Example sentences of "be that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may well be that Judge Huff 's knowledge of what is in those parts lies behind the tone of her comments and her refusal to allow Sotheby 's to bow out . |
| 2 | We 've just seen Manchester United blast five goals past Leicester City , and it 's that sort of form they 'll need next Wednesday if they are to stay in the European Cup . |
| 3 | We 've just seen Manchester United blast five goals past Leicester City , and it 's that sort of form they 'll need next Wednesday if they are to stay in the European Cup . |
| 4 | I said to him it 's all alright , he said oh I thought it would be , it 's that sort of , sort of if you find that temperature 's too hot you just turn it down . |
| 5 | The managing director , Roger Spence , said : ‘ It has been a different sort of recession as traditionally the view is that theatre and leisure areas do better than others , but that has not been the case . |
| 6 | To anticipate the argument a little , my view is that consumption patterns of the majority of people ( not only in the Third World ) are ill-matched to their needs because both consumption and needs are generally dictated by transnational practices . |
| 7 | The fiscal argument is that welfare state benefits for the poor cost relatively less in the more affluent States , because they are drawing on a larger tax base ; the higher the average income in a State , the smaller the effort required to finance a programme at a given level of payments ( because presumably there will be both fewer recipients plus more rich people to tax than in States with low average incomes ) . |
| 8 | The premise underlying Gordon 's argument is that scope or subject-matter means simply the assertion of the existence of a furnished tenancy by the tribunal . |
| 9 | Our view is that knowledge of BSL is a key to the curriculum and to the teacher 's function but that unless it is supported by appropriate methods the teacher 's role will be limited . |
| 10 | The sceptical conclusion is that knowledge is impossible . |
| 11 | A more wide-ranging reason is that love of things , especially artificial things , could be seen as the besetting sin of modern civilisation , and in a way a new one , not quite Avarice and not quite pride , but somehow attached to both ( see pp. 68 , 128 above ) . |
| 12 | The result is that company lawyers lack an intellectual tradition which places the particular rules and doctrines of their discipline within a broader theoretical framework which gives meaning and coherence to them . |
| 13 | Simmel 's essential argument is that money is the prerequisite for , and major instrument in , the accomplishment of freedom and potential equality . |
| 14 | The implication is that Saruman has been led from ethically neutral researches into the kind of wanton pollution and love of dirt we see in ‘ The Scouring of the Shire ’ by something corrupting in the love of machines or in the very desire for control over the natural world . |
| 15 | It 's the one highly infectious condition that doctors The expert view is that laughter is medically beneficial . |
| 16 | My argument is that ideology is also a moral system , and that moral values must be directly related to ideas of human nature : what it is to be a person . |
| 17 | The fact is that damage or destruction of other parts of the building or of the shopping centre ( if applicable ) may render the premises unusable despite the fact that the premises have not been damaged or destroyed . |
| 18 | A second consequence is that malperformance is particularly likely to be revealed by differential treatment ( in the case of corruption it is of course assumed that it is not revealed ) . |
| 19 | Since each matrimonial property or custody dispute is to be decided according to judicial discretion the result is that litigation abounds . |
| 20 | ‘ I think the general feeling is that tourism is preserving the city rather than destroying it . |
| 21 | The second reason is that church schools in general represent very good value for the taxpayer . |
| 22 | My argument is that state capitalism of the kind outlined above would be a highly progressive development . |
| 23 | In descriptive terms the argument is that decision-making is always incremental . |
| 24 | The claim is that working memory is cleared as each clause is completed , and the results of initial processing are recoded for storage in long-term memory , with the effect that syntactic information is lost . |
| 25 | The fact is that memory is selective and fallible . |
| 26 | An alternative to this view is that identification does not begin until an entire word has been heard , so that only one word detector is activated for each word . |
| 27 | The argument is that government spending and taxation unambiguously influence total income and expenditure . |
| 28 | Again , our conclusion is that name mapping does not always occur during reading and that the mental representation of texts is , in that sense , often incomplete . |
| 29 | The net result is that discussion of heterosexism — society 's deliberate promotion of heterosexuality as the norm and superior — is prevented . |
| 30 | The fact is that manufacturing output fell under Labour . |