Example sentences of "be that the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am always deeply suspicious of long and complicated menus ; the chances are that the busiest thing in the kitchen is a microwave oven . |
| 2 | It might just be that the best way forward in Africa is by falling back on the spirit of silif , and building on it . |
| 3 | It could be that the best way forward , taking into account all the interests , including those of the residents , would be a joint public inquiry . |
| 4 | It may be that the best corrective to them arises from frequent interaction with a more benign reality . |
| 5 | Indeed , it may be that the best approach to the design of guidelines for empirical evaluation is to begin with familiar and well-tried procedures for the elicitation and observation of data and see how far they can be adapted to serve a pedagogic purpose . |
| 6 | This is a useful question to ask , for if all we are doing is applying systematic thinking , it may well be that the best answer to a specific teaching problem would be a straight lecture with blackboard illustration , or alternatively simply sending a student off to the library to find a book . |
| 7 | So , a rough judgement would be that the best sports need a victim and a touch of breeding . |
| 8 | The message seems to be that the best diet is one where as many different foods as possible are included and where meals are planned to include : |
| 9 | It may be that the best solution is to find an individual or local entrepreneur who is enamoured of the building and willing and keen to make a first-class job of it . |
| 10 | Not only would accommodation and compromise between these various interests be desirable , but also it may be that the best solution would be some alternative to a motorway , or some alternative route not already considered . |
| 11 | It may be that the simplest change in the theory , given awkward observations , would be a general structural change at the very centre rather than a whole series of alterations further out . |
| 12 | ‘ His theory , Greg , is … how long you got ? … his theory is that the best music is the stuff which makes you go doolally , lose yourself . |
| 13 | What is now plain is that the best work has a deep capacity for humane , even spiritual insight . |
| 14 | One of the major points to emerge from computational theory is that the best way of achieving a representation of the environment is via a modular system that represents different properties of the environment in different parts of the system . |
| 15 | The feedback I get from my heart is that the best skiing is to be found not at big resorts but small ones . |
| 16 | The truth is that the best cleanser for you depends largely on your skin type and how much make-up you wear . |
| 17 | So the word is that the best bet is on the appointment of another academic ( Sir Roger himself , though just due to become president of the Publishers Association , is expected to return to his chair of physics when he retires from the press in the summer ) . |
| 18 | The fact is that the greatest mystery of all — the Incarnation — comes at the very beginning and is the central reason why we believe in God . |
| 19 | ‘ The second [ point ] is that the grossest violation of fundamental proportions … and the resultant erroneous calculations , are by no means unavoidable . ’ |
| 20 | The good news is that The Fastest Thumb in The West , and his friends , can still do the business , but the downside of the story is that ‘ Guaranteed ’ offers no perspectives which differ radically from those which came before . |
| 21 | The odd thing is that the earliest models — unstreamlined and primitive ( thermostats were n't available until the 20s ) — seem just the thing you 'd see in today 's trendy kitchen . |
| 22 | Their main conclusion is that the earliest occupants of the Klasies River Mouth site ( before 100 000 years ago ) were modern-looking people ( Homo sapiens sapiens ) who would have been ancestral to the indigenous African Negro and Klioisan peoples . |
| 23 | The answer is that the earliest attempt to explain the disorder was that the brain regions for understanding and for producing speech were intact , and what was damaged was the neural pathway which conducted information between these two pathways . |
| 24 | The above two lists speak for themselves , but what is evident is that the smallest income is from membership and the biggest income is from the Sports Council . |
| 25 | My own experience is that the lowest ebb after a very hard run is not the morning after but the morning after that . |
| 26 | The trouble is that the finest tournament starts appear in photographs to be hitting late . |
| 27 | So , the answer is that the strongest motives restrain Governments from limiting the rate of growth of public expenditure to that rate which they could be sure of meeting within the growth of the national product and thus without any substantial increase in taxation but also without relying upon borrowing and without monetisation of debt . |
| 28 | The simple idea to follow is that the quickest way is the best way . |
| 29 | Over the years , I have seen so many private gardens and advised so many gardeners on labour-saving tools and equipment , and what comes through loud and clear is that the biggest problem facing gardeners is that they are caught in the trap between growing all they would like to grow , doing all they want to do and having the lime to do it . |
| 30 | The clear implication of this study is that the biggest response of northern hemisphere temperatures ‘ should ’ have been in June , two months after El Chichón 's eruption , and that is just what the temperature record shows . |