Example sentences of "[be] that this " in BNC.

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1 Indicates are that this figure is continuing to rise .
2 Present-day reality is that pub deaths far exceed births , and the signs are that this is an accelerating process .
3 The specifics are n't clear , but the contextual indications are that this would include American art from say , Pollock to André , not to mention a range of contemporary work on commodification stemming from Warhol .
4 The predictions are that this will go further to encompass accident and emergency , maternity and even psychiatry .
5 The chances are that this shyness would have naturally prevented him from attaining such a high profile … but Morrissey slipped through the net and the consequences could be devastating .
6 ‘ My instructions are that this boy is to move on . ’
7 The signs are that this is starting to happen .
8 And chances are that this haglike vision is simply advance warning — it could be years before your face finally settles into the low-slung , wrinkly cast you previewed with dismay .
9 My own conclusions , which in this case are probably completely worthless , are that this ticking represents a period of grace — I mean that it can not explode — as long as the ticking lasts and that it 's not designed to explode when the ticking stops but is then activated and ready to explode when triggered by passing engines .
10 Er swearing the papers basically saying who you are that this is the will er that er the person 's died of course er a and that you 're the person entitled to be a .
11 The indications are that this site may have been exploited for at least a year .
12 are that this is transmitted throughout the world within minutes of being spoken so you have the monarchy which has tried to make itself populist , has actually made its language much more populist .
13 Namely , he will be inviting your Lordship to er look at whether or not the business the plaintiff 's would have failed in any event er because it is the defendants case relying er extensively upon the opinion of their expert Mr er that even if the plaintiffs had had the finances which were originally anticipated and had completed the deal in accordance with that , the probabilities are that this business would have failed in any event and that they would have incurred the losses they did er so I anticipate there is going to be a dispute between us as to the basis in which your Lordship is to determine compensation in this case .
14 The idea seems to have been that this bombing would last only until the Bosnian government had the armaments it wanted to fight its own war .
15 The experience of the European Convention has been that this procedure has been little used , with most allegations of violations of the Convention commenced through individual petition .
16 The reply has been that this converts effects into what they are not : chance or random events , and inexplicable events .
17 MPs are in the unique position of being able to vote themselves unlimited money from public funds : the dominant view among MPs has always been that this power must be exercised with restraint .
18 The non-lexical task most intensively studied is reading nonwords aloud , and the most commonly advocated view has been that this task is accomplished by using a system of rules relating spellings to sounds .
19 Again , the assumption has been that this took place in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , because that is when documents mention the activities of lords and peasants in these areas .
20 But somebody else 's judgment might have been that this was a geographic clash .
21 Amis also likes to write , as Larkin liked to write , about the fear of death , and it may be that this fear can be detected in the failure to notice here that both sorts of people are subject to it , as to other unavoidable misfortunes , and that both sorts die .
22 The constructivist answer might be that this is behaviour guided by the input systems , with the added assumption that the behavioural expectation of resistance does not entail knowledge of continuing existence — of a continuing object of thought .
23 This situation is common in many academic areas , as I have discovered talking to colleagues , and it may be that this state of inflation and over-production is economically unavoidable , that many inferior books have to be published in order to let the good ones appear .
24 I 've found the increasing dogmatism and certainty that she 's right the most sinister thing about her because that so often goes with paranoid feelings , and it may be that this is one manifestation of that .
25 It might be that this girl was a con woman and he and Camb the first victims of a colossal deception .
26 It could be that this is a time marked by a dearth of characters , or that the smart people in rock are n't interested in self-projection but in obliterating themselves in noise .
27 It may be that this will gradually work through and become apparent in the activists in about five years .
28 Swiss-owned stockbrokers Phillips & Drew are trying to soothe the Swiss bond managers , but the betting must be that this group of investors will be far more successful than Heron 's bankers in demanding sweeteners for accepting late payment .
29 According to the joint letter issued by President Mitterrand and Chancellor Kohl before the second Rome summit in December 1990 , the idea seems to be that this power might rest with the Council of Ministers .
30 He does not actually forbid remarriage for those whose partner has died , but his view seems to be that this is not God 's purpose for marriage .
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