Example sentences of "to [be] that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the general approach is fairly robust , it ought to be that the relationship between population and land cover is fairly stable , so that we would expect the model coefficients to be similar to those obtained from the ward data . |
| 2 | The reservation has to be that the performance always keeps something in hand , in many ways effectively so , but in the end missing some of the physical thrill of this work . |
| 3 | It does seem , though , that when the death of someone we love is sudden it does not have to be that the shock is greater than when we have been expecting it . |
| 4 | The best guess appears to be that the debris are fragments of hydroids — an aquatic plant which resembles grass in appearance and which grows on rocks and inside open pipes . |
| 5 | Having spoken to various Glens fans the problem seems to be that the Board who made a fortune in the Marseilles game , are n't giving Tommy Jackson the money to spend on quality players , thus the lack of success on the playing field . |
| 6 | A particular difficulty would seem to be that the proportion of left handed inverters found in the general population does not correspond to the proportion of sinistrals estimated on other grounds to have left hemisphere speech ( Searleman , Tweedy and Springer , 1979 ) although it must be admitted that the range of estimates of both proportions has varied quite widely and there is at least some overlap . |
| 7 | The fact seems to be that the ability to ‘ explain' meanings is an uncommon skill . |
| 8 | The underlying moral of this part of the story seems to be that the Church should welcome all who are sound in doctrine without troubling about differences and minor scruples . |
| 9 | In the following example , the question-tag is ‘ are n't they ’ ; when it has a falling tone , as in ( a ) , the implication is said to be that the speaker is comparatively certain that the information is correct , and simply expects the listener to provide confirmation , while the rising tone in ( b ) is said to indicate a lesser degree of certainty , so that the question-tag functions more like a request for information . |
| 10 | The answer , in the light of the Mandla case , would appear to be that the school would be acting unlawfully . |
| 11 | The message needs to be that the school serves their community and accepts children from their area . |
| 12 | SIB 's concern appears to be that the OTC market is almost completely unregulated and , perhaps more important , that OTC futures are non-standard contracts which can not therefore easily be closed out . |
| 13 | This might happen because the writer is tired , because he or she wants to get the writing over and done with ; but the fundamental reason seems to be that the writer has broken contact with the feeling that originally made him or her want to write the story or poem . |
| 14 | Following this reduction to a less serious ' offence , sentencing policy seems to be that the offence of taking vehicles without consent is not in isolation deemed to be serious enough to attract a custodial sentence . |
| 15 | The general rule with regard to these provisions might be said to be that the settlor will not avoid tax on the income which arises from the capital which he has settled unless he and his wife are excluded from all possible benefit . |
| 16 | The better view would seem to be that the court must respect the intention of the legislature of the State whose law governs the transaction and apply the Convention despite the reservation made by its own State . |
| 17 | The difficulty then is perceived by some to be that the law does not reach those persons who couch their racialist sentiments in moderate terms rather than virulently abusive ones , whereas — so the argument runs — this propaganda is equally insidious . |
| 18 | Accepted procedural rules appear to be that the person selected must have the support of a majority in the House of Commons ( if need be , after a new general election ) , and that the Monarch must ‘ secure the strongest Government in the minimum time ’ while still observing the need for public impartiality . |
| 19 | But since the early 1970s , there has been a great deal of controversy about it and the prevailing mood in the accounting profession appears to be that the system is archaic and needs replacing . |
| 20 | The explanation has to be that the company shot itself in the foot by announcing the Sparcsystem 10 machines with such a long lead time , many would-be customers are holding back and waiting for them , and that things will not really start to pick up until those start shipping around September time — which suggests that dullness will continue for the current quarter . |
| 21 | The theory seems to be that the contract constituted by the articles of association defines the nature of the rights , which , however , are not purely personal rights but instead confer some sort of proprietary interest in the company though not in its property . |
| 22 | The reason seems to be that the gospel story was formed backwards . |
| 23 | The typical operation seemed to be that the man took a lump of metal from a bin , thrust it into the machine , closed some kind of safety cage , and pulled a lever . |
| 24 | The reason for this seems to be that the opportunity cost of keeping boys at school when they could go out to work is greater than for girls , especially for poor rural families . |
| 25 | it was held that the circumstances were such that the conclusion had to be that the passenger was ‘ a person using the vehicle ’ for the purpose of clause 6(1) ( c ) of the mib agreement of 1972 and was not therefore entitled to compensation from the bureau . |
| 26 | He was entirely comfortable with the predictable opinion of the Senior Chief Inspector of Schools who confessed that ‘ I am not much moved by what appears to sacrifice the interests of the few in favour of the many when one result is certain to be that the quality of the person required to fill posts of great importance and of a highly specialized nature is likely to be degraded . ’ |
| 27 | So it has to be that the load shifted backwards . |
| 28 | The implication would seem to be that the opposition fans had better watch out because Blackpool fans might not be restricted by normal conventions . |
| 29 | For the entire working-class left the answer seemed to be that the tragedy of Austria would be replayed in Spain ; for the Republican left it was that the Republic would be constitutionally ‘ revised ’ out of existence . |
| 30 | Thus , it has come to be that the disability ‘ professionals ’ and us , their ‘ clients ’ , live within the carefully crafted , mechanical embrace of ‘ care ’ . |