Example sentences of "[be] that [det] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The conclusion must be that neither side of industry was prepared to give up the old ways of doing things to achieve full employment .
2 It may well be that this reduction in severity of symptoms has brought the symptoms of NSU much closer to those of gonorrhoea and thereby exaggerated their importance .
3 This situation is common in many academic areas , as I have discovered talking to colleagues , and it may be that this state of inflation and over-production is economically unavoidable , that many inferior books have to be published in order to let the good ones appear .
4 In early ethnic models of settlement origin it was assumed that this was a Celtic pattern of settlement , but could it be that this pattern in fact represents the oldest arrangements in the landscape ?
5 Swiss-owned stockbrokers Phillips & Drew are trying to soothe the Swiss bond managers , but the betting must be that this group of investors will be far more successful than Heron 's bankers in demanding sweeteners for accepting late payment .
6 erm But in terms of public order crimes , it may well be that this sort of view does not act as a preventative to erm prevent the same thing happening again .
7 Just just to show that erm well they just were that those sort of people you know .
8 And of course the one minor consolation is that that kind of trend is not necessarily going to last forever .
9 The main problem here is that that sort of approach would n't give potential inward investors any confidence at all that a strategic development would be acceptable within the county or within the district .
10 Another view of some civil law courts is that neither set of conditions can apply to the contract ( since the parties manifestly wanted the contract to exist , acted as if it did , but could not agree as to which of their sets of standard conditions should apply to it ) .
11 The difference is that each piece of equipment incorporates special features to help the user , without highlighting any disability .
12 The fact is that many majority of people know that it
13 The point is that this kind of overview is rarely possible by busy practitioners on the ground , working in parallel grooves but seldom in tandem , in social services , education , voluntary nurseries , playgroups , special needs assessment centres , units , nurseries .
14 One reason is that this conflation of binaries enables a merging of misogyny and homophobia , each of which then potentially expresses the violence of the other .
15 This trend reflects a developing and successful specificity of probation practice : the pity is that this specificity of practice has not been complemented by a more appropriate specificity of language from the authors of the White Paper .
16 The result is that this type of wave combs material down from the top of the beach giving a net erosive effect .
17 The important point for the contemporary literature on subcultures is that this type of resistance through rituals is still ‘ symbolic ’ .
18 The lesson of this period is that this type of legislation by itself , even when backed by executive exhortation , is insufficient to change sentencing outcomes ; and that unless sentencing discretion is restricted there is little hope of modifying sentencers ' own objectives in the pursuit of policy goals favoured by the executive ( Sabol , 1990 ) .
19 Our argument is that this type of politics has a strong basis in instincts and emotion as well as in political economy .
20 And very quickly talking about it amongst the staff and er the other committees it would seem that it ought to have a far broader remit than just on the racing side so the first thing that I 'd like to emphasise is that this year of youth sailing is involves all the outgoing grass roots divisions of the R Y A , that is windsurfing , racing , training and the development divisions and the regions and the clubs and the recognized teaching establishments , so it really is an all encompassing er er scheme .
21 Another problem is that this myth about men and their lack of feelings is perpetuated year after year by flimsy public opinion polls .
22 All I 'd say on five chairman is that this issue of infrastructure particularly sewerage , sewerage , foul water and water supply is a major issue in York and the location of the new settlement I think needs to be very closely assessed in terms of er of five .
23 Now my own view is is that this point in time we all do have to get together and agree .
24 An important point to note is that this simplification of semantics is not just a reduction of problems in the lexicon ; it also makes possible the adoption ofa semantics built on simple logical principles .
25 But the thing to remember is that this quality of form exists and that , whether readers acknowledge it or not , a marked shape or form , as in the " nursery rhyme " books of Agatha Christie , considerably adds to their pleasure .
26 Yet the plain fact is that this number of children are dying every day — dying from diseases we know how to cure .
27 The basic premise is that this depletion of inositol will desensitize phosphoinositide signalling by slowing down the resynthesis of the PtdIns(4,5)P 2 precursor used to release InsP 3 .
28 and what I concern myself with now is that this sort of thing is becoming too obvious in the area , this kind of development , this kind of an infringement in villages , looking for , somebody 's got to make a stand against it , er and I hope that we shall in this Parish Council
29 ‘ The thing we would stress is that this sort of thing is against the law .
30 A peculiarity of the British context — and a possible strength for its future — is that this sort of encouragement may be found without even looking across the English Channel , though generally by looking away from England .
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