Example sentences of "[be] that [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the general lessons are that a concentrated vertical market structure is not necessarily undesirable , and that freely negotiated contractual relationships are not necessarily benign . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The clear implication would appear to be that an individual cost-benefit approach is appropriate , with each monopoly situation being judged upon its own merits only after a careful weighing of the gains and losses . |
| 4 | Alternatively , or in association , it could be that the pronounced environmental changes associated with the regression events act to destabilize intraspecific selection pressures and hence promote speciation . |
| 5 | They point out that nursery rhymes are not nursery rhymes for nothing ; it could be that the genuine Turkish nursery rhyme is intrinsically more memorable than the nonsense rhyme ; nursery rhymes , after all , catch on in part because they have an innately pleasing rhythm . |
| 6 | The conclusion would seem to be that the early Anglo-Saxon countryside was not run as efficiently as in the following centuries . |
| 7 | The New York Times called the men heroes , and The Times said ‘ the verdict of history will be that the ultimate guilty party is the government in power ... ’ |
| 8 | Mind you , if someone would like to sponsor this work it might be that the Great Central Railway would be happy to give the locomotive a different identity for a short period . |
| 9 | Moore 's view seems to be that the only non-fallacious cases are those where we are given merely some obvious synonym for the most basic sense of ‘ good ’ , like ‘ intrinsically valuable ’ . |
| 10 | No doubt there were formulae for getting rid of evil spirits , and it may be that the mysterious painted symbols written inside two cups from Knossos are spells of this kind . |
| 11 | The general message from the London and Madrid sales must be that the recent consistent and strong interest in Spanish Old Master paintings is still evident and , if anything , increasing . |
| 12 | Could it be that the bloody human history of the past 5,000 years is nothing more than an evolutionary side-road ? |
| 13 | Could it be that the bourgeois educational system was flawed ? |
| 14 | It could well be that the right hon. Member for Chingford and others are so offended by the success of those organisations and the ability of those individuals that they wish to curtail the right of people to seek that independent legal advice . |
| 15 | one is that i it may be that the old moral economy worked because the peasants recognized that , in a sense , that was the way they w well they , they could not stand up and criticize the landlord th the , the most they could do was to try and get the landlord to behave in a reasonable way , and that within that there would then be the sub-culture , the counter-culture of , of beginnings of mutual aid and what is happening in is in part that the communists are making them think the old moral economy work , but in part they are picking up on those sub- culture bits because the , the , the whole of mutual aid idea is , is coming from existing peasant cooperations . |
| 16 | It may be that the old pictographic signs acquired a special magic power associated with the remote past . |
| 17 | Thus it might be that the old English case of Woodhouse v Brotherhood 1972 ] ICR 186 would be decided the same way under the Directive , because the facts , as found in that case , were that the transferee employer used the factory and the machines to produce different products from those made by the transferor and sold them in different markets . |
| 18 | It might even be that the very military orderliness with which the Germans performed their mining affairs could have resulted in alienation . |
| 19 | One reason for its presence in the USA might be that the American higher education system is so heterogeneous , fulfilling such different functions and admitting such a diversity of students , that questions about the character of the learning experience arise naturally . |
| 20 | UNDER the improbable aegis of Ronald Reagan , who has never found occasion to say much good or bad about science during his long public career , it may well be that the American scientific community is headed for an economic boom . |
| 21 | It may be that the high local concentrations of gastrin , or another factor produced by the G cell , is responsible for the loss of parietal cells . |
| 22 | For example in the case of people of Asian origin living in Britain , the expectation is much more likely to be that the main supportive bond , especially in respect of financial support , will be between sons and parents . |
| 23 | No such luck : what makes sex much more complicated but also much more interesting and rewarding is that every single one of us has to learn what it 's all about for ourselves — as unique individuals . |
| 24 | The only belief I 'll never recant is that every single undamaged baby is born with fabulous , infinite intellectual potential . |
| 25 | It had been the custom from early times to name children after their godparents ; precisely because the paternal grandfather was an obvious choice to fulfil such an office for the eldest-born son , the impression we often receive — wrongly , perhaps — is that a specific Christian name was perpetuated just because it was that borne by the male-line grandparent . |
| 26 | The special significance of this number is that a similar long-term cyclic pattern shows up in the record of the changing number of sunspots , modulating the stronger 11 year rhythm . |
| 27 | The problem is that a great many of such units are needed , far more than are being built , if the numbers of larger hospitals are to be reduced . |
| 28 | The reason is that a great many " inventions " would not be obvious to a layman but would be to someone who knew something of the technology involved . |
| 29 | However or is that a damn crying shame however or is that a damn crying shame terrible you know what you need to do for now then , now I 've won all |
| 30 | However or is that a damn crying shame however or is that a damn crying shame terrible you know what you need to do for now then , now I 've won all |