Example sentences of "[be] that [n mass] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But certainly it may even be that people might , in the future , even prefer to talk to computers under some circumstances . |
| 2 | In rural areas it might be that people will tell the parents of youths whom they see committing some offence ; and although crimes may be committed they will often be dealt with informally and so will not figure in the criminal statistics . |
| 3 | Could it be that people can easily envisage themselves being in End 's Atomic Dustbin ? |
| 4 | Could it be that people can easily envisage themselves being in End 's Atomic Dustbin ? |
| 5 | One of her worst fears is that folk will shun her because of what 's happened . |
| 6 | So the point I 'm making is that offspring will be prepared to make sacrifices under those conditions , where erm , the R is greater than C. But parents will want offspring to make sacrifices , wherever B is greater than C , and the parent is not concerned with the discount parameter R , but agreed on relatedness , because parents are equally related through their offspring . |
| 7 | One of the criticisms of this approach is that data may be collected which is never used subsequently . |
| 8 | The drawback associated with this approach is that data may be held indefinitely with no use being made of it . |
| 9 | But the basic point is that data can be stuffed into files whenever you need it in that format . |
| 10 | One of the advantages of list processing is that data can be processed sequentially without the records themselves being stored sequentially . |
| 11 | A fundamental database concept is that data should " model the real world " as accurately as possible . |
| 12 | One basic defect in these methods of scrutiny is that M.P.s must know the right questions to ask . |
| 13 | What will happen is that staff will go behind the bike sheds . ’ |
| 14 | Another financial incentive is that sales may be generated by the naming of a group . |
| 15 | Ever since the RSPCA established a Working Party to look at the implications of fishing , we have been concerned about one of its conclusions , which is that fish should be given the benefit of the doubt with regard to their ability to experience pain . |
| 16 | ‘ The great thing about writing sport for Punch is that people ca n't say it 's not as funny as it used to be , because nobody 's done it before , ’ he said . |
| 17 | ‘ What he feels , you see , ’ says Caroline , ‘ is that people ought to struggle pretty well all the time against the limitations of the world and their own nature . |
| 18 | Sugar , in his sworn statement , said : ‘ Venables said what usually happens is that people would meet Clough in a motorway cafe somewhere , and that Clough would be handed a bag of money . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He said what usually happens is that people would meet Clough in a motorway cafe somewhere , and that Clough would be handed a bag of money , ’ said Sugar . |
| 20 | Some of us are puzzled by this phenomenon , because it seems incompatible with another idea we cherish , which is that people must not be blamed for acts over which they had no control , nor held responsible for unfair gains when they have gained nothing themselves . |
| 21 | The other side of the placebo coin is that people can be made ill by something they believe will make them ill . |
| 22 | The argument is that people can not construct socialism out of kitsch ( sometimes with the equally problematic implication that they can out of art ) . |
| 23 | A great difficulty with the community charge , which was a point of grievance among many of my constituents , is that people can move on and avoid paying it , with the inevitable result that the rest of the community is called upon to meet the shortfall . |
| 24 | The essence of this Libertarian Ideal is that people should be free to publish what they wish and free to read or view what they wish . |
| 25 | What Qaddafi means here is that people should not make alliances outside the nation ( just as many Libyans said it is preferable to marry close — for example , to a father 's brother 's child ) . |
| 26 | What matters is that people should have somewhere to live . |
| 27 | If , however , it is genuine , convinced , voluntary consent that is being sought , then free and open discussion can not be avoided , for what genuine consent needs is that people should feel quite free to voice their doubts and opposition , if only to create a situation in which there is the possibility of overcoming such doubts and hostility . |
| 28 | The first is that people should read signposts when they have no reason for doing so ( the reason is the management 's ) and the second is that they " should be willing — and should remember — to follow the instructions . |
| 29 | To conclude I think that we should go along rather than hope sort of an aspect of Conservative philosophy which is that people should be encouraged to earn money and they should be encouraged to save money and that therefore in this case this means proposing this Conservative motion , though I hope they will actually have the common sense to withdraw it . |
| 30 | The whole point of this thing is that , as I said in my speech , about trickle transfer is that people should mix as much as possible . |