Example sentences of "be [that] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am that God to whom you w ill not pray . |
| 2 | The empirical grounds are that studies of post-merger performance are far from unanimous in identifying improved performance . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's what you are that matters to me , ’ Alice said impulsively . |
| 4 | Even so , GATT estimates that services have accounted for 17–20 per cent of world trade every year since the mid-1960s : other estimates are that FDI in services has risen even faster . |
| 5 | The implications for selling as a result of these developments have been that salespeople of fast-moving consumer goods are no longer compelled to sell the products in the old-fashioned ‘ salesmanship ’ sense , as advertising has already pre-sold the goods for them . |
| 6 | An actual criticism of the ley theory , as opposed to mental attitude , has been that lines on the plane surface of a map can not accurately represent alignments on the curved surface of the Earth . |
| 7 | The problem has been that descriptions of language in general tended to be based on these special cases . |
| 8 | One outcome of these severe inequalities , sustained over many years by a small privileged élite , has been that opponents of these regimes have resorted to armed struggle . |
| 9 | For example , it could well have been that families of cave dwellers came to realise that it was possible that they could agree to respect the privacy and boundaries of their respective homes , and by so doing relieve themselves of the eternal vigilance likely to be necessary in the absence of such agreement . |
| 10 | The result has been that sales of diesel cars in Britain last year reached a record 139,810 , or 8.8 per cent of a smaller total market , compared with 128,167 ( 6.38 per cent ) in 1990 . |
| 11 | The result of all this has been that proponents in the press of the fashionable pro-government doctrine of ‘ new realism ’ have somehow found themselves spending most of their time constructing and then reporting on a fantasy world . |
| 12 | It may be that responses from within the universities were shaped as much by an unwillingness to accept a national role for the universities , as — by the Report 's unprecedented prioritization of English studies . |
| 13 | First , administrative tribunals or authorities were subject to the full rigours of the Anisminic judgment : the parliamentary intent was presumed , subject to a clear contrary indication , to be that questions of law were to be decided by the courts ; the distinction between errors within jurisdiction and errors going to jurisdiction was , for practical purposes , abolished , and any error of law would automatically result in the tribunal having asked itself the wrong question . |
| 14 | If a need for parental protection in part constitutes the superego — and a fundamental , primitive part at that — then it may be that disturbances in later superego-formation will bring these earlier , more primitive , aspects of the superego to the fore . |
| 15 | The trouble seems to be that bursts of information leave a phone at the sort of frequencies which hearing aids are designed to detect . |
| 16 | Boys appear to outnumber girls by about five to one , but it may be that girls with the problem are less overtly hyperactive , and tend to display more subtle symptoms , such as inattention , speech disorders and mood changes , which may not always be identified as hyperkinetic syndrome . |
| 17 | If it is found that a particular form of therapy is effective for a group of individuals with a particular pattern of language difficulties , or for those who share a common aetiology ( that is , they have the same diagnosis ) , it may be that others with similar difficulties may be helped by the same form of therapy . |
| 18 | With NCA 's expertise on the type , it may well be that operators around the world may have finally found a real replacement for the DC-3 ! |
| 19 | So it may be that elements of the sibling altruism will develop in families , too . |
| 20 | It may be that PR as a profession has ‘ come of age ’ because Stirling University introduced a Master 's degree in Public Relations in 1988 and Dorset Institute of Higher Education introduced a Bachelor 's degree in 1989 . |
| 21 | The claim would be that Jesus of Nazareth represented observable evidence of the divine nature . |
| 22 | In an old house , it may be that gaps in the skirting boards are the chief causes of heat loss and/or draughts , in which case a quick brandishing of wood filler around the home will solve that problem . |
| 23 | One of the implications of spatial segregation seems to be that differences in housing quality will be reinforced further by the quality of the neighbourhood environment and facilities in each area ( Ambrose 1974 ) . |
| 24 | The main advantage with this system would be that players from junior clubs could get noticed by selectors and make their way up the representative ladder without having to move clubs . |
| 25 | This is not to say that there are not important distinctions between , say , the large cities , or between declining industrial areas ; individual localities may all show different social relationships ( Cooke , 1989 ) ; it may be that similarities of trends in the 1960s and 1970s were in part coincidental , and that there will be salient differences in the 1990s . |
| 26 | Could it be that statements about the professional development of teachers are mostly rhetoric , or at least moral rather than empirical argument ? |
| 27 | They would deny that the effect in any way proves that polls influence opinion ; it could , for instance , be that supporters of a right-wing candidate are of a generally conservative predisposition , and purchase newspapers which only report polls sympathetic to their candidate . |
| 28 | Alternatively , however , it may be that considerations of meaning take us beyond the scope of scientific method . |
| 29 | Well as an association , we naturally get ourselves involved with many other aspects of the university activities in that erm both the students are applicants of ours and come and talk to us about projects which they may like to see emerge , and other departments of the university , the music department etc. , sometimes find that our knowledge of the area , or certain aspects of some of the schemes that we 're operating , coincide with what they 're trying to do and it turns out to be that campuses like this are often useful places for residencies and artists will come and take up residency in a university for a period of time , and that 's often been exploited by the Association . |
| 30 | In a similar way , it may be that courses in the Spring programme , which have been low on numbers but well received , will attract more participants if they are repeated . |