Example sentences of "be that [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general implications of Lienhardt 's argument are that all languages have the potential to make abstract , relatively neutral statements , if called upon to do so . |
| 2 | The rules of the game are that each person goes alternately and must take at least one match from one line . |
| 3 | Two disadvantages of such techniques are that each word has to have a tag field added to it ( and this may need to be quite long to hold a suitable range of values ) , and execution of each instruction becomes more complicated ( and therefore possibly slower ) . |
| 4 | My own conclusions , which in this case are probably completely worthless , are that this ticking represents a period of grace — I mean that it can not explode — as long as the ticking lasts and that it 's not designed to explode when the ticking stops but is then activated and ready to explode when triggered by passing engines . |
| 5 | The good reasons are that these projects have not been chucking people out into the community " willy-nilly " . |
| 6 | Why this large size evolved is something of a mystery : it may have been that larger gliders cruise at slower speeds without ‘ stalling ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | It may be that that individual does not function normally as a consequence of the sensory deprivation . |
| 10 | The outcome of such competition may be that one firm emerges as the ‘ winner ’ , able to dominate the market and earn monopoly rents ( Gilbert and Newbury , 1982 ) . |
| 11 | Over this unimaginably ( for humans ) long time , each of the two lineages that branched from that remote ancestor has preserved 305 out of the 306 characters ( on average : it could be that one lineage has preserved all 306 of them and the other has preserved 304 ) . |
| 12 | Alternatively it could be that all subjects perform differently on junctions they previously knew well compared to those they did not know well . |
| 13 | We may like to think that such changes enable the organisation to be more efficient and effective in achieving its goals and yet it may well be that such changes arise as a result of trying to satisfy an individual 's political ambitions or to undercut the ambitions of a rival . |
| 14 | The universal feeling used to be that such books belonged in the libraries they came from . |
| 15 | All the suggestions for improvement had been adequately implemented so the conclusion could only be that neither party had grasped the size and nature of the problem . |
| 16 | and there ca n't be that many authorities left that are n't already involved . |
| 17 | With older children it could be that each child makes his/her own list on a piece of paper ; with younger children maybe we do it as a class , and the teacher writes everything on the blackboard ; or perhaps nothing is written down by individuals , with each giving what they will need to the teacher who 's a " quartermaster " . |
| 18 | And it may be that these disadvantages help to cause parental difficulties , and hamper good parenting . |
| 19 | Other papers in the Public Records Office showed the misgivings of the naval staff about the two incidents , for by now the Germans had found the dead soldiers , and there were fears of reprisals against any British submarine crews subsequently captured — indeed it may be that these events had some bearing on the subsequent shootings of British commandos captured in that area . |
| 20 | The conclusion will be that these explanations have recently developed in promising directions . |
| 21 | In so far as society is divided into different interests , of which labour and capital are the prototypical examples , it may well be that some interests have more control than others over the development of representations which accord to their perspective and thus their interests . |
| 22 | Could it be that some machines have been neglected all summer ? |
| 23 | In any case , it could well be that some students have no interest at all in certain idioms and prefer to by-pass them quickly in their search for what expresses their own aesthetic more closely . |
| 24 | It may well be that some accountant has shown the society a loophole through which it can escape the obligations laid upon it at its foundation in 1914 . |
| 25 | It may be that some couples cohabit initially because they are uncertain about the strength of their relationship so their subsequent marital breakdown could be attributed to these underlying doubts , rather than the ‘ destructive ’ experience of cohabitation . |
| 26 | At the present time , it is not possible to distinguish between the other alternative explanations , though it may be that both factors operate to modulate the pattern of frequencies recorded at the body surface . |
| 27 | The hope must be that both bodies have emerged from the fire hardened in their dealings with other regulatory bodies on behalf of the City and the country . |
| 28 | It may well be that several groups have had a burglary , in which case the teacher could use this as the focus : " How are we going to deal with it ? |
| 29 | It may be that those parents do not consider colour to be important , but such a blind attitude towards the role of group differences in the society is unwise . |
| 30 | The principle seems to be that those people exercising substantial responsibility in local government should be paid accordingly . |