Example sentences of "be that a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Section three deals with the nineteen ninety three ninety four revenue budget , the main points for this year are that a similar saving on inflation in excess of two hundred thousand pounds can be put towards the extra items of expenditure listed in paragraph three point four , that will fall to the committee 's budget in nineteen ninety three ninety four , in addition the savings generated by the renegotiated electricity maintenance contracts contributes another eighty two thousand pounds , this leaves some two hundred and thirty thousand pounds of the extra commitments still to be financed . |
2 | Among these are that a complete network may have only one start event and only one finish event ; that an event is not complete until all the activities leading to it are themselves complete ; and that a network must always move forwards in time . |
3 | But such aspirations may easily be frustrated when managerial priorities are that a local population of mentally handicapped people is routinely visited and monitored and that recurrent crises are dealt with by team members . |
4 | The two criticisms commonly levelled at Prince are that a particular song is ‘ overdone ’ or that it 's ‘ unrealized ’ . |
5 | The theme of this chapter has been that a great deal of antislavery argument grew out of a fundamental concern for proper order in the world . |
6 | If your wife is unhappy , now it may well have been that a better policy could have been put on the vehicle . |
7 | It might have been that a long time ago , when people believed in prayer . |
8 | The proposition has always been that a peace-keeping force should enforce and keep a ceasefire which already existed . |
9 | The account he gave just after his release was that the threat had been that a British soldier might ‘ accidentally ’ shoot one of the women . |
10 | If you have a particular task in mind it may be that a 2.4 volt drill will perform quite adequately , although as a general rule the lower voltage drills are best suited to small diameter pilot drilling and countersinking . |
11 | The problem continues to be that a religious-fascist state wishes to hire professional terrorists to have me killed ; that has always been the problem . ’ |
12 | ‘ If the lenders wo n't contribute voluntarily to money advice funding , it may be that a compulsory levy on lenders , to augment funding by central and local government and others , is now the answer . |
13 | The answer seems to be that a female cat sometimes experiences a ‘ false heat ’ a few weeks after she has given birth . |
14 | The explanation might be that a probable leak at the tight junction is relative , allowing only small molecules to pass into the intercellular space . |
15 | One of the possible explanations for the differences could be that a small subclone was not present initially in the sample of the first tumour and eventually grew up to form the recurrence , but as there were so many genetic changes present in the recurrence which were not initially there and the Lambda MS8 did not show allele loss , a balance of probabilities seemed that the latter tumour was not a progression from the first . |
16 | Other bores can also be used but the obvious point must be that a small charge in the right place is a lot better than a heavier charge badly directed . |
17 | So , for example , it may be that a keen walker would have a special interest in a stretch of country where he or she frequently walked which would entitle him or her to challenge a decision to grant planning permission to develop it , whereas an ordinary member of the public or even of some environmental group in a different area might not have . |
18 | It may be that a new course is still in the planning stages , or that what you want is offered at another local centre . |
19 | Compared with the case in which A and B have not been pre-trained , the consequence of A-X and B-Y associations having been pre-established would be that a new response could be acquired very readily by stimulus A without any increase in the extent to which generalization occurs to stimulus B. |
20 | It may be that the effect of diagnosis is real and that duodenal ulcer is more persistent than gastric ulcer , or it may be that a higher proportion of gastric ulcer patients have been operated upon in the time between the two periods of registrations of drug use . |
21 | Alternatively , it might be that a negative cash flow occurs at the end of the project 's life cycle . |
22 | It may be that a separate recogniser could be constructed that would concentrate on these sort of features , i.e. the shape of a word found from its ascending and descending characters . |
23 | Liam Hudson suggests that ‘ it may be that a single system of values embraces the individual 's perceptions of academic institutions ; his perception of himself and his demonstrable behaviour ’ , and goes on to say that , |
24 | It 's important to remember the classification tells you about the minimum facilities available : it could well be that a Listed establishment , for example , will also provide some of the services and facilities found at a higher Crown level . |
25 | Accordingly , the conclusion has to be that a knowing breach of the order by the appellants has not been proved . |
26 | It may well be that a fairer test must await an examination of the poll tax over an entire electoral cycle . |
27 | It may be that a federated structure is either the best long-term , or the best short-term , structure . |
28 | As with calls for euthanasia , it could be that a proper understanding by doctors of their duties to their patients , both ethical and legal , could obviate the need in large part for such developments . |
29 | The Rapporteur was notably unenthusiastic about this text ‘ que nous n'estimons pas très heureux ’ ; its effect appears to be that a Contracting State can enter an objection to the modes of service provided for in Article 10 ( which would otherwise be available in respect of all Contracting States ) but allow their use in respect of particular , and perhaps especially neighbouring , states . |
30 | One hope might be that a satisfactory account of what knowledge is would have the effect of exposing errors in the sceptic 's reasoning . |