Example sentences of "[be] that [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may then be that today situations where men alone are priests , or equally the fact that Christ is a male symbol and God is conceptualized using male metaphors , may make God appear to be ‘ male ’ in a way in which this was not earlier the case . |
| 2 | The implication is that either households move as circumstances change , or local communities consist of individual households whose needs change simultaneously . |
| 3 | The point is that both Tilapia and Carp can be fed on a mainly vegetable diet whereas farmed cod , haddock , and whiting are carnivorous and apparently need to be fed with other sea fish . |
| 4 | If the book does have one central purpose it is to shed light upon the process of the changing system of higher education in Britain , and if it reaches one clear conclusion it is that both Oxford and Cambridge have performed admirably in recent years . |
| 5 | The first point is that both ministers and officials involved in the review stress the lack of drama , tantrum-throwing and brinkmanship . |
| 6 | Françoise Cribier finds one reason for the remarkable exodus of retired couples from Paris is that both man and wife need the husband to get out of the house . |
| 7 | It may even have been envisaged that the holder of the office would act as , in some sense , chief adviser to the sultan on matters pertaining to the sacred law , although a point to be noted in this connection is that both Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan lived in Bursa while the sultan resided for the most part in Edirne . |
| 8 | The end result is that both dog and owner gain satisfaction and a richer existence . |
| 9 | The unavoidable fact of the matter is that both religion and secularism are stances . |
| 10 | The first is that both Labour and the Conservatives emerge more or less united — the former striking an attacking pose in the foreground , the latter stoutly closing defensive ranks behind . |
| 11 | The point I am trying to make is that both suicide of the schizoid type and anorexia nervosa involve a denial of reality which depends upon an acceptance of a split between self and body , and is only possible through paradox . |
| 12 | Another good reason for calm is that today Britain and America can no longer create a global depression by themselves ; Japan and Germany would need to join in . |
| 13 | Spain ‘ s essential energy problem is that over 60% of her energy needs are supplied by imported oil . |
| 14 | ‘ Is — is that why Monsieur Lemarchand wants me to go ? ’ |
| 15 | The fact is that even infants can influence their upbringing by means of inborn qualities such as temperament . |
| 16 | ‘ What you must understand is that even convicts have a twisted code of ethics that they live by . |
| 17 | So it is that even events from the distant past " were written down for our instruction " in order that in the present and for the future " by encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope " . |
| 18 | Whether it is that nowadays people are less interested in playing games as between author and reader , or whether it is that the human liking for games-playing has been transferred to other fields I do not know . |
| 19 | What he fails to add is that nowadays information is as leaky as a fistful of sand . |
| 20 | But what is challenging is that again Peter did not allow this mistake to separate him and strangle the spiritual life from him . |
| 21 | Erm I think my answer to the to the questions being thrown out by by the Senior Inspector is is that surely Government policy is to protect the countryside for its own sake , and and why is it therefore wrong for a county with erm areas of acknowledged environmental importance to try and give expression to that in in its structure plan . |
| 22 | No doubt I will request our librarian to get me some of the original references cited but my point is that surely Chemistry in Britain is written for the general interest and education of chemists and ought to be comprehensible to the reasonably trained chemist . |
| 23 | One answer is that historically Christianity has shown precious little compassion for animals anyway . |
| 24 | Another factor is that neither definitions of a positive family history of left handedness , nor methods of enquiry ( e.g. self-report by family members versus questionnaire responses by subject ) have been consistent across studies . |
| 25 | My own view is that neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold knew very much about the complex debate that has been going on at least since Rousseau about progressive education , and that they did not realise that my Group would be strongly opposed to Mrs Thatcher 's views about grammar and rote-learning . |
| 26 | The fact is that neither congress nor the American people were ready in the early 1980s for the demolition of the welfare state , however much conservative theorists might believe that to be desirable . |
| 27 | The result is that often illnesses are considered to be purely physical when in fact they have an emotional trigger , as in the case of the lady who developed rheumatoid arthritis after her visit to Flanders , or a mental or possibly even spiritual precipitating factor . |
| 28 | But what is almost certain is that around 60% of sufferers have some sort of genetic susceptibility to it , and three times as many women as men suffer from this distressing condition . |
| 29 | It is that wherever Parliament in an earlier statute has directed its attention to an individual case and has made provision for it unambiguously , there arises a presumption that if in a subsequent statute the legislature lays down a general principle , that general principle is not to be taken as meant to rip up what the legislature had before provided for individually , unless an intention to do so is specially declared . |
| 30 | They are ordinary normal persons , and as far as they were concerned their evidence is that essentially Mr. Winterbone was perfectly normal like them but suffering physically from pain from his shoulder . |