Example sentences of "be that [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peel told the NME : ‘ The Wedding Present 's virtues are that they make records which are direct and uncomplicated and it seems that these are now being regarded as vices in some quarters . ’ |
| 2 | And then the ultimate differences between the states are that they have control over their spending . |
| 3 | Important characteristics of expert systems are that they provide advice in problem-solving based on the knowledge of experts , facilitate learning through experience and allow the use of natural language processing . |
| 4 | The majority of the training is within the Options Agency , erm , achieve a positive outcome , and I do apologise with all the jargon that will creep in , erm , positive outcomes in terms of these programmes are that they achieve jobs . |
| 5 | The facts are that I asked Warren Beatty not to cast Sean Young in the role for Dick Tracy . ’ |
| 6 | The advantages of restricting the stories in length in this way are that it saves time , forces students to focus only on details which they regard as essential , and yields versions which are comparable in terms of length and economy to the Hemingway version . |
| 7 | Disadvantages of the stuff are that it attracts fluff , hair and biscuit crumbs . |
| 8 | Now , now I , now I , personal arguments has always been that we raise people 's standards , out there , throughout the world . |
| 9 | The strong points in their argument have been that they exhibit voluntaryism in its purest form , that they are free of any obligation to find a programme for the tutor-organiser to teach and that , in managing on voluntary effort alone , they are saving the District that portion of a full-time salary which would not be covered by government or local authority grant-aid . |
| 10 | For the Governor , though , the main benefit has been that it gives prison officers ‘ permission to be concerned ’ in a structured and consistent way . |
| 11 | It may be that they have feelings stronger than law-abiding persons , which is why they have committed crimes . |
| 12 | Perhaps she was not feeling well , or it could be that she resented Lissa 's intrusion into the office . |
| 13 | On and on she heard herself ranting ( could it be that she heard echoes of her own past self , the speaking , ranting , resurrected ghost of that ephemeral figure Liz Lintot ? ) and heard his vague , evasive grunts and answers : yes , he said , he and Henrietta would marry as soon as possible , Henrietta wanted to go to New York with him , she 'd had a thin time herself lately , he needed her in New York , Henrietta had n't been well , needed to settle … and as Liz spoke and listened she was aware of a simultaneous conviction that this was the most shocking , the most painful hour of her entire life , and also that it was profoundly dull , profoundly trivial , profoundly irrelevant , a mere routine , devoid of truth , devoid of meaning : nothing . |
| 14 | It may well be that she considers China to be as much of a long-term complication for the West as for herself : too capricious to make a dependable ally for NATO , too ambitious to fit into America 's design for the Pacific , too shrewd to challenge vital Soviet interests . |
| 15 | The first requirement , when a man passes ‘ out of darkness into light , from the power of Satan to God ’ ( Acts 26:18 ) would seem to be that he needs assurance . |
| 16 | It may well be that he considered payment of the levy was a necessary prerequisite of obtaining the licence and hence amounted to a form of compulsion . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It may be that you receive praise for a piece of work well done , and suddenly you feel that you made the right decision to leave the family home and strike out on your own . |
| 19 | It could well be that you have agoraphobia or some kind of depression . |
| 20 | Similarly , some goods are unaccounted for and it may be that you have sales items but are not shown on our list , ( including publications ) . |
| 21 | It may be that you feel London might well be directed into three , having a representative for the western section covering Richmond , Hounslow etc . |
| 22 | The answer appears to be that it arrived courtesy of the Romans . |
| 23 | His defects were that he lacked subtlety , was vehemently anti-communist to the point where any unrest or dissent might be regarded as a sign of communist activity , and that he lacked preparation for the tasks he faced . |
| 24 | Ziegler ( 1978 ) , in his discussion of the Mass Observation records on the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953 , records that the two most commonly cited reasons for supporting the coronation were that it created wealth and that it united the nation . |
| 25 | The bad news is that everyone plays victim at times . |
| 26 | The other requirement of an information-based organization is that everyone takes information responsibility . |
| 27 | The first is that everyone has work but no one really works . |
| 28 | Their answer , not mine , was that the basic principle of insurance is that everybody puts money into the pot so that funds are available for the minority who make claims . |
| 29 | What I do recall is that we drank beer which Eliot , like George Saintsbury , regarded as having certain virtues , especially at lunch-time , which wine did not possess . |
| 30 | I think part of the reason for this collective blindness or , more accurately perhaps , this collective lack of action , is that we lack conviction that many of these problems are solvable , and we lack understanding of what actually can be and needs to be done to correct them . |