Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] be that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay , an and so what it said then was that ego , ego is where all these things come together |
| 2 | For a long time after independence , English was the language of the educated élite , just as it had largely been that of the colonial administration . |
| 3 | A man with unfashionably long hair — it had probably been that way since his own undergraduate days , Loretta guessed — was stabbing the air with his fork . |
| 4 | Her hatred — if it had even been that — had turned out to be as intensely personal as her love and an intrinsic part of it , Maria acknowledged privately . |
| 5 | It had better be that and not him having another of his scenes . |
| 6 | Only plaice was familiar to him , so he supposed it had better be that . |