Example sentences of "be that [pers pn] be [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 | I I think Selby District Selby District 's attitude is is that we 're we 're perfectly happy . |
| 3 | John adds : ‘ The problem we have as naturists is that we are our own worst enemies . |
| 4 | Well presumably the reason why the men do the hunting is that they 're they figure they 're more aggressive and are not gon na be pregnant or incumbent to children . |
| 5 | Most drama books write of children ‘ playing a part ’ , ‘ playing someone else ’ , ‘ taking on a character ’ , whereas what is required of children in drama ( or at least , in the dramatic playing mode ) is that they be themselves , functioning in whatever way the situation demands of them . |
| 6 | ‘ All I shall tell you is that she 's somebody Mother knows . ’ |
| 7 | Fact one is that I 'm your half-brother 's fiancée . ’ |
| 8 | What I want to say now is that you are my mum and you feel like my mum again . |
| 9 | You can be as active or as lazy as you wish ; the important thing is that it is something you want to do rather than something you feel you should do ; |
| 10 | The reason for that is that it is we are operating in a in an environment of planning policy restraint . |
| 11 | What is certain is that , although a lot of ‘ experts ’ are ready to tell you what to do — and you may be the kind of gardener who merely wants a set of step-by-step instructions — the point entirely missing is that it is you , and only you , who has to use your judgement and make the decisions . |
| 12 | ‘ The great thing about painting ’ , he says , ‘ is that it is your own individual interpretation of whatever view you have chosen . |
| 13 | The truth is that it is my prison . ’ |
| 14 | The difference this time is that it is someone they personally loved and therefore it takes on an importance quite different from any event they may have witnessed before . |
| 15 | What is often forgotten is that it is us who have to pay to have it cleared up . |
| 16 | Yeah but the Open University ones cover all of the material and they 're what I actually wrote the lectures from erm but there 's six of them which is why the o the only advantage of the other one is that it 's one not six and so but I mean the material is all covered text of which there are three copies of most of them in the library one on short loan and one on sort of a general loan so you |
| 17 | And the maddening part of it is that it 's my own fault . |
| 18 | But there is a way , you can manage you can do it and the important thing is that it 's your body that 's doing it , that your body that 's keeping the exercise going , so that when the actual pain disappears , when you 've got rid of the acid , your joints still work and your muscles are still good . |
| 19 | the problem with Jesus ' disciples and the point here is that it 's our problem as well , is not that we lack a big faith . |
| 20 | of event but erm I do n't think that that makes it er negative , I think that the idea is that it 's it 's cumulative and er that 's that 's the way , well as you say , . |
| 21 | M my view about this is that it 's it it is it is that this exercise is that it is er something which has been done very quickly and to my mind is not capable of providing the level of assessment that would be required . |
| 22 | Er so I suspect it 's not worked out quite as we intended er and it I mean the main problem is that it 's it 's it 's cost us time , cost me time which I would rather have spent on something else but there we are . |
| 23 | The only way you can make sense of it is that it 's it 's design to get a competitor out of the market . |
| 24 | All I know is that it was our biggest stroke of luck this season . ’ |
| 25 | What he characteristically does not say is that it was he who kept the Pythons together . |
| 26 | ‘ All that means is that he 's your latest disciple . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ One of the things that attracted us to him is that he is someone who is willing to stand up and speak against something that he believes is wrong . ’ |
| 28 | The difficulty in determining the motive for Baldwin 's decision is that he was himself as contradictory about this as lie was clear about where and how he took it . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |