Example sentences of "be that it is [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most important aspects of deixis is that it is invariably distinguished by its use . |
| 2 | A second advantage of the approach is that it is largely confined to observable empirical phenomena . |
| 3 | She says : ‘ People have a very cliched view of the middle East , but my impression , having been to three or four Arab countries , is that it is grossly misrepresented in the western press . |
| 4 | ‘ What people never take into account about the M25 is that it is also designed as a defence barrier against an invading force . |
| 5 | The first point is that it is generally recognized that ritual tends to increase , intensify and shift in focus at times of social crisis . |
| 6 | One difference between a vintage wine and any other is that it is generally made from the grapes of only one year , rather than a blend from several . |
| 7 | A further reason is that it is commonly found that eighteen months into recovery is a particular period of disillusion and difficulty . |
| 8 | The struggle systematically to open up the domestic and intimate relations of the normal kin-based nuclear household is premised on the belief that what is chiefly at fault with the conventional family household is that it is excessively closed and rigid . |
| 9 | A feature of the jazz chord is that it is often conceived as a small and highly mobile unit . |
| 10 | NB : It is important that this is taken into account when calculating the cost of goods sold as our experience is that it is often overlooked . |
| 11 | The great defect in such writing is that it is often structured by questions of the form Who discovered such and such a fact first ? or Who first anticipated such and such a concept ? |
| 12 | The idea is that it is then recaptured , but it will now be streetwise , so to speak , and good to train for hunting . |
| 13 | One of the problems with the prison service is that it is directly driven by civil servants and largely made up of civil servants . |
| 14 | What is perhaps most remarkable about this grassland is that it is only maintained under active management even rabbits were introduced by the Normans and , although it resembles some periglacial assemblages of plants , it must have been reconstituted after the forest maximum unless there were extensive grazed glades in that period . |
| 15 | Most political analysts think Peru 's main problem is that it is deeply divided , by race , by geography and by extremes of income . |