Example sentences of "[prep] be that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought for a while and said that the only thing I could think of was that the British government did not — although it would have been slow to admit it — at that moment cut much ice with the South African government , but the United States government cut considerable ice . |
| 2 | But the central and substantive argument that defenders of Roman catholic schools have had to deal with is that the dual school system in Northern Ireland encourages , supports , or at least reinforces the sectarian divide , and that it forms part of the vicious circle maintaining conflict in Ulster . |
| 3 | A worrying thing at the moment is as I said we 're in close contact with is that the Malaysian Government is sending representatives over to visit the European Community Ministers in May , to try and say that there 's absolutely nothing wrong with what 's going on in their country with the logging , and they 're saying that people like Friends of the Earth are calling for a ban on timber , not because they care about sustained yield , but because we want to be able to sell our own wood , and this is to depress their trade . |
| 4 | One theory I came up with was that the down beat of its wings pushed it upwards and the up beat pushed it downwards and the two cancelled each other out so that the kestrel stayed where it was . |
| 5 | If not , Hick 's position would presumably have to be that the many gods of one tradition were equivalent to the one god of another tradition . |
| 6 | [ 1979 ] A.C. 440 , Lord Diplock stated the key principle to be that the general rule may be departed from only where its application would ‘ frustrate or render impracticable the administration of justice . ’ |
| 7 | The position now seems to be that the two offences have the same legal definition , and that the prosecution should prefer the charge of manslaughter when the case is a bad one which might merit a sentence in excess of the five-year maximum for causing death by reckless driving . |
| 8 | The reasoning behind this proposal seems to be that the two parties are adult , and any exploitation deriving from the family tie seems no more likely than in other adult relationships . |
| 9 | Thus , despite the limitation of s 7 of the UCTA ( prior to its amendment by the addition of s 7(3A) ) to business contracts ( see s 1(3) ) , the better argument would seem to be that the new s 7(3A) , like the old s 6(1) , applies to all contracts , not just business contracts . |
| 10 | The most likely outcome seems to be that the black hole will just disappear , at least from our region of the universe , taking with it the astronaut and any singularity there might be inside it , if indeed there is one . |
| 11 | In late twentieth century Moscow , the danger appears to be that the collective record of the Russian and other Soviet peoples may simply ebb away electron by electron ( Moiseenko 1993 ) . |
| 12 | The message seems to be that the best diet is one where as many different foods as possible are included and where meals are planned to include : |
| 13 | And so it came to be that the bewitching gesture of her father 's secretary walking down the golden path ( which bewitched me when I saw the woman in the swimsuit take leave of the lifeguard ) had completely gone to sleep in her . |
| 14 | In a comprehensive survey , Moore and Newman ( 1985 ) note that the consensus appears to be that the free rider effect of RTW laws is negligible in terms of the impact on unionization . |
| 15 | In retrospect , indeed , the only criticism was to be that the whole Supergrid had not been designed for conversion to even higher voltages . |
| 16 | Many people , therefore , encoded his conclusion to be that the limbic system was the seat of emotion . |
| 17 | The answer may turn out to be that the main results of university education for which intrinsic value can reasonably be claimed — such as the activity of critical thought — are included as main elements in the educational process itself , so that it is pointless to go on putting essential questions off by starting with questions about the value of the results of an Arts education . |
| 18 | The general view seemed to be that the important thing was to get the economic and social base right and the language would look after itself . |
| 19 | The final verdict has to be that the underlying intelligence of the man , for all his shrewdness , combativity and skill in a car , was insufficient to match an ambition that was almost forced upon him by his milieu , by his family and by his status as a Brazilian national hero . |
| 20 | Well , you do n't know that , I mean it 's , I , that 's what I 've said all the way along this , this world 's getting to be that the wrong person |
| 21 | What it amounts to is that the weak choice is just as valid as the hard choice provided the tracks are examined on their merits , not in terms of weakness or laziness . |
| 22 | What Donaldson is drawing attention to is that the experimental context involves a complicated and subtle set of interactions between what is presented , said , and done by the adult . |
| 23 | That does n't mean it necessarily worked or was good ; but , once the script is settled in your mind , the best you can hope for is that the finished film reflects those ambitions . |