Example sentences of "[be] that a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Section three deals with the nineteen ninety three ninety four revenue budget , the main points for this year are that a similar saving on inflation in excess of two hundred thousand pounds can be put towards the extra items of expenditure listed in paragraph three point four , that will fall to the committee 's budget in nineteen ninety three ninety four , in addition the savings generated by the renegotiated electricity maintenance contracts contributes another eighty two thousand pounds , this leaves some two hundred and thirty thousand pounds of the extra commitments still to be financed .
2 Among these are that a complete network may have only one start event and only one finish event ; that an event is not complete until all the activities leading to it are themselves complete ; and that a network must always move forwards in time .
3 But such aspirations may easily be frustrated when managerial priorities are that a local population of mentally handicapped people is routinely visited and monitored and that recurrent crises are dealt with by team members .
4 The two criticisms commonly levelled at Prince are that a particular song is ‘ overdone ’ or that it 's ‘ unrealized ’ .
5 The theme of this chapter has been that a great deal of antislavery argument grew out of a fundamental concern for proper order in the world .
6 If your wife is unhappy , now it may well have been that a better policy could have been put on the vehicle .
7 It might have been that a long time ago , when people believed in prayer .
8 The proposition has always been that a peace-keeping force should enforce and keep a ceasefire which already existed .
9 The account he gave just after his release was that the threat had been that a British soldier might ‘ accidentally ’ shoot one of the women .
10 If you have a particular task in mind it may be that a 2.4 volt drill will perform quite adequately , although as a general rule the lower voltage drills are best suited to small diameter pilot drilling and countersinking .
11 The problem continues to be that a religious-fascist state wishes to hire professional terrorists to have me killed ; that has always been the problem . ’
12 ‘ If the lenders wo n't contribute voluntarily to money advice funding , it may be that a compulsory levy on lenders , to augment funding by central and local government and others , is now the answer .
13 The answer seems to be that a female cat sometimes experiences a ‘ false heat ’ a few weeks after she has given birth .
14 The explanation might be that a probable leak at the tight junction is relative , allowing only small molecules to pass into the intercellular space .
15 One of the possible explanations for the differences could be that a small subclone was not present initially in the sample of the first tumour and eventually grew up to form the recurrence , but as there were so many genetic changes present in the recurrence which were not initially there and the Lambda MS8 did not show allele loss , a balance of probabilities seemed that the latter tumour was not a progression from the first .
16 Other bores can also be used but the obvious point must be that a small charge in the right place is a lot better than a heavier charge badly directed .
17 So , for example , it may be that a keen walker would have a special interest in a stretch of country where he or she frequently walked which would entitle him or her to challenge a decision to grant planning permission to develop it , whereas an ordinary member of the public or even of some environmental group in a different area might not have .
18 It may be that a new course is still in the planning stages , or that what you want is offered at another local centre .
19 Compared with the case in which A and B have not been pre-trained , the consequence of A-X and B-Y associations having been pre-established would be that a new response could be acquired very readily by stimulus A without any increase in the extent to which generalization occurs to stimulus B.
20 It may be that the effect of diagnosis is real and that duodenal ulcer is more persistent than gastric ulcer , or it may be that a higher proportion of gastric ulcer patients have been operated upon in the time between the two periods of registrations of drug use .
21 Alternatively , it might be that a negative cash flow occurs at the end of the project 's life cycle .
22 It may be that a separate recogniser could be constructed that would concentrate on these sort of features , i.e. the shape of a word found from its ascending and descending characters .
23 Liam Hudson suggests that ‘ it may be that a single system of values embraces the individual 's perceptions of academic institutions ; his perception of himself and his demonstrable behaviour ’ , and goes on to say that ,
24 It 's important to remember the classification tells you about the minimum facilities available : it could well be that a Listed establishment , for example , will also provide some of the services and facilities found at a higher Crown level .
25 Accordingly , the conclusion has to be that a knowing breach of the order by the appellants has not been proved .
26 It may well be that a fairer test must await an examination of the poll tax over an entire electoral cycle .
27 It may be that a federated structure is either the best long-term , or the best short-term , structure .
28 As with calls for euthanasia , it could be that a proper understanding by doctors of their duties to their patients , both ethical and legal , could obviate the need in large part for such developments .
29 The Rapporteur was notably unenthusiastic about this text ‘ que nous n'estimons pas très heureux ’ ; its effect appears to be that a Contracting State can enter an objection to the modes of service provided for in Article 10 ( which would otherwise be available in respect of all Contracting States ) but allow their use in respect of particular , and perhaps especially neighbouring , states .
30 One hope might be that a satisfactory account of what knowledge is would have the effect of exposing errors in the sceptic 's reasoning .
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