Example sentences of "[adv] be that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If [ the argument ] were right , then the result would merely be that the making of the contract constituted the appropriation . |
| 2 | The reaction of any neutral bystander could only be that the judge had become the adversary of the defence . |
| 3 | In fact one thing he says er which might make you doubt his motives somewhat is that the reason for giving people more than one vote is that they 're more educated , but in general there is also a rough correlation between property ownership and education and so there 's a good reason to give the property owners more than one vote , people who own a lot of property more than one vote . |
| 4 | Strikes are our abhorrence and the first principle laid down is that the owner 's property is the first care of the member of the society to see to' . |
| 5 | Experienced salespeople know that the impression given to buyers by the salesperson who interrupts the buyer in midstream is that the salesperson believes that : |
| 6 | What Arran wanted was £5000 ; what he saw clearly enough was that the support of 5000 Englishmen would lose him four times that number of Scots . |
| 7 | But the funniest thing of all was that the flat she was going in , the floor area was less than the one she 'd left . |
| 8 | The only modifications to the logic discussed above are that the code for ‘ square occupied ’ is no longer 1 , but is the actual stream number ( 1 for the first stream , 2 for the second and so on ) . |
| 9 | But the ground of the complaint would not be that the giraffe 's right to self determination was being thwarted , as we would say of a human being in a cage , but the general distaste at the conviction that the animal must be suffering severe discomfort . |
| 10 | May it not be that the outcome reflects the real motive — the wish to procure an external realization of a regressive , inner phantasy , that of the supreme parent of earliest childhood ? |
| 11 | The third characteristic referred to above is that the agent must be authorised to deal with goods in his own name without disclosing his agency . |
| 12 | The first type of link between the fantasy representation and the world outside is that the fantasy materials — the characters in the play and their actions — are drawn from real life . |
| 13 | The dominant beliefs of the catholic — nationalist bloc still are that the group forms a people who are Gaelic-Irish , constitute a nation , are republican , and populate an island which has a natural , inner political unity . |
| 14 | My teaching has always been that the way to good golf is the get the clubhead to the ball in time . |
| 15 | The figures actually which I got from the director yesterday are that the department is counting four hundred and ten vacancies of those four hundred and ten , two hundred and thirty four are out of commission , they 're in homes being refurbished seventy two are in blocked places , that is double rooms being lived in by a widow or widower where er they 'd previously shared it with the spouse or er disability reasons , health reasons , behaviour reasons of a resident er in a previously shared room . |
| 16 | If a shower is giving a poor flow , the reason will usually be that the shower head is blocked with scale — especially with electric instantaneous showers . |
| 17 | However , we agreed that self-help schemes could only bring a few jobs and that a central demand should still be that the state provide jobs . |
| 18 | One message the UN has driven home is that the ballot will be secret . |
| 19 | And I think another reason why we do so well educationally is that the baby gives them a sense of direction and purpose and they may not want to get 16+ exams but they want to for their baby . |
| 20 | But the industry consensus yesterday was that the outlook remained gloomy amid worries that a Labour government 's economic policies could further depress sales . |
| 21 | But what concerned her even more was that the Notice had shown the meeting would include two members of the Secret Intelligence Service . |
| 22 | A key component of Hitler 's image had formerly been that the buildup of Germany 's military might would bring the strengthening of defence against outside threat : a policy of ‘ peace through strength ’ . |
| 23 | It may also be that the agent would be asked to advise on the cost , and , as with civil legislation , costs in parliamentary matters can in appropriate cases be taxed under the House of Commons Costs Taxation Act , 1847 , and the 1849 Act on similar lines for the House of Lords , the only difference in Scotland being that taxation is done by the Auditor of the Court of Session . |
| 24 | It could also be that the chain of distribution is so complicated that margins are pared to nothing . |
| 25 | The reason I 'm I 'm bringing this up is that the gentleman in question wants to come to the parish council and put on a a short video of the electricity board 's er er activities in this area . |
| 26 | It can not really be that the way things are looking to me now is pink , since I could be wrong about whether that way is pink or not . |
| 27 | Examples of product orientation are to be found in education , the arts and journalism , where the inference often is that the supplier knows best what the customer needs . |
| 28 | erm I think the problem about sport and art in this country very often is that the amateur is over-regarded and the professional 's under-regarded , and as Geoffrey rightly said , erm underfinanced on a national level . |
| 29 | So the resolution before us now is that the Synod endorses english grammar writing ! |
| 30 | Well , I think we had much higher hopes before the Gulf crisis , I think what many people are saying now is that the peace dividend , the money that we could have saved by the end of the Cold War , will in fact , that peace dividend will be diluted by the Gulf . |