Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [be] [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moral to this little story must therefore be that it is always worth checking that the components you receive from a supplier are the ones that you actually ordered ! |
| 2 | It may not be that we have become too sophisticated but that we are so confused we seek salvation even from out there . |
| 3 | It may or may not be that he would have thought it necessary for there to be a ‘ natural resemblance ’ ( such as the Vatican Declaration believes to be necessary ) between the male Christ and the male priest . |
| 4 | We might think that any differences reflected poorer performance but it may just be that they merely reflect the different impact of specific price changes on drugs compared with books . |
| 5 | It might be that the subject noun and verb phrase go together to form a constituent , so you have Florence teased Dougal or the structure might not be that it might just be three separate constituents with no firm structure forming a further constituent , so why that structure ? |
| 6 | But it might just be that we ca n't have both and we ca n't ensure that people vote from the right from moral motivation rather than personal interest and we ca n't ensure vote |
| 7 | It might simply be that you are a person with small wrists but a large body frame , wide shoulders , wide rib-cage , and so on . |
| 8 | yep it 's just that some of the cottages tend to be a bit smaller so that it might well be that we can get you something where there 's a perhaps ground floor extension or whatever okay . |
| 9 | So it might well be that we do n't get the S I S people that we previously thought we might do . |
| 10 | Therefore , one further reason why policemen dislike dealing with rape might well be that they feel uneasy about having to ask the very personal questions which are necessary in order for the victim to be taken seriously , and on the occasion quoted above the sergeant went on to say that as a result of asking for these very personal details policemen ‘ have had a very bad rap over dealing with rape cases ’ ( FN 16/3/87 , p. 14 ) . |
| 11 | Include it in that , those twelve weeks because I know it 's , you know , a bit erm I would try and see if I could set up some sex education with the health centre and the , you know , that she used to take them and they went through contraception and condoms and whatever at the , and she used to take them down for an afternoon it might well be that they have to miss a lesson |
| 12 | It is not at all unlikely that at the conquest , Mehmed II appointed someone mufti in the newly conquered city ; and since the sources seem not to mention the appointment of anyone else to the post , it may possibly be that it was made an for Hizir Bey . |
| 13 | If I were looking for a fault with the conception of the series , it could only be that it lacks a single volume overview of the whole of the development of quantum theory , a volume concentrating on the broad sweep of ideas and leaving out the mathematical detail . |
| 14 | Er I mean it could just be that they do n't like it , so anything which they do n't like is grating or |
| 15 | It could just be that you are the indirect cause of the complaint and the action you take has a consequential impact on the customer . |
| 16 | It could just be that you 're the person in your family who knows what 's on all those video tapes that nobody 's labelled up . |
| 17 | Ordinary domestic horses always suffered greatly in tropical Africa , and it could simply be that they attract more insects than zebras . |
| 18 | It could n't be that I was right , and while I yearned to return to a certainty I already knew , I heard only my mother 's voice , insisting , on one dead note , that she knew of what life should consist . |
| 19 | It could even be that we are moving into a hitherto unknown dimension with the next steps in IT . |
| 20 | It could even be that you need to change job altogether . |
| 21 | If there were any genuine cultural universals it could well be that they are universal because they are " natural " , i.e. a part of our genetic endowment . |
| 22 | A B&Q spokesman said last night : ‘ Because our store was the closest to the viaduct it took the full force of the blast and it could well be that we are talking of a complete demolition . |
| 23 | It could well be that you have agoraphobia or some kind of depression . |
| 24 | It could well be that it was the very fact of the fading of life enjoyment which is experienced with the responsibilities of adulthood and parenthood — and this could have affected the very primitive man just as much as it does modern man — which precipitated the very first of man 's attempts to take control of his future and the progress of evolution , by becoming ‘ civilised ’ . |
| 25 | If indeed this was how he happened upon verre anglais , it could well be that it was in England , not Spain , that Dom Pérignon rediscovered the cork . |
| 26 | It could well be that it will take more than the measures that the Government have introduced to strip the glamour from smoking , notwithstanding the 115,000 smoking-related deaths per year in Britain alone . |
| 27 | It could well be that I have prejudices about what makes a decent DTP system , but I tried to outline and then to justify them as part of the review . |
| 28 | It could equally be that they had spotted my men following them and were attempting to shake them off . ’ |
| 29 | It may also be that we look for different attributes in different parts of the public service . |
| 30 | It may also be that they did not want to listen to difficult questions we wanted to put . ’ |