Example sentences of "[verb] be that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the main arguments used by politicians in the debate has been that the typical industrial relations practices of public enterprises have impeded efficiency . |
| 2 | One persistent idea has been that the two main moderate right-wing parties , the Rassemblement pour la République and the Union pour la Démocratie Française , must get together if they are to have any chance of regaining power . |
| 3 | Although occasionally Dutch finance companies with Antillean parents ( taxed at a turn on the interest in the Netherlands ) are still seen , for the past few years the perceived wisdom has been that the Swiss finance branch structure is superior . |
| 4 | And er the result of all of that has been that the current development programme scheduled which we have supplied to the committee is probably about as fast as the programme is capable of running . |
| 5 | Secondly the deliveries of the equipment from the equipment suppliers who had been selected er generally fell behind the promises which they had made , so the main reason for the technical delays has been lack of equipment of the correct standard to proceed with the integration programme erm the erm the problems which beset the programme in nineteen ninety two after the German minister started questioning its future clearly had a direct bearing on that because many of the equipment suppliers , particularly those in Germany , suddenly began to think hey this programme is not going anywhere , why should we invest a lot of effort and and money into it and they slowed down so that has had a knock on effect in in terms of delaying the total programme and erm the result of all of that has been that the current development programme schedule which we have supplied to the committee is probably about as fast as the programme is capable of running . |
| 6 | Another suggestion has been that the only solution would be the fitting of a Rover SDI engine which I understand would also give much better mpg . |
| 7 | Assuming , that is , that its orbit is not anomalous : one intriguing notion has been that the tenth planet does not orbit the Sun in the same plane as all the others ; instead it goes ‘ up and over ’ . |
| 8 | This document accepts that the traditional trade union approach to employee representation has been that the single channel for th for the representation should be through trade union membership now just listen to this colleagues . |
| 9 | In fact a common complaint over the past decade has been that the high level of data content included in entries for the benefit of cataloguing records has been achieved at the cost of timeliness , and the BNB has certainly lost ground as a selection source for this reason . |
| 10 | It depends on the local growth rate , which is partly a function of family size , but one of the great features has been that the high fertility areas , with the exception perhaps of Northern Ireland , which is a rather special case , these tended to have become closer together . |
| 11 | The common view has been that the Conservative party 's structure is so rigidly hierarchical that there is little scope for initiatives from the party members . |
| 12 | The only difference has been that the old decisions were about small sums of money and fewer workers , while the decisions today involve vast sums of money and thousands of workers , and also the welfare of their families and other townsfolk . |
| 13 | What matters is that the Labour leader is suddenly there , reminding one how infrequently he has been there hitherto . |
| 14 | What matters is that the creative solution has a credible and realistic basis . |
| 15 | The unfortunate fact that my right hon. Friend must recognise is that the current treaty has been negotiated by the current Government , who do not share our sense of priorities . |
| 16 | What is happening is that the old orthodoxies are being softened , rather than up-ended . |
| 17 | What is happening is that the English rural landscape is slowly becoming divided into three major types in the lowlands . |
| 18 | What we do know is that the first Rottweiler to be registered with the New Zealand Club was Auslese Montrachet , who was imported from Australia . |
| 19 | Do not forget you also have a responsibility to treat the case properly , all I say is that the 4 oz syndrome is no longer the answer . |
| 20 | So , what we say is that the more things are eight until twelve . |
| 21 | From a health policy perspective the scenario depicted is that the increasing numbers of older people described earlier will lead to the population of the western industrial nations being infirm , demented and disease ridden with an insatiable demand for health and social care . |
| 22 | One problem that remains to be resolved is that the high reflectivity of the glass over many of the paintings , especially in rooms that have lighting from side windows , makes it difficult to view the works . |
| 23 | Or rather , the most that one can predict is that the 1990s will be a period of yet more bumps and twists , swerves and U-turns , and unexpected developments . |
| 24 | What the ‘ teacher ’ volunteer did not know was that the whole experiment was a set-up and that the ‘ learner ’ was in fact a co-worker of Milgram 's . |
| 25 | What he did n't know was that the local authorities were taking a very different line . |
| 26 | What he did n't know was that the secret military satellite launched on the Columbia space shuttle in the summer of 1989 also had the capability of following the Citation . |
| 27 | But what we found was that the heavier breeds , the wine dots and the Rhode Island Reds , they did n't need such a high fence as what the leghorns or any of the lighter breeds needed . |
| 28 | You what s normally happens is that the following year when you make profit you say ah but last year I made er you know I made a loss of ten thousand pound set that off against the profit of ten thousand pound I made this year so that tax pay losses can be carried forward there are other more complex ways of doing it too but that 's the standard sort of way , I think . |
| 29 | So physiologically what happens is that the principal flux through the channel is that of sodium , and that 's simply , although although the er channel is non-selective it 's simply because the sodium is at high activity outside , low activity inside and potassium is reasonably close to equilibrium . |
| 30 | In the case of pornography , what happens is that the one person becomes a body desired by the other , but this is not reciprocated . |