Example sentences of "be [that] [indef pn] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So riddled with complexities has this question proved to be that one is tempted to follow the example of the legendary definition of folk song — ‘ all songs are folk songs ; I never heard horses sing 'em ’ — and suggest that all music is popular music : popular with someone . |
| 2 | The immediate answer might well be that one is making a financial profit and the other a loss . |
| 3 | There are two solutions — either one refuses to conduct policy-oriented research in order to preserve one 's academic purity or one undertakes the research and risks the consequences which may be that one is over-identified with those who commissioned the research or those investigated . |
| 4 | ( Indeed , is Christianity true : could it possibly be that one was raised from the dead ? ) |
| 5 | The fact is that nothing was done about the matter , and the goats were released from farm isolation by the ministry with subsequent disastrous results for me and for others . |
| 6 | So one is forced to conclude that the reason hundreds of dismayed tourists and walkers are stranded on stations up and down the length of the West Highland line at the height of the season , unable to squeeze into an already packed ‘ Sprinter ’ , if it arrives at all , is that somebody is doing this on purpose . |
| 7 | One consequence of this immobility is that everyone is surrounded by people very like himself , most of whom he has always known . |
| 8 | My complaint about reviews so far is that everyone is reviewing the man Larkin and not the biography of him . |
| 9 | and the best thing is that nobody 's doing it , everybody 's doing cabaret spots along the line jokes and stuff like that , but nobody 's not doing cabaret spots with trumpets |
| 10 | The rationalization is that everything is done in the interests of the patient , but it is also designed to protect professionals from feelings that are , for them , genuinely intolerable . |
| 11 | The main thing is that everything is going to be all right ! ’ |
| 12 | Its particular advantage is that everything is contained into a smaller central area . |
| 13 | The significance of fantasizing about a new house or a new flat is that one is visualizing a change in one 's work environment . |
| 14 | ‘ You see , one of the advantages of being dead is that one is released as it were from the bonds of time and therefore I can see everything that has happened or will happen , all at the same time except that of course I now know that Time does not , for all practical purposes , exist . ’ |
| 15 | The first we hear about his steam engines is that one was erected near Dudley Castle in the Black Country area of the Midlands in 1712 . |
| 16 | But she admits there was room for rationalization in other areas ; ‘ at first clothes were never costed properly ; in fact we may have been underpricing ’ , she explained , ‘ but for Laura the most important thing was that everyone was working happily together ’ . |
| 17 | It was a very difficult period in my career , and the problem with the transfer was that everything was done out in the open . |