Example sentences of "it be that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it be that the awareness of this factor has contributed , at least in part , to the observed decrease in human toxoplasma infection , at least in some geographical areas ? |
| 2 | Could it be that the success of Microsoft is due partly to the fact that Bill Gates is an avid reader of your newspaper , therefore winning the ‘ severe contest between intelligence , which presses forward , and an unworthy , timid ignorance obstructing our progress ’ ? |
| 3 | Could it be that the Universe 's first white holes have yet to form ? |
| 4 | Could it be that the decision was taken in a temporary depression from drugs ? |
| 5 | Could it be that the friend is actually someone whom you recognize from a previous life , and that is why you immediately feel that you have a mutual link ? |
| 6 | Could it be that the sponsor of the competition — Lloyds Bank — expects to revolutionise its money sorting system ? |
| 7 | Could it be that the cytoplasm completely controls gene action ? |
| 8 | Or could it be that the boy had taken his spying into the Essoldo Cinema ? |
| 9 | Could it be that the alien does not want to steal the spaceship , but wants the key for some other purpose ? |
| 10 | Could it be that the fusion community is trying to solve this problem early on ? |
| 11 | Or could it be that the front-runner in the fusion race does not look very promising as the basis of a reactor ? |
| 12 | How can it be that the chap next door has a PC , yet his has a different processor from yours , has a different monitor , and probably has a different keyboard ? |
| 13 | There the ego has become so fragmented and is so er erm sick as it were that the id has overwhelmed it and the reality sense is lost . |
| 14 | ‘ What angers me about the system goes beyond the unreliability of ‘ proof ’ … it 's that the way criminals are dealt with has nothing to do with rehabilitation and readjusting people who 've stepped outside society 's norms . |
| 15 | If I have a gripe with Hartke , it 's that the reproduction is just a little too clear ; missed , fluffed and dissonant notes are all too easily discernible . |
| 16 | It 's that the class antipathies of black American culture the ‘ rap gap ’ have grown too wide for any one person , star or politician , to bridge . |
| 17 | I think I 'll have to get a new curtain rail it 's that the plastic snapped been on the curtain ring |
| 18 | These days the deal is often struck at the time of divorce ; and usually it 's that the house goes to your wife , for good . |
| 19 | Thus it is that the company is halving its prices , making it clear that the competition with NT will be serious . |
| 20 | It is that the company is a natural or real entity which exists separately and distinctly from the shareholders . |
| 21 | Your otherwise excellent cover version album was sadly marred by a long speech detailing how annoying it is that the price of eggs has gone up in Narodny-Karabakh . |
| 22 | The analysis offered by interference theory is similar , but rather simpler — it is that the existence of these ( within stimulus ) associations will interfere with the ability of the elements to form new ones . |
| 23 | If there is a common theme to liberal political theorizing on authority , it is that the legitimacy of authority rests on the duty to support and uphold just institutions , as , following Rawls , the duty is now usually called . |
| 24 | She then proceeds to whinge about how confusing it is that the Odeon Mezzanine , the Odeon Leicester Square and the Odeon West End are all situated within yards of each other . |
| 25 | We lead her back towards the Odeon Mezzanine and break the ice by saying interestingly how confusing it is that the Odeon Mezzanine , the Odeon Leicester Square and the Odeon West End are all situated within yards of each other . |
| 26 | So it is that the fetish of masculinity is fashioned in men-only milieus — we look to footballers , boxers , soldiers and miners to find our real men . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the longer you look , the more the qualities and character of the tomb become apparent and the clearer it is that the architect was not simply trying to imitate the Taj and failing . |
| 28 | If he has a regret , it is that the majority of young footballers today know nothing of life outside football . |
| 29 | Modern instrumentalism has adapted this strategy to explain how it is that the election of social democratic parties into government , or the advent of other coalitions orientated in part to working-class voters ( such as Franklin Roosevelt 's ‘ new deal ’ administration in the USA ) , have not qualified the fundamentally capitalist character of the liberal democratic state . |
| 30 | In other areas the general principle is that the greater the judicial element involved the more likely it is that the decision-maker must also hear . |