Example sentences of "be that [art] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 facts are that no such dossier was produced by Murrin in 1989 . |
| 6 | The only real grumbles are that the tagging system does n't go far enough , a column and page breaking tag is essential , and that the keyboard shortcuts for the PC version seem to have been changed from the earlier version . |
| 7 | But the signs are that the upward curve is levelling out . |
| 8 | The odds are that the young man would not have laid a finger on her , but what if … ? |
| 9 | The indications are that the Muslim Brotherhood and its more liberal independent Islamic allies , who jointly control more than one-third of the 80 seats in the lower house , will make further gains in next year 's general election . |
| 10 | The facts as related by the Rose-Noelle 's crew are that the 41-foot trimaran left Picton , on New Zealand 's South Island , for Tonga on 1 June and capsized in a storm about 125 miles off the North Island on 4 June . |
| 11 | I am always deeply suspicious of long and complicated menus ; the chances are that the busiest thing in the kitchen is a microwave oven . |
| 12 | The disadvantages are that the single battery has less stamina than a pod of AAs giving the same voltage , and the female terminal can splay ( or the segments fold under if the battery is installed carelessly ) . |
| 13 | Analysts ' best guesses are that the underlying operating profits of the big city banks will be down by as much as 30% for the financial year now ending . |
| 14 | The chances are that the same cycle will repeat even if it is successful in doing so ; success in innovative technology can not be guaranteed . |
| 15 | The chances are that the same cycle will repeat even if it is successful in doing so ; success in innovative technology can not be guaranteed . |
| 16 | When passing the 1976 act , it might have been that no particular attention had been paid to a situation in which injuries were sustained before birth , but parliament had clearly stated that a person had to sustain injuries and die from them before relatives could claim damages . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If your wife is unhappy , now it may well have been that a better policy could have been put on the vehicle . |
| 19 | It might have been that a long time ago , when people believed in prayer . |
| 20 | The proposition has always been that a peace-keeping force should enforce and keep a ceasefire which already existed . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And er the result of all of that has been that the current development programme scheduled which we have supplied to the committee is probably about as fast as the programme is capable of running . |
| 23 | Secondly the deliveries of the equipment from the equipment suppliers who had been selected er generally fell behind the promises which they had made , so the main reason for the technical delays has been lack of equipment of the correct standard to proceed with the integration programme erm the erm the problems which beset the programme in nineteen ninety two after the German minister started questioning its future clearly had a direct bearing on that because many of the equipment suppliers , particularly those in Germany , suddenly began to think hey this programme is not going anywhere , why should we invest a lot of effort and and money into it and they slowed down so that has had a knock on effect in in terms of delaying the total programme and erm the result of all of that has been that the current development programme schedule which we have supplied to the committee is probably about as fast as the programme is capable of running . |
| 24 | Another suggestion has been that the only solution would be the fitting of a Rover SDI engine which I understand would also give much better mpg . |
| 25 | The most fundamental difference to me has always been that the private sector is so much more dynamic — the rate of change is so great . |
| 26 | Although occasionally Dutch finance companies with Antillean parents ( taxed at a turn on the interest in the Netherlands ) are still seen , for the past few years the perceived wisdom has been that the Swiss finance branch structure is superior . |
| 27 | But it could have been that the whole truck was a set-up : corral the gringos then fleece them . |
| 28 | The common view has been that the Conservative party 's structure is so rigidly hierarchical that there is little scope for initiatives from the party members . |
| 29 | Assuming , that is , that its orbit is not anomalous : one intriguing notion has been that the tenth planet does not orbit the Sun in the same plane as all the others ; instead it goes ‘ up and over ’ . |
| 30 | In fact a common complaint over the past decade has been that the high level of data content included in entries for the benefit of cataloguing records has been achieved at the cost of timeliness , and the BNB has certainly lost ground as a selection source for this reason . |