Example sentences of "be that [pron] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have n't had the pathologist 's report but the indications are that he was strangled after being stunned by a blow to the head . ’ |
| 2 | Although it is not clear whether the Falange leader was notified at the same time , the indications are that he was aware of Franco 's decision , for he called an extraordinary session of the party 's National Council , in order to elect a permanent party leader . |
| 3 | It seemed to me that it was wanting in every detail , but the objective facts are that I was five feet two and a half , weighed eight stone five , and had my fair share of acne . |
| 4 | It is n't even known where on Krakatoa the eruption was centred , but the chances are that it was Perboewetan , since the lava flows in the crater looked extremely fresh when they were examined in the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | The chances are that it was a bar , somewhere not too far away . |
| 6 | Her last waking thought had been that she was wrong , and that Ace had been right all the time . |
| 7 | ‘ I keep asking myself what it could have been that she was so keen to tell me on the phone . |
| 8 | It could have been that he was overcome with shyness , for he gazed at her almost with awe and stumbled over his words . |
| 9 | Dewey 's response to such criticism , I suspect , would have been that he was certainly not naive about the nature of those forces but that , if there is to be hope for humanity , there is no alternative but to be optimistic . |
| 10 | Ward 's excuse for talking in Spanish had been that he was accustoming himself to using it freely . |
| 11 | During the first government of Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson , one of whose election slogans had been that he was going to introduce a white hot technological revolution , AEA was empowered by act of Parliament to undertaken R&D on non-nuclear topics . |
| 12 | Or it may simply have been that he was hiding : that his confused sexuality could at any time have brought him down . |
| 13 | I walked fast , to keep warm , so it may have been that I was a little above myself by the time I reached the school where the classes were held , because that night , try as I would , I could not believe anything our teacher was telling us . |
| 14 | For most of the two centuries since that phenomenon began the conventional explanation has been that it was the new technology ( the spinning-jenny , the new weaving frames , and the steam engine ) which gave rise to the factory . |
| 15 | The two are entirely compatible if it is remembered that one of the popular theories of the nature of the state itself has always been that it was founded on a contract between the individual members of a society . |
| 16 | In April , I did point out that if English Heritage ( the body responsible for the preservation of England 's built heritage ) were transferred to the new Department of National Heritage ( which is now the case ) , very careful consideration would need to be given to how planning is coped with , because one of the strengths of English Heritage had been that it was placed within the Department of the Environment where government planning takes place . |
| 17 | The real objection to the use of the statement may in any event have been that it was self-serving rather than that it was protected by privilege , which could have been waived by the defendant . |
| 18 | When war was first declared , and she was co-opted into the military , he imagined that her first reaction had been that it was typical of these men to mess up her promising career like that . |
| 19 | The problem had been that there was no ceremony the first time around . |
| 20 | Prior to publication of the study , Rechem 's position had been that there was no proof that it was to blame for any toxic contamination outside the plant . |
| 21 | ( Indeed , is Christianity true : could it possibly be that one was raised from the dead ? ) |
| 22 | Or could it be that one was from March 24–26 and the other from April 6–9 when politicians of all parties confidently expect to have other things on their minds ? |
| 23 | Yes , it must be that she was actually an awful person . |
| 24 | But the reason she fell so easily and so heavily would seem to be that she was light-headed from a mixture of drink and pills . |
| 25 | Could it possibly be that she was missing something ? |
| 26 | Could it be that there was then more racism in the art world , and that Black artists were being squeezed out at just the time when young working-class artists from the British provinces were finding unprecedented and immediate public fortune ? |
| 27 | On the other hand , were every indication to be that there was no chance of the letter ever being posted — for example if the person was a known thief and there was no post-box within a hundred miles — then in this case giving him or her the letter would be regarded as stupid . |
| 28 | ‘ And when you locked up after you , how certain could you be that there was no one here , perhaps hidden ? |
| 29 | The upshot of this foray into the literature on beliefs in antiquity seems to be that there was a great deal of credulity and some scepticism , as well as some wonderfully entertaining stories . |
| 30 | It may be that there was a small military station to guard a river crossing , either a bridge or a ford , in the Tiviot Dale area . |