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

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31 1993 is a year to really find the right person , so it may be that an unsatisfactory relationship has to go in order for the appropriate one to come in .
32 And it may well be that an equal share of interest does n't achieve the best result .
33 It could be that you were suddenly changing your motion , or it might be that an extra force of gravity had been switched on .
34 Our first thought might be that an individual bank which was short of base money could raise the rate of interest it offered to depositors .
35 Both these cases involved applications for orders to the Italian courts ; it may be that an English court would resist a contractual fetter on the power to grant injunctions under section 37 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 .
36 But it may be that an unusual boost at A level could place students in situations where they find themselves uncomfortably out-performanced by their peers .
37 It might be that an American Association of Embalmers would emerge , but one world-wide Institute would be better .
38 In the light of later events , it is possible to doubt Scott 's altruism in taking the initiative in this case ; clearly after the change of government with Manners ' well-known enthusiasm for the Middle Ages , the chances were that a Gothic design would be acceptable , and Scott was the best placed of the Gothic competitors , although of course he was completely unaware of the ultimately crucial placings awarded to him by the assessors .
39 The difference is that a protected tenant has security by virtue of his contract with the landlord ; a statutory tenant has security by virtue of the protection given by the Rent Acts .
40 The result is that a complete flowchart of both wings of the Chemical Products business — which manufactures up to 800 different specific chemicals — strongly resembles a bowl of spaghetti .
41 And the feeling in Washington is that a great pile of it is lying around ( under the name of Noriega M. ) at banks in London .
42 But the point is that a great variety of inputs and outputs are employed and interact with each other .
43 As I think Mr Gillett already suspects , the truth is that a great part of the Willesden Green library stock was sacrificed on the altar of Community Librarianship .
44 The major disadvantage with audio recorders is that a great deal of contextual information is not recorded and therefore , unless some other method of recording the context , such as note-taking , is employed , it may not be possible to recover a ‘ rich interpretation ’ of the child 's language .
45 What must be clear in a transcript of this kind is that a great deal of interpretation by the analyst has gone on before the reader encounters this ‘ data ’ .
46 My problem is that a great deal of business needs to be done , and I have to try to accommodate that business as well .
47 The theory is that a strong culture , good two-way communication , cooperation and motivational leadership will ‘ eliminate ’ conflict .
48 Another advantage is that a hooked bream can be persuaded — with a little not-too-gentle pulling and guidance — to fight it out in the shallower water and therefore not disturb the remainder of the feeding shoal .
49 One of the inherent weaknesses of the modern squad system is that a close-knit clique becomes impervious to failure and criticism .
50 What happens , I believe , is that a Federal institution like the FRCN tends to report Federal Government news more often and thus leans towards support for the NPN 's view of things .
51 The main conclusion to be drawn from this discussion is that a software-based System gives detailed control of the velocity profile up to medium stepping rates ( 1000 steps per second ) , but may limit high-speed performance , and is therefore well-suited to applications in which acceleration/deceleration operations predominate .
52 An objection to this argument is that a legal obligation is not a necessary condition for a liability .
53 The reason behind all of the red tape even under normal circumstances is that a legal process is being implemented .
54 And so the point I 'm making is that , is that a modern insight into Darwinian evolution is based on a wholly scientific basis and social Darwinism may have got Darwinism a bad name by associating it with slogans like survival of the fittest , but modern Darwinism er is n't like that .
55 The assumption made in empirical studies is that a selective excise is passed on fully , and that there is no change in factor incomes , which in the present context means , and .
56 The reason they were picked ( aside from those who are here by right of birth ) is that a small portion of their total brain power was visibly alight at the right time and in the right place .
57 Thus the new reality is that a small group of people substitute themselves for the class as a whole and decide what is best for all .
58 My understanding is that a small group need not prepare a consolidated cash flow statement , even if the holding company of that group prepared group accounts .
59 The problem with recruitment is that a small amount of initial effort produces a great deal of work , and this work proceeds in waves which produce severe fluctuations in activity for the personnel staff involved .
60 The second point is that a small energy input into the thermostat can release a large quantity of energy from the boiler .
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