Example sentences of "be that the [adj] [noun] [vb mod] " 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 | The odds are that the young man would not have laid a finger on her , but what if … ? |
| 3 | ‘ My expectations are that the three athletes will be free , ’ he added . |
| 4 | Two points to bear in mind throughout the discussion are that the same facts can give rise to more than one offence and that the crimes are defined in terms both of the fault element of the accused and the harmful consequences , but the relationship is not perfect . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Another suggestion has been that the only solution would be the fitting of a Rover SDI engine which I understand would also give much better mpg . |
| 8 | If there is another rights issue , a possible result may be that the major shareholders will decide to take out the minority interest . |
| 9 | In the future , it may well be that the western interventionist-imperialists will be on the liberal-left , not the laissez-faire right . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | [ 1979 ] A.C. 440 , Lord Diplock stated the key principle to be that the general rule may be departed from only where its application would ‘ frustrate or render impracticable the administration of justice . ’ |
| 12 | Not only would accommodation and compromise between these various interests be desirable , but also it may be that the best solution would be some alternative to a motorway , or some alternative route not already considered . |
| 13 | ‘ It may well be that the original kidnappers could n't afford to wait so long . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ? ’ |
| 16 | It 's it 's also the main area of housing demand , it 's also the main area where employers want to locate around around North Yorkshire , and I think most importantly , if its development needs are not met , these can wo n't be satisfactorily diverted elsewhere , they will continue unresolved which would be continual pressure on the edge of the urban area , and on on the greenbelt , and if that holds the effect would of course be that the tight greenbelt would mean that economic growth in the county would be frustrated , because York is the main centre where employment growth is concentrated , and I would think , I would consider that that solution of a tight greenbelt plus not making sufficient provision for development needs elsewhere in York would be contrary to P P G three paragraph three , which I 'm sure you 're aware of . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The initial signs were that the new government would follow the lead of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua in pursuing a mixed economy . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The problem is that the second question can not be answered until Washington comes up with a consensus on the first . |
| 23 | The overall conclusion to be drawn from this discussion is that the various lags can complicate the business of macroeconomic management , and may even make it counter-productive . |
| 24 | But an additional limitation on the offence at point 7 is that the stationary vehicle must have stopped to accord precedence to pedestrians . |
| 25 | Where they differ is that the former group will look at interest cover rather than dividend cover or earnings per share . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | As regards the appropriation of funds for the purposes of planned provision , a first point is that the financial institutions could be short-circuited to some extent by increasing taxation of the wealthy . |
| 28 | What is indefensible is that the tawdry motley should be financed by an annual impost on you and me . |
| 29 | An implication of the preceding analysis is that the monetary authorities can only alter the level of output by engineering unanticipated variations in the money supply which , in turn , implies that they are continually altering their policy rule . |
| 30 | 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 . |