Example sentences of "be that it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brief answer might be that it was an unintended consequence of a largely implicit and undebated policy decision . |
| 2 | It may be that it was their actions that tipped the balance for Rank , and decided him against pushing on with his ambitions . |
| 3 | It could well be that it was the very fact of the fading of life enjoyment which is experienced with the responsibilities of adulthood and parenthood — and this could have affected the very primitive man just as much as it does modern man — which precipitated the very first of man 's attempts to take control of his future and the progress of evolution , by becoming ‘ civilised ’ . |
| 4 | If indeed this was how he happened upon verre anglais , it could well be that it was in England , not Spain , that Dom Pérignon rediscovered the cork . |
| 5 | Another view would be that it was a hail and farewell community , and while it was together it was open all hours . |
| 6 | One reason for this may be that it was overtaken — and , perhaps , undermined — by political developments . |
| 7 | It might be that it was the incessant closeness to blood , death and suffering that brought out these sentiments in men who had , on the whole , been raised in an education system that rejected such responses as feminine and unmasculine , and that promoted an abstract conception of justice and a stern morality of obedience to rules . |
| 8 | I think in the past the , the response from the County Council would be that it was n't directly related to industrial relations . |
| 9 | The implication of the evidence as a whole could be that it was only in the reign of Ecgfrith that Northumbrian overlordship embraced the Strathclyde Britons and the Scots . |
| 10 | It may be that it was the removal of Oswine which enabled Oswiu and Penda to treat on these equal terms . |
| 11 | Among the West Saxons it may be that it was Aethelbald 's support which enabled Aethelheard to defeat the aetheling , Oswald , and that this established both Aethelheard and his brother , Cuthred , who subsequently succeeded Aethelheard in 739 , as Aethelbald 's dependants or at least obliged them to make territorial concessions . |
| 12 | It may be that it was because he was so secure in East Anglia that Offa was subsequently able to involve himself so much more forcefully in the south-east . |
| 13 | It may even be that it was done to make possible the appointment of this particular scholar , a native of Bosnasarayi who had taught to the level . |
| 14 | Asik Celebi says no more about Molla Fenari 's fate , but it may well be that it was alter this experience that Molla Fenari went to Karaman . |
| 15 | It is not at all unlikely that at the conquest , Mehmed II appointed someone mufti in the newly conquered city ; and since the sources seem not to mention the appointment of anyone else to the post , it may possibly be that it was made an for Hizir Bey . |
| 16 | The suspicion must be that it was a combination of excessive speed and the failure of the driver or guard to apply the brakes early enough that caused the accident . |
| 17 | The answer may be that it was the later decision . ) |
| 18 | it it came to be that it was the older men usually that were asked to do it I mean the people I suppose maybe felt it was more suitable to have older folk coming in to their houses . |
| 19 | It might be that it was just a little bit open and they think that somebody 's tampered with it so then they , they open |