Example sentences of "[be] that [adv] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps the first thing to realise is that not all page printers use laser beams ; there are many other successful technologies including LED arrays , LCD shutters , ink-jet , magneto-deposition and ion-deposition .
2 Part of the explanation for this failure is that not enough information about investment plans is available to the market , and also that market participants lack the technical ability to evaluate what may be highly complex and specialised projects .
3 The second caveat is that even this amount of support is reduced when hypothetical compromises are put to the public .
4 The problem is that plainly this depreciation charge can not reflect the periodic benefits expected to accrue from using the vehicle .
5 One problem with setting the neck so deep into the body is that relatively little space is left for pickup separation .
6 Our impression is that almost all contract computer staff are voluntarily working on this basis .
7 The point is that almost any configuration of events with which an individual is likely to be associated in public carries the risk of a worst possible meaning which might reflect unfavourably upon him , and it is a sign of intact mental functioning that one recognises this risk , without of course being incapacitated by the thought , and at the same time that one is equipped to perform repair work if and when infractions occur .
8 Although the electronics industry has changed greatly , possible the greatest change is that very little component level manufacture is done in this country .
9 Yet the reality is that very little money spent on science is spent on improving social welfare ; as Rose ( 1986 ) has pointed out , 50 per cent of the government 's science and technology budget in 1981–2 went on military research and development .
10 The danger is that too much reliance can be placed on intellectual exercises with resulting works only comprehensible to those studying the same theories .
11 Another standard complaint of engineers is that too much government R&D money goes into defence — nearly half , compared with 36% in France , 13% in Italy , 9% in Germany and none in Japan .
12 What Gandhi may be suggesting by the statement that the road one takes is unimportant provided the goal is achieved is that too much importance can be attached to particular religions , especially when it might result in exclusivist claims being made on behalf of those religions .
13 Johnson declared himself in favour of such prescribed succession : ‘ His opinion was that so much land should be entailed as that families should never fall into contempt , and as much left free as to give them all the advantages in case of any emergency . ’
14 well I think that , that the , the sending out of the press release immediately was , was quite correct , because obviously people had ride that , sorry people may have read that and something therefore had to be said , my personal view was that really this article is you had , if you like had undone everything that we had been trying to do , erm and put us in a bad light and it maybe my Scottish background , but I do n't like people calling in to question my motives and the companies motives , erm and I felt that it went straight to what we were really standing for , given what I explained about my thoughts in nineteen eighty seven , it was hitting straight to the core of the whole proposition and everything that stood for , erm and that is what was the great concern and because it was n't just like a , a mild slap in the face it was more like a knife in the ribs , it was therefore required a lot more thinking about as to the reaction that we would then have to come up with .
15 The other major lesson was that as much information as it is possible to validate should be validated .
16 An example in the past was that too much butter had been produced .
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