Example sentences of "[vb -s] be that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interesting thing has been that each time we have revised the strategy we have been partially right , but it has only been as a result of a whole series of revisits , reorganizations and reassessments , as well as changing people , perspectives and systems , that we seem to have got enough right to be able to fight our corner . |
| 2 | A side effect of the Act , however , has been that many owners of leasehold property no longer regard such investments as sound and they have voluntarily negotiated the sale of freeholds even where the property concerned did not fall within the provisions of the 1967 Act . |
| 3 | His hope has been that better use of woodlands will give the trees greater value , and so farmers and landowners will have an economic reason for managing their woods . |
| 4 | The experience of the European Convention has been that this procedure has been little used , with most allegations of violations of the Convention commenced through individual petition . |
| 5 | The non-lexical task most intensively studied is reading nonwords aloud , and the most commonly advocated view has been that this task is accomplished by using a system of rules relating spellings to sounds . |
| 6 | MAFF 's view has been that any support for conservation measures must be purely as an adjunct to agricultural works , a view supported by DoE . |
| 7 | For 40 years the policy has been that some contribution should be made towards the cost of sight and dental charges — that was agreed by both parties . |
| 8 | Juliet Mitchell in her work Psychoanalysis and Feminism has pointed to the significance of this task , but the problem , as suggested above , has been that most analyses have not been sufficiently historically specific to make them usable . |
| 9 | Erm but er certainly the record to date has been that these power stations are erm extremely erm well run and that they ha they 've had no major incidents at all . |
| 10 | One consequence of this has been that further additions to the existing radio and television services would become deeply contested as efforts were made to detach them from the duopoly . |
| 11 | For the purposes of translation , what matters is that both types of analysis recognize the sequence as marked . |
| 12 | What happens is that two companies virtually control distribution — Menzies and W H Smith . |
| 13 | What Freud actually says in Totem and Taboo is the opposite of that , what he actually says is that these feelings are innate , and they are part of an evolutionary heritage . |
| 14 | What examination of the rhetoric of the National Front magazines shows is that this tradition is wider than the beliefs of the individual editors . |
| 15 | In many contexts the impression one gets is that this happening is not something the speaker would have expected , but all such uses express a critical judgement on the person represented as the infinitive 's support having gone ahead and done something when , in the speaker 's opinion , he should not have . |
| 16 | Indicates are that this figure is continuing to rise . |
| 17 | A universal set of features is an attractive idea , but the price one pays is that each feature has to do many jobs , and the meaning associated with it gets spread thinner and thinner , like a small amount of butter on a large amount of bread . |
| 18 | What she means is that this instruction should be borne in mind if at any time it starts raining . |
| 19 | All it means is that some properties of the replicators should have an influence over their probability of being replicated . |
| 20 | What Derrida argues is that any discourse which conceives of itself as scientific is bound to be logocentric : it will assume that it is transparent to its object and that that object is a stable entity . |