Example sentences of "[adv] [be] that [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 The word from Lilongwe now is that Chihana will be charged with sedition , a capital offence .
2 The fear now is that banks will start to compete by driving commission rates lower and lower until they are prepared to arrange issues at break-even or worse .
3 The indication so far is that companies will follow a comprehensive site audit with regular spot checks , but leave between two and four years before carrying out a further full audit .
4 But certainly it may even be that people might , in the future , even prefer to talk to computers under some circumstances .
5 It may well be that arguments could be made that this sense of unreasonableness should be the only mechanism for controlling discretion .
6 It may well be that events can be causes in virtue of satisfying criteria about their being required or alternatively required for effects which are different from the mentioned two .
7 We do it when we decide that the sibling rule — that a child can attend the same school as a brother or sister — does not apply ( the assumption here must surely be that siblings can belong to different species ) .
8 The view taken here is that parents may not be able to cope , and certainly they will feel this when they first discover that their child is handicapped .
9 The idea here is that citizens would be entitled to compensation for loss caused by the conduct of a particular activity regardless of whether that activity was conducted legally or illegally , in a faulty way or absolutely blamelessly .
10 The rationale here is that firms may wish to preserve customer goodwill by preventing shortages .
11 The public policy issue here is that farmers should not be strictly liable for defects beyond their control , such as the long-term effects of fertilisers .
12 The key here is that Major may be about to achieve in government what Thatcher never did — indeed , she never tried to achieve it .
13 What Qaddafi means here is that people should not make alliances outside the nation ( just as many Libyans said it is preferable to marry close — for example , to a father 's brother 's child ) .
14 In my view , what should happen here is that cats should not be allowed to roam around in places where they could have a dramatic adverse effect on populations of animals , even though it is better for the cat .
15 Weill 's philosophy here was that songs should not blend with , but should deliberately interrupt , narrative in his contemporaneous documentary style operas ( Willett 1978 , p. 167 ) .
16 Roger : Ministers have declared new rules or constraints in advance but one rule will definitely be that employers must not sack other employees so that they can take on Workstart participants .
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