Example sentences of "[be] that [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This might put pressures on the sons and it could well be that not all would feel able or willing to take on the task . |
| 2 | The most pungent criticism of the president may be that so much of his attention is on the Gulf , and so little of it elsewhere . |
| 3 | One reason for this relative neglect may be that so many earlier surveys gave such clear and unequivocal results : at virtually every stage of education , by virtually every criterion of achievement , middle-class children had higher levels of achievement than working-class children . |
| 4 | Evidence about who actually acts as an unpaid carer has to be pieced together from various statistical sources , but the best informed estimates seem to be that very few people are cared for by non-relatives , and that women provide about 75 to 85 per cent of relative care . |
| 5 | What lends this observation particular piquancy however is that remarkably few players sound particularly good . |
| 6 | The point is that normally such parents would prefer that their babies were not defective and would welcome a non-controversial cure were it to become available . |
| 7 | The crucial difference , however , is that over half of this amount went on defence ( which is comparable to the USA ) whereas in the EEC the proportion was one-quarter and in Japan zero . |
| 8 | The biggest reason for Asia 's sceptical eye on the Gulf , though , is that not many Asians are convinced the fight makes any difference . |
| 9 | The difference between you and most other women is that not many of them are granted the opportunity to actually indulge their nostalgia , save mentally . |
| 10 | The simple answer is that not all materials lend themselves to scientific dating . |
| 11 | Our point is that not all liturgical development in this period was strictly monastic , yet monastic ideals strongly influenced cathedral life . |
| 12 | The strange thing is that not all amateur operators seem to understand this and only about half the country 's licensed amateurs are members of the RSGB . |
| 13 | One of the reasons for writing so much about growing your own plants is that not all flowers and foliage suitable for pressing are available from florists , which can considerably limit the palette of colours from which you will work . |
| 14 | The point is that not all general names have definitions . |
| 15 | One difficulty in ensuring adequate scrutiny of delegated legislation is that not all delegated legislation need be published . |
| 16 | Another part of the answer is that not all unwise decisions can be undone . |
| 17 | Perhaps the first thing to realise is that not all page printers use laser beams ; there are many other successful technologies including LED arrays , LCD shutters , ink-jet , magneto-deposition and ion-deposition . |
| 18 | The next problem is that not all programs make use of the ANSI.SYS so do n't expect the key swap to be honoured by everything . |
| 19 | The problem for the schools is that not all parents accept their share of the authority . |
| 20 | The concern of many is that not all GPs will be as thorough as Dr Ayles and his colleagues . |
| 21 | Part of the explanation for this failure is that not enough information about investment plans is available to the market , and also that market participants lack the technical ability to evaluate what may be highly complex and specialised projects . |
| 22 | If a bold conjecture is falsified , then all that is learnt is that yet another crazy idea has been proved wrong . |
| 23 | This is true irrespective of whether the animal is able to communicate with its conspecifics — either by way of warning-cries , mating-calls , and the like , or by means of a syntactically-structured language whose meaning is determined by social conventions rather than by fixed genetic mechanisms , The point is that even much non-communicative behaviour has to be understood in computational terms , such that internal symbolic processes must be attributed to the creature . |
| 24 | The second caveat is that even this amount of support is reduced when hypothetical compromises are put to the public . |
| 25 | A third and almost as clear a theme is that even this inadequate level of services has been declining very fast , in both the USA ( Johansen and Fuguitt , 1984 ) and in the UK . |
| 26 | The problem is that plainly this depreciation charge can not reflect the periodic benefits expected to accrue from using the vehicle . |
| 27 | The price of over-identifying the struggle against racism with the activities of these extremist groups and group lets is that however much of a problem they may be in a particular area ( and I am not denying the need to combat their organizing ) they are exceptional . |
| 28 | The answer is that probably all shapes are capable of supporting a successful but restricted marine community . |
| 29 | One cost is that clearly some services are being cut in terms of how good they are . |
| 30 | An important point is that nearly all the methods which measure use must by definition relate to use of libraries ' existing collections , and thus reflect their existing limitations . |