Example sentences of "[adv] [be] that [det] [noun] [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 We may like to think that such changes enable the organisation to be more efficient and effective in achieving its goals and yet it may well be that such changes arise as a result of trying to satisfy an individual 's political ambitions or to undercut the ambitions of a rival .
2 In so far as society is divided into different interests , of which labour and capital are the prototypical examples , it may well be that some interests have more control than others over the development of representations which accord to their perspective and thus their interests .
3 In any case , it could well be that some students have no interest at all in certain idioms and prefer to by-pass them quickly in their search for what expresses their own aesthetic more closely .
4 It may well be that several groups have had a burglary , in which case the teacher could use this as the focus : " How are we going to deal with it ?
5 The chief safeguard for freedom here is that these rules apply to the governors as well as the governed .
6 The implication here is that these workers have rejected the dominant values of society and are made up of criminals , prostitutes , drug-addicts and other drop-outs ( Lloyd 1982 ) .
7 We discuss the idea of goodness in the next chapter , but what we can note here is that these characteristics have traditionally been regarded as examples of the way of eminence — of God possessing perfectly what we possess imperfectly .
8 What matters here is that some bats have well-developed muscles attached to the stirrup and to the hammer .
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