Example sentences of "be that [art] [adj] [noun] will " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was too early in the negotiating round at the time of writing to be confident about trends for the coming year , although most expectations for the 1–10MW bracket are that the new deals will merely take account of inflation . |
| 2 | ‘ My expectations are that the three athletes will be free , ’ he added . |
| 3 | The chances are that the same cycle will repeat even if it is successful in doing so ; success in innovative technology can not be guaranteed . |
| 4 | The chances are that the same cycle will repeat even if it is successful in doing so ; success in innovative technology can not be guaranteed . |
| 5 | I have in fact no explanation to offer as to how he came to die , and it may be that no trustworthy explanation will ever be achieved . |
| 6 | If there is another rights issue , a possible result may be that the major shareholders will decide to take out the minority interest . |
| 7 | In the future , it may well be that the western interventionist-imperialists will be on the liberal-left , not the laissez-faire right . |
| 8 | The most likely outcome seems to be that the black hole will just disappear , at least from our region of the universe , taking with it the astronaut and any singularity there might be inside it , if indeed there is one . |
| 9 | IT COULD BE THAT the British audience will have been acclimatised to Shore , Myers and Carvey through the path-clearing work done by the Bill And Ted movies . |
| 10 | It may be that the lovely weather will go on even after the hall is pulled down , in which case we can meet out of doors , but we ca n't expect to go on doing that when autumn and winter comes , can we ? ’ |
| 11 | A longer-term effect may be that the national press will cease to act as a focus of left-wing radicalism and political challenge to established processes . |
| 12 | If that is so , I would then say that by the time you get to the modification stage and the County Council has published a proposal for the general location , I therefore think at that stage the need for the criterion has disappeared , so it may be that the approved policy will not need to contain such criteria . |
| 13 | I 've heard you selling the guy that showed you these two manifestos one by the Tories and one by the Labour and the one that stuck in my mind it 's that the Labour Party will have a minimum wage to comply with the rest of Europe . |
| 14 | Our they 'll want to forget that the Tories programme and policies , they lied about taxes they promised not to extend V A T they lied about protecting the value of pensions well I hope the people who get the eight four P and the one twenty , the one 's that the old dears will remember that because that 's what they will be getting . |
| 15 | If there is one certainty in a crisis , it is that every Tory MP will put party before country . |
| 16 | In the end the government was forced to make a minor concession , and the present position is that a second ballot will be held if fewer than 50 per cent of those eligible record a vote on the first occasion . |
| 17 | What seems fairly certain is that a private plaintiff will not uncover a breach of Core Rule 28 where the criminal authorities have failed to prosecute under the CSA 1985 . |
| 18 | A further , apparently reasonable , assumption is that a male subject will adopt the more formal styles in his repertoire when addressing a woman ( cf. |
| 19 | What is perhaps more significant is that a new minister will also find that his department is developing new policies . |
| 20 | Not only that , the word from the Other Side is that a new man will soon be looming in Diana 's life . |
| 21 | ‘ The only hope is that a new party will emerge and change everything , ’ says a typically frustrated businessman . |
| 22 | The translucent message from the corridors of power , in Europe and in Whitehall , is that a single currency will be established , and that we shall be part of it . |
| 23 | The danger , clearly , is that a tight budget will not bring about the desired response from the financial markets , and business will get the worst of both worlds — continued high interest rates and no help from the budget . |
| 24 | The concern of the authorities is that a dominant firm will price aggressively in those markets where it faces actual or potential competition with the intention of seeing off the competition . |
| 25 | We are , of course , assuming that we are using an ideal switch which does n't exist in real life , but the point being made is that a switching system will be a lot more efficient than any resistive control element where dissipation is invariably relatively large . |
| 26 | Again the assumption is that no genuine change will result if the confidence of practitioners is totally undermined . |
| 27 | Where they differ is that the former group will look at interest cover rather than dividend cover or earnings per share . |
| 28 | A stronger indication still of the difference between sense-qualifiers and referent-qualifiers is that the former examples will remain odd even when the relevant noun is indicated by the context ( yet there will be no problem with the referent-qualifiers ) : ( 15 ) that stranger is a total one the kid was a mere one ( 16 ) his hut is a rudimentary one the tree felled was a deciduous one Again we may note that the other pair of sense-qualifying adjectives from example ( 1 ) do not sound odd when used with an indefinite head : ( 17 ) a lawful one the distant one but this is not surprising because they are adjectives with more than one meaning ; in one of these they are ordinary referent-qualifiers and hence they may quite freely occur in ( 17 ) with a presumption that the referent-qualifying meaning is the one desired . |
| 29 | What I hear , which was straight off the phone last night , is that the Dutch fans will team up with the English fans , and back the English fans on to the beach and they will try and drown a few of the English people and they will throw bombs at them . |
| 30 | ‘ The view is that the middle tier will have to merge , and we are only just seeing the beginning of this , ’ Michael Jenkin , Glanville 's managing director , told ACCOUNTANCY . |