Example sentences of "be that [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One might , for instance , use the maxim to infer that because Eeyore 's sigh is a non-linguistic action , it 's a better sign that he 's out of thistles than Rabbit 's words are that he has some honey . |
| 2 | A hacksaw may be the only possible tool to cut existing pipe which is installed against a wall ; however , the disadvantages of a hacksaw are that it produces fine copper filings ( and care must be taken not to get these into the pipes ) and that it will tend to flatten the pipe slightly — particularly if this is held in a vice . |
| 3 | Its two main features are that it lifts cooperative R&D ventures from the suspicion that they are illegal per se and puts them under the rule of reason , and it provides a registration system which protects firms from treble damages in the event that they are subsequently deemed to have violated the antitrust statutes . |
| 4 | The further assumption must be that they gave each other a great deal that was worth having and keeping . |
| 5 | It may be that we felt this time we ought to have voted Labour , that this was the more altruistic , moral , even noble , choice . |
| 6 | It may be that he took new insignia after the subjugation of Norway , and that he left his old crown in Winchester , in much the same way that Henry II of Germany had , at his imperial coronation in 1014 , hung his former crown above the altar of St Peter 's , where Cnut would almost certainly have seen it thirteen years later . |
| 7 | Mr Sheffield said as Mr Elderfield was not complying with his medication it may well be that he had some form of epileptic fit but it could not be said with complete confidence . |
| 8 | It may even be that he receive Dalriadic assistance . |
| 9 | Nor did she think he could ever feel anything but shame for the way he treated them ; if he was now ready to pretend otherwise , it would only be that he saw some advantage in it . |
| 10 | The downside to registering might be that you get unsolicited mail every so often , but that practice seems to be on the decrease , and only genuine upgrades seem to be notified . |
| 11 | If they do n't , it may be that you have some yarn caught around these cogs . |
| 12 | The disadvantages of market-orientation may be that it requires special leadership ( a ‘ bureaucratic ’ management would fail to achieve the required inter-relationships between the organisation and its customers ) and is likely to be costly in terms of staffing and other overheads . |
| 13 | The important thing is that we go onstage feeling like a unit , rather than a bunch of individuals who happen to be playing in the same key . ’ |
| 14 | What I 'm asking for is that we keep this approach up to fight this government to give er our senior citizens a better chance in this life , cos a lot of us here would not be here today if it was n't for the senior citizens who brought us up . |
| 15 | And what I 'm saying is that we make less cracker but with the advertising we 're doing doing at the moment , in the magazine and Yellow Pages and I just want to kind I 'm going to talk to you about what other ways of advertising . |
| 16 | The fact is that we give exceptional leave to remain because it would be inhumane to send some people , such as the Croatian that the hon. Member mentioned , back to their country at this time , even though they may not have made a claim of persecution . |
| 17 | And all we say is that we pay extra commission if we send you away but it is against er against our principle and even er economics to send people that far away . |
| 18 | The significant fact about both phrase types is that we have two property words — a major one ( the verb ) extended by a minor qualifying one — and they are linked together to form a more complex property before they are permitted to enter into construction with a syntactic object . |
| 19 | I sa , as I say , I met this morning with the three members from Potter Street erm we do have various alternative proposals for sa ways forward should the village back out and what I can say to you at this stage is that we have another meeting scheduled for next week , we will be meeting with the Resident 's Associations keeping them fully informed erm we will ensure that the letter goes back to Mrs who and the other Resident 's Associations who expressed concern there and that we will be taking , I hope , I hope because I 'm gon na have to say if Woolwich back out we 're going out we 're going have to move very fast and do some quite erm in-depth work . |
| 20 | What is clear is that we need another ball control , distribution player , it is unfair for Macca be responsible for us all the time and besides teams can do what Ipswich did to him and mark him out of the game in the forward areas . |
| 21 | His main aim with scepticism is to reject its assumptions , not to answer them , and in this case the assumption is that we need any ground for the objectivity of our rule-following practices . |
| 22 | My Lord erm just to sweep up one or two of the other , very briefly the points my learned friend has just raised , erm I , I think it follows that our provisional position at the moment is that we think that reference is probably more satisfactory than simply going to the commission , what went , if your Lordship went to the commission and then found that they were unsatisfactory or did n't really take matters further , for one of the reasons it might very well not , is because the original complaint put to the commission was not framed in the same way as the defence and counterclaim are now framed , er there 's been a very considerable amount of refinement , both parties would no doubt wish to put submissions into the commission as to how the answer should be put or to provide information so the commission can answer them and so on and so forth and it may not be any quicker doing it that way |
| 23 | The main drawback with both types is that they use special paper which can be expensive and is only available in rolls which can make storage difficult as the printer does n't produce separate pages . |
| 24 | It may be that the growth of desk-top publishing will allow a wider circulation of material ( a great advantage of Renaissance texts is that they present few copyright problems ) , but there is little evidence so far . |
| 25 | The real trouble with these provisions is that they gather more power into the hands of the Home Secretary . |
| 26 | One of the properties of particles of matter is that they influence each other . |
| 27 | The downside to this is that they lose valuable advertising space on television programmes such as Saturday Superstore . |
| 28 | The result is that they make less use of their linguistic resources than they do at home and have less opportunity to extend those they already possess , except perhaps in relation to the specific vocabulary associated with the tasks they are required to perform . |
| 29 | The main advantage of compression joints is that they make complicated pipe runs much easier since the joints can all be assembled , tightened , slackened off again and the pipe rotated in the joint to get the position right before the nuts are all re-tightened . |
| 30 | Their big advantage is that they ignore difficult ground and obstacles . |