Example sentences of "[be] that a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The key criteria are that a person has a range of needs that can not be met by one agency alone and his or her ability to live independently is in jeopardy . |
| 2 | If you can find nothing wrong with the external pickup wiring and associated circuitry , the chances are that a wire has broken inside one of the coils and will require rewinding . |
| 3 | The prime advantages are that a group develops a high level of cohesiveness and a high regard for its task functions . |
| 4 | The typical problems that occur are that a file created on your system using downloadable fonts works perfectly but , when you send it to another system , such as a bureau 's typesetter , what you had in , say , Bodoni Bold comes back as New Century Schoolbook Italic . |
| 5 | It might be that a friend says to the young man who is thinking of living in Bali ‘ You do n't really believe that nonsense , you 're playing at being Gauguin' . |
| 6 | However it may be that a problem remains at the point of delivery of the curriculum — the interface between pupil and teacher — and that gender bias and stereotyping are being reinforced period by period . |
| 7 | Probably the most accurate statement would be that a person intends to kill if it is his or her purpose to kill by the act or omission charged , or if he or she foresees that death is practically certain to follow from that act or omission . |
| 8 | The argument would now tend to be that a child refusing to be toilet trained is not simply enjoying the experience for its own sake . |
| 9 | The lesson seems to be that a plaintiff has a better chance of attacking the exercise of ministerial power if he can show that in some general way , especially procedural and not substantive , the minister has not played the game according to the newly enlarged rules of natural justice . |
| 10 | Under s2(5) , it may be that a defendant has " no reasonable cause to suspect " the obscenity of a book which he has not personally examined because books with similar or identical titles or themes have been acquitted , to his knowledge , in previous proceedings . |
| 11 | It may be that a study commissioned from contractors by the British National Space Centre will provide useful evidence on the cash value of remote sensing ; it is particularly timely in view of the appointment of Professor Pearce ( see above ) as the adviser to the UK Secretary of State for the Environment . |
| 12 | What it provides is that a company proposing to allot equity securities shall not allot them to any person unless it has first offered , on the same or more favourable terms , to each person who holds relevant shares or relevant employee shares , a proportion of those equity securities which is as nearly as practicable equal to his existing proportion in nominal value of his aggregate holdings of relevant shares and relevant employee shares . |
| 13 | The problem in today 's computer industry is that a company needs to be not just adequately well run but superbly well run to turn in acceptable numbers : Hewlett-Packard Co , now doing over $16,000m of business has 20,000 fewer employees than Digital Equipment Corp , which is still stuck at around $14,500m . |
| 14 | The argument for saying that there should be liability in such circumstances is that a constable does not cease to have certain general duties because he happens to be ‘ off duty ’ for the time being . |
| 15 | All it tells us is that a man walked through the wood and threw a white stick down . |
| 16 | What seems miraculous , when all is said , is that a man driven by so many acts of perversity should have been embraced so widely . |
| 17 | A further paternalistic argument is that a law restricting consent helps to protect individual citizens from themselves by counteracting some of the social pressures and shame which might otherwise occur . |
| 18 | The main difference is that a style has evolved known as open punctuation in which all punctuation outside of the main body of the letter is omitted . |
| 19 | The logical consequence , no doubt , is that a promise to accept a smaller sum in discharge of a larger sum , if acted upon , is binding notwithstanding the absence of consideration : and if the fusion of law and equity leads to this result , so much the better . |
| 20 | I respectfully agree with the judge that that would be an inappropriate way of achieving the result which clearly ought to be achieved , which is that a child abducted in the way this little boy was should be able to return home pending a decision as to whether he lives with his father or with his mother . |
| 21 | One is that a person has contravened one or other of the statutory provisions referred to in subsection ( 1 ) ( a ) . |
| 22 | The position is that a trust has been set up in favour of the family . |
| 23 | The meaning is that a ruling has been made on an enquiry into " rings " developing in the art world . |
| 24 | The reason for this is that a window provides light only on one side ; the other three sides and the top consist of the walls of the room and its ceiling , and the loss of available light is considerable . |
| 25 | What has changed is that a convention has developed as to how and when this power is exercised and the modern position is thus that the monarch has , except in the most unusual circumstances and even then only doubtfully so , no discretion as to when Parliament shall be called and disbanded . |
| 26 | following on from that er that the point that I think is being made is that a contribution does not have to be put forward in a shape of a question to be er a useful contribution to the debate and and your erm pressure upon er the lady who spoke er a while ago was er insisting that she she |
| 27 | ‘ The only true part of the old story is that a meteorite hit that hill way back in the late nineteenth century and dug a damn big crater there . ’ |
| 28 | The result of this is that a spelling like with can realize three separate classes : OE wiht ( 'wight , person' ) , OE wip ( 'with' ) , and OE hwit ( 'white' ) , and this of course applies to other items of these types . |
| 29 | The new Directory holds everything from users and their privileges to file servers and printers as objects within a distributed database — the result is that a user logging onto one server gets immediate access to resources , irrespective of location on the internet . |
| 30 | Where I think you are , where you get into problems with that , are things like , assertiveness training , negotiating , Well assertiveness training is that a competence based thing or not ? |