Example sentences of "be that [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It depends on the local growth rate , which is partly a function of family size , but one of the great features has been that the high fertility areas , with the exception perhaps of Northern Ireland , which is a rather special case , these tended to have become closer together . |
| 32 | This document accepts that the traditional trade union approach to employee representation has been that the single channel for th for the representation should be through trade union membership now just listen to this colleagues . |
| 33 | No logical contradiction is involved in the assertion , ‘ The brick fell upwards when released ’ , although it may be that no such statement is ever supported by observation . |
| 34 | I have in fact no explanation to offer as to how he came to die , and it may be that no trustworthy explanation will ever be achieved . |
| 35 | The proper conclusion appears to be that no single theory can underlie all potential agency situations , and that these must be examined on a case by case basis . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . ’ |
| 38 | ‘ 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 . |
| 39 | The answer seems to be that a female cat sometimes experiences a ‘ false heat ’ a few weeks after she has given birth . |
| 40 | The explanation might be that a probable leak at the tight junction is relative , allowing only small molecules to pass into the intercellular space . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | It may be that a new course is still in the planning stages , or that what you want is offered at another local centre . |
| 45 | 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. |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | Alternatively , it might be that a negative cash flow occurs at the end of the project 's life cycle . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | 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 , |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | Accordingly , the conclusion has to be that a knowing breach of the order by the appellants has not been proved . |
| 52 | It may well be that a fairer test must await an examination of the poll tax over an entire electoral cycle . |
| 53 | It may be that a federated structure is either the best long-term , or the best short-term , structure . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | One hope might be that a satisfactory account of what knowledge is would have the effect of exposing errors in the sceptic 's reasoning . |
| 57 | It may be that a further Hurricane was also lost , some sources recording R.A.F. fighter losses for this day as five Hurricanes and three pilots . |
| 58 | It may be that a third party would be prepared to accept the commitments for a limited purpose without becoming a party to the treaty . |
| 59 | An answer might be that a false belief that p is relevant in the required sense if , had the believer believed instead that – p , his belief that q would cease to have been justified . |
| 60 | This may have been the situation at the time of Domesday Book and it may be that a nucleated village was not established until late Saxon times or the twelfth century . |