Example sentences of "[vb mod] be that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It would therefore seem desirable that the order for costs on the making of a bankruptcy order should be that the petitioning creditor 's costs " to be agreed or taxed " be paid out of the estate .
2 Other bores can also be used but the obvious point must be that a small charge in the right place is a lot better than a heavier charge badly directed .
3 The clear inference must be that the average knight was expected to have at least the £120 a year postulated by Smith , and indeed the median of twenty-three in Buckinghamshire , Suffolk and Sussex in 1524–5 lay between £120 and £160 , while nationally the median of eighteen feodary surveys works out at £204 .
4 The preliminary conclusion must be that the general approach taken in the research projects has been clearly vindicated .
5 Be that as it may , our main conclusion must be that the traditional claim about the last ( " Wagnerian " ) part is unsubstantiated ; and such other evidence as we have does not give it much plausibility .
6 The truth must be that the Created God is not human or living as earth-s creatures are , but is without sex , exists only in the minds of man , and is undeniably and truly abstract .
7 The conclusion then must be that the minimum contribution of education to economic growth during the two periods was 0.35 per cent and 0.67 per cent respectively .
8 The conclusion must be that the major issues of military commitment outside Libyan frontiers were not generally discussed in public assemblies of any kind , unless it suited the Revolutionary Command Council .
9 The guiding principle must be that the overall value or interest of the essay lies in how its combination of observation and argument leads towards more general statements , and so away from the particularity of autobiography and personal impression .
10 The general conclusion , therefore must be that the overall effect , whether negative or positive , of existing taxation rates on the work effort , and hence on economic growth , is negligible in spite of the apocalyptic assertions and rhetoric from various quarters .
11 Yet , at the end of a week of alternating euphoria and gloom , the sober verdict so far must be that the military side of this war is going well for the allies .
12 As this may well have occurred millenniums before that dawning power could produce an act of a nature that would leave the kind of evidence that archaeologists seek , then it must be that the true dawn is virtually undatable .
13 The explanation might be that a probable leak at the tight junction is relative , allowing only small molecules to pass into the intercellular space .
14 Alternatively , it might be that a negative cash flow occurs at the end of the project 's life cycle .
15 An answer might be that a false belief that p is relevant in the required sense if , had the believer believed instead that – p , his belief that q would cease to have been justified .
16 One hope might be that a satisfactory account of what knowledge is would have the effect of exposing errors in the sceptic 's reasoning .
17 Our first thought might be that the easy way out is to develop a subject-orientated curriculum .
18 A policy basis for this rule might be that the preferable way to protect employment rights is by an action for unfair dismissal before an Industrial Tribunal or by an ordinary action for breach of contract ; and that in cases with no clear public element recourse should be had to such alternative remedies and not to an AJR in the High Court .
19 But the objection here might be that the suggested paraphrase merely involves a surreptitious quantification over propositions .
20 So , one reason for getting less plural continuations with ( 10 ) might be that the proper name serves as a strong cue for treating the named character as special and separate from other individuals .
21 Another reason might be that the human species evolved in the water .
22 Our first thought might be that an individual bank which was short of base money could raise the rate of interest it offered to depositors .
23 It could be that you were suddenly changing your motion , or it might be that an extra force of gravity had been switched on .
24 It might be that an American Association of Embalmers would emerge , but one world-wide Institute would be better .
25 One of the possible explanations for the differences could be that a small subclone was not present initially in the sample of the first tumour and eventually grew up to form the recurrence , but as there were so many genetic changes present in the recurrence which were not initially there and the Lambda MS8 did not show allele loss , a balance of probabilities seemed that the latter tumour was not a progression from the first .
26 As with calls for euthanasia , it could be that a proper understanding by doctors of their duties to their patients , both ethical and legal , could obviate the need in large part for such developments .
27 It could be that the available studies have concentrated specifically upon women , and that men do give assistance which is less visible .
28 Given this set of circumstances , it could be that the new wave of information technology firms will never turn into a real breaker , but be seen in a few years as just a ripple on the pond .
29 It could be that the outer estates are approaching some kind of basic ‘ subsistence , level , where disposable income has reached such a low level that future increases in unemployment will begin to have a smaller effect in reducing local incomes per head , simply because so many people are already dependent on state benefits .
30 It could be that the Pied Piper is never seen , but that all communication with him is by letter or petition — with the teacher writing replies but not actually appearing in the role .
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