Example sentences of "be that it was [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that it was their actions that tipped the balance for Rank , and decided him against pushing on with his ambitions . |
| 2 | All I know is that it was our biggest stroke of luck this season . ’ |
| 3 | What he characteristically does not say is that it was he who kept the Pythons together . |
| 4 | All you could feel was that it was something bony . |
| 5 | The first thing he had thought of when he awoke that morning was that it was his mother 's birthday , 25 May , and he had been thinking about it ever since , as he always did on that day . |
| 6 | ‘ Rory , ’ Kenneth said , sitting forward and lowering his voice to conspiratorial levels , ‘ the last secret I remember you telling me was that it was you who set fire to that barn on the Urvill 's estate . ’ |
| 7 | And the awful thing , Donna , was that it was my own fault really . |
| 8 | What mattered was that it was my own , with the inestimable sense of privacy which this conferred . |