Example sentences of "[prep] be that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Lupus could be sure of was that invitations would be sent : the attendance-lists of assemblies are evidence of invitations received and obeyed . |
| 2 | Amber 's Murray Martin is working with other independents on a strategy to counter the problem : ‘ One of the basic assumptions we have to deal with is that films made in Britain can not either break into the major circuit or survive in the market place , ’ he says . |
| 3 | Technically the state of the art seems to be that systems are most efficient , reliable and safe when control is largely automatic but the human operator remains in a monitoring and supervisory role . |
| 4 | The important thing seems to be that teachers should be aware of this conflict and take some steps to resolve it , and this involves some kind of negotiation between teacher and pupils . |
| 5 | The hope seems to be that nurses will be better prepared and better enthused to address the nursing needs of society without the shackles placed on them by an outmoded system of training . |
| 6 | The main message seems to be that women , for whatever reason , are less able to aspire to higher spiritual states than men . |
| 7 | The message seemed to be that women who are raped are at fault for not having successfully avoided it . |
| 8 | ‘ I happen to believe variety is the spice of life , it just happens to be that women end up victimising themselves a lot , or subjecting themselves to a lot of bullshit to get some sort of coverage . |
| 9 | Today , the better view would appear to be that directors owe shareholders fiduciary duties in special circumstances . |
| 10 | One of the implications of spatial segregation seems to be that differences in housing quality will be reinforced further by the quality of the neighbourhood environment and facilities in each area ( Ambrose 1974 ) . |
| 11 | A major difficulty is likely to be that doctors are usually on the side of giving support rather than receiving it and will probably find it difficult to recognise their own needs . |
| 12 | The trouble seems to be that bursts of information leave a phone at the sort of frequencies which hearing aids are designed to detect . |
| 13 | The moral of the Punchline cartoon in NI 174 seems to be that bibles should not be offered to anyone who is short of basic necessities . |
| 14 | They counted the number of the copulations and they found the females were copulating much more than they needed in order to have , have offspring , so the big problem is why do female adders go to all the trouble of extra copulations with extra males when they could easily just make do with one or two and store the semen , and er the consequence as you could have predicted I think having attended my lectures , is that there does seem to be selection for erm sperm competition in male adders and the , the supposition seems to be that females are openly inciting male sperm competition , because they 're mating with many more males than they need to and there does n't seem to be another gain , they do n't get provisioning from a male , they , all they get is sperm . |
| 15 | First , administrative tribunals or authorities were subject to the full rigours of the Anisminic judgment : the parliamentary intent was presumed , subject to a clear contrary indication , to be that questions of law were to be decided by the courts ; the distinction between errors within jurisdiction and errors going to jurisdiction was , for practical purposes , abolished , and any error of law would automatically result in the tribunal having asked itself the wrong question . |
| 16 | The society has 400 members from all over Britain and some from Europe — though the concensus seems to be that follies are an English speciality . |
| 17 | I think , though , I 'm always disappointed the way it seems to be that soaps raise this issue but then come back and resolve it by saying the real father is the blood father . |
| 18 | It seems to be that soaps are endlessly doing that , they want to say maybe nurture is actually more important than blood , but then they pull back and keep reasserting the importance of blood ties . |
| 19 | The conclusion on the whole matter seems to be that trustees , albeit only the representatives of ulterior beneficial interests , are assessable generally in respect of the trust income under Rule 1 of the Miscellaneous Rules applicable to Schedule D ; but that — just because they represent those beneficial interests they may have a good answer to a particular assessment , as regards some share or part of the income assessed , on the ground that such share or part arises or accrues beneficially to a cestui que trust in whose hands it is not liable to Income Tax , e.g. a foreigner under Case V , Rules 1 and 3 . |
| 20 | Well as an association , we naturally get ourselves involved with many other aspects of the university activities in that erm both the students are applicants of ours and come and talk to us about projects which they may like to see emerge , and other departments of the university , the music department etc. , sometimes find that our knowledge of the area , or certain aspects of some of the schemes that we 're operating , coincide with what they 're trying to do and it turns out to be that campuses like this are often useful places for residencies and artists will come and take up residency in a university for a period of time , and that 's often been exploited by the Association . |
| 21 | The reason seems to be that men and machines are fundamentally complementary rather than comparable , this point was originally made by Jordan ( 1963 ) . |
| 22 | Those who take the view that capitalism operates to favour those with capital at the expense of those who merely have their labour to sell tend to believe that when new technology is developed and applied in a basically capitalist society the result is likely to be that jobs are degraded and the quality of working life of those in employment suffers . |
| 23 | The explanation appears to be that shepherds at high altitudes reverse their cigars in their mouths to prevent them blowing out in the wind ! |
| 24 | The message seems to be that librarians must determine the most accurate methods for studying use in their own libraries , and carry out their own research . |
| 25 | The assumption of those who decide where research money should go seems to be that surgeons do not need to participate in research ; they should be content to operate somewhere in the depths of the hospital and speak when spoken to . |
| 26 | The basis of incorporation by a course of dealing seems to be that terms will apply to the contract if the reasonable expectation of the parties is that the terms will apply . |
| 27 | The trends tend to be that schools either gain or lose pupils with little interchange . |
| 28 | What ‘ sociological punch ’ had amounted to was that actors could still make films work . |
| 29 | What is being called for is that graduates should have gained the beginnings of the ability to stand back from their studies and to take a view of it . |
| 30 | An additional payoff not to be sneezed at is that lecturers , forced to integrate , begin to rethink their subject ! |