Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] be that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What ‘ sociological punch ’ had amounted to was that actors could still make films work . |
| 2 | ‘ I happen to believe variety is the spice of life , it just happens to be that women end up victimising themselves a lot , or subjecting themselves to a lot of bullshit to get some sort of coverage . |
| 3 | The simple explanation would appear to be that Jacques worked in the family business on the rue du Harlay with his father and older brother Jean , Martin 's successor in 1712 , until Jean 's death in 1720 , when , as noted above , the workshop ceased , at which time the remaining stock would have been liquidated for reasons of inheritance . |
| 4 | Today , the better view would appear to be that directors owe shareholders fiduciary duties in special circumstances . |
| 5 | The message seemed to be that women who are raped are at fault for not having successfully avoided it . |
| 6 | Now presumably somebody in government or Whitehall has just taken a decision to , to go for it all in one year , I do n't know why , I , I do n't suppose we 're told why , but the , the consequence of the decision is actually going to be that people in Shropshire , our clients and social services are going to pay for that decision , either through paying charges for services that they now get for nothing , or by getting less services , er , and this does n't seem to be in line with the government 's stated aim of , of targeting money where it 's most needed . |
| 7 | What is being called for is that graduates should have gained the beginnings of the ability to stand back from their studies and to take a view of it . |
| 8 | Amber 's Murray Martin is working with other independents on a strategy to counter the problem : ‘ One of the basic assumptions we have to deal with is that films made in Britain can not either break into the major circuit or survive in the market place , ’ he says . |
| 9 | The sole justification for Mustakimzade 's argument as it stands appears to be that Taskopruzade does not in fact use either the term as in the case of Molla Fenari , or simply the term mufti , as in the case of Fahreddin Acemi , saying rather that " the headship of teaching and of fetva and the office of the kadilik fell ultimately to [ Molla Yegan ] alter Molla Shams al-Din al-Fenari " . |
| 10 | The explanation appears to be that shepherds at high altitudes reverse their cigars in their mouths to prevent them blowing out in the wind ! |
| 11 | If all this had to be summed up in one sentence I suppose it would have to be that Wittgenstein 's treatment of the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem is an extended illustration of a point in philosophical logic : namely , that the meaningfulness of some of the things we say is dependent on contingent facts of nature — such as that the Earth revolves on its axis , and that we moan with pain and react as we do to others who moan . |
| 12 | The trouble seems to be that bursts of information leave a phone at the sort of frequencies which hearing aids are designed to detect . |
| 13 | The hope seems to be that nurses will be better prepared and better enthused to address the nursing needs of society without the shackles placed on them by an outmoded system of training . |
| 14 | The important thing seems to be that teachers should be aware of this conflict and take some steps to resolve it , and this involves some kind of negotiation between teacher and pupils . |
| 15 | Technically the state of the art seems to be that systems are most efficient , reliable and safe when control is largely automatic but the human operator remains in a monitoring and supervisory role . |
| 16 | One of the implications of spatial segregation seems to be that differences in housing quality will be reinforced further by the quality of the neighbourhood environment and facilities in each area ( Ambrose 1974 ) . |
| 17 | The problem seems to be that Gould expresses views at odds with the official policy of the old shadow cabinet of which he was a member . |
| 18 | Opinion in Texas prison circles , with hindsight , seems to be that TDC should simply have admitted that various provisions for prisoners were unsatisfactory and inadequate . |
| 19 | They counted the number of the copulations and they found the females were copulating much more than they needed in order to have , have offspring , so the big problem is why do female adders go to all the trouble of extra copulations with extra males when they could easily just make do with one or two and store the semen , and er the consequence as you could have predicted I think having attended my lectures , is that there does seem to be selection for erm sperm competition in male adders and the , the supposition seems to be that females are openly inciting male sperm competition , because they 're mating with many more males than they need to and there does n't seem to be another gain , they do n't get provisioning from a male , they , all they get is sperm . |
| 20 | The point of ‘ Air Conditioned Nightmare ’ seems to be that London is sinking into a theme park style existence where everything is becoming increasingly trivialised . |
| 21 | The point of ‘ Air Conditioned Nightmare ’ seems to be that London is sinking into a theme park style existence where everything is becoming increasingly trivialised . |
| 22 | The main message seems to be that women , for whatever reason , are less able to aspire to higher spiritual states than men . |
| 23 | The society has 400 members from all over Britain and some from Europe — though the concensus seems to be that follies are an English speciality . |
| 24 | Nevertheless the general opinion seems to be that A commits a tort , certainly where his threat is of violence , and also , since Rookes v. Barnard , where the threat is of any unlawful act within the meaning of that case . |
| 25 | The moral of the Punchline cartoon in NI 174 seems to be that bibles should not be offered to anyone who is short of basic necessities . |
| 26 | The conclusion on the whole matter seems to be that trustees , albeit only the representatives of ulterior beneficial interests , are assessable generally in respect of the trust income under Rule 1 of the Miscellaneous Rules applicable to Schedule D ; but that — just because they represent those beneficial interests they may have a good answer to a particular assessment , as regards some share or part of the income assessed , on the ground that such share or part arises or accrues beneficially to a cestui que trust in whose hands it is not liable to Income Tax , e.g. a foreigner under Case V , Rules 1 and 3 . |
| 27 | It 's seems to be that Leeds are still a good bet to finish second at 4/1+ . |
| 28 | The plaintiffs ' underlying complaint seems to be that C.M.C. borrowed more than it needed and spent more of the borrowed money than it could afford to spend , with the result that there was a loss for which the plaintiffs have been held personally liable as guarantors . |
| 29 | The implication instead seems to be that Edward 's ‘ wise ordering ’ did not envisage a formal minority at all , but entailed the immediate accession of his heir — for which there was a precedent in 1377 , when the eleven-year-old Richard II had succeeded his grandfather . |
| 30 | The implication instead seems to be that Edward 's ‘ wise ordering ’ did not envisage a formal minority at all , but entailed the immediate accession of his heir — for which there was a precedent in 1377 , when the eleven-year-old Richard II had succeeded his grandfather . |