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

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1 The only thing you can be sure of is that US interest will always come first .
2 What we can be sure of is that Tangshan rates as no more than third in the cataclysmic league .
3 The problem seems to be that Gould expresses views at odds with the official policy of the old shadow cabinet of which he was a member .
4 Opinion in Texas prison circles , with hindsight , seems to be that TDC should simply have admitted that various provisions for prisoners were unsatisfactory and inadequate .
5 The key thing appeared to be that Delander had fitted it with double wheel or duplex escapement — and it could be the first of the rare group of his clocks that include the feature .
6 The point of ‘ Air Conditioned Nightmare ’ seems to be that London is sinking into a theme park style existence where everything is becoming increasingly trivialised .
7 The point of ‘ Air Conditioned Nightmare ’ seems to be that London is sinking into a theme park style existence where everything is becoming increasingly trivialised .
8 Feeling certain that her imagination was playing tricks on her , Fabia , who knew that Ven was still in Prague , saw that it just had to be that Lubor owned an exactly identical pair of shoes .
9 If all this had to be summed up in one sentence I suppose it would have to be that Wittgenstein 's treatment of the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem is an extended illustration of a point in philosophical logic : namely , that the meaningfulness of some of the things we say is dependent on contingent facts of nature — such as that the Earth revolves on its axis , and that we moan with pain and react as we do to others who moan .
10 The simple explanation would appear to be that Jacques worked in the family business on the rue du Harlay with his father and older brother Jean , Martin 's successor in 1712 , until Jean 's death in 1720 , when , as noted above , the workshop ceased , at which time the remaining stock would have been liquidated for reasons of inheritance .
11 The advantage of a low Christology would seem to be that Jesus is considered to be just another human , one among us , our brother .
12 It 's seems to be that Leeds are still a good bet to finish second at 4/1+ .
13 The point seems to be that Macbeth 's greatest crime is in tampering with the future .
14 The argument for preordination used to be that God was omnipotent and outside time , so God would know What was going to happen .
15 The implication instead seems to be that Edward 's ‘ wise ordering ’ did not envisage a formal minority at all , but entailed the immediate accession of his heir — for which there was a precedent in 1377 , when the eleven-year-old Richard II had succeeded his grandfather .
16 The implication instead seems to be that Edward 's ‘ wise ordering ’ did not envisage a formal minority at all , but entailed the immediate accession of his heir — for which there was a precedent in 1377 , when the eleven-year-old Richard II had succeeded his grandfather .
17 The plaintiffs ' underlying complaint seems to be that C.M.C. borrowed more than it needed and spent more of the borrowed money than it could afford to spend , with the result that there was a loss for which the plaintiffs have been held personally liable as guarantors .
18 The sole justification for Mustakimzade 's argument as it stands appears to be that Taskopruzade does not in fact use either the term as in the case of Molla Fenari , or simply the term mufti , as in the case of Fahreddin Acemi , saying rather that " the headship of teaching and of fetva and the office of the kadilik fell ultimately to [ Molla Yegan ] alter Molla Shams al-Din al-Fenari " .
19 It may be that these cases are an authorial slip ; but the point seems to be that Lok is shown painfully developing analytic skills .
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