Example sentences of "[adv] be that [det] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own experience , even before I was directly concerned in sexual therapy , has always been that few marital problems arise in which there is not some sexual content . |
| 2 | It may well be that all these ladies simply grabbed the first thing in the wardrobe before rushing off to court , but I somehow doubt it . |
| 3 | ‘ Tradition dies hard and it may well be that many zealous companions will go on quoting Syriac and Egyptian and perpetuating this extraordinary jumble of explanations , ’ wrote Canon Richard Tydeman , Grand Superintendent over the Suffolk province of Freemasonry , in 1985 . |
| 4 | It may well be that many local-authority accountants have no detailed working knowledge of school-based financial-management systems — to give them a very grand title for their current state of development . |
| 5 | The result today is that few important functions ( measured in terms of expenditure ) are handled by local government in Northern Ireland : most , like housing , are instead the responsibility of non-elected quangos or , like education , of area boards . |
| 6 | The implication here is that these prehistoric trackways wandered across open land . |
| 7 | The advantage of the method of analysis suggested here is that these international influences are not treated as isolated and exogenous instances , as if operated by deus ex machina , but are explicable and connected within the context of the workings of the world economic system . |
| 8 | The point here is that these surrealist signifiers in ‘ allegory ’ are real , already referents . |
| 9 | The reason a black hole ‘ remembers ’ the electric charge , angular momentum , and mass of the matter that collapsed and forgets everything else is that these three quantities are coupled to long-range fields : in the case of charge the electromagnetic field , and in the case of angular momentum and mass the gravitational field . |