Example sentences of "[adv] be that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter point is debatable and it may only be that the practical aspects of creep measurements are simpler . |
| 2 | This could perhaps be that the new doctor 's surgery is nearer , or easier for her to get to , has less steps to climb to the front door , or that she has a neighbour on his list who would accompany her to the surgery . |
| 3 | One reason they have not done better is that the largest and most inefficient Italian banks remain in the hands of the government , which has done its best to protect them . |
| 4 | One advantage of the fly and inner going up together is that the inner is kept at a set distance from the fly , preventing the two from touching and allowing moisture to leak through to the inside . |
| 5 | Most noticeable perhaps is that the dead minister of the newspaper account is removed completely , thereby channelling attention towards the sick minister in the vignette . |
| 6 | It might just be that the best way forward in Africa is by falling back on the spirit of silif , and building on it . |
| 7 | Therefore a key implication of the rational expectations hypothesis when combined with the aggregate demand — aggregate supply model developed above is that the Keynesian approach to macroeconomic stabilization policy is badly flawed . |
| 8 | The second reason why conventional maps are unsuitable for the answering of the types of queries mentioned above is that the human eye and brain can not take in the amounts of information that would be present in the overlays and in the accompanying tables of figures and statistics . |
| 9 | The most fundamental difference to me has always been that the private sector is so much more dynamic — the rate of change is so great . |
| 10 | The reason why the ’ three wise men ’ report was produced so quickly is that the three people whom I invited to deliver it — Mr. Alexander , Mr. Rose and Mr. Woodhead — had behind them a lifetime of experience and close involvement with primary schools , and they were able to distil that lifetime 's knowledge very rapidly . |
| 11 | THE good news yesterday was that the public sector borrowing requirement may not be growing as fast as the pessimists feared , and the need for tax increases in the Budget may not be as insistent as some analysts believe . |
| 12 | It may also be that the early returns from the voyages proved small , and that it was felt that investment in them did not provide an adequate reward for those involved . |
| 13 | It may also be that the limited review which the theory allows is unacceptable on policy grounds . |
| 14 | Might it also be that the common phenomenon of token adoption of an innovation is an example of assimilation without accommodation ? |
| 15 | And I think the point the graph makes very clearly is that the eighty nine based set up here at least in my view , to fit far better to what has been happening than eighty five based set . |
| 16 | The result of such practice may often be that the actual operative working on site receives substantially less than an economic rate for individual tasks , with resultant bad feeling and possibly bad workmanship . |
| 17 | The o one thing that w we have to have in mind though is that the this particular criminal that we are does n't want to get caught . |
| 18 | The original deal was for the same time and same sum , but the difference now is that the new contract covers rugby only for the age bracket between 16 and 18 . |
| 19 | During the summer , the Prime Minister kept saying how essential it was for him to be present at Maastricht in December in order to make decisions , but the word from Downing street now is that the Prime Minister 's greatest ambition at Maastricht is to fend off making any decisions . |
| 20 | The difference now is that the same factory supplies production to both sales forces and , in theory , our factories ( Runcorn and Elderslie ) have two chances to win the order instead of only one as in the past . |
| 21 | The greatest fear of the opposition groups now is that the ruling parties will try to appease them and rush ahead with calling free elections before the opposition groups are properly organised . |
| 22 | The problem now is that the leading countries will not be so keen to invite Argentina to tour , although they may continue to like coming to Argentina . |
| 23 | This is another area largely unexplored by the Church , and the Commission believes that more work needs to be done here , for the implication of the research completed so far is that the average parish congregation demands a variety of musical styles if the needs of all its members are to be met . |
| 24 | It would be fair to say that our impression so far is that the previous Soviet systems were , in many ways , impressive and that the Soviet Union had good controls over its nuclear weapons . |
| 25 | So I mean I think what we envisaged though was that the local publicity group erm would meet and see if the well first of all I suppose was there a , a necessity having seen what we 've got from national level er necessity to produce a kind of newsletter , a joint unison newsletter specific to Northumberland , that 's what the group was going to have a look at was n't it ? |
| 26 | It might even be that the very military orderliness with which the Germans performed their mining affairs could have resulted in alienation . |
| 27 | If that is true , as I hope it is , it may well be that the long-term trend of unemployment , which has seen troughs and peaks rising over the past 30 or 40 years with every trough and every peak getting higher , will turn round so that the peak of unemployment will be considerably lower than the last peak of unemployment . |
| 28 | It may well be that the better education of orphan girls was a particular feature of the experiment . |
| 29 | Relations between working class husbands and wives never lacked affection and it may well be that the poor , early twentieth century working class wife derived as great a satisfaction from the mix of activities she undertook to sustain her family as her modern counterpart does from , typically , a part-time job and the performance of less arduous domestic tasks ( with varying degrees of help from her husband ) . |
| 30 | It could well be that the right hon. Member for Chingford and others are so offended by the success of those organisations and the ability of those individuals that they wish to curtail the right of people to seek that independent legal advice . |