Example sentences of "be that [pron] have [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that they have developed new sensitivities to foods , or that they are becoming chemical-sensitive . |
| 2 | ‘ It may be that I have seen this place . |
| 3 | ‘ It could be that I have had some new shafts put in my clubs ’ , Woosnam pondered , ‘ and they are too stiff . |
| 4 | If you find that you have difficulty in cutting down on your intake , consult your doctor — it may be that you have become alcohol-dependent and are in need of special help to stop the problem developing into full-blown alcoholism . |
| 5 | The principal charges against Latimer were that he had made improper profits out of the campaign in Brittany and that he was responsible for the loss of Bécherel and Saint-Sauveur . |
| 6 | I think you 're , you 're often asked to do reactive tasks when I 've done all my tasks , you know I 've got all my staff doing this , and then I 've got to help down on the shopfloor , and it 's not that I 'm doing something that I 'm , you know , I should be doing as a manager , it 's that I 've done all of mine , and I 'm going out to give them a hand . |
| 7 | Now what I would like to say is that we 've made clear that we 're with certain very clear objectives in pushing forward , in saying that certain things had to be achieved and when I read the lilac piece of paper or whatever colour we want to call it . |
| 8 | That 's how , you know , stupid it is that we 've got all these talented riders and we ca n't use any of them . |
| 9 | My view is that we 've got forty years to think about it and we can surely think ahead . |
| 10 | ‘ What is new in the book is that we 've produced surviving British intelligence officers of senior rank who make it clear that Popov had this information and was specifically sent to the US to impart it . ’ |
| 11 | The reason is that we have accumulated such a burden of public and private debt that there is no confidence in our economy . |
| 12 | Their problem is that they 've lost five hundred pounds . |
| 13 | If they had now become dangerous , the only plausible explanation is that they had received significant new support . |
| 14 | If they had now become dangerous , the only plausible explanation is that they had received significant new support . |
| 15 | For most of those who link computing and boredom , the explanation is that they have to spend many working hours a day behind luminous screens endlessly tapping a plastic typewriter keyboard , after which they are usually fit only to go and goggle at the luminous screen in their living rooms every night . |
| 16 | The real reason why scientists should be seen as a menace is that they have reduced all our savings , our pensions ' prospects , our records of tax payment , citizenship , even of our existence , to a knot on a piece of plastic . |
| 17 | One interesting side-effect of all this is that I 've seen more of Britain than I ever did before , albeit through the windows of an armoured car . |
| 18 | So now I know , but the result is that I 've had two years of injury , followed by two years of doing completely the wrong thing . ’ |
| 19 | Erm my history in the police is that I 've got eighteen years ' police servicing , started at Newark which is n't too far away from here , did about four years there and I was a village policeman at Alderton for about a year of that time . |
| 20 | One of the few things , erm , that I 'm really proud of about myself , is that I 've read all of them . |
| 21 | ‘ I was getting on for thirty years of age , with the retarded emotions of an adolescent , and the only excuse I have is that I 'd spent most of my youth pursuing excellence rather than women . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ However , what upsets me is that I have heard unconfirmed rumours that some of the riders were threatening to pull out if I were put in the third row of the grid as was at first planned . |
| 23 | What clouds the issue is that I have caught hundreds of bream , of all sizes , and from a variety of waters , when the surface of the water has not been broken once by a fish . |
| 24 | My only hesitation when praising this excellent meat is that I have found few who like to eat cold lamb , and while curried leftovers are an option , I suggest buying a joint that can be eaten at one sitting . |
| 25 | The only other thing I would say is that you 've got domiciliary health there on the bottom of page forty-three for the first time , a thing that we certainly asked for on your behalf . |
| 26 | I think , the only thing I could add is that you 've got twelve months in which to restart the payments . |
| 27 | The only slight snag is that you have to perform two exercise tests , once on blockade and later off treatment , to detect any residual risk coronary narrowing . |
| 28 | One consequence is that it has caused substantial administrative problems for us . |
| 29 | A complaint made by radical criminology against its conservative counterpart is that it has ignored upper-world crime : fraud , corporate crime and white-collar crime . |
| 30 | One of the interesting aspects of the executive search business is that it has enabled some people , who have not been truly successful at other careers they have undertaken , to be more than successful in executive search . |