Example sentences of "be [that] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main advantages of a shower are that it 's more hygienic and uses less water than a bath — typically , 70 to 80 per cent less , 30 to 40 per cent less for a power shower . |
| 2 | If the colours are lighter near the surface , the chances are that it is either old or has genuinely been bleached by the sun . |
| 3 | The drawbacks are that it is significantly slower than the mainframe version , and the user is limited to the amount of data which can be fitted on to a PC ( a typical county takes up about 20 MB ) . |
| 4 | Disadvantages are that it is very expensive . |
| 5 | The second step is that really frankly the history of all great civil rights and human rights movements has sadly been that it 's often only through challenging the law , indeed even breaking the law , that injustices are put right . |
| 6 | But my argument has been that it is not difficult to defend something roughly resembling the status quo rather than being bludgeoned into a guilty conscience by accepting that one is a covert elitist or racist . |
| 7 | Working within this international world it is , of course , a great help if one speaks several languages , but my own experience has been that it is not the ability to speak another language , rare enough this essential tool of international business is amongst British people , but the experience of having lived and worked with people in another country which is the decisive factor . |
| 8 | One of the major criticisms of the battery cage has been that it is so small that the hens have no room to move or to perform their natural behaviour patterns . |
| 9 | Could it be that 't is not the younger prince who has stolen her heart ? |
| 10 | Consequently , the reply to the national court must be that it is not contrary to Community law for a member state to stipulate as a condition for the registration of a fishing vessel in its national register that the vessel in question must be managed and its operations directed and controlled from within that member state . |
| 11 | Another related reason may be that it is not at all clear what it is that is transmitted during inter-hemispheric transfer . |
| 12 | Now I du n no whether it is possible , it may well be that it is n't possible er my Right Honourable Friend has er certain views and er and er as my Noble Friend Lord erm Lord Rippon said , it 's very difficult to make erm major er very difficult to make radical alterations without actually causing some anxiety somewhere . |
| 13 | The problem seems to be that it is fundamentally about attitudes to work and such attitudes are subject to an inextricable and non-monotonic range of influences not only from work itself , with all the pressures of technological change , but also from prevailing economic , social and cultural changes in the community generally . |
| 14 | The answer must be that it is much less important by what mechanisms people come across art than what they themselves bring to the encounter . |
| 15 | It could be that it is really a form of fall-back insurance . |
| 16 | The moral to this little story must therefore be that it is always worth checking that the components you receive from a supplier are the ones that you actually ordered ! |
| 17 | However , it has also been suggested that since there is a dominance hierarchy among the females and only the subordinates do badly , it may be that it is only younger females that fare worse in big harems than they would if they were monogamous . |
| 18 | Er it could be that it 's just a contact Hello . |
| 19 | If you get a correlation between two variables it may be because one causes the other , or directly influences it , or it may be that it 's just cha it 's just a chance fluctuation and the two have occurred together , or it may be a combination of the two . |
| 20 | ‘ It could be that it 's just something that Bob is allergic to , but it had better be investigated and some sample testing done in case we need to get on to the manufacturers . |
| 21 | NCD 's share shows no sign of slipping , says Greg Blatnik of the X Business Group , even though the system vendors are all likely to increase their share — one reason might be that it 's more important for NCD systems to work with a variety of hosts — Peter Wellings of NCD 's UK distributor Xanadu claims that DEC , for instance , has had its X-terminal success mostly confined to existing DEC installations . |
| 22 | Cos it might be that it 's more productive . |
| 23 | The sentimental message seems to be that it 's never too late to open up , confess and say sorry ( even if you 're dead ) , and once you do everything is OK , everybody gets a second chance in the new kinder , gentler America , tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life etc . |
| 24 | I think in the past the , the response from the County Council would be that it was n't directly related to industrial relations . |
| 25 | It might be that it was just a little bit open and they think that somebody 's tampered with it so then they , they open |
| 26 | The implication of the evidence as a whole could be that it was only in the reign of Ecgfrith that Northumbrian overlordship embraced the Strathclyde Britons and the Scots . |
| 27 | Its corresponding defects were that it was almost insignificant in Europe , retained out-of-date weapons adequate only for colonial use , and paid little attention to training its senior officers for large-scale operations . |
| 28 | The two main reasons given for this were that it was too ambitious and it was too far removed from bureaux experience until too late in its development . |
| 29 | The supposition being that it 's always easier for the offspring just to sit on the nest and wait for the parent . |
| 30 | And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs |