Example sentences of "[vb -s] be that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although occasionally Dutch finance companies with Antillean parents ( taxed at a turn on the interest in the Netherlands ) are still seen , for the past few years the perceived wisdom has been that the Swiss finance branch structure is superior . |
| 2 | And er the result of all of that has been that the current development programme scheduled which we have supplied to the committee is probably about as fast as the programme is capable of running . |
| 3 | Secondly the deliveries of the equipment from the equipment suppliers who had been selected er generally fell behind the promises which they had made , so the main reason for the technical delays has been lack of equipment of the correct standard to proceed with the integration programme erm the erm the problems which beset the programme in nineteen ninety two after the German minister started questioning its future clearly had a direct bearing on that because many of the equipment suppliers , particularly those in Germany , suddenly began to think hey this programme is not going anywhere , why should we invest a lot of effort and and money into it and they slowed down so that has had a knock on effect in in terms of delaying the total programme and erm the result of all of that has been that the current development programme schedule which we have supplied to the committee is probably about as fast as the programme is capable of running . |
| 4 | Another suggestion has been that the only solution would be the fitting of a Rover SDI engine which I understand would also give much better mpg . |
| 5 | Assuming , that is , that its orbit is not anomalous : one intriguing notion has been that the tenth planet does not orbit the Sun in the same plane as all the others ; instead it goes ‘ up and over ’ . |
| 6 | This document accepts that the traditional trade union approach to employee representation has been that the single channel for th for the representation should be through trade union membership now just listen to this colleagues . |
| 7 | In fact a common complaint over the past decade has been that the high level of data content included in entries for the benefit of cataloguing records has been achieved at the cost of timeliness , and the BNB has certainly lost ground as a selection source for this reason . |
| 8 | It depends on the local growth rate , which is partly a function of family size , but one of the great features has been that the high fertility areas , with the exception perhaps of Northern Ireland , which is a rather special case , these tended to have become closer together . |
| 9 | The common view has been that the Conservative party 's structure is so rigidly hierarchical that there is little scope for initiatives from the party members . |
| 10 | The only difference has been that the old decisions were about small sums of money and fewer workers , while the decisions today involve vast sums of money and thousands of workers , and also the welfare of their families and other townsfolk . |
| 11 | What matters is that the Labour leader is suddenly there , reminding one how infrequently he has been there hitherto . |
| 12 | What matters is that the creative solution has a credible and realistic basis . |
| 13 | You what s normally happens is that the following year when you make profit you say ah but last year I made er you know I made a loss of ten thousand pound set that off against the profit of ten thousand pound I made this year so that tax pay losses can be carried forward there are other more complex ways of doing it too but that 's the standard sort of way , I think . |
| 14 | So physiologically what happens is that the principal flux through the channel is that of sodium , and that 's simply , although although the er channel is non-selective it 's simply because the sodium is at high activity outside , low activity inside and potassium is reasonably close to equilibrium . |
| 15 | In the case of pornography , what happens is that the one person becomes a body desired by the other , but this is not reciprocated . |
| 16 | What happens is that the four corners drop off because the stress waves are reflected and crowded into the corners . |
| 17 | Very broadly , what happens is that the budgeted amounts of expenditure are credited to appropriation accounts and then as expenditure is incurred debits are set against these credits . |
| 18 | As an Egyptian columnist recently remarked in the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram : ‘ What this shows is that the new world order is a system of codified international piracy . ’ |
| 19 | What this shows is that the physical absence or presence of the other party at the time of the transaction by itself bears no necessary relationship to the appropriateness of the transaction being investigated and made the subject of an order by an English court . |
| 20 | All it requires is that the political label , whatever it is , should make a disproportionately strong appeal to the members of the ethnic group . |
| 21 | Unless it is to be assumed that all these territories represent kingdoms established by the Mercians , what the evidence indicates is that the Mercian leaders were extending their influence into originally independent kingdoms on their borders . |
| 22 | What this means is that the rule-based competence which the monitor offers to the BSL learner is the already established grammatical knowledge of English . |
| 23 | What it really means is that the new trams are a hybrid between street car and lightweight suburban train . |
| 24 | It 's er what this means it means is that the guaranteed price in this country is a lot lower than it is in other European countries . |
| 25 | All that means is that the original form was present in the rest of the Rift Valley during this period , never went extinct , and has now come into the lake again and has either made extinct , or in some other way swamped out the local form . |
| 26 | One important point which Anthony makes is that the essential quality of the psychotic temperament is emotional hypersensitivity or ‘ skinlessness ’ , with which the child copes by developing a degree of resilience to painful thoughts and events . |
| 27 | At the most general level , what Table 2.2 demonstrates is that the absolute loss of manufacturing employment has not just been ‘ reflected ’ in the different parts of the country . |
| 28 | The definite article is important , for what it suggests is that the modern notion of sexuality — both the importance we assign to it , and the theoretical unification it implies — is an historical construct of the past few hundred years . |