Example sentences of "[pron] be [that] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would agree with you that if the if we have gone along and said to people , well er yo , we 've got alternative accommodation for you and they have n't wanted to go then , well I 'm sure that we hope not to give them that er er , alternative accommodation er , and it 's not in our interest at all to er , keep er , places empty , and further more we have n't really got er enough er , alternative places to put er , these er tenants in so I 'm that it 's as the result of the sort of dwellings that er we 've er we now find ourselves with as a result of the er initial buildings in the first place . |
| 2 | Er no cos I realized that I was that it was totally wrong so I just gave it a miss and went on to something else . |
| 3 | Although it is obviously accurate to call an incipient spin a stall with a wing-drop , I think that this is trying to avoid the issue , which is that it is really the beginning of a spin and at least a potential spin . |
| 4 | To speculate about possible good communists in the GDR is also to ignore the central fact about the country , which is that it is not one . |
| 5 | ‘ Alcohol did me the greatest favour , which is that it brought me down to earth . |
| 6 | Several advantages can be identified , perhaps the most important of which is that it would remove the financial disincentive which currently exists for doctors , hospitals and Health Authorities to treat more patients . |
| 7 | The legal model has one further method by which it attempts to balance the desirability of going to the managers of the company substantial discretionary power so that they have sufficient flexibility to act effectively , whilst at the same time minimizing the danger that the existence of such discretion creates , which is that it will be used arbitrarily . |
| 8 | It could be improved by including all the results of excavations since 1961 , but this has not been possible for various reasons , the most important of which is that it is no longer the intention to study the results of 367 , but to turn to another event recorded by Ammianus which can be illuminated by this old study and by more recent work . |
| 9 | This conception of services has its attractions , not least of which is that it appears to distinguish the output of services from that of manufacturing . |
| 10 | The issue points to a more fundamental tension at the heart of professional education , which is that it is concerned not only with knowledge and skills but with norms and attitudes . |
| 11 | An analysis of the artefact must begin with its most obvious characteristic , which is that it exists as a physically concrete form independent of any individual 's mental image of it . |
| 12 | Indeed , the very concrete physicality of objects might lead us to expect quite the opposite conclusion , which is that it is language which organizes the deep unconscious , while objects as visible images are a relatively superficial phenomenon . |
| 13 | There is , however , a problem with this theoretical account , which is that it depends , as mentioned , on the validity of the efficient market hypothesis , that is , it assumes that the underlying value of the company 's business is accurately reflected in the market price of its shares . |
| 14 | This is a reflection of a more general characteristic of review , which is that it is geared towards the avoidance of mistakes . |
| 15 | There is moreover a further difficulty with the thesis which is that it is based upon a dichotomy between fact and value which is hard to sustain . |
| 16 | The essential feature of the life which Eliot had constructed for himself is that it contained as few surprises as possible : it has been said that , for over thirty years , he patronized the same tailor , the same tobacconist and the same wine merchant . |
| 17 | There must be a total retrieval now , the one good thing about which was that it might banish his dreams . |
| 18 | In his reply on 2 August [ KP 6 ] Eden put the second view , which was that it was essential to return Soviet prisoners to the Soviet Union , because otherwise the Soviet authorities might make difficulties over the large number of British and allied Prisoners of War in those parts of Europe which would be liberated by the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | Both of these points of contention were symptomatic of the fundamental issue at stake for Washington , which was that it had lost control of events in Cuba and a client state which had been regarded virtually as a part of the American mainland had moved out of the US orbit . |
| 20 | That is not quite what we suggested , which was that it should have regard to affordability . |
| 21 | I agree what Rita asked for which was that it should all be archived in a central divisional higher , and I am taking it that they I think that the way we generally go about it that when we do n't get an enquiry erm , or when we do n't get a commission we keep a copy of it with the documents for a reasonable period of time . |
| 22 | in which he says that erm the more convinced that she is that it 's going to be fatal in its operation , the more determined apparently she is that Adam shall share . |
| 23 | The reason they recruit , or try to recruit , black policemen like you is that it 's supposed to make for better relationships between the black community and the police . |
| 24 | I I know that you 're going you that that that you may suggest that er my view it 's not capable of being assimilated but I think the the the basic view I have to put forward to you is that it is not necessary . |
| 25 | The reason it ends up swallowing and eating everything is that it 's seen as the only choice . |
| 26 | ‘ There are several versions of what 's going on , but one is that it 's an attempt to overthrow the government ’ of President Ramsewak Shankar , he added . |
| 27 | There are several reasons why this may be present , but the main one is that it ‘ guarantees ’ that the manufacturer has conformed with EC weight regulations and it enables foods to move easily between EC countries without having to go through lengthy weight checks in the importing country . |
| 28 | One is that it applies to both molars and incisors ; secondly , a check of the pellet debris failed to reveal any additional isolated teeth ; and thirdly , the teeth that are present show an advanced state of degradation due to digestive corrosion ( see below ) . |
| 29 | One is that it may weaken the marriage by suggesting a ‘ failure ’ on the part of the husband . |
| 30 | One is that it is culturally unacceptable to admit that one 's job is not satisfying . |