Example sentences of "be that [det] [adj] [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the main barriers between the development of general purpose systems has been that few existing systems can be re-used . |
| 2 | Perhaps the better answer would be that all three phases should contribute to such knowledge , and that the initial training phase should have an appropriate contribution rather than try to carry out all the work independently . |
| 3 | But a person going about it seriously has to discount his own personal opinion , which may be that all coloured people should — um — be expelled from the country , and decide what is in the best interests of the country as a whole , given that there is a large — er — ethnic problem . |
| 4 | ‘ Tradition dies hard and it may well be that many zealous companions will go on quoting Syriac and Egyptian and perpetuating this extraordinary jumble of explanations , ’ wrote Canon Richard Tydeman , Grand Superintendent over the Suffolk province of Freemasonry , in 1985 . |
| 5 | The view is almost certain to be that these tax-free boats should not remain in EC waters unless VAT is paid . |
| 6 | Much of their repertory is being recorded for the first time ( or very nearly so ) , and it may be that some current recordings will sound exploratory , even tentative , to future generations who will have the privilege to take things further . |
| 7 | It may be that some young children will achieve a stage where they are ready to compare more than two sets to see which has ‘ most ’ or ‘ least ’ , but incidental experience of this kind is less frequent . |
| 8 | It 's not just that drama teachers are nostalgic romantics who hanker for a simpler way of life ( though there may well be an element of truth in that ) ; it 's that these self-contained communities can not easily call upon outside forces to solve their problems . |
| 9 | The best hope is that all 4,650 observers will be in place by April 20th , three weeks too late . |
| 10 | Union policy is that all new posts should be advertised and the process must be taken seriously . |
| 11 | As the likelihood of restricting drivers to eight km/h for all but the shortest distances appears remote , the implication is that all shared-space areas must be for small groups of houses only or short culs-de-sac . |
| 12 | Our first rule is that all raw materials must be from a known and identifiable source . |
| 13 | An additional requirement is that each industrial site would have to publish a yearly environmental statement which would be open to public scrutiny . |
| 14 | The implicit complaint is that many British insurers would not have been saddled with these claims if US law and regulation had not been retrospectively changed . |
| 15 | Indeed , a popular view amongst community relations police in the area is that many more schools would welcome them but for intimidation , a factor which the community relations police have to be very sensitive towards if they are not to threaten the safety of children and teachers . |
| 16 | The snag today is that those black sheep will create much bigger problems than they could in the past . |
| 17 | With regard to pay , the benefit to management of de-skilling so that the elements of a job are fragmented into their constituent elements is that those elemental jobs can be assigned to those with skills , and hence pay rates , to match them . |
| 18 | A specific objective is that this new body will work directly with the local enterprise companies . |
| 19 | However , the great hope all dieters have is that this new diet will be the one that will really work . |
| 20 | My argument is that this harmonious interpretation can be fully understood only by interpreting Dicey 's entire theory in the light of the ancient conception of the rule of law . |
| 21 | ‘ My gut feeling is that this coming year will be my last , ’ |
| 22 | ‘ My gut feeling is that this coming year will be my last , ’ she said . |
| 23 | And the good news is that this mind-boggling occasion will not be spoilt by the Welsh team trotting on when it has all finished … |
| 24 | What these modifications indicate however is that this decisional paradigm may not be the most appropriate . |
| 25 | The justification for a scale of ‘ utility ’ is that any two outcomes can always be ranked , because an individual must always have a preference between them . |
| 26 | The only difference here is that any such cheque should be re-presented within the five-day period with a request for an immediate answer as to whether the cheque has been cleared or not . |
| 27 | The most important thing to note at present is that any strong syllable will have as its peak one of the vowel phonemes ( or possibly a triphthong ) listed in Chapter 3 , but not . |
| 28 | One assumption is that any intelligent species will in due course develop a technology , just as we have done . |
| 29 | This statement was made in the context of the planning and design of hotels for new constructionn , but an obvious corollary is that these major systems should be properly serviced to ensure that the hotel continues to operate successfully every day . |
| 30 | It is that these additional deposits can only come from some other bank . |