Example sentences of "be that [pron] was [pos pn] " 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 | But her value in his eyes was that she was his son 's future bride , through whom he would control Scotland ; he did not envisage her doing so herself as an individual monarch , and the secret agreements she made just before her marriage show how far she agreed with him . |
| 4 | The problem that he was having was that she was his legal wife 's sister and there was some rivalry or jealousy developing between his legal wife and er this other girl and he was n't sure what he what to do about it . |
| 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 | And the awful thing , Donna , was that it was my own fault really . |
| 7 | What mattered was that it was my own , with the inestimable sense of privacy which this conferred . |