Example sentences of "be that [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But the ‘ truth ’ is not the point at issue ; what matters is that as human beings we necessarily engage in an interpretative process when we encounter others , as they do with us . |
| 32 | Another difficulty with the hot-spot model is that unrealistically large increases in heat flow are apparently required to explain the magnitude of uplift recorded in some regions . |
| 33 | Many more speakers and many more hours of speech are usually recorded than can ultimately be analysed ; a useful rule of thumb is that about ten hours will be needed to analyse each hour of recorded data . |
| 34 | What is perhaps most startling is that so many agents of educational change — local education officers and education committees — remained so untouched by the principles . |
| 35 | But what is more remarkable is that so many farmers were sentimental ( and some impecunious ) enough to keep their hedgerows in for so long . |
| 36 | The other is that so many jobs are likely to need a great deal of capital equipment behind them that there will be a shortage of capital equipment and jobs will therefore not be created quickly enough to maintain full employment . |
| 37 | The great thing about tea drinking is that so many varieties are available that you can always find a brew that is appropriate to the occasion . |
| 38 | Remember that the whole idea of " distance " in genetic " space " is that genetically similar biomorphs are near neighbours , genetically different biomorphs are distant neighbours . |
| 39 | But when you bear in mind the background points ( catalysis , the interaction with radiation , the notion of turnover ) you see how it is that very small amounts of pollution really could have far reaching effects . |
| 40 | One of the difficulties of long-term weather forecasting is that very fine details at one time can govern major patterns at a later time . |
| 41 | Another problem with the mouse-tests is that very high doses of a chemical must be administered to predict the effects of low-dose exposure on larger numbers of human beings . |
| 42 | Another problem which electric fish have circumvented is that very sensitive receptors are needed to pick up the weak signals of other fish , and such receptors would be swamped by the fish 's own field . |
| 43 | The point is that very few firms now invest large sums of money in a new venture unless they are very sure that there is a demand for it . |
| 44 | One of the damaging implications of the recession is that very few employers are now able or willing to offer employment to trainees . |
| 45 | The main drawback of the compose screen is that only two staves are displayed at any one time and it is not possible to smoothly scroll across the page which is divided into set sections . |
| 46 | Third , the myth persists that private enterprise , unfettered by legal constraints , could fill the void in transport provision , but the risk is that only profitable routes will be maintained . |
| 47 | Will he confirm that all the professional advice that he has received from the Royal Navy is that only four boats absolutely guarantees an effective nuclear deterrent for this country ? |
| 48 | Therefore , Labour 's policy , as I understand it , is that only local councils should be allowed to run schools and that those schools should be inspected only by local government inspectors . |
| 49 | The catch is that only those states which have signed or acceded to the convention by then can take part in any votes . |
| 50 | Despite what the hon. Gentleman has said , from which I do not dissent , the fact is that only 15 minutes of the time that the Prime Minister chaired the summit of the Group of Seven countries was spent on the environment . |
| 51 | An alternative possibility is that electrically active axons release substances such as K + or glutamate that potentiate the mitogenic effect of PDGF or other growth factors . |
| 52 | This can be useful ; the only thing to bear in mind is that too many icons in here will increase the time taken for Windows to get going , so it 's best to keep Start Up for the real essentials . |
| 53 | A second and smaller reason for attending to causation is that too dramatic conceptions of it , such as those which connect it with certain images or ideas of power , or fate or plan , or compulsion , or logical connection , distort one 's responses to determinism . |
| 54 | What these critics did not see so clearly was that elsewhere customary tenures had so confused conceptions of ownership that a clear , profitable , and workable landlord-tenant relationship was difficult to conceive ; while in many regions customary quit rents gave the landlord little surplus to invest , even had he been inclined so to do . |
| 55 | The challenge of the reformers had been one great reality but the showmen had always been aware of the other reality and that was that very large numbers of ordinary people , and that included the rich and the poor and people from all nations , were fascinated by moving pictures . |
| 56 | The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place . |
| 57 | Our main inference was that as insectivorous primates radiated within the forest they took to fruit-eating and became diurnal . |
| 58 | The second explanation was that as English Christians and as Protestants they had to fight the inroads of Popery wherever it occurred . |
| 59 | Eliot stressed that his own opinion was that once these abstractions had developed in the course of several generations within a civilization they required either renewal or else replacement . |
| 60 | An incidental effect was that more subtle forms of propaganda began to appear , from which it was difficult for a jury to infer that the defendant intended to stir up racial hatred . |