most stubborn social theorist could now deny that one reason for this is that the disposition to it , at least , is partly inherited .
12 A large number of coins was found in ‘ the mortary destruction layer ’ of the vestibule and in ‘ robbing pits ’ in the cella , and the assumption was that they came from hoards buried in the temple floors or structure and were scattered when demolition took place .
13 So it was that I lay in honeycombs of tiny compartments , stacked into loose piles and sheaves with onion-skin leaves of paper .
14 For many years I have experience severe rain leakage through the canvas tilt on my Series III.1 once made the mistake of coating another vehicle 's tilt with polyurethane paint but the result was that it hung in tatters within a year as it became brittle .
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