Example sentences of "be that [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have the feeling that those of you who would want to use the mailing label feature more than any other might find the built-in database a little feeble , but then the chances are that your main database will provide all the information you require for that kind of thing . |
| 2 | The busmen 's case had been that their strict schedules made the satisfactory operation of physical functions difficult . |
| 3 | Clara had actually heard one constant church attender , caught out donating a small charitable sum to the Vicar , defend herself to Mrs Maugham by saying that she had n't really meant to give it , and that she never would have given it if it had n't been that her little boy had just given up Sunday school . |
| 4 | Historically one important assumption has been that our ordinary lives serve the interests of the powers that be . |
| 5 | For six months Pakistan 's governments have been preoccupied with intrigue , and it may be that their carefree attitude to running the country is beginning to show up in the figures . |
| 6 | It may be that their main requisite at this stage is to find protection whilst they continue to live off their food reserves remaining from the food capsule . |
| 7 | More female science students ( sixteen of the twenty-four ) had attended single-sex schools than any other group in the sample ; it may be that their single-sex schooling had been a major influence in their decision to study science at degree level . |
| 8 | There were many highlights in her career as a campaigner for women 's rights , but it may be that her greatest contribution was the way she inspired others . |
| 9 | But it may well be that his prolonged failure ( now happily corrected ) to achieve political success was attributable to long memories . |
| 10 | It may well be that his nocturnal anxieties began on hearing the nightly ministrations by which his father was nursed — to a young boy , eerie and mysterious , doubtless at times frenetic ; no doubt they were exacerbated after his death , as sorrow and loss impinged . |
| 11 | ( 1 ) It may be that your financial circumstances would entitle you to State Legal Aid to cover costs and disbursements . |
| 12 | So it may be that your standard drawings , you say , oh , goodness me . |
| 13 | Some governing bodies provided additional finance to secure the services of a particular coach for the Regional Schools and it may be that your governing body would want to consider this . |
| 14 | It may be that our first target should be Romance elements and , if so , our victory in the recent war may be taken as a good augury . |
| 15 | Can it be that our hot-headed guests want to burn the museums in order to destroy the evidence ? ’ |
| 16 | The last possibility seems to be that our original conception of the rule amounted to the creation of a disposition to carry on the series in one way rather than another . |
| 17 | Even though it is very difficult to observe spontaneous proton decay , it may be that our very existence is a consequence of the reverse process , the production of protons , or more simply , of quarks , from an initial situation in which there were no more quarks than antiquarks , which is the most natural way to imagine the universe starting out . |
| 18 | Their main grievances against the education system , which fell under the dual control of the church and state , were that it victimised teachers who showed dissent by questioning the working conditions or salary scale . |
| 19 | Osburn 's points were that his fellow Englishmen in India , whose heartless behaviour towards Indians he described in some detail , failed to ‘ realize that the British Empire depends for its existence on obtaining the consent and the friendly co-operation of the races governed ’ , and that the demand for independence ‘ need never have arisen but for the arrogance and want of tact of a large percentage of Englishmen who , in one capacity or another , are resident in India ’ . |
| 20 | And if you really want to know what I think , it 's that you Cretaceous people are insanely arrogant . |
| 21 | It is not surprising either to find that English visitors were hostile ; the notable point is that their real venom was unleashed not in the period before 1560 , when England and Scotland were nourishing their long-standing enmity , but afterwards , when they were officially allies , and particularly once the unthinkable and shameful had happened , and Scotland had given England a king , in the person of James VI in 1603 . |
| 22 | But what is especially characteristic of Todi and San Gimignano is that their golden age , their period of most notable prosperity , came to an end about 1300 , so that we can still inspect cities whose walls and public buildings , though there is an element of Etruscan and Roman in many of them , belong above all to the period from 1050 to 1300 . |
| 23 | What is striking about the Information Workstation Group 's efforts is that their actual study of multimedia is far better than their attempt to define it . |
| 24 | The second is that their long-term view may be clouded by immediate short-term factors . |
| 25 | Their main danger is that their entire home will become drenched and waterlogged . |
| 26 | What is not disputed , however , is that their current degree of refinement and decorative panache is primarily the result of the skill and artistry of the 16th and 17th-century Persian weavers and designers , who took a number of hitherto rather simple motifs and compositions and turned them into some of the most beautiful , elaborate and awe-inspiring examples of textile art the world has ever known . |
| 27 | sometimes artists have been working for two or three years , releasing records unsuccessfully , although the public 's perception is that their first hit must be their first record . |
| 28 | Having done so , I find the one feature that is common to both the New Zealand and British schemes is that their basic purpose is to relieve financially-embarrassed governments of claims for further investment . |
| 29 | But what is known about these genes , based mainly on biochemical evidence , is that their catalytic protein products are likely to play critical roles in the transducing pathways that stimulate cells to grow and adopt specific phenotypes of functional importance . |
| 30 | THE nightmare of Israeli and Palestinian peace negotiators is that their history-making agreement on self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip may spark a Palestinian civil war . |