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 | An important issue when examining urban employment structures is that of the varying performances of different sectors of employment . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | The most easily recognisable training need is that of the new recruits . |
8 | Another consideration that has arisen from the work on AI and , in particular , expert systems is that of the legal implications . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | One main problem is that of the delayed effects of population fluctuation . |
11 | Within that , the most remarkable expansion is that of the Japanese banks . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Its sole authority is that of the United Nations Organisation itself . |
17 | A tradition that still survives is that of the native tribes of North America . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | Here the classic case was that of the Flemish towns ' exploitation of the succession crisis on the death of Count Charles the Good in 1127 . |