Example sentences of "[be] that [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a person going about it seriously has to discount his own personal opinion , which may be that all coloured people should — um — be expelled from the country , and decide what is in the best interests of the country as a whole , given that there is a large — er — ethnic problem . |
| 2 | It may be that such historical exemplars , rather like foreign comparisons , are largely used to legitimate a particular contemporary point of view , rather than constituting a real and unbroken tradition . |
| 3 | ‘ It may be that many employed people preserve themselves from anxiety and insight into their real selves by contemplating themselves at work ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Tradition dies hard and it may well be that many zealous companions will go on quoting Syriac and Egyptian and perpetuating this extraordinary jumble of explanations , ’ wrote Canon Richard Tydeman , Grand Superintendent over the Suffolk province of Freemasonry , in 1985 . |
| 5 | It may well be that many local-authority accountants have no detailed working knowledge of school-based financial-management systems — to give them a very grand title for their current state of development . |
| 6 | The view is almost certain to be that these tax-free boats should not remain in EC waters unless VAT is paid . |
| 7 | It may prompt further , more wide-ranging research , providing ideas to be followed up later , or it may be that some broad generalization is brought to life by a case-study . |
| 8 | For example , it may be that some legal point has arisen and the Council has a duty to provide legal advice if required . |
| 9 | Much of their repertory is being recorded for the first time ( or very nearly so ) , and it may be that some current recordings will sound exploratory , even tentative , to future generations who will have the privilege to take things further . |
| 10 | There 's a great deal of double counting that takes place , it might be that some honourable members in this house actually appear upon two registers , one in London and one within the area in which they reside , normally within their constituency and many people are merely carried over from past registers , without any serious canvassing taking place to find out whether they are the people to be on the registers or whether someone else should be put in their place . |
| 11 | It may be that some young children will achieve a stage where they are ready to compare more than two sets to see which has ‘ most ’ or ‘ least ’ , but incidental experience of this kind is less frequent . |
| 12 | It may be that some hereditary peers are well worth a place , but it is also true that some who are not hereditary peers are equally deserving and it is hard to argue that they should not be considered on their merits on the same basis , with life peerages being conferred on those most suitable . |
| 13 | It could be that some underlying defect opens the way to both candidiasis and chemical sensitivity . |
| 14 | First , it may be that some commodity-producing projects deemed socially useful are unprofitable because the ‘ social need ’ which they are supposed to answer fails to find expression as a monetary demand on the market . |
| 15 | Are mama and my sisters truly in sanctuary — or could it be that some grave misfortune has overtaken them also ? |
| 16 | On the rural front , it must be that same tunnel-vision imperialism which is preventing the very obvious adoption of a positive farm-waste strategy . |
| 17 | ‘ Could it be that any living creature has its inception with the creation of a discontinuity in space ( a vortex ) through which life energy flows , sweeping biological molecules , matter , and perhaps even entire embryos along with it in predictable , spiral trajectories ? |
| 18 | His argument would be that most electronic circuits are organized interactively , by which we mean that the proper operation of one component depends on the normal operation of all of the others . |
| 19 | It may be that this relexicalized version has not been actually attested and , may never occur in the future but it acquires normality because it is relatively easy to conceive of a context for it . |
| 20 | Could it be that this underlying sense of obligation has weakened over time ? |
| 21 | The heart of the problem appears to be that this institutional framework is itself founded on a conventional gesellschaft- type representative model . |