Example sentences of "be that [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ One traditional way of discovering God 's will had been that of the biblical sortes — the question would be posed and the Bible then opened at random . |
| 2 | The best guess at the truth may be that of the sceptical experts whose answer to the question ‘ What can be done ? ’ was , from the start : precious little . |
| 3 | As many as 40 local councils stood to lose up to £100 million from the collapse of BCCI , the largest likely loss being that of the Western Isles which had £23 million invested in the bank . |
| 4 | Te the important message that you 're , you 've raised and it is a very important one , is that over the next years , I mean we , we will have to change the way that we charge for |
| 5 | The architecture is that of a thousand prep-schools ; just as at a boarding school , authority seems at the same time ludicrous , arbitrary , and deadly serious . |
| 6 | A desirable state is that of the two energies in balance , and the best site is located where there is a change from landscape expressing one type of energy to landscape expressing the other . |
| 7 | … the complete Union of the two countries is stamped and sealed in the most satisfactory and solid manner for it is not only a union of the two governments — the two sovereigns — it is that of the two nations ! |
| 8 | An important issue when examining urban employment structures is that of the varying performances of different sectors of employment . |
| 9 | The most convincing affinity however , is that of the squat urns , ( which occupy at least three of the half-roundels along the borders ) with those of the Bacchus and Leopard mosaic and the pavement from Halstock . |
| 10 | Another group which can be isolated and excluded is that of the fortified posts ( burgi ) along Watling Street from Uxacona ( Red Hill ) to Bannaventa and which will possibly be extended eventually to the south-east . |
| 11 | The most easily recognisable training need is that of the new recruits . |
| 12 | Another consideration that has arisen from the work on AI and , in particular , expert systems is that of the legal implications . |
| 13 | The most important theoretical indication , from this series and complex of changes , is that of the variable degrees of symmetry between cultural production and general social and cultural reproduction . |
| 14 | One main problem is that of the delayed effects of population fluctuation . |
| 15 | Within that , the most remarkable expansion is that of the Japanese banks . |
| 16 | The most familiar , though normally invisible , additional distortion is that of the wide-screen processes , which squash the images sideways to fit them onto 35mm film and stretch them again for projection . |
| 17 | One can not compare exactly the customs accounts from the two ports , because those for London ending in 1460 conclude at the end of July instead of the normal date of Michaelmas , so the second period employed in the comparison is that of the eleven years 1450–61 . |
| 18 | A good example of the approach now being taken is that of the proposed Machines Directive , which would cover over half of the total production of the European mechanical engineering industry . |
| 19 | My chosen character is that of the three witches from Macbeth , a tragedy by Shakespeare . |
| 20 | The theme I am looking at in this study is that of the illicit passions of married women and their escape from their places in society . |
| 21 | The most common type of contextual information to be implemented in script recognition is that of the surrounding letters ( Ehrich and Koehler , 1975 ; Goshtasby and Ehrich , 1988 ) , or orthography . |
| 22 | Its sole authority is that of the United Nations Organisation itself . |
| 23 | A tradition that still survives is that of the native tribes of North America . |
| 24 | One of the themes running through The State of the Prisons is that with a few exceptions , neither numbers nor conditions of prisoners have changed very much since Howard first visited . |
| 25 | What I 'm worried about at the moment is that large numbers of people are buying computers , especially some of the cheaper ones , and my prediction is that after a few weeks , they get put into cupboards , and are n't used , because they are so unfriendly , so hard to use , whereas in principle computers could be very powerful and useful devices in the home . |
| 26 | His Honour Judge Maddocks , dismissing their appeal , said the practice of the partnership was that of the two offices together because the partnership ran them as a single business . |
| 27 | One contrast , however , was that of the thirty-two cardinals created by Innocent nearly 50 per cent were masters ( men who had been at universities ) . |
| 28 | However , one group of Americans which had few social aspirations and lacked political prejudice was that of the young architects , less critical of the man than they were impressed by the buildings and the city he had created , and they returned to the United States inspired by what they had seen . |
| 29 | Moreover , the material upon which he had to work was that of the early stages of industrial capitalism and of the working-class political movement , so that in any case it would be essential to review his theory in the light of subsequent historical experience . |
| 30 | The social engineering which placed them in positions of powerlessness ensured that the only female voice readily heard was that of the shrill tones of the satirised scold — a literary stereotype . |