Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [be] [that] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hope must be that both bodies have emerged from the fire hardened in their dealings with other regulatory bodies on behalf of the City and the country . |
| 2 | While a corollary of the new deal may be that some consultants will have to take a more direct role in the acute management of patients , this in no way diminishes the attraction of a senior post . |
| 3 | The result will be that those terms will be implicitly incorporated into their contracts , even though not specifically incorporated . |
| 4 | Perhaps the wonder should be that any convictions are returned . ’ |
| 5 | An additional benefit would be that more people could find part-time work , and adjust their working hours to their family commitments , or to the demands of part-time study . |
| 6 | A further complication may be that any sideslipping to correct for drift may cause the ASI to under-read so that the speed may have to be judged . |
| 7 | The conclusion must be that neither side of industry was prepared to give up the old ways of doing things to achieve full employment . |
| 8 | The first conclusion must be that this failure is not unexpected because social services were not designed to reduce such inequalities . |
| 9 | But the general conclusion must be that most aspects of discourse deixis , and perhaps all aspects of social deixis , lie beyond the scope of a truth-conditional semantics . |
| 10 | Either way ( and the suspicion must be that some historians are determined to have it either way ) , blame for the collapse of the Carolingian state is laid at the door of the Frankish nobility . |
| 11 | The conclusion will be that these explanations have recently developed in promising directions . |
| 12 | One possible drawback could be that some people might decide to take an overdose as a result of learning about it through the media or public discussion , even if the behaviour had been presented as an inappropriate way of coping . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | However , a practical consequence of this approach might be that few people would be prepared to consider such a sweeping initial recommendation . |
| 15 | The answer may be that some sorts of postmodernist de-differentiation are implicitly ‘ reactionary ’ , and other sorts potentially integral to a reconstructed left political culture , and still other sorts can politically cut either way . |
| 16 | Gordon Donaldson , Clwyd county secretary for the National Union of Teachers , said : ‘ The result of these cuts could be that more children will eat junk food , such as crisps and pop , rather than more nutritional hot meals . ’ |
| 17 | One of the reasons underlying the inconsistent results with regard to the effect of familial sinistrality might be that this factor is likely to be confounded with family size ( Bradshaw , 1980 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Should they clash a solution could be that both clubs be allowed to play only before their own supporters with live television at Elland Road and Ibrox to be watched by the stay at home fans . |
| 20 | A third view could be that such investment is not an element in a zero-sum game : investment abroad is not a simple net loss to UK plants but , instead , creates productive facilities which complement and are integrated with UK production . |