Example sentences of "[be] the [noun sg] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It has also always been the case that Democratic Unionists have been more willing than Official Unionists to try to prevent republican marches . |
| 2 | It has never been the case that central Government would indemnify local authorities for expenditure when they are already given money through the revenue support grant to enable them to undertake their responsibilities , and that is not a way forward . |
| 3 | Although there are disagreements about where the boundary between the middle and working classes should be placed , it has often been the case that manual workers are regarded as being working class , and non-manual workers as middle class . |
| 4 | It must always have been the case that some problems are inherently insoluble , but perhaps it is the stress on all social services that turns the CAB into the last port of call when all others have failed . |
| 5 | It has almost always been the case that some group or groups have controlled and exploited other groups . |
| 6 | Halifax general manager David Gilchrist says : ‘ It has always been the belief that this process of consultation would be extremely cumbersome and costly . |
| 7 | One of the problems of dealing with Community Charge , apart from sheer volumes has been the fact that different issues have been dealt with by different sections . |
| 8 | Had it been the form that all agencies were not mentioned , this may have been acceptable , but to be forced to listen to a litany of other agency names — not least Barkers Trident — without a single mention of our own was deplorable . |
| 9 | Whether formal or informal , these get togethers are the way that most organizations , particularly the large ones , function . |
| 10 | Even if an agreed definition can be arrived at and some core features identified , it need not be the case that all forms of creative expression demand precisely the same set of mental operations or depend equally upon the same intellectual qualities . |
| 11 | It may be the case that adjacent maps use different projections or scales . |
| 12 | However , it may still be the case that higher damages will be awarded in the High Court and that enforcement procedures are better , and will remain so . |
| 13 | It can not of course be the case that syntactic variables do not pattern socially or stylistically ; some of them plainly do , as the work of , for example , Cheshire has shown . |
| 14 | It must either be the case that existing product markets will be serviced by fewer firms or that the former will expand to a level consistent with greater output levels ( Begg 1989 ) . |
| 15 | But it does seem to be the case that contemporary interest and the comments of historians have been concentrated in this way partly because of the shortage of public comment in the war on such issues . |
| 16 | It may be the case that experienced instructors choose not to use the text pages . |
| 17 | Crompton and Jones suggest that in the future it will not necessarily be the case that male clerks will be able to enjoy so much upward mobility . |
| 18 | It may be the case that such schemes can not operate unless some people make a substantial sacrifice for them . |
| 19 | It may well be the case that both lack of familiarity with this type of question and lack of practical experience in measurement of everyday objects are factors leading to low success rates . |
| 20 | It could not be the case that any misconstruction of any of these terms would involve a jurisdictional error . |
| 21 | Although it is claimed that these cases indicate an impairment in executing symbolic gestures it may in fact be the case that this aspect of their difficulty is secondary to a deficit in dealing with sequences of movements in general , the apparent linguistic defect deriving from this ( Kimura , Battison and Lubert , 1976 ) . |
| 22 | As far as sentencing is concerned it would seem to be the case that long-firm fraudsters are sentenced on the basis that they are business law-breakers rather than ‘ villains ’ . |
| 23 | If Public Choice theory as a whole is based upon the concept of maximising budgets it may be the case that most officials have no control over budget allocation . |
| 24 | Moreover , it must be the case that biological beliefs have been intertwined with social reasons for not ordaining women . |
| 25 | It seemed to be the case that three divisions and one tank regiment had returned to Korea from Manchuria but this could not be verified . |
| 26 | Thus although it may be the case that communicative demands result in error because the learner does not have enough time to access second language systemic knowledge , equally they may do so because such demands quite naturally lead learners to call upon whatever resources they have at their disposal , some of which will be drawn from their own language . |
| 27 | Such a negative criterion could be that the parties should not be of the same sex , as could be the notion that one party should not be an animal . |
| 28 | One thing which could account for a greater distinctiveness in memory of risky situations would be the idea that risky situations constitute a small number of rather unusual items among a large number of more similar ones . |
| 29 | It may be the fact that this end of the dale is shielded by the Howgills and the other by Wold Fell and Blea Moor , which , combined with its narrowness , makes Dentdale so lush and green — I do n't know . |
| 30 | For example , it could be the policy that each application should be dealt with very thoroughly and carefully , irrespective of the time and cost involved . |