Example sentences of "[be] that [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The odds are that there is some sting going on , ’ he said . |
| 2 | The way that many politicians and others have called for the teaching of " facts " and wish to throw out all matters relating to " mere opinion " such as environmental concerns , shows how unaware many people are that there is any problem with regard to the reliability of facts or the possibility of there being evidence supporting beliefs and values . |
| 3 | Another explanation for the skewing of sexual ratio might be that there is heavier mortality among females , particularly lactating ones , during times of drought . |
| 4 | A positive benefit arising from such specific attention to what is best for visually handicapped pupils can be that there is increased attention to environmental factors that are advantageous to all the pupils in the school |
| 5 | It may be that there is some delay after completion , which makes it impossible for the buyer 's conveyancers to lodge their transfer within the period of priority . |
| 6 | The advantage of a ‘ high ’ Christology would seem to be that there is less concentration on the maleness of Jesus , because less concentration on Jesus . |
| 7 | One attractive hypothesis would be that there is positive feedback , whereby tension in the cable generates an intracellular chemi- cal signal for the maintenance of tension ; this would maintain an activated state in every cell containing a segment of the taut cable . |
| 8 | It could be that there 's more money avail |
| 9 | Some employers are only just getting round to formalising recruitment and retention policies - and all that goes with them — it may be that you are one step ahead of them in attempting to update yourself appropriately . |
| 10 | An initial diagnosis of the Gettier counter-examples may be that it is just luck that Henry 's justified belief is true . |
| 11 | cos I would always thought Marks were that it was one day |
| 12 | told me that it 's that it 's Sacred Heart . |
| 13 | No , but she has got like , it 's that it 's dark ginger . |
| 14 | The truth is that we are both trainee Eddie Charltons : slow , grim , defensive and almost joyless . |
| 15 | There are good habits and bad habits but the main point about them is that they are all behaviour patterns which have been so thoroughly learned that they are done automatically without any conscious effort . |
| 16 | The good news is that there are more factory shops opening in the North than anywhere else ( although we 're not sure if this is a good or bad indicator of economic health ) . |
| 17 | Y you 'll see amongst the plans that you 've , you 've got before you , plan number seven actually , should n't really be with these papers because it 's not a proposal for approval , but it does show the extent of the work that 's been done and the key element there is that there are these speed cushions I mentioned earlier on as a possible way forward there , which has been in consultation . |
| 18 | One explanation is that there are social class differences of a more superficial kind which overlay the similarity in role-identification patterns . |
| 19 | The idea is that there 's one sheet of paper produced , with the key information that 's delivered . |
| 20 | It 's meaningful and you may not , as I say , come out with any single and simple answer , in fact my own view really is that there 's large area over which it does n't matter very much . |
| 21 | ‘ The problem with AIDS is that there is complete immuno-suppression . |
| 22 | One of the I 'm sure one of the results of Britain 's closer links with Europe is that there is greater contact between churches speaking different languages across these Catholic/Protestant boundaries . |
| 23 | I 'd like to put one simple note and I think it 'll have to be simple for him to understand it but I would like to put one simple notion to him and that is that there is great merit in having public services sharing by people from all social classes . |
| 24 | ‘ The point , ’ said McInnes , drawing the meeting to order , ‘ is that there is little change in basic share prices , unless a real story hits the wires . |
| 25 | What emerges from the survey as most worrying for the Government is that there is little support from even its most natural supporters for some key policies , like the privatisation of water and the railways . |
| 26 | The pay off is that there is little sign of the peakiness that can accompany sports engines . |
| 27 | The idea is that there is little value to a manager of a set of monthly accounts which record only the invoices received or invoices paid . |
| 28 | The problem is that there is little agreement over how this control should operate and what form it should take . |
| 29 | One discouraging aspect of the relations between nations at the present time is that there is little indication of a decline in nationalist sentiment or in the fervour with which particular national interests are pursued . |
| 30 | One of the advantages of an electronic instrument is that there is considerable flexibility for its positioning . |