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

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1 It may be that that individual does not function normally as a consequence of the sensory deprivation .
2 Because it may well be that that land would n't be considered being part of the conservation area .
3 Right I mean it could be that that the th the glide from first vowel in the diphthong to the second one and that that 's gone off so you 're left wi with a
4 And it may well be that that we 'll have to you know make sure everybody who 's running a training course , gets this particular
5 That the measurable objective might be that that that people who are on that course d go out and do X.
6 So it could It might just be that that 's causing the problem .
7 Er and that was the system and of course the thing was that with the riveters being on piece work , apart from negotiating a wage , you were negotiating what was known as a price list , and er whereas you would get X amounts of shillings or pounds for so many hundred rivets , or whatever it was , then the argument would be that that price should be upped because of the the cost of living going up , or whatever you know .
8 I take I take that to be that that is the bottom end of a of a range .
9 But it might also be happening where the Communist Party have provided some sort of secure physical presence and where if , as a result of past exploitation , there was a substantial degree of antagonism towards landlords which , it would be that that was carried out .
10 Now it may well be that that is actually looking into a slightly longer term .
11 And it may be that that 's the way they work , I 'm not quite sure what you 're supposed to do on this one .
12 So it could It might just be that that 's causing the problem .
13 It could even be that one of the worn words on the aforementioned standing stone was ‘ Drustans ’ , another name for Tristan and that the stone marked the place where Mark ordered the lovers to be buried together .
14 If the difference is real , however , it could be that one of the effects of the project involvement was to alert other service-providers to any need for institutional care at an earlier stage than would occur for those in the control sample .
15 It may be that one partner is so involved with their own painful feelings during the experiences of midlife , that there is no room for the other 's needs .
16 Or it may be that one of them alone is , after all , the true explanation of the vivid coat of stripes .
17 Or it may be that one environment is over-stimulating for the child — a classroom full of other children , with colourful posters covering all the walls may be so distracting for a mildly hyperkinetic child that he or she behaves far worse than usual .
18 It may be that one strand of his personality has not yet matured , and even if it never does , that does not mean that he does not love you .
19 There are slight stylistic differences in the execution of the relief work , and it may be that one cup is an exotic , a Minoan import , and the other was made by a Mycenean craftsman to make a pair ; on balance , I think it more likely that both are Minoan ( Figure 31 ) .
20 It may be that one of my children might want one or two of them , but nobody these days has the houses to hang pictures in the way Bunny and I have done , and I 've always known that the public will eventually enjoy them .
21 It may be that one cell which habitually fed by flowing round other particles , took some bacteria and blue-greens within it and these , instead of being digested , survived to collaborate in a communal life of hitherto unparalleled intimacy .
22 It could be that one first-class photographer takes very much longer on studio work than another or that another industrial photographer can not work without bringing in extensive lighting systems .
23 Can it be that one day , off it goes on , that one day I simply stayed in , in where , instead of going out , in the old way , out to spend day and night as far away as possible , it was n't far .
24 First check your water quality — it could be that one fish is indicating a problem that will soon be common to all , such as nitrite poisoning .
25 The outcome of such competition may be that one firm emerges as the ‘ winner ’ , able to dominate the market and earn monopoly rents ( Gilbert and Newbury , 1982 ) .
26 Thus , for example , in a police operational matter it may well be that one individual must make a decision and make that decision quickly .
27 It may well be that one consequence of increasing complexity will be a return to standard units .
28 It may be that one day we shall discover a complete unified theory that predicts them all , but it is also possible that some or all of them vary from universe to universe or within a single universe .
29 Over this unimaginably ( for humans ) long time , each of the two lineages that branched from that remote ancestor has preserved 305 out of the 306 characters ( on average : it could be that one lineage has preserved all 306 of them and the other has preserved 304 ) .
30 Could it be that one far-off day intelligent computers will speculate about their own lost origins ?
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