Example sentences of "[adj] be that [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One reason for this is that many people have a fear which they can not conceal of anything or anybody who reminds them of death ; knowing that contact with a grieving widow will exacerbate these fears they tend , after expressing their sympathy by word or letter , and sending flowers to the funeral , to withdraw to a safe distance ‘ to give her time to get over it ’ just when she needs them most . |
| 2 | The prime reason for this is that such warehouses have become machines and will only operate correctly if the logic for their function has been meticulously thought out , checked and rechecked . |
| 3 | The implication of all this is that such places had perhaps been important as estates or administrative centres as well as having marketing functions long before late Saxon times and thus could be developed into true towns fairly easily . |
| 4 | The corollary of this is that any receipts received or payments made in the current financial year which relate to accruals made in the last financial year , will not affect the current year 's profit figures . |
| 5 | Very simply , the theory behind this is that any product has some characteristic which can be developed so as to make it unique in its class . |
| 6 | The reason for this is that few localities contain populations which closely replicate the national profile and even fewer record rates of change similar to the nation as a whole . |
| 7 | The reason suggested for this is that these girls feel that they should be able to cope with their pregnancy and problems on their own instead of sharing them within the unit , as most other girls do . |
| 8 | One reason for this is that older workers tend to lack certification for skill even if they have been acquired . |
| 9 | The disadvantage of this is that some promoters underadvertise , underpromote , and undermarket the gig to try and put more pounds in their pockets by reducing their expenses . |
| 10 | The evidence for this is that some scarps cut across several sizeable craters , whereas others are cut by sizeable craters , indicating that there are scarps which are older than appreciable numbers of sizeable craters , whereas others are much younger . |
| 11 | What is so amazing is that this stuff keeps going on . |
| 12 | What makes the study of the English choral renaissance so fascinating is that these ideals have arisen there in ways that complicate ( but in no way confute ) the argument of Richard Taruskin and others who regard them as a projection of certain 20th-century musical ideas and tastes . |
| 13 | Yet the conventional wisdom in the transport world of the 1970s was that all progress depended on public investment , public controls and , of course , public ownership . |
| 14 | What is legally disturbing is that this aspect appears in a summing-up at all , since it encourages an assumption that a libel has been perpetrated . |
| 15 | What is more unexpected is that such inequalities have increased over the years . |
| 16 | The first is that later texts suggest that the modus might be enforced directly . |
| 17 | The first is that these contexts offer an inequality of educational opportunity even more striking than that evident ( and so commonly deplored ) between the primary schools themselves . |
| 18 | The first is that some cricketers have been cheating for years in a most blatant manner . |
| 19 | One problem with the type of on-road research used in Study 1 is that each situation encountered is unique to a particular driver and can not be repeated . |
| 20 | Making matters worse is that many companies have not hedged themselves against a rising yen this year , expecting the currency not to trade any higher than around the ¥120 level . |
| 21 | One was that all people knew about me was that I was making trouble about the caravan site and a lot of them assumed that because it was at the bottom of my own garden , I must naturally be on ‘ their side ’ , whatever my political colour : that is , I wanted the site disbanded . |
| 22 | What was impressive was that each group had something different in the way of experience to contribute , whether about uranium mining or leukaemia clusters or the advantages of energy saving . |
| 23 | Let's talk about horse racing , but before we do so , one last question about football pools and that is that some people have systems — they come up with a whole range of numbers and combinations of things — does that make any sense at all ? |