Example sentences of "[be] that most " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you intend to fight a missile duel , the chances are that most of your highly mobile force will attract a disproportionate amount of your enemy 's firepower and will die the death . |
| 2 | Half those questioned had not heard of SERPS — which might not have been surprising had it not been that most were members of it . |
| 3 | Until then , he had been that most inhuman of creatures — the public figure described by others as ‘ very human ’ . |
| 4 | Juliet Mitchell in her work Psychoanalysis and Feminism has pointed to the significance of this task , but the problem , as suggested above , has been that most analyses have not been sufficiently historically specific to make them usable . |
| 5 | It may be that most managers decide job evaluation is very difficult , extremely time-consuming , and too expensive . |
| 6 | His argument would be that most electronic circuits are organized interactively , by which we mean that the proper operation of one component depends on the normal operation of all of the others . |
| 7 | His/her only consolation may be that most of his/her friends will soon be those who are failing at about the same level as he/she is . |
| 8 | Since most theses are lent for a period of one month , it could be that most borrowers are able to digest the contents of theses within this period , but , due to the widespread availability of photocopiers , it is suspected that the regulations on thesis copying are frequently broken . |
| 9 | But the general conclusion must be that most aspects of discourse deixis , and perhaps all aspects of social deixis , lie beyond the scope of a truth-conditional semantics . |
| 10 | But the facts were that most Frenchmen had not been in the Resistance and that the Resistance itself was divided into different groups . |
| 11 | Yes , that 's right , I mean it 's that most of you , most of you can , most of you can arrive at work in the morning and if somebody says what the traffic 's like you would n't know , because you do n't know how you got there . |
| 12 | The great pity of this is that most pubs are old , yet the proper opportunity to celebrate this has already been squandered . |
| 13 | one problem is that most live gigs are one-offs . |
| 14 | The truth about customers is that most people who serve them see them , at some time or other , as enemies . |
| 15 | The truth is that most Thai-Chinese business empires are so complex that no outsider , including bankers and minority shareholders , can ever know their real state of health . |
| 16 | One reply to this is that most offences of bad driving have the potential to cause death or serious injury ; and that the North Committee 's proposals undervalue the element of endangerment where no harm occurs rather than over -value the resulting harm where it does occur . |
| 17 | The truth is that most people break their diet not just once , but many times . |
| 18 | ‘ The thing is that most of us were good friends , many of us still are . |
| 19 | One is that most acquired characters are disadvantageous — they are results of injury , disease , and old age . |
| 20 | The most familiar reason for this is that most reproduction is sexual : an individual has two parents , not one . |
| 21 | The main reason is that most executive cars in Britain are bought by companies for their managers and directors . |
| 22 | One advantage the DST has is that most French people accept a far greater degree of personal documentation and registration of their whereabouts than would be acceptable in Britain or America . |
| 23 | The tragedy is that most of the transmissions from Astra are in the old-fashioned PAL TV system , with analogue sound . |
| 24 | But the fact is that most traditional streets are indeed largely a collection of facades . |
| 25 | The simple fact is that most crime is the result of giving a criminal an easy opportunity . |
| 26 | He is that most traditional of stereotypes — the working class gone bad . |
| 27 | The problem is that most of us are so busy rushing around that we fail to become aware of those feelings and to consider what they might be telling us . |
| 28 | Another change in recent years is that most people have become aware of the term ‘ ageism ’ , but there is still little effort to understand its causes and consequences . |
| 29 | The basis of the fundamental problem is that most people predict a fixed inevitable hard-wired connection between stimulus and response , between injury and pain . |
| 30 | A personal view , for what it is worth , is that most British public libraries would benefit from spending at least 40 % of their bookfunds on stock revision . |