Example sentences of "be [that] it is " in BNC.

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1 Could it be that 't is not the younger prince who has stolen her heart ?
2 It may well be that it is the first of these , his work in children 's theatre , for which he will be most remembered , for he revolutionised the whole conception of what forms theatre for children might take .
3 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 .
4 That could have been done anyway if the disposition were in a will , but it may well be that it is in a codicil or other document to which the nuncupatio did not apply .
5 Although nature is infinitely diverse and the techniques and approaches used for its study are widely varied , a most obvious feature of science seems to be that it is concerned with the dismantling of superfluous structure , and the description of nature 's many facets in the simplest possible terms .
6 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 !
7 One reason might be that it is a case of ‘ out of sight , out of mind ’ , because despite the fact that the chestnut-shaped prostate gland plays a vital secretory role in ejaculation , it is a very hidden organ , surrounding the upper part of the urethra and tucked away under the bladder and behind the rectum .
8 One conclusion might be that it is possible to define different grades of appropriateness , in which case it could be argued that the word-of-mouth teaching of the lobon-gur solution was a more appropriate form of oral therapy technology than the distribution of an insufficient number of Oral Rehydration Salt packets via restricted outlets .
9 The main criterion for an effective service must be that it is staffed by experienced professionals who are appropriately qualified .
10 One reason must be that it is the only staging halt within thirty miles ; another , more certainly , is the excellence of the seaward views and , in particular , the glorious sweep of the silver sands of Sango Bay and Balnakeil Bay , both exquisitely charming in kind weather .
11 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 .
12 It may be that it is those least disposed to commit suicide who join the cult in the first place , but at least the systematic comparison of variables has led to the question being raised .
13 It is too often assumed that if a law is not designed to protect one man from another its only rationale can be that it is designed to punish moral wickedness , or in Lord Devlin 's words ‘ to enforce a moral principle ’ .
14 It could be that it is reducible to the other needs ; that our belief in convention is purely a function of the degree to which it satisfies our needs for affection , status , and so on .
15 In that case the reason the whole has a value other than the sum of the values of its parts , considered as capable of existing unaltered in other wholes , may be that it is a radical mistake to think of them as capable of so doing .
16 It may be that the state of affairs in which everyone ( as opposed to just some people ) is guided by such a maxim is an impossibility , or it may be that it is in some way a thing that no individual can wish for .
17 A more likely suggestion would be that it is evidence of the estate workers continuing to live on the site and work the land long after the owners , managers or bailiffs had departed .
18 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 .
19 However , the prevailing view seems to be that it is preferable for women to withdraw from the labour market rather than for men to have to retire five years earlier .
20 For an alternative formulation might be that it is the hallmark of democratic government ( which is not the whole of democracy ) that it is government by consent , by contrast with other forms of arbitrary or tyrannical rule where the wishes of the people are ignored and their assent or support is not sought , or considered necessary .
21 It may be that it is a price which none of us will pay .
22 An initial diagnosis of the Gettier counter-examples may be that it is just luck that Henry 's justified belief is true .
23 One reason for this lack of success may be that it is unlikely that individuals will make public , in a regular meeting , what is on their left-hand columns .
24 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 .
25 There can , after all , be more than one possible explanation why a witness may retract evidence given by him on a previous occasion ; and , as must have been contemplated in Reg. v. Donat , 82 Cr.App.R. 173 , one possibility may be that it is the later retraction , rather than the earlier evidence , which is not worthy of belief .
26 Another related reason may be that it is not at all clear what it is that is transmitted during inter-hemispheric transfer .
27 ‘ I think that a valid reply to this objection would be that it is a political objection to the passing of a statute worded in this wide way , not a legal objection to the validity of the Order , it a statute worded so widely has been passed .
28 although through speculating about the role of the unobservable ‘ anticipated reactions ’ of one actor to another or considering the values and interests which failed to emerge in the policy making process , it may entertain the possibility of hidden power processes its main weakness may be that it is a description rather than an analysis of power relationships .
29 When pecuniary losses are added the outcome of an assessment of the plaintiff 's damage may be that it is worth , say , between £8,000 and £10,500 .
30 The other procedural advantage is said to be that it is open to a prosecutor to include a series of incidents in the one charge , rather than as a series of assaults .
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