Example sentences of "be that [pers pn] [vb -s] [indef pn] " in BNC.

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1 The result will be that it dumps everything that has been transferred and you will have to start again from the beginning !
2 My view would be that it does nothing of the sort and that if we think it does we delude ourselves .
3 The terms of this argument repeat exactly those of the critical debate about univocal meaning , according to which the only alternative to the idea that history has a single meaning must be that it has none at all .
4 All Lori will tell you is that she knows nothing about the jade , ’ Paige advised him steadily .
5 It is so very much what it is that it becomes something else .
6 Another benefit of such a system is that it enables one to learn about the human resources of the organization in a different way :
7 The advantage of this argument is that it allows one to define literature 's relation to reality in a much more positive and coherent way : both literature and the reality which it represents are of the same order and , according to Bakhtin , this order is ideological .
8 What is important about this contribution to linguistic theory is that it allows one to analyze the personal or ‘ subjective ’ elements of language without having to resort to any real correlative outside language .
9 One advantage of the Chart is that it allows one to represent both complete analyses ( as inactive edges ) and partial analyses ( as active edges ) .
10 The first is that it says nothing about W-cells .
11 Finally , one major gap in Oakeshott 's theory is that it says nothing about the fundamental issue of how societas may be reconstituted in the modern age .
12 ‘ But I think the most likely is that it has something to do with a girl . ’
13 One view is that it has something to do with the energy , drive and willingness to take risks associated ( in the ‘ up ’ phase , at least ) with traits underlying manic-depression .
14 Its defining feature is that it has none except , as time goes on , a growing sense of unreality .
15 Now that can happen both ways , but it 's very important that one feature of that is that it makes somebody uncomfortable .
16 The advantage of this approach is that it costs nothing , at least in the immediate future .
17 Asked why Mr Clinton appeared to have stopped using the word ‘ sacrifice ’ and started using the word ‘ contribute ’ to describe what he would ask of Americans in his plan , Ms Myers said : ‘ The problem with the word sacrifice is that it implies nobody gets anything out of it . ’
18 All I do know is that it seems someone here does believe that they still have an influence . ’
19 The importance of this part of the debate is that it illuminates one crucially important difference between , on this occasion , Devlin and Hart : that is , the disagreement over whether or not it is possible for there to be areas of behaviour which , whilst they might be considered to be ‘ immoral ’ , could also be considered to be ‘ private ’ .
20 The only point in its favour is that it contains nothing that is toxic .
21 One of the advantages a child has when learning his first language is that he has lots of opportunity to hear it without being called upon to speak .
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