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

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1 In a third part , the objection must be that with respect to confirmed hypotheses as to condition-sets , it can not be that those condition-sets are causal circumstances as conceived .
2 What made it easy was that earlier charters had been produced by so many different monastic scriptoria in so many house styles that spotting the inauthentic was a task for the dedicated scholar — who in any case was more likely to be employed in propagating fraud than in hunting it out .
3 It may also be that such employers were , at least in the early 1970s , less prepared to make the organizational adjustments which make it feasible for mothers to combine paid work with responsibility for young children .
4 And what I see clearly is that those things are n't right .
5 All I 'm pointing out is that those steps are a hazard , and one which any sane architect would have omitted from his plan from the start . ’
6 The buyer 's concerns here are that these items be properly used and cared for by the seller , that they be used only for the purposes of the sub-contract ( ie that the seller does not use them to make goods for third parties which can then be sold by them in competition with the buyer ) , and that they be returned to him at the end of the sub-contract .
7 It may even be that some ingredients were added from outer space , brought by meteorites .
8 Nevertheless , it may well be that such birds are conditioned to this colour and it has been shown that nectar quality can overcome colour prejudice .
9 We may like to think that such changes enable the organisation to be more efficient and effective in achieving its goals and yet it may well be that such changes arise as a result of trying to satisfy an individual 's political ambitions or to undercut the ambitions of a rival .
10 In so far as society is divided into different interests , of which labour and capital are the prototypical examples , it may well be that some interests have more control than others over the development of representations which accord to their perspective and thus their interests .
11 In any case , it could well be that some students have no interest at all in certain idioms and prefer to by-pass them quickly in their search for what expresses their own aesthetic more closely .
12 It may well be that several groups have had a burglary , in which case the teacher could use this as the focus : " How are we going to deal with it ?
13 and there ca n't be that many authorities left that are n't already involved .
14 Well there wo n't be that many cars off two houses , but I would also like to add
15 One reason for the widespread torture today is that many victims are killed , while others are afraid to speak out .
16 The crux of the matter today is that those children were not listened to or believed when they complained to the very people in whose care we had put them for protection .
17 A drawback here is that such processes are limited in terms of the power of the grammars they permit .
18 The reasoning here is that such goods are only capable of being identified through defining their characteristics .
19 Different large-scale multi-divisional enterprises may exploit these advantages in different degrees , according to the form and degree of diversification they have developed and according to the particular effectiveness of their management , but the general point here is that these advantages can not be written off as financial/speculative considerations .
20 The chief safeguard for freedom here is that these rules apply to the governors as well as the governed .
21 The implication here is that these workers have rejected the dominant values of society and are made up of criminals , prostitutes , drug-addicts and other drop-outs ( Lloyd 1982 ) .
22 The trouble here is that these kids just do n't understand it . ’
23 We discuss the idea of goodness in the next chapter , but what we can note here is that these characteristics have traditionally been regarded as examples of the way of eminence — of God possessing perfectly what we possess imperfectly .
24 What matters here is that some bats have well-developed muscles attached to the stirrup and to the hammer .
25 Professor Stone 's views may differ greatly from Mr Irving 's , but one thing they ARE agreed on is that these diaries are genuine .
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