Example sentences of "be that it [was/were] [verb] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One reason for this may be that it was overtaken — and , perhaps , undermined — by political developments . |
| 6 | Asik Celebi says no more about Molla Fenari 's fate , but it may well be that it was alter this experience that Molla Fenari went to Karaman . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Suggestions were that it was to rendezvous with another English force crossing into the Middle March ; or to meet up with Dunbar on the East March and convince him to join Balliol actively . |
| 9 | The significance of this strikingly worded note is that it was written in full knowledge of the methods already being used by " local commanders " to " persuade Jugoslavs that they should return to Jugoslavia " — ie the " deception " whereby they were allowed to believe that they were being taken to Italy . |
| 10 | In our view , although the Code extends beyond the treatment of those in detention , what is clear is that it was intended to protect suspects who are vulnerable to abuse or pressure from police officers or who may believe themselves to be so . |
| 11 | The police say that there is no suggestion that it was the result of terrorism ; the belief rather is that it was caused by building works being carried out as part of the routine modernisation of the royal residences . |
| 12 | If Day-Lewis is the movie 's greatest strength then its most noticeable defect is that it was shot by two different cinematog-raphers , often with the same scene lit very differently as if taking place at contrasting times of day . |
| 13 | ( There was no way we could check this figure ; the point is that it was accepted as a social fact . ) |
| 14 | The reality is that it was beaten long ago . |
| 15 | My bet is that it was started by one cave dweller stalking another through the gravel of Peking or Java , his stone club at the ready . |
| 16 | So the point of conclusion is if the myth is different in the Bible then the likely explanation is that it was tampered with , but that the scribes and the people who wrote the Bible altered the and they changed it round why should they change this myth ? |
| 17 | I think all I think most of the other things I the only er one I I would like to raise is that it was agreed that the new committee should be recommended to appoint a press secretary . |
| 18 | Further , since he is only one of a significant group of bishops who came from court in the early seventh century , if there was any general transfer of secular authority to bishops in this period , and the evidence is far from clear on this , the likelihood is that it was condoned by the king . |
| 19 | Well increasingly , of course , they are English words and that 's because , increasingly , we are getting closer and closer to erm expressing intention , and the thing about language , you see , is that it was designed by nature to be a vehicle for intention , and that 's what we all secretly know , but in fact we 've never been helped to think about it . |
| 20 | All I can say is that it was edited by two women , it 's being promoted by a third , it 's being marketed by a fourth , the rights were sold by a fifth , and in Britain the serial rights were bought by a sixth . |
| 21 | All one can say about the legend of Mu is that it was invented recently and has no scientific backing whatsoever . |
| 22 | The answer is that it was borrowed from the gravitational energy of the universe . |
| 23 | A more recent view is that it was attached in the 14th century to a 13th century church . |
| 24 | ‘ The saddest thing of all about it , ’ he says , ‘ is that it was meant to be the proudest . ’ |
| 25 | My guess is that it was concealed inside . ’ |
| 26 | One of the criticisms of the list last year was that it was weighted too heavily towards a younger generation , a generation that overall had not really accomplished very much . |
| 27 | The interesting fact was that it was recorded back in 1990 as part of a series of people at work and was delayed because of the Gulf War . |
| 28 | One reason why Bonn became the capital was that it was favoured by Konrad Adenauer , der alte Fuchs ( the Old Fox ) , the Federal Republic 's first post-war chancellor who had his political base in the North Rhineland . |
| 29 | It was coined in 1969 by the American scientist John Wheeler as a graphic description of an idea that goes back at least two hundred years , to a time when there were two theories about light : one , which Newton favored , was that it was composed of particles ; the other was that it was made of waves . |
| 30 | It was coined in 1969 by the American scientist John Wheeler as a graphic description of an idea that goes back at least two hundred years , to a time when there were two theories about light : one , which Newton favored , was that it was composed of particles ; the other was that it was made of waves . |