Example sentences of "[adj] be that [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem with this is that many managers and other PC users have never received formal keyboard training . |
| 2 | The implication of this is that many mergers can be regarded as failures in the sense that they do not attain the gains in efficiency claimed as their justification . |
| 3 | The prime reason for this is that such warehouses have become machines and will only operate correctly if the logic for their function has been meticulously thought out , checked and rechecked . |
| 4 | A corollary of this is that such industries are far from simple to understand and hence they demand experts both to run them and to explain them to the general public , e.g. microelectronics , nuclear stations , oil refineries , etc . |
| 5 | The implication of all this is that such places had perhaps been important as estates or administrative centres as well as having marketing functions long before late Saxon times and thus could be developed into true towns fairly easily . |
| 6 | The corollary of this is that any receipts received or payments made in the current financial year which relate to accruals made in the last financial year , will not affect the current year 's profit figures . |
| 7 | The reason for this is that few localities contain populations which closely replicate the national profile and even fewer record rates of change similar to the nation as a whole . |
| 8 | The corollary to this is that few books that are too enjoyable , too funny , or too popular could possibly be ‘ classics ’ . |
| 9 | The result of this is that most strikers are disqualified from receiving supplementary benefit during the first two weeks of a strike . |
| 10 | The great pity of this is that most pubs are old , yet the proper opportunity to celebrate this has already been squandered . |
| 11 | One reply to this is that most offences of bad driving have the potential to cause death or serious injury ; and that the North Committee 's proposals undervalue the element of endangerment where no harm occurs rather than over -value the resulting harm where it does occur . |
| 12 | One reason for this is that more women are first offenders , who are generally treated more leniently . |
| 13 | The reason suggested for this is that these girls feel that they should be able to cope with their pregnancy and problems on their own instead of sharing them within the unit , as most other girls do . |
| 14 | The disadvantage of this is that some promoters underadvertise , underpromote , and undermarket the gig to try and put more pounds in their pockets by reducing their expenses . |
| 15 | The evidence for this is that some scarps cut across several sizeable craters , whereas others are cut by sizeable craters , indicating that there are scarps which are older than appreciable numbers of sizeable craters , whereas others are much younger . |
| 16 | what 's interesting is that those rivalries are not focused as strongly as they used around the very big clubs , and we 're talking less here about what 's gon na happen at Manchester United and Chelsea and perhaps more about the difficulties of Wolves and and Stoke . |
| 17 | Another is that some guesses were quickly proved to have been wrong and ended up in bankruptcy . |
| 18 | One reason for this was that all officers of the Associations were honorary and had other jobs which kept them busy . |
| 19 | While at school the following day there was a general rumour being passed around , this was that all pupils were going to be sent home . |
| 20 | One consequence of this was that many stories were not really about events but merely reports or rewrites of speeches made by leading politicians at events . |
| 21 | The second is that many processes simply can not be shut down for the weekends . |
| 22 | The second is that some elements of decline or decay are present in the ageing process and that these may on occasion substantially or totally affect social and emotional functioning . |
| 23 | The second is that these neurons must not be involved in any other task . |
| 24 | The second is that these differences are the product of the influence of the ‘ new right ’ and its emphasis on market freedoms as the basis of civil and political liberty . |
| 25 | The sense in which they are natural is that such ways of behaving are grounded in instinctive reactions , and their prototypes are observed in some animals . |
| 26 | What makes the study of the English choral renaissance so fascinating is that these ideals have arisen there in ways that complicate ( but in no way confute ) the argument of Richard Taruskin and others who regard them as a projection of certain 20th-century musical ideas and tastes . |
| 27 | What excited him most of all was that these pieces , each so different , each showing a restless determination to experiment , all had the signature of Wyspianski . |
| 28 | What is more unexpected is that such inequalities have increased over the years . |
| 29 | The first is that all judges are ‘ conservative ’ to one degree or another ; they have to be . |
| 30 | The first is that these contexts offer an inequality of educational opportunity even more striking than that evident ( and so commonly deplored ) between the primary schools themselves . |