Example sentences of "be [that] [adj] [noun] be " in BNC.

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1 Yes er erm my instructions are that all persons are accounted for in the premises and er once they 've been accounted for er then it was safe for other officers , i.e the C I D or Superintendent to go to that yes and they would not have been allowed in had I not received instructions that the house was secure and all persons accounted for .
2 The rules of the game are that each person is allowed to turn over two cards and , if they are the same , to withdraw them and place them by their side .
3 ‘ My instructions are that this boy is to move on . ’
4 Indicates are that this figure is continuing to rise .
5 The buyer 's concerns here are that these items be properly used and cared for by the seller , that they be used only for the purposes of the sub-contract ( ie that the seller does not use them to make goods for third parties which can then be sold by them in competition with the buyer ) , and that they be returned to him at the end of the sub-contract .
6 The non-lexical task most intensively studied is reading nonwords aloud , and the most commonly advocated view has been that this task is accomplished by using a system of rules relating spellings to sounds .
7 It may be that one partner is so involved with their own painful feelings during the experiences of midlife , that there is no room for the other 's needs .
8 There are slight stylistic differences in the execution of the relief work , and it may be that one cup is an exotic , a Minoan import , and the other was made by a Mycenean craftsman to make a pair ; on balance , I think it more likely that both are Minoan ( Figure 31 ) .
9 Or it may be that one environment is over-stimulating for the child — a classroom full of other children , with colourful posters covering all the walls may be so distracting for a mildly hyperkinetic child that he or she behaves far worse than usual .
10 First check your water quality — it could be that one fish is indicating a problem that will soon be common to all , such as nitrite poisoning .
11 Nevertheless , it may well be that such birds are conditioned to this colour and it has been shown that nectar quality can overcome colour prejudice .
12 It may also be that such employers were , at least in the early 1970s , less prepared to make the organizational adjustments which make it feasible for mothers to combine paid work with responsibility for young children .
13 A third view could be that such investment is not an element in a zero-sum game : investment abroad is not a simple net loss to UK plants but , instead , creates productive facilities which complement and are integrated with UK production .
14 Although it has rarely been the subject of judicial pronouncement the conceptual basis of the " conventional " sums awarded by the courts in respect of non-pecuniary losses appears to be that such sums are what are considered fair and reasonable compensation in the social , economic and industrial conditions which prevail in England and Wales .
15 The problem seems to be that many women are having a tough time making their mark higher up the career ladder .
16 It may be that these cases are an authorial slip ; but the point seems to be that Lok is shown painfully developing analytic skills .
17 It may be that some areas are running out of money er which clearly need money , maybe there 's other areas are in surplus with the demands on them that are n't so great , so the answer may simply be to find a way of operating with greater flexibility within the total cash limit .
18 It is possible , for example , that a large proportion of loans are for the most recently deposited theses ; alternatively , it could be that some theses are more often requested than others , and that loan records for such theses would be found within different time periods .
19 It may even be that some ingredients were added from outer space , brought by meteorites .
20 Either way ( and the suspicion must be that some historians are determined to have it either way ) , blame for the collapse of the Carolingian state is laid at the door of the Frankish nobility .
21 It may be that both cases are standard , pre-wired back-up ploys : differentiating tripped from untripped flowers could simply be a far more precise use of the associative learning program , while chewing through may be a strategy normally held in reserve for robbing flowers too small to enter .
22 Should they clash a solution could be that both clubs be allowed to play only before their own supporters with live television at Elland Road and Ibrox to be watched by the stay at home fans .
23 It may be that tougher-looking delinquents are more liable to be put away than fragile looking ones .
24 The underlying assumption is that this age gap between pupils in the same class is not important , but it may be that younger children are at a disadvantage educationally .
25 It may be that larger cars are not selling whilst smaller cars are .
26 In a third part , the objection must be that with respect to confirmed hypotheses as to condition-sets , it can not be that those condition-sets are causal circumstances as conceived .
27 It may simply be that more people are taking advantage of higher social security benefits to spend more time searching for suitable jobs .
28 Perhaps the wonder should be that any convictions are returned . ’
29 Since most theses are lent for a period of one month , it could be that most borrowers are able to digest the contents of theses within this period , but , due to the widespread availability of photocopiers , it is suspected that the regulations on thesis copying are frequently broken .
30 One of the reasons underlying the inconsistent results with regard to the effect of familial sinistrality might be that this factor is likely to be confounded with family size ( Bradshaw , 1980 ) .
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