Example sentences of "be that [adv] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The second caveat is that even this amount of support is reduced when hypothetical compromises are put to the public .
2 The point being that the more detailed the categorization of the restrictions becomes , the more likely it is that qualitatively different kinds of restrictions will emerge .
3 Anticipated here is that always unstable disjunction between identification and desire upon which male bonding depends .
4 The point is that almost any configuration of events with which an individual is likely to be associated in public carries the risk of a worst possible meaning which might reflect unfavourably upon him , and it is a sign of intact mental functioning that one recognises this risk , without of course being incapacitated by the thought , and at the same time that one is equipped to perform repair work if and when infractions occur .
5 Another difficulty with the hot-spot model is that unrealistically large increases in heat flow are apparently required to explain the magnitude of uplift recorded in some regions .
6 What is perhaps most startling is that so many agents of educational change — local education officers and education committees — remained so untouched by the principles .
7 ‘ Steve , in case events have conspired to conceal the fact from you thus far , is that very rare combination of singer , songwriter and guitarist who actually excels in all departments . ’
8 But when you bear in mind the background points ( catalysis , the interaction with radiation , the notion of turnover ) you see how it is that very small amounts of pollution really could have far reaching effects .
9 One of the difficulties of long-term weather forecasting is that very fine details at one time can govern major patterns at a later time .
10 Another problem with the mouse-tests is that very high doses of a chemical must be administered to predict the effects of low-dose exposure on larger numbers of human beings .
11 The usual rule regarding magic items is that only one item of a specific type can be included .
12 Despite what the hon. Gentleman has said , from which I do not dissent , the fact is that only 15 minutes of the time that the Prime Minister chaired the summit of the Group of Seven countries was spent on the environment .
13 This can be useful ; the only thing to bear in mind is that too many icons in here will increase the time taken for Windows to get going , so it 's best to keep Start Up for the real essentials .
14 The trouble is that too many people in the Labour party are more concerned with scaring than with caring .
15 A second and smaller reason for attending to causation is that too dramatic conceptions of it , such as those which connect it with certain images or ideas of power , or fate or plan , or compulsion , or logical connection , distort one 's responses to determinism .
16 The challenge of the reformers had been one great reality but the showmen had always been aware of the other reality and that was that very large numbers of ordinary people , and that included the rich and the poor and people from all nations , were fascinated by moving pictures .
17 The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place .
18 An incidental effect was that more subtle forms of propaganda began to appear , from which it was difficult for a jury to infer that the defendant intended to stir up racial hatred .
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