Example sentences of "be [that] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chances are that during the first eight or nine years you may appear to be treading water in the process of proving yourself . |
| 2 | The salient differences between these two applications are that in the second case the consultant , though independent of the course team , is known to be supportive and familiar with the background and context of the course under examination ; the quality of the consultant 's judgement is also known to most of the course team . |
| 3 | What is more , because people 's short-term and long-term memories operate rather differently , they may well remember something quite different three days later : and the chances are that in the real marketplace it is the longer memory that matters . |
| 4 | In fact one of the things that 's most disturbed me about some of the recent discussions that have taken place in the great debate has been that on the one hand people have talked about educating people for adult life and learning more about the way people earn their living , learning more about industry , more about productive things , and on the other hand they 've been talking about maintaining standards . |
| 5 | And I think that the argument has been that on the whole discipline the use of discipline simply to punish drinking is n't going to be appropriate , although there may be forms of behaviour produced by excessive drinking that it 's appropriate to act against . |
| 6 | A practical consequence of this relationship has been that from the late nineteenth century onwards managerially and technically trained personnel have been well represented on the boards of major German companies . |
| 7 | A variant theme in recent historiography has been that by the mid-ninth century , nobles had been too much influenced by the church 's stress on peace , and had thus become unfit for military service . |
| 8 | Finally , it may have been that before the Pleistocene , with its powerful glacial and periglacial denudation , the amount of gravel transferred to the sea by the rivers was much less , so that there was far less material from which the sea could build beaches . |
| 9 | The result has been that within the legal framework , policies have been chosen on an ad hoc basis . |
| 10 | The analogous distinction in fiction would be that between the conscious and the reluctant narrator — the sad , the unwitting narrator . |
| 11 | It may be that at the national political level in the late twentieth century it is harder to identify discrete instrumentalist land interests than it is when looking at specific places , although even at the national level it is easy enough in 1988 . |
| 12 | And the point of his saying seems to be that with the littlest of faith , the great tasks can be accomplished . |
| 13 | The use of marked language is a familiar enough device of modern television comedy or stage farce to raise a laugh , be that in the mild form of so-called " family entertainment " — words like knickers , pratt , plonker , etc. — or in the form of more marked terms used in later night viewing on the supposedly more serious channels . |
| 14 | Or to reverse it , could it be that in the deepening turbulence of our generation God is not only judging a culture which has abandoned him but also , as it were , shaking up the bag and testing the foundations to see if we Christians are as ready as we think for the critical years ahead ? |
| 15 | The , the , the best defence you could make of that , if you wanted to make a defence of it , would be that in the nineteen twenties and thirties as we 've been seeing in the lectures , I 'll be saying a bit more about that some psychoanalyse was , was developing . |
| 16 | The difference in the actions would be that in the former , the absence of the guard establishes breach of duty , whereas in negligence , Brian would have to prove that Alan had failed to exercise reasonable care . |
| 17 | The truth may be that in the long run , as Lincoln thought , people are not fooled . |
| 18 | A and the , the justification for doing this would be that in the long term we will need the coal therefore it 's ne it 's necessary to keep er a viable coal industry going . |
| 19 | The only difference appears to be that in the one case there is consent and in the other there is not . |
| 20 | But it may also be that in the bourgeois family the essential inegalitarianism on which capitalism rested found a necessary expression . |
| 21 | Take us and Europe now , is n't it odd that , after two world wars , in which our men who died , our nations sacrificed themselves in fighting what was thought to be the great German danger , we now find ourselves at least as much hostile to our allies in both of those wars — the French — as we do to the Germans , and if one could measure this sort of thing it might well be that in the British public at large you would find more sympathy towards the Germans than the French . |
| 22 | The penalty for not entering an accurate record in the new Domesday Book would be that after the new vesting day for the exercise , all that wealth in Britain not entered in the record would become available for redistribution by the Government . |
| 23 | It may be that like the other NCT groups people do not feel the need to attend for more than a few months ( ca n't stay a New Mum for ever ! ! ! ) and at the moment no one needs the MiE group I do not know and I would like to find out . |
| 24 | It is perhaps noteworthy that two chroniclers refer to the plague of 1361 as the pestis puerorum , the plague of the children , and if it is true that children in particular had perished in that outbreak , it could be that by the early 1370s the supply of labour was being reduced by a shortage of new recruits , particularly as the survivors of 1361 would also have been attacked by another outbreak in 1369 . |
| 25 | No two coalfields were the same , but if a general pattern can be discerned from the variety of experience it is that during the first half of the nineteenth century each region largely generated its own workforce from the natural increase of its population , but that the spectacular later developments drew not only upon local men who left the farms or rural crafts and industries in large numbers but also upon the surplus population of counties from all over the British Isles . |
| 26 | Above : The great thing about this indoor pool by Cascade is that during the warm summer months the doors slide open to give you the best of both worlds . |
| 27 | A possible explanation is that during the 1950s and 1960s , before Aldabra became a scientific reserve , commercial fishermen from the Seychelles living on the island hunted goats with dogs at night . |
| 28 | The point on which I want to concentrate here is that during the last two centuries changes in the law and in employment policies progressively have excluded both the youngest and the oldest generations from the labour market , and therefore from the means to support themselves through earning wages . |
| 29 | In the case of a bridal couple the ideology is that during the initiatory phase of their marriage the groom and his bride are playing out the roles of a god and a goddess ; when they resume their life as ordinary mortals their dangerous divinity must be removed . ) |
| 30 | The answer is that during the past 200 years or more a dynamic change has taken place . |