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

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1 Because really in my view it should be that once something like this happened then it should be on the owners to prove they have n't been negligent .
2 The danger of course will be that once the form and nature of the tests are known some teachers may be tempted — some even told in schools where league tables will be revered — to teach to the test .
3 Well , it , it might be that once we 've dealt , , once we have dealt and , and are dealing with the budget , it might be that we , we receive some , some papers erm , from the department for future social services reports .
4 It might be that before you start that if we training you need to see what the performance gap actually is .
5 The logic of choosing pensionable ages for the purposes of disentitlement under section 82 must be that after retirement there could be no redundancy .
6 For example , it could be that after initial investment has taken place further capital investment may be required in a subsequent period which , in that year , is greater than the firm 's net trading cash inflows .
7 The effect would be that after a complainant gave evidence which the judge thought credible , if the prosecution at that point decided on due reflection to discontinue , the judge could go on to call all the remaining prosecution witnesses himself .
8 However , this feature was new to all the subjects , and it may be that after one or two sessions most people would find it easy to use .
9 It may be that unless there had been this early sectarian stance by Freud , the body of theory and practice would have become hopelessly confused , so that , from a practical standpoint , Freud 's judgement and action was correct .
10 Whether the new production for which there appears to be a market be large or small , the general rule will be that unless the price is expected to be very low that portion of the supply which can be most easily produced , with but small prime costs , will be produced : that portion is not likely to be on the margin of production .
11 The reason must be that since the dispute over women had reached a critical phase by the end of 1909 , very few girl apprentices were taken on after that .
12 The general opinion seems to be that since the bastard 's decided to stop shooting people , he can remain anonymous , stay at large , enjoy life and freedom , and laugh up his sleeve at an incompetent police force until he decides the time has come for a little more high-velocity fun . ’
13 The main theme of the film seems to be that since Christ was meant to be truly human , it is not unreasonable to portray him as subject to the same faults that bedevil all our lives .
14 The main difference for the very old , then , may be that whereas when they were younger it would have been possible to work through the effects of multiple grief and achieve some new balance in life , forming new relationships and so on , in old age this is less likely .
15 Today , if we pose the difficult question of the relation of poststructuralism to postmodernism , one distinction between them that might be drawn would be that whereas postmodernism seems to include the problematic of the place of Western culture in relation to non-Western cultures , poststructuralism as a category seems not to imply such a perspective .
16 It may also be that whereas the British kings intended to replace Oswiu with a more acceptable candidate , Penda sought only to reduce Oswiu to the status of a dependant and at the same time effectively to establish territories such as Lindsey as falling within a southumbrian Mercian orbit .
17 His consolation has to be that although she is , as an ideal , constantly changing , ‘ yet she dies only when the race of men is dead — then to be gathered to the number of the Gods . ’
18 If this was so the consequence would be that although an exempted person by reason of being an appointed representative , Winchester were also an authorised person .
19 The principle must be that although affray is a continuing offence , where the participants can no longer be said to be using or threatening violence towards another person , the offence is complete .
20 The implication of the second sub-paragraph of Article 130R(5) therefore appears to be that although that provision gives the Community competence to negotiate international agreements relating to the protection of the environment , if the Community has not in fact exercised its powers internally , then Member States may continue to enter into international arrangements in their own right .
21 One of the explanations for the dolphin 's superb streamlining seems to be that while they are swimming their skin surface shifts in folds or ripples , caused not by muscular action but as a response to changes in pressure on different parts of the body .
22 A superficial illustration of this view would be that while the collapse of the UK 's steel industry , car industry and others at the end of the 1970s and early 1980s affected the whole economic landscape of the UK , generating mass unemployment in the north , the midlands and in all inner cities , the Stock Market crash in the international financial crisis of October 1987 had an impact on few people .
23 It may therefore be that while a perfectly competitive market composed of producers big enough to benefit fully from economies of scale would be the ideal , something like the existing state of affairs , particularly against a background of merger control and regulation of anti-competitive practices , is the best realisable outcome .
24 okay it 'll be that so you can eventually you can build up a few tricks that 'll help you sort out a lot of the spelling .
25 ‘ The attitude seems to be that as Minogue was ‘ invented ’ by the publicity machine anyway , she 's fair game , no matter how flimsy or outrageous the angle .
26 ‘ It seems to be that as they get older the prospect of cohabitation is less exciting for women .
27 It may be that as individuals learn and pray that they would be led to greater personal giving .
28 It may be that as individuals learn and pray that they would be led to greater personal giving .
29 From an argument based on such negative evidence it may be that as a hunting weapon they were more common than the record suggests , having such a high use-value that they were not disposed of at burial ; if accepted this would also say something of the use-value of weaponry .
30 It may be that as the town of Mallia grew , it outgrew its local territory and annexed the adjacent Lasithi territory .
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