Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] it be that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might therefore seem a rather odd choice as a label , but Wimsatt and Brooks 's reason for using it is that they view these analogical or metaphorical relationships as producing effects essentially similar to those for which the word irony is more commonly used , and which they also see as an important part of poetry . |
| 2 | Perhaps the best way of describing it is that it will put you at peace with yourself — which is what is intended . |
| 3 | So they would actually do the shopping for the material , and then they would go away and look at pattern books and decide what sort of patterns they wanted , what sort of dress it was that they wanted to make . |
| 4 | Another way of putting it is that whereas structure denotes a relationship between the elements of anything , tension denotes our experience of structure . |
| 5 | Another way of putting it is that even though the academic community is founded on a culture of critical discourse ( see Chapter 7 ) , normally it gives little thought to the criteria by which its critical judgements come into play . |
| 6 | ‘ Maybe the best way of putting it is that if you were abroad and on the town , Con would find a licensed brothel where the girls all had health checks , while the riff-raff might sometimes take the risk of picking up a likely-looking tart in a bar . |
| 7 | Well , another way of putting it is that this might be an additional er policy that that would help us as well as er |
| 8 | An order was made under section 4(2) of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 postponing publication or report of certain details of the proceedings until after the conclusion of all 24 numbered indictments in a schedule , when it would be announced in open court by Judge McMullan that the order had expired ; the order stated that the purpose of making it was that it was adjudged to be necessary to avoid a substantive risk of prejudice to the administration of justice in other pending proceedings . |
| 9 | For three years now we had moved stealthily through the darkness , sometimes absurdly confident , sometimes terrified , but always wondering just what sort of man it was that we heard creeping along the wall towards us and what sort of weapon he had in his hand . |
| 10 | Did n't know you , anything about you , and the only thing I can think of to explain it is that Maura , Donal 's sister , told him the name of the family I was looking for . |
| 11 | Their justification for doing it is that it 's for this thing , this painting or whatever , and I always wonder if it could n't be more without all that . ’ |
| 12 | But the main reason for his slowness in composing it was that he felt obliged to take on what he called " odd jobs " . |
| 13 | Whether the security could be upheld if the only ground for impeaching it was that Mrs. Duval had no independent advice has not really to be determined . |