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

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1 So it wo n't necessarily be that patients from er a G P surgery or a G P practice will be referred directly to the local hospital .
2 The implicit assumption as to why this should be so is that questions of law are for the ordinary courts .
3 The little that she 'd been able to piece together was that Pamela was a barrister , that the house did , as Lucy had suspected , belong to her , and that she and Josie had been together for at least five years and probably longer .
4 What was obvious , though , straightaway was that Mr Carver did n't talk much and his greeting of Mick was as to one of the family , indicated with a nod and a ‘ Hello , there ! ’
5 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 .
6 The most a discourse analyst could say about a discourse fragment such as the sentence in ( 8 ) above is that Mary is potentially part of the topic of the discourse in which ( 8 ) occurred , but more information is required , as indeed is also the case for both extracts ( 6 ) and ( 7 ) .
7 Well the Fox prediction tonight is that Oxford United will draw and probably beat them at the Manor .
8 Erm one interesting point about overtime and temps er generally is that temps apparently unl are costing us around about fourteen K with overheads which is a lot more than I believed to be the case .
9 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 .
10 My opinion has always been that fishermen , at least those who fish to catch and return , are on a par with the hunting fraternity .
11 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 …
12 The standard answer to that has always been that submarines are growing more vulnerable to detection and bombers to preemptive strike .
13 I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever .
14 The impression that the being would take home is that Earthlings are making reasonable progress in rudimentary aspects of space science and technology ; that the world is keen to spread the benefits of such studies from the industrialised to the developing world ; and that all work in space science and technology follows the lead set by farsighted government bureaucrats and politicians .
15 and finally , among the many good reasons to be home is that Durham XI play cricket against Lancashire XI at Shildon next Tuesday , Wednesday and Thursday .
16 The message which must be drummed home is that tests and exercises must be relevant to the job and the results should never be used on their own .
17 What Phoebe had realised quickly was that Lisa liked working .
18 The one hope yesterday was that septuagenarians such as Edward Heath and Sir Trevor Skeet might find the Tories ' small majority wearisome .
19 It could also be that Widnes 's match with Barrow last Sunday will be deducted from his current eight-match suspension .
20 It may also be that policies and practices have changed since the survey was carried out , for example because of a change in political control .
21 It may also be that women have a greater need of seeing some of the qualities of the future .
22 It could also be that Reilly , who has never knowingly sold himself short , is driving a hard bargain .
23 It could also be that Reilly , who has never knowingly sold himself short , is driving a hard bargain .
24 Could it also be that Darlington 's fun and games loving Labour councillors have finally had a change of heart over conferences ?
25 The first thing I noted favourably was that tutors were now called by their first names .
26 What made it worth recording several centuries later was that Ella was successful ; for the next fifteen years or so he established his authority in the south by force of arms , firmly ‘ pacifying ’ recalcitrant Britons .
27 Even though Darwinian evolution is represented as a competitive process , the outcome has often been that animals ended up working with each other .
28 I think the evidence though is that men like okay , we 're talking generally , but if you look at the evidence of how many women are raped , one in four of girl children are molested before the age of sixteen , that to me suggests hatred !
29 The CSU 's problem now is that Germany 's political map has changed utterly and it has no one of Strauss 's size .
30 The way I and others who witnessed the incident feel now is that Ian Woosnam 's game is well over par .
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