Example sentences of "be that [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantages in the use of cylinder-type batteries are that such batteries have no snap terminal to splay or fold under , and they have more stamina when used as a group than an equivalent voltage single PP3 . |
| 2 | The result has been that recent chancellors have been able to give free rein to their tax-reforming ambitions . |
| 3 | The rule has been that young people intending to study medicine must forsake the humanities and social sciences for physics , chemistry and biology . |
| 4 | Over recent years the most popular explanation of Britain 's comparatively weak economic performance — and one which focuses mainly on the period of rapid decline since 1960 — has been that insufficient resources have been devoted to those parts of the economy which produce a ‘ marketable output ’ [ Bacon and Eltis , 1974 ; Eltis , 1979 ] . |
| 5 | In addition , there are for example licensing functions performed by the executive in respect of which the traditional view has been that procedural safeguards do not apply . |
| 6 | The immediate reason seems to have been that Indian painters working for some of the Spanish and criollo masters complained of mistreatment . |
| 7 | His own feeling had been that Dizzy Liston looked like some amiable , well-heeled scarecrow . |
| 8 | Whilst the potential here looks considerable , there is just a slight concern that initial reaction has been that medical audit requires a rather more in-depth review of each case than is provided by routine data collection approach . |
| 9 | But the only obvious truth of this kind in the UK has been that foreign supply creates domestic demand , the measure of which is import penetration . |
| 10 | A number of safeguards were said to be in force , the first being that all applications had to be made in writing . |
| 11 | What emerges from recent counter-theory is that French-inspired theory tends to destroy straw men in its attack on reference , insisting that the relation between words and meaning is entirely arbitrary , a matter of difference only . |
| 12 | This is that industrial output increased four-fold over the eighteenth century , home consumption of it three-fold and exports six-fold . |
| 13 | An explanation advanced for this is that industrial innovations generate expansion . |
| 14 | One possibility therefore was that the Earth is only a few thousand years old , a second theory is that ancient helium-3 trapped inside the Earth is being ejected by volcanic eruptions and the third idea , Palmer 's , was that the Earth is indeed billions of years old and that fusion is taking place even now . |
| 15 | Despite all this molecular heterogeneity , the common theme running through all these variations is that external signals use the InsP 3 /calcium and DAG/PKC pathways to regulate a wide range of cellular activities . |
| 16 | In corporate finance , the conventional view in America and Britain still is that Japanese firms rely for most of their money on friendly banks that they have been wining and dining for years . |
| 17 | The problem we in Europe face is that Japanese companies have been active in scaling up production for some years , whereas in Europe the emphasis has been on high-quality research , which has only been significantly exploited in the area of basic liquid crystal materials . |
| 18 | The thrust of the Bowley Committee Report is that budgetary pressures indicate that the Bar Council should seek more effective ways of controlling expenditure . |
| 19 | The second is that superparamagnetic materials have no magnetic ‘ memory ’ at room temperature . |
| 20 | The principal difference between the two is that Vulcanian deposits consist of non-vesiculated material . |
| 21 | This is that living organisms exist for the benefit of DNA rather than the other way around . |
| 22 | The reason why aluminium is so toxic is that living things mistake it for iron . |
| 23 | The answer is that airline-safety officials deem America to be far less at risk from terrorism than other places . |
| 24 | ‘ Is that all ladies do , then ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Is that all Heather wanted to know ? ’ |
| 26 | Lemert ( 1967 ) proposed a second component to the ‘ amplification spiral ’ — what he called ‘ secondary deviance ’ : a consequence of being officially labelled ‘ deviant ’ is that other people come to regard the labelled person differently , as a different kind of person . |
| 27 | The difference between a flotation tank and other relaxation techniques is that other methods require effort on the part of the patient . |
| 28 | The main piece of evidence for the ‘ tense-mother/crying-baby ’ idea is that first babies tend to cry more than subsequent ones — doctors infer from this that the mother 's inexperience is an important factor . |
| 29 | Now is that that cosh squared X ? |
| 30 | ‘ All I know for certain is that Sabine Jourdain had a row with a man on board the Jonquil before she was taken dead from the water , and that man was Tarquin Poulteney-Crosse . ’ |