Example sentences of "be that [adv] [adj] [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is less well-known is that rather similar effects may happen with a blow on the forehead which does not penetrate . |
| 2 | The most important point is that rather flat-lying arrays can be generated by feasible mixing models despite the involvement of a plume endmember with fairly high Nd . |
| 3 | The point is that normally such parents would prefer that their babies were not defective and would welcome a non-controversial cure were it to become available . |
| 4 | The concern of many is that not all GPs will be as thorough as Dr Ayles and his colleagues . |
| 5 | One of the strands of that concept is that even rational thought may not be just what it seems on the surface . |
| 6 | ‘ The truth is that even one drink can impair driving performance . |
| 7 | Its advantage over the Tabriz loom is that even larger carpets can be made . |
| 8 | The major rule applying is that generally most predators will attack only fish smaller than themselves , although some large mouthed predators such as lionfish and large groupers are capable of swallowing prey of almost their own dimensions . |
| 9 | The result is that more working-class sons can move up while fewer middle-class boys need to move down ; the middle-class boy still has four times the chance of getting a managerial or professional job compared with a manual worker 's son . |
| 10 | One is that relatively lengthy questionnaires can be used to increase the quantity or detail of information obtained . |
| 11 | What this means is that overall economic policy should be dictated by utilitarian considerations , aiming to improve the general welfare . |
| 12 | Many more speakers and many more hours of speech are usually recorded than can ultimately be analysed ; a useful rule of thumb is that about ten hours will be needed to analyse each hour of recorded data . |
| 13 | The assumption behind the Bacon and Eltis thesis is that only industrial production can maintain and improve the standard of living in the country . |
| 14 | Third , the myth persists that private enterprise , unfettered by legal constraints , could fill the void in transport provision , but the risk is that only profitable routes will be maintained . |
| 15 | Therefore , Labour 's policy , as I understand it , is that only local councils should be allowed to run schools and that those schools should be inspected only by local government inspectors . |
| 16 | The danger is that too much reliance can be placed on intellectual exercises with resulting works only comprehensible to those studying the same theories . |
| 17 | What Gandhi may be suggesting by the statement that the road one takes is unimportant provided the goal is achieved is that too much importance can be attached to particular religions , especially when it might result in exclusivist claims being made on behalf of those religions . |
| 18 | Johnson declared himself in favour of such prescribed succession : ‘ His opinion was that so much land should be entailed as that families should never fall into contempt , and as much left free as to give them all the advantages in case of any emergency . ’ |
| 19 | The lesson Haslam learned from his ICI experience was that wherever possible redundancy should be on a voluntary basis if the trauma were to be kept to a minimum . |