Example sentences of "be that these [adj] [noun] are " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most likely explanation is that these constipated patients are a heterogeneous group including patients without autonomic nervous system dysfunction , whose loss of peristaltic activity might instead be the result of intrinsic nerve damage or other motility disorder . |
| 2 | The advantage of the method of analysis suggested here is that these international influences are not treated as isolated and exogenous instances , as if operated by deus ex machina , but are explicable and connected within the context of the workings of the world economic system . |
| 3 | One supposed justification is that these extra offences are needed to cope with ‘ group offending ’ , which causes fear in ordinary citizens , and extra difficulties for the police and for prosecutors ( in obtaining persuasive evidence ) . |
| 4 | The main criticism of the argument from analogy is that these two assumptions are inconsistent . |
| 5 | As a physical description , we expect the passage to contain a large number of physical , concrete nouns ( stakes , bamboo , fences , fishermen , ruins , etc ) but what is more striking is that these concrete nouns are matched by nouns which are more abstract in one way or another . |
| 6 | The problem is that these internal processes are bound to be influenced by the person 's experiences ; it would be unreasonable to think of them as being entirely autonomous . |
| 7 | Whilst the evident unpopularity of Soviet domination in Eastern Europe may be thought to make such forces reliable in wartime for garrison and rear duties only , fact is that these military forces are trained and equipped for a war with NATO , according to an offensive doctrine of ‘ coalition warfare ’ , designed to place them from the start of hostilities onto an ‘ external front ’ . |
| 8 | The clear objective of every SPRED group is that these special people are visible within their parish as active members , participating and contributing to the life of that faith community . |
| 9 | One hypothesis is that these angry feelings are projected into shop stewards . |
| 10 | One reason is that these high rates are suitable only for near targets . |
| 11 | The reason a black hole ‘ remembers ’ the electric charge , angular momentum , and mass of the matter that collapsed and forgets everything else is that these three quantities are coupled to long-range fields : in the case of charge the electromagnetic field , and in the case of angular momentum and mass the gravitational field . |