Example sentences of "be [that] [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It could be that one first-class photographer takes very much longer on studio work than another or that another industrial photographer can not work without bringing in extensive lighting systems . |
2 | Could it be that one far-off day intelligent computers will speculate about their own lost origins ? |
3 | And as for Mr Willi Stoph , the former prime minister , a major mark against him is that 100 different brands of whisky were found in his cellar — in other countries that would be admired . |
4 | The emerging consensus is that one serious crime in three ( excluding burglary and car theft ) is reported to the police . |
5 | The answer is that four important things depend upon the passing of property . |
6 | The second possibility McTaggart considers is that two mental states ‘ belong to the same self when , and only when , the same living body ( or what appears as such ) stands in a certain relation of causality to both of them ’ . |
7 | My feeling is that two separate matters sometimes get mixed up : the practice and study of connected speech is agreed by everyone to be of great importance , but this can sometimes result in some relatively unimportant aspects of speech ( e.g. assimilation , juncture ) being given more emphasis than they should . |
8 | It is that two lexical units will be assigned to the same lexeme if there exists a lexical rule which permits the prediction of the existence of the sense of one of them from the existence of the sense of the other . |
9 | The second is that two normal observers viewing the same object or scene from the same place will ‘ see ’ the same thing . |
10 | ‘ The story is that two other clients of Martinez , ’ and Fearnley named two tennis players who were well-known for their skill at ladies ' doubles and notorious within tennis for their lesbian activities , ‘ were detailed to pursue Mary-Ann . |
11 | Whenever the result of the development of node k is that two new branches are grown , the up- and down-nodes are assigned values of and ( where x r is the branching variable ) respectively . |
12 | The disadvantage is that two distinct operations ( polymerase chain reaction and restriction cleavage ) are required . |
13 | What is even more significant is that 24 different players have shared the scoring honours , emphasising the team 's strength . |
14 | The answer is that three other sectors have provided relief — the revenues of North Sea oil extraction from 1980 ( an activity of limited life ) , the profits from selling services to other countries , and the profits on investment in other countries . |
15 | A slight variation in this household was that one social worker stayed behind . |
16 | The irony of Buchanan 's attack on ‘ Hooligan Imperialism ’ was that one important way in which the Hooligan figured within the troubled preoccupations of his contemporaries was precisely as a fighting-fit recruit for the imperial armies . |
17 | Newman 's central idea , both as a Catholic and as an Anglican , was that one holy Catholic and apostolic Church exists . |
18 | Partly it was for lack of anything else to be curious about , the usual island obsession with trivialities ; partly it was that one cryptic phrase from Mitford and the discovery about Leverrier ; partly , perhaps mostly , a peculiar feeling that I had a sort of right to visit . |