Example sentences of "[adv] be that [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though intimidation was not discussed in the case it can not be that B could have avoided the binding nature of the contract by the simple device of counterclaiming for damages for intimidation and it seems therefore that for the purposes of intimidation the plaintiff should be required to show unlawful coercion at least of such a degree as would enable him to avoid a contract . |
| 2 | The word from Lilongwe now is that Chihana will be charged with sedition , a capital offence . |
| 3 | The fear now is that banks will start to compete by driving commission rates lower and lower until they are prepared to arrange issues at break-even or worse . |
| 4 | The indication so far is that companies will follow a comprehensive site audit with regular spot checks , but leave between two and four years before carrying out a further full audit . |
| 5 | But certainly it may even be that people might , in the future , even prefer to talk to computers under some circumstances . |
| 6 | It may well be that arguments could be made that this sense of unreasonableness should be the only mechanism for controlling discretion . |
| 7 | It may well be that events can be causes in virtue of satisfying criteria about their being required or alternatively required for effects which are different from the mentioned two . |
| 8 | We do it when we decide that the sibling rule — that a child can attend the same school as a brother or sister — does not apply ( the assumption here must surely be that siblings can belong to different species ) . |
| 9 | The view taken here is that parents may not be able to cope , and certainly they will feel this when they first discover that their child is handicapped . |
| 10 | The idea here is that citizens would be entitled to compensation for loss caused by the conduct of a particular activity regardless of whether that activity was conducted legally or illegally , in a faulty way or absolutely blamelessly . |
| 11 | The rationale here is that firms may wish to preserve customer goodwill by preventing shortages . |
| 12 | The public policy issue here is that farmers should not be strictly liable for defects beyond their control , such as the long-term effects of fertilisers . |
| 13 | The key here is that Major may be about to achieve in government what Thatcher never did — indeed , she never tried to achieve it . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | In my view , what should happen here is that cats should not be allowed to roam around in places where they could have a dramatic adverse effect on populations of animals , even though it is better for the cat . |
| 16 | Weill 's philosophy here was that songs should not blend with , but should deliberately interrupt , narrative in his contemporaneous documentary style operas ( Willett 1978 , p. 167 ) . |
| 17 | The only thing that everybody seems to be sure about is that abortions will continue to be performed despite the new law . |
| 18 | Roger : Ministers have declared new rules or constraints in advance but one rule will definitely be that employers must not sack other employees so that they can take on Workstart participants . |