Example sentences of "[be] that [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main criteria are that CBs be : |
| 2 | And with good reason : the signs are that Saatchi is finding it difficult to sell the management consultancy division alone . |
| 3 | The most frequent messages given to women are that tears are a sign of weakness , or instruments of manipulation . |
| 4 | The conclusions are that AZT is not an effective prophylactic of AIDS in those infected with HIV and that the CD4 cell count may not be a reliable proxy for the progression to AIDS in infected people . |
| 5 | The signs are that Clough is ready to snap his link with his father . |
| 6 | The main advantages of rating scale data are that responses are usually simple and uniform and easy to code , transform , statistically analyse and describe . |
| 7 | The economic differences are that taxes are not related to the services which taxpayers might receive from the authority ; whereas rents paid by individuals are directly related to their occupancy of council houses . |
| 8 | Possible explanations for these findings are that women are more likely to consult their doctors and so have blood tests , which may lead to an earlier diagnosis of coeliac disease than in men . |
| 9 | I think the odds are that Rich was showing off his new toff as a pal to Philip and throwing in the favour of an audition along the way . |
| 10 | Industry estimates are that sales were down by 12 p.c. on the year at about 140,000 . |
| 11 | And they 've got , I think the odds are that people are giving more perhaps er and that er , if they were paid at fifty four P per mile and and got how that would affect the churches er contributions they make ? |
| 12 | The signs are that God is blessing these initiatives with his presence and his Spirit and it is unlikely that the growth of the Vineyard in Britain will stop there . |
| 13 | Because the County Council realize now that they 're a little bit in advance of everybody and because the District Council feel that they can get designation by supporting this and not voting against it , the chances are that Wheatley is going to be totally deprived of a public enquiry , which practically every other site is guaranteed . |
| 14 | Benefits of the new system are that orders are processed quicker , improving cashflow ; company stock figures are up to date and correct , instead of being hypothetical ; surplus stock is being used up ; a system has been created where there was no system , and the scheme has boosted customer satisfaction . |
| 15 | The disadvantages are that informants are less likely to respond , or to respond seriously , and that the investigator is not able to follow up unanticipated developments . |
| 16 | So far , the thrust of the analysis has been that firms are likely to want vertical integration and that , though in many cases it would be socially desirable , in some it may not be . |
| 17 | And , conversely , a part of the point for Scots has always been that Scotland is a nation equivalent to England , not merely the equivalent of an English region . |
| 18 | The reason why Hope should advocate Scott in particular , when a limited competition might give the ecclesiologically sounder Street the work , may have been that Scott was more likely to carry out the work successfully . |
| 19 | The official story had always been that Greg was simply a close family friend , but a child could have seen through the pretence and she had not been a child for a very long time , perhaps not since that long-ago night when she was four years old and had stood , unseen , outside a bedroom door … |
| 20 | The standard answer to that has always been that submarines are growing more vulnerable to detection and bombers to preemptive strike . |
| 21 | In British social anthropology , the implicit assumption has been that humans are violent , and that society in various ways controls and constrains . |
| 22 | It may just be that Clinton is taking advantage of the transition period until he takes over the Presidency to air some personal prejudices and satisfy the grievances of some of his supporters . |
| 23 | So in the case of all who die intestate , and for most of the rather small number who make a will , the outcome of inheritance will be that relatives are beneficiaries , and the legal procedures which ensure this codify a set of obligations to give support which discriminates between close and more distant kin . |
| 24 | A second reason for such high reported levels of satisfaction may be that respondents are answering the question in terms of their level of expectations . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Could it be that McNab was actually smiling ? |
| 27 | It surely could not be that McNab was confounded , utterly at a loss , for surely almost anyone could string a few medical terms together ( enough to convince the survivors of Krishnapur if not the Royal College of Physicians ) and save face . |
| 28 | But in Crathie Church next Saturday , the only concern should be that Anne is finding the joy that she so richly deserves . |
| 29 | People ask how can it be that Scotland 's relatively small , relatively low-key club set-up can produce teams that will fearlessly take on the best and nurture expectations of victory over them all until the final whistle . |
| 30 | Could it be that Octel 's handsomely presented claim that without lead alkyls the roads of ‘ most of the world would be very empty ’ has had the intended effect on one of our more propaganda resistant MPs ? |