Example sentences of "[be] that [det] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got it written er if you remember the rules of the game are that all Regional Railways work will go to a Regional Railways office and they will decide if it goes out . |
| 2 | My own experience , even before I was directly concerned in sexual therapy , has always been that few marital problems arise in which there is not some sexual content . |
| 3 | One of the main barriers between the development of general purpose systems has been that few existing systems can be re-used . |
| 4 | It may be that such historical exemplars , rather like foreign comparisons , are largely used to legitimate a particular contemporary point of view , rather than constituting a real and unbroken tradition . |
| 5 | ‘ Tradition dies hard and it may well be that many zealous companions will go on quoting Syriac and Egyptian and perpetuating this extraordinary jumble of explanations , ’ wrote Canon Richard Tydeman , Grand Superintendent over the Suffolk province of Freemasonry , in 1985 . |
| 6 | It may well be that many local-authority accountants have no detailed working knowledge of school-based financial-management systems — to give them a very grand title for their current state of development . |
| 7 | The view is almost certain to be that these tax-free boats should not remain in EC waters unless VAT is paid . |
| 8 | Much of their repertory is being recorded for the first time ( or very nearly so ) , and it may be that some current recordings will sound exploratory , even tentative , to future generations who will have the privilege to take things further . |
| 9 | There 's a great deal of double counting that takes place , it might be that some honourable members in this house actually appear upon two registers , one in London and one within the area in which they reside , normally within their constituency and many people are merely carried over from past registers , without any serious canvassing taking place to find out whether they are the people to be on the registers or whether someone else should be put in their place . |
| 10 | It may be that some young children will achieve a stage where they are ready to compare more than two sets to see which has ‘ most ’ or ‘ least ’ , but incidental experience of this kind is less frequent . |
| 11 | It may be that some hereditary peers are well worth a place , but it is also true that some who are not hereditary peers are equally deserving and it is hard to argue that they should not be considered on their merits on the same basis , with life peerages being conferred on those most suitable . |
| 12 | First , it may be that some commodity-producing projects deemed socially useful are unprofitable because the ‘ social need ’ which they are supposed to answer fails to find expression as a monetary demand on the market . |
| 13 | His argument would be that most electronic circuits are organized interactively , by which we mean that the proper operation of one component depends on the normal operation of all of the others . |
| 14 | It 's not just that drama teachers are nostalgic romantics who hanker for a simpler way of life ( though there may well be an element of truth in that ) ; it 's that these self-contained communities can not easily call upon outside forces to solve their problems . |
| 15 | Union policy is that all new posts should be advertised and the process must be taken seriously . |
| 16 | One of the reasons for believing that cross-species extrapolation is possible at all is that all living animals have evolved from common ancestors that existed at some time in the distant past . |
| 17 | The fact is that all developed societies undergo processes in which professions and occupations proliferate and become more specialised and we then have to evolve means of ‘ getting it all together again' , in this case , ensuring that the patient or client does not suffer as a result of our separate functions and roles . |
| 18 | As the likelihood of restricting drivers to eight km/h for all but the shortest distances appears remote , the implication is that all shared-space areas must be for small groups of houses only or short culs-de-sac . |
| 19 | The second reason why the CAP can not survive is that all practical considerations are subordinated to political expediency . |
| 20 | My own opinion is that all cold-blooded animals are endowed with responsive behaviour that can be mistaken for higher intelligence , when what we are really dealing with are reflex actions to given stimuli — as in Pavlov 's dogs , which salivated when a bell they associated with food was rung . |
| 21 | Our first rule is that all raw materials must be from a known and identifiable source . |
| 22 | The principal recommendation is that all listed companies registered in the UK should comply with a code of best practice for corporate governance . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , I was just thinking what a pity it is that all good-looking men are such beasts , ’ she said , with more real feeling than she intended . |
| 24 | Halliday 's view is that all linguistic choices are meaningful , and all linguistic choices are stylistic . |
| 25 | What is clear is that such private desires were not sealed off from the world of public representations . |
| 26 | Indeed , one of the key points about Berger and Mohr 's study is that such moral careers are being partly constructed by capital 's requirements for a cheap workforce and one which can be dismissed in line with fluctuating demands for the products they make . |
| 27 | The key to ethnomethodological and phenomenological interpretations of ‘ doing ’ routine ( qua ordinary ) police work , is that such interpretative processes and practices are employed in a routine ( qua taken-for-granted ) manner . |
| 28 | A further suggestion that flows from this is that such evolutionary considerations lend support to a competing grammatical paradigm — that of Montague grammar . |
| 29 | The main difficulty is that such heavy feeders are easy to overfeed and are capable of quickly fouling the aquarium water . |
| 30 | The truth is that such huge figures have a hypnotizing effect on the victims and arouse a defensive incredulity among those supposed to provide the money . |