Example sentences of "[adv] be that [det] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 My own experience , even before I was directly concerned in sexual therapy , has always been that few marital problems arise in which there is not some sexual content .
2 It may well be that all these ladies simply grabbed the first thing in the wardrobe before rushing off to court , but I somehow doubt it .
3 ‘ Tradition dies hard and it may well be that many zealous companions will go on quoting Syriac and Egyptian and perpetuating this extraordinary jumble of explanations , ’ wrote Canon Richard Tydeman , Grand Superintendent over the Suffolk province of Freemasonry , in 1985 .
4 It may well be that many local-authority accountants have no detailed working knowledge of school-based financial-management systems — to give them a very grand title for their current state of development .
5 The result today is that few important functions ( measured in terms of expenditure ) are handled by local government in Northern Ireland : most , like housing , are instead the responsibility of non-elected quangos or , like education , of area boards .
6 The implication here is that these prehistoric trackways wandered across open land .
7 The advantage of the method of analysis suggested here is that these international influences are not treated as isolated and exogenous instances , as if operated by deus ex machina , but are explicable and connected within the context of the workings of the world economic system .
8 The point here is that these surrealist signifiers in ‘ allegory ’ are real , already referents .
9 What accountability rests on is that those particular representatives of the local authority have the opportunity to ask any question and have it answered at any time during the three hundred and sixty five days of the year in which we operate , and they are in a specially privileged position to challenge , or question , or talk about , or have answered — any particular point with regard to the work we 're involved with .
10 The reason a black hole ‘ remembers ’ the electric charge , angular momentum , and mass of the matter that collapsed and forgets everything else is that these three quantities are coupled to long-range fields : in the case of charge the electromagnetic field , and in the case of angular momentum and mass the gravitational field .
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