Example sentences of "[prep] be that [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they lose sight of is that the only possible justification of the expense of supporting these vast bureaucratic machines is to ensure that the necessary high standard of safety is established and maintained . |
| 2 | I thought for a while and said that the only thing I could think of was that the British government did not — although it would have been slow to admit it — at that moment cut much ice with the South African government , but the United States government cut considerable ice . |
| 3 | But the central and substantive argument that defenders of Roman catholic schools have had to deal with is that the dual school system in Northern Ireland encourages , supports , or at least reinforces the sectarian divide , and that it forms part of the vicious circle maintaining conflict in Ulster . |
| 4 | A worrying thing at the moment is as I said we 're in close contact with is that the Malaysian Government is sending representatives over to visit the European Community Ministers in May , to try and say that there 's absolutely nothing wrong with what 's going on in their country with the logging , and they 're saying that people like Friends of the Earth are calling for a ban on timber , not because they care about sustained yield , but because we want to be able to sell our own wood , and this is to depress their trade . |
| 5 | One theory I came up with was that the down beat of its wings pushed it upwards and the up beat pushed it downwards and the two cancelled each other out so that the kestrel stayed where it was . |
| 6 | The proper conclusion appears to be that no single theory can underlie all potential agency situations , and that these must be examined on a case by case basis . |
| 7 | The answer seems to be that a female cat sometimes experiences a ‘ false heat ’ a few weeks after she has given birth . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Accordingly , the conclusion has to be that a knowing breach of the order by the appellants has not been proved . |
| 11 | If not , Hick 's position would presumably have to be that the many gods of one tradition were equivalent to the one god of another tradition . |
| 12 | [ 1979 ] A.C. 440 , Lord Diplock stated the key principle to be that the general rule may be departed from only where its application would ‘ frustrate or render impracticable the administration of justice . ’ |
| 13 | A difference between McGregor and Tuckman seems to be that the former sees some groups as fixed in their poor behaviour , whereas the latter implies that groups tend to move out of the ineffective stages into more effective behaviour . |
| 14 | The position now seems to be that the two offences have the same legal definition , and that the prosecution should prefer the charge of manslaughter when the case is a bad one which might merit a sentence in excess of the five-year maximum for causing death by reckless driving . |
| 15 | The reasoning behind this proposal seems to be that the two parties are adult , and any exploitation deriving from the family tie seems no more likely than in other adult relationships . |
| 16 | Thus , despite the limitation of s 7 of the UCTA ( prior to its amendment by the addition of s 7(3A) ) to business contracts ( see s 1(3) ) , the better argument would seem to be that the new s 7(3A) , like the old s 6(1) , applies to all contracts , not just business contracts . |
| 17 | The important difference between habituation and conditioning when it comes to context specificity appears to be that the latter involves the recall of associative information whereas habituation requires no more than the recognition of the stimulus as being familiar . |
| 18 | The most likely outcome seems to be that the black hole will just disappear , at least from our region of the universe , taking with it the astronaut and any singularity there might be inside it , if indeed there is one . |
| 19 | In late twentieth century Moscow , the danger appears to be that the collective record of the Russian and other Soviet peoples may simply ebb away electron by electron ( Moiseenko 1993 ) . |
| 20 | Moore 's view seems to be that the only non-fallacious cases are those where we are given merely some obvious synonym for the most basic sense of ‘ good ’ , like ‘ intrinsically valuable ’ . |
| 21 | The general opinion seems to be that the only really dangerous thing that happens during the filming of London 's Burning is Murphy driving a fire engine . |
| 22 | The principle seems to be that the closer the potential person approaches its realisation and the fewer the remaining hurdles to surmount , the more attributes of the actual person seem proper to it . |
| 23 | The conclusion would seem to be that the early Anglo-Saxon countryside was not run as efficiently as in the following centuries . |
| 24 | The message seems to be that the best diet is one where as many different foods as possible are included and where meals are planned to include : |
| 25 | And so it came to be that the bewitching gesture of her father 's secretary walking down the golden path ( which bewitched me when I saw the woman in the swimsuit take leave of the lifeguard ) had completely gone to sleep in her . |
| 26 | The only truism appears to be that the smaller the town the greater the extent of the exchange . |
| 27 | In a comprehensive survey , Moore and Newman ( 1985 ) note that the consensus appears to be that the free rider effect of RTW laws is negligible in terms of the impact on unionization . |
| 28 | The end result of interaction appears to be that the longer one survives after myocardial infarct the closer one 's life expectancy comes to match the normal population . |
| 29 | In retrospect , indeed , the only criticism was to be that the whole Supergrid had not been designed for conversion to even higher voltages . |
| 30 | Many people , therefore , encoded his conclusion to be that the limbic system was the seat of emotion . |