Example sentences of "be that [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another way is just to try to define its scope by explaining what it is that distinguishes it from other kinds of policy . |
| 2 | But I have often asked myself what it is that drew me to Sibelius 's music and I think it is that he is a composer who can not really be compared to anyone else . |
| 3 | I forget what it was that distracted me for a moment , but as I delayed , the water bounced the boat up and down and then straight against the quay , with my finger in between . |
| 4 | It 's very difficult to put a finger on what it was that attracted me about him . |
| 5 | Apologists wishing to stress the harmony between science and religion may gloss over those facets of Christianity as it was that distinguished it from Christianity as they now wish it to be . |
| 6 | He had to watch her carefully , he said , and if she felt like pottering around , that was good medicine , Anything was that encouraged her to be cheerful . |
| 7 | ‘ And it was six years for both of us , but you 'll understand if I ca n't sympathise with your waiting when it was all unknowing — ignorance being bliss — whereas I 've known precisely what it was that troubled me through all those six years . ’ |
| 8 | The essential reason for obeying the sovereign power was that keeping it in power was inevitably better for the security of each than the chaos of civil war , or a society without government . |
| 9 | Whatever this strange apparition was that held them in its awe , reality would return when the bangs announced a train that belonged to this world . |
| 10 | Perhaps the magic of science would overcome this detestable witchcraft ( or whatever it was that held me in thrall ) . |
| 11 | It would not be right for me to say that he was wrongly ennobled , because I know too little about him to be able to detect whatever surprising quality it was that commended itself to Harold Wilson for admission to the House of Lords . |