Example sentences of "[be] that [adj] a [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 Mrs Maureen Howie , head teacher of La Retraite School , in Lambeth , south London , said : ‘ The real disappointment for us would be that such a move would be made without looking very carefully at what grant maintained schools have achieved , and at what the pilot movement has done for children . ’
2 Either supposition leads to a contradiction , and the conclusion must be that such a class can not exist in any conceivable universe .
3 The danger , then , is that such a system may suffer from a deflationary bias as a result of the attempts of deficit countries to resolve their payments imbalances by reducing domestic demand .
4 One reason why companies established in one member state are entitled to do business in another without setting up a permanent place of business in that state is that such a requirement might unreasonably inflate their costs .
5 The final result in this case is that such a molecule should have six IR bands , all with coincident Raman bands , plus three Raman bands with no IR counterparts .
6 The postscript to this is that such a conclusion would follow from the revised contractualism and , I suggest , is in the mainstream of our moral thinking .
7 His opinion was that such a reduction would act as a stimulus to further development work , and recommended its immediate implementation .
8 At that time the orthodox view was that such a system should be selective and tripartite , with children routed at eleven-plus into grammar , technical or secondary modern schools according to their aptitudes and abilities .
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