Example sentences of "[be] that it [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 The main criterion for an effective service must be that it is staffed by experienced professionals who are appropriately qualified .
4 It is too often assumed that if a law is not designed to protect one man from another its only rationale can be that it is designed to punish moral wickedness , or in Lord Devlin 's words ‘ to enforce a moral principle ’ .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 One reason for this may be that it was overtaken — and , perhaps , undermined — by political developments .
8 The disadvantages of the Article were that it was perceived as dealing with ‘ representational ’ issues that were out of place in the Convention , that it undercut the position of non-liability of member States for treaties concluded by organisations , and that it placed excessive emphasis on the exceptional situation of the European Communities .
9 The probable significance of all this is that it is mistaken to attempt to generalize about employers ' attitudes to young workers .
10 The downside of the book is that it is written in a terribly deadpan style : ‘ At forty-five Picasso had become a successful man .
11 The reason is that it is based , not on discernible facts , but on stories and writings that have been created by man himself in an era of his history obtaining long before he had learned that , if he were so minded , he could use his intellectual power to establish facts on which to build the structure , not only of his religion , but of the whole of his society .
12 The particular value of task-centred work is that it is based on an intention to form an agreement or contract between the client and the worker , thus freeing the client from the burden of always being a grateful recipient .
13 The real merit in this suggestion is that it is based upon ( in principle ) easily observed magnitudes those calculating the bonus need know only about price , output and cost levels in each period ; they do not need to estimate either demand or cost functions .
14 There is moreover a further difficulty with the thesis which is that it is based upon a dichotomy between fact and value which is hard to sustain .
15 The problem with this approach however is that it is based on opportunism rather than commitment .
16 A final reason for the possible failure of an appraisal system is that it is conducted as a top down , rather than a bottom up approach .
17 The reality of the process of change is that it is conducted in context .
18 Its other main claim to fame is that it is credited with inventing the word tweed to describe the famous cloth first made in the area .
19 What gives this discussion an additional interest , though , is that it is incorporated into an ambitious overarching historical schema , which aims to ‘ explain' nothing less than the whole development of world music .
20 The disparity between the revenue raised by the BBC in Scotland and the resources allocated by London to Scotland , reported today , highlights just how crucial is the debate over the BBC 's charter and how vital it is that it is made much more prominent in Scottish life .
21 The reason for keeping women and men separated is that it is felt that a man can not concentrate on prayer when women are in close proximity .
22 The third feature of English discovery to be noted is that it is limited to the discovery of documents .
23 In fact , the dilemma of any national state in cultural terms is that it is charged with defending cultural patrimony within a world market over which it exercises little control .
24 This is probably why , for most Prague linguists , part of the definition of theme is that it is given and part of the definition of rheme is that it is new .
25 The danger of adopting a systems approach uncritically is that it is assumed that it is sufficient to identify system structures and to portray the multitudinous variables involved in a particular system which then reinforces the first law of ecology as graphically described by Commoner ( 1972 ) that everything is connected to everything else .
26 Hong Kong 's special interest to the zoologist is that it is situated practically where two zoo-geographical regions meet , the Oriental , in which it actually lies , and the Palaearctic .
27 The chief significance of this from the ‘ separation of ownership and control ’ viewpoint is that it is said to restore ‘ integrity to the goal-specification and policing process ’ that is lost through the attenuation of shareholder control .
28 The main importance of A. braziliense is that it is regarded as the primary cause of cutaneous larva migrans in man .
29 ‘ The danger is that it is perceived that your board is already committed to change .
30 However , the major weakness of the Keynesian theory of the demand for money is that it is couched in terms of a choice simply between money and bonds .
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