Example sentences of "be that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interpretation is allowed to copy what it finds , and to distort it , and it may be that the novel can be interpreted as an entertainment which conveys that doctrines of science and improvement ca n't encompass what happens in a frightening world , where motive is dark and ill-will ubiquitous . |
| 2 | And while it may be that the tragic case of the disappearing baronet is one that appears to defy all logic , it is not a case that defies the world 's greatest detective . |
| 3 | For example , it can be argued the expansion into amalgamated police units has enlarged the organization to a point where it is no longer accessible to the man in the street ; alternatively , it may be that the use of a centralized computer and complex technical aids has alienated the public even at the same time they are increasingly fed a diet of violent news snippets which reinforce a fear of crime and generate another ‘ folk devil ’ of criminal menace , which demands the impossible : a policeman on every corner . |
| 4 | The basic theme of this chapter will be that the success of cognitive neuropsychology provides strong grounds for believing that functionalism , or something very close to it , is actually true . |
| 5 | This may be coincidence , or it may be that the star system in French intellectual culture requires its major performers to be visibly on stage . |
| 6 | After hearing defence submissions that the £600,000 payout to Mrs Sutcliffe was ‘ perverse and excessive ’ , Lord Donaldson said : ‘ It may be that the general jury approach to newspaper libel at the moment is tempered by some indignation at the way some branches of the Press are run — coupled with the feeling that , if you can get £1m on the pools , why should n't you get £1m on the newspapers too ? |
| 7 | One answer seems to be that the market will take another look at Impressionist prints , and those by the Nabis , both of which are beginning to seem undervalued , in comparison with what was produced by their successors . |
| 8 | The New York Times called the men heroes , and The Times said ‘ the verdict of history will be that the ultimate guilty party is the government in power ... ’ |
| 9 | One explanation could be that the prospect of defeat now seems to him , if not inevitable , then at least sufficiently likely to be worth a contingency wager . |
| 10 | Another reason could be that the IRA had become aware of British intelligence 's drive for informers . |
| 11 | Indeed , it may be that the collapse of the MI5/MI6 informer network in Germany and other European countries restored the IRA 's confidence in its ability to resume operations on the Continent from March 1987 , when it placed a car bomb at Rheindalen . |
| 12 | It may be that the IRA , fearing informers , had gone to such lengths to restrict the knowledge of where the ‘ active service unit ’ was that it was unable to warn them that their presence was compromised . |
| 13 | It may be that the IRA hopes that it will flush out current informants by publicising the fact that it knows the identities of some agents . |
| 14 | The problem seems to be that the people who prepare the lunches have never actually opened one sitting on a hill . |
| 15 | It seems as certain as anything can be that the absolute numbers of the old , and for a long time also their number relative to the whole population , will be far higher in future than anything experienced in the past . |
| 16 | A by-product of Labour leaders ' responsiveness to the new thinking may be that the party relieves itself of some commitments which have been electoral liabilities in the past . |
| 17 | ‘ The result would be that the NHS management would be responsible for the pay and conditions of a million people , but actually arbitrators would dispose of the resources . ’ |
| 18 | The only gain from what at times were acrimonious exchanges may be that the British Boxing Board of Control will renew its vigilance in the protection of its licensed boxers , before a campaign to stop boxing takes on a more menacing shape for those involved in the business . |
| 19 | Mr Mark Brett , economist with Barclays de Zoete Wedd , said : ‘ The risk has to be that the figures will be better than everybody is assuming . |
| 20 | McLeish decided that it was probably not the moment to suggest to her that the real reason any civil servant disliked lobbyists must be that the chaps were paid to make sure Ministers got a view other than the Departmental one . |
| 21 | Could it be that the Germans in the west did not want unity after all , despite those opinion polls over decades showing they did ? |
| 22 | Yet , at the end of a week of alternating euphoria and gloom , the sober verdict so far must be that the military side of this war is going well for the allies . |
| 23 | It may be that the gap between Mr Yeltsin 's policies and Mr Gorbachev 's is too great . |
| 24 | The only difference with hostile takeovers may be that the prices are higher . |
| 25 | So , despite his presentation of sceptical arguments against knowledge of the nature of things , Gassendi does , nevertheless , hint that ‘ it may well be that the basis for knowledge does exist ’ ; even though this will be ‘ a knowledge of experience and , I may say , of appearances ’ . |
| 26 | In none of these cases do we think of the owner as having parted with the right of ownership , though it may be that the contract between the parties creates rights in favour of the bailee which the owner can not use his right of ownership to override . |
| 27 | The rights and wrongs of it were debated for some time and the feeling seemed to be that the TCCB had come out of it in a worse light than Gatting ; as the Melbourne newspaper The Age put it , ‘ Gatting , caught rumour , bowled hypocrisy , 0 ’ . |
| 28 | And so it came to be that the bewitching gesture of her father 's secretary walking down the golden path ( which bewitched me when I saw the woman in the swimsuit take leave of the lifeguard ) had completely gone to sleep in her . |
| 29 | The reason seems to be that the gospel story was formed backwards . |
| 30 | It could be that the boy had got the whole thing planned , luring Philip out , then having him surrounded . |