Example sentences of "be that [adj] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm but er certainly the record to date has been that these power stations are erm extremely erm well run and that they ha they 've had no major incidents at all . |
| 2 | The question in the DBQ refers specifically to multi-level car parks , the assumption here seems to be that such memory failures are particularly likely in this context because of the similarity in appearance of different floors in such a car park , however , there has been some work looking at memory for car parking in situations where more information is available . |
| 3 | It could be that such pupil cultures were sexist ; but an interesting dilemma emerges . |
| 4 | For instance , it may be that some craft workers , particularly those working very close to the temple , were operating under temple jurisdiction and supervision , whilst others were free to work independently . |
| 5 | The reason is that hardened Staffordshire smokers ( and they come no harder ) have taken to the Nicotine patch and are driving their colleagues mad with frozen smiles and cries of : ‘ I 'm all right — I 've gone 73-and-a-quarter hours without one ’ . |
| 6 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 7 | However , it adds , an even greater risk is that higher mortgage rates will add to wage pressures . |
| 8 | One result is that higher rate taxpayers are switching their long-term deposits to tax free National Savings or to the taxable unit trust money funds such as Fidelity Cash , which pays 9pc gross . |
| 9 | The evidence is that primary safety improvements , like studded tyres , better acceleration and so on , encourages more cautious driving . |
| 10 | But the big problem at present is that that form tutors get loads of information sent to them and then they |
| 11 | The one complication is that all Windows applications place the same sort of minimum demands on a machine and so if you want to work in a Windows environment you will have to add the extra requirements to machine fit to run Windows . |
| 12 | The result is that all Home Secretaries are grossly over-worked , although most will have found their own ways of keeping their heads above water . |
| 13 | Another point to keep firmly in mind about the Guinness Flight Global Strategy Fund is that all fund dividends are paid gross rather than net of tax . |
| 14 | The problem is that all energy deals must be approved by Congress . |
| 15 | One view is that it is the result of government parsimony towards prison staff ; the other is that such staff shortages as occur are due to the arcane system of rigid restrictive practices developed by the Prison Officers ' Association ( POA ) . |
| 16 | Our conclusion is that economic efficiency theories , carefully examined , support the prohibition of insider trading . |
| 17 | The result is that many glider pilots are becoming complacent about parking and on a really windy day it is not unusual to see gliders at risk , just waiting for the first really big gust of wind to blow them over . |
| 18 | The result is that many manufacturing firms have decided to locate their physical production processes outside the metropolitan regions . |
| 19 | The difficulty is that many US corporations neglect to complement an overlapping strategy with the required intensive information processing . |
| 20 | Another drawback is that many census estimates concentrate on natural change ( i.e. the difference between births and deaths ) and tend to ignore the most effective component of population change in the western world , migration . |
| 21 | Another point worth remembering is that many insurance companies give substantial discounts to mature drivers . |
| 22 | A consequence of the lower risk is that many futures exchanges require lower margins for spreads than for single positions . |
| 23 | The obvious implication is that many asylum seekers may miss the deadline and lose the chance to appeal . |
| 24 | The result is that many farm workers are caught in the poverty trap between exemption from taxation and receipt of means-tested benefit ( Winyard 1978 ) . |
| 25 | The main stumbling block for all suppliers like NEC is that few city networks have much hard currency to spend on new equipment , and since local rouble telephone charges are so low , no company can recoup the initial investment from tariff income . |
| 26 | The reason is that most school libraries do not have and possibly never will have an adequate range of stock to satisfy the information needs of children in schools . |
| 27 | A consequence of this destabilizing cycle is that most home buyers take on their mortgages when credit is freely available and when lending institutions , facing still competition , are offering the best interest rates . |
| 28 | And in looking at the experience not merely of Asia , but also of Africa , what becomes increasingly apparent is that most development strategies have tended _ particularly when we look at technical change — erm have tended to bypass women , or in many cases one also notes that the impact of technical change has been detrimental to poor women , and examples of this can be found , for instance , in terms of adoption of certain kinds of technique , like mechanisation of rice processing in parts of Asia , where one finds that there has been a large scale displacement of landless women . |
| 29 | As with any automatic system , it is the unusual situation which can cause a problem , and here the problem is that most AF systems tend to focus on the cage bars in the foreground rather than on the animal lurking behind them — or the focus may hunt nervously from one to the other . |
| 30 | My Lords , I hope that I can er erm allay the disquiet of the Noble Lord , Lord erm the , th th the fact is that British Transport Police at the moment have control and jurisdiction over all the the railway system in and on and in the vicinity of the , the railway the railway organisation . |