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

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1 All the suggestions for improvement had been adequately implemented so the conclusion could only be that neither party had grasped the size and nature of the problem .
2 How long is that longer term is still a matter for debate .
3 The difficulty many pupils experience with the scale illustrated below is that each division represents 0.2 of a centimetre and not 0.1 .
4 There had just been that one phrase
5 Just just to show that erm well they just were that those sort of people you know .
6 A particular feature of such a view of what is just is that any attempt to translate it into practice must begin by favouring the weakest and the least advantaged , since these are the people least likely to have the opportunity to enjoy an equal share of what we have , and are thus most in need of help .
7 What made it easy was that earlier charters had been produced by so many different monastic scriptoria in so many house styles that spotting the inauthentic was a task for the dedicated scholar — who in any case was more likely to be employed in propagating fraud than in hunting it out .
8 Our view has always been that any taxation system must be based on the ability to pay .
9 MPs are in the unique position of being able to vote themselves unlimited money from public funds : the dominant view among MPs has always been that this power must be exercised with restraint .
10 It may also be that such service would be regarded as valid on the ground that it amounted to service on the defendant in accordance with the law of the country in which service is effected .
11 It may also be that such employers were , at least in the early 1970s , less prepared to make the organizational adjustments which make it feasible for mothers to combine paid work with responsibility for young children .
12 It is interesting to note that in a guidance booklet produced by the Royal College of Nursing , the assumption throughout is that two people will be lifting a person out of a chair or bed .
13 And what I see clearly is that those things are n't right .
14 Their only problem right now is that this tour is too short for them , their inexperience is a weakness and only more games will reduce that factor .
15 and what I concern myself with now is that this sort of thing is becoming too obvious in the area , this kind of development , this kind of an infringement in villages , looking for , somebody 's got to make a stand against it , er and I hope that we shall in this Parish Council
16 Now is that any way for a nicely brought-up young lady to talk to her host ? ’
17 ‘ All you 've said so far is that some kid thinks he 's seen the man we want .
18 But what is of crucial importance in the account thus far is that these action types are syntactically and semantically unstructured .
19 The buyer 's concerns here are that these items be properly used and cared for by the seller , that they be used only for the purposes of the sub-contract ( ie that the seller does not use them to make goods for third parties which can then be sold by them in competition with the buyer ) , and that they be returned to him at the end of the sub-contract .
20 It may simply be that more people are taking advantage of higher social security benefits to spend more time searching for suitable jobs .
21 It may even be that some ingredients were added from outer space , brought by meteorites .
22 Nevertheless , it may well be that such birds are conditioned to this colour and it has been shown that nectar quality can overcome colour prejudice .
23 We may like to think that such changes enable the organisation to be more efficient and effective in achieving its goals and yet it may well be that such changes arise as a result of trying to satisfy an individual 's political ambitions or to undercut the ambitions of a rival .
24 Thus , for example , in a police operational matter it may well be that one individual must make a decision and make that decision quickly .
25 It may well be that one consequence of increasing complexity will be a return to standard units .
26 Because it may well be that that land would n't be considered being part of the conservation area .
27 In so far as society is divided into different interests , of which labour and capital are the prototypical examples , it may well be that some interests have more control than others over the development of representations which accord to their perspective and thus their interests .
28 In any case , it could well be that some students have no interest at all in certain idioms and prefer to by-pass them quickly in their search for what expresses their own aesthetic more closely .
29 Now it may well be that some people will transfer from S I S into B S G , I do n't know yet , erm
30 It may well be that some accountant has shown the society a loophole through which it can escape the obligations laid upon it at its foundation in 1914 .
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