Example sentences of "[be] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may just be that Clinton is taking advantage of the transition period until he takes over the Presidency to air some personal prejudices and satisfy the grievances of some of his supporters . |
| 2 | The fear must be that Clinton might unpick some of the deals , such as the one on agriculture , but this was thought to be unlikely , given his commitment to moving out of recession . |
| 3 | Of course , it may be that Clinton and Major will get lucky . |
| 4 | It may be that responses from within the universities were shaped as much by an unwillingness to accept a national role for the universities , as — by the Report 's unprecedented prioritization of English studies . |
| 5 | Another explanation for the relatively high proportion of those in residential homes reported to be bad tempered could be that relatives , friends or neighbours were less likely to report or perceive the person who died as being bad tempered than staff of institutions . |
| 6 | So in the case of all who die intestate , and for most of the rather small number who make a will , the outcome of inheritance will be that relatives are beneficiaries , and the legal procedures which ensure this codify a set of obligations to give support which discriminates between close and more distant kin . |
| 7 | A further explanation could be that rats have a small ductular component of bile secretion which may have been the primary target of the observed response , as evidenced by the increase in biliary bicarbonate output observed in the canine studies . |
| 8 | One explanation for this finding would be that H pylori infection is acquired by people throughout their lives . |
| 9 | Warlow and his supporters point to the fact that certain quasars ( highly energetic galaxies ) have jets of material emerging from their cores : could it not be that stars and big gassy planets can behave analogously ? |
| 10 | The only difference would be that Seymour required an obvious risk of physical injury to another , whereas Stone and Dobinson required a risk of injury to health , and the difference may be more apparent than real . |
| 11 | The most convincing evidence would be that capacities that are retained after ablation of the visual cortex are lost after damage to subcortical systems . |
| 12 | The advantage would be that students could transfer between colleges . |
| 13 | First , administrative tribunals or authorities were subject to the full rigours of the Anisminic judgment : the parliamentary intent was presumed , subject to a clear contrary indication , to be that questions of law were to be decided by the courts ; the distinction between errors within jurisdiction and errors going to jurisdiction was , for practical purposes , abolished , and any error of law would automatically result in the tribunal having asked itself the wrong question . |
| 14 | It may be that questions asked at T 1 cause respondents to develop and shift attitudes during the T 1 — T 2 period possibly through private discussion or , if the study is sufficiently large , public controversy . |
| 15 | A second reason for such high reported levels of satisfaction may be that respondents are answering the question in terms of their level of expectations . |
| 16 | They counted the number of the copulations and they found the females were copulating much more than they needed in order to have , have offspring , so the big problem is why do female adders go to all the trouble of extra copulations with extra males when they could easily just make do with one or two and store the semen , and er the consequence as you could have predicted I think having attended my lectures , is that there does seem to be selection for erm sperm competition in male adders and the , the supposition seems to be that females are openly inciting male sperm competition , because they 're mating with many more males than they need to and there does n't seem to be another gain , they do n't get provisioning from a male , they , all they get is sperm . |
| 17 | Herbs to keep an eye on are the marjorams , of which there are at least three different kinds , tarragon ( two ) , dill and fennel , which hybridize very easily , garden mint which is often a cross with horse-mint , or may even be that species , lovage which can look like ground-elder while young , and French sorrel which is invariably confused with the inferior-tasting English sorrel . |
| 18 | That 's it , that 's what I had they told and they said that it might be that she 's just , she 's just is small for her size , but it might be that Katie taken all the goodness from Hannah |
| 19 | Could it be that McNab was actually smiling ? |
| 20 | It surely could not be that McNab was confounded , utterly at a loss , for surely almost anyone could string a few medical terms together ( enough to convince the survivors of Krishnapur if not the Royal College of Physicians ) and save face . |
| 21 | Opinion in Texas prison circles , with hindsight , seems to be that TDC should simply have admitted that various provisions for prisoners were unsatisfactory and inadequate . |
| 22 | If a need for parental protection in part constitutes the superego — and a fundamental , primitive part at that — then it may be that disturbances in later superego-formation will bring these earlier , more primitive , aspects of the superego to the fore . |
| 23 | It may be that Lewis does n't know he 's doing anything out of order , but some of the messages Lewis is delivering ai n't getting through , or at least not in one piece . ’ |
| 24 | But in Crathie Church next Saturday , the only concern should be that Anne is finding the joy that she so richly deserves . |
| 25 | It could be that Grätzel 's attempts to harness cheap solar energy may finally have hit the jackpot . |
| 26 | The trouble seems to be that bursts of information leave a phone at the sort of frequencies which hearing aids are designed to detect . |
| 27 | Other personal things might be that Tommy , your little lad has a school sports day . |
| 28 | th th the building went ahead and people every year or two sometimes twice in a year get flooded and they get sewages the the sewer with the volume of rain water they ca n't otherwise get away , but it brings to light what happens i i i in the ditches and , and the waterways that are spread across the direction of Airport and then out into the river when the tide is low because the switches close when the tide comes in and basically er and this is up to date information the information that I have is that the channels are the responsibility of the er you know responsibilities are either kept cleared or not clogged up and in connection with the , with the incident I , I did hear it said that in , in a place where once said it usually counts that possibly and more than the that the first flood was due because the drains and the ditches could n't take the volume of water after they were cleared and things have been pretty reasonable erm since that time , so it would seem to confirm what , what I have to say about keeping clear erm but it may be that authorities that were n't responsible had the job of cleaning them , I do n't know . |
| 29 | People ask how can it be that Scotland 's relatively small , relatively low-key club set-up can produce teams that will fearlessly take on the best and nurture expectations of victory over them all until the final whistle . |
| 30 | A fair conclusion might be that Kennedy found it helpful — perhaps therapeutic — to talk to Ormsby-Gore and Macmillan whether or not they basically influenced his thinking . |