Example sentences of "be [that] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulties for employment , are that due to the drop in the birth rate in 64–77 the number of school leavers has dropped — 5.7 million in 1991 compared with 6.2 million in 1986 , with a projected drop to 4.9 million by 1996 . |
| 2 | Things to look out for are that all of the many Airworthiness Directives have been complied with . |
| 3 | Particularly striking examples , as Simon Frith points out ( 1983a : 146–7 , 154 ) , are that some of the ‘ most creative uses of the recording studio have also been the most ‘ manipulative ’ in commercial terms ' he mentions Phil Spector , Giorgio Moroder 's disco hits and Jamaican reggae — while ‘ in the USA … the most open and imaginative audiences deejays and radio programmes work in disco , the most obviously commercialized musical genre ’ . |
| 4 | If you intend to fight a missile duel , the chances are that most of your highly mobile force will attract a disproportionate amount of your enemy 's firepower and will die the death . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ The problem this season has been that many of the sites have not fished very well at all . |
| 6 | Some say that the church has significantly failed to provide a safe ‘ family ’ , and the result has been that thousands of needy people have drifted through and away to the false substitutes of the world . |
| 7 | The results of these factors have been that several of the new ‘ one-stop shop ’ security houses have withdrawn from market making . |
| 8 | It could even be that one of the worn words on the aforementioned standing stone was ‘ Drustans ’ , another name for Tristan and that the stone marked the place where Mark ordered the lovers to be buried together . |
| 9 | If the difference is real , however , it could be that one of the effects of the project involvement was to alert other service-providers to any need for institutional care at an earlier stage than would occur for those in the control sample . |
| 10 | Or it may be that one of them alone is , after all , the true explanation of the vivid coat of stripes . |
| 11 | It may be that one of my children might want one or two of them , but nobody these days has the houses to hang pictures in the way Bunny and I have done , and I 've always known that the public will eventually enjoy them . |
| 12 | it might well be that one of the one of the forms could go down there to have a morning as part of this project to do |
| 13 | Well , okay , now it it may be that one of the things that that relates to again is the meeting that we talked about , erm and the need to get them around the table and begin to talk about those sort of things . |
| 14 | I think the point has been made er and let me er ask you to correct me if I if you do n't i it 's a fair assessment , the point that 's really being made is there is a judgmental issue here as to whether a surplus arises from over-funding by an employer er substantial investment performance or or effectively unfair claiming between either the deferred pensioners or the pensioners and i it can be that all of those interests have to put into the pot and it 's a judgment as to who actually is doing best in what circumstances . |
| 15 | Mary Alston , arguing the case for a pay rise , pointed out in a speech as early as 1922 that It may be that prior to 1914 , women were employed in book composing only , but we must not forget the introduction of monotypes diverted hand labour to other channels correcting , making up and so forth , and in every large office today , not to speak of the small ones , we find women compositors setting , making up , doing author 's corrections and in some offices making ready for machine . |
| 16 | In this case the main falsification would be that hundreds of thousands of inner-city speakers who are not remotely interested in RP have ‘ borrowed ’ back [ a ] from RP . |
| 17 | The ultimate situation would be that such as Rank Xerox are now operating on a small-scale experimental basis whereby some senior staff work for the company from home on a free-lance sub-contractor basis . |
| 18 | Or could it simply be that many of our best satirical writers were themselves college lecturers ? |
| 19 | Part of the explanation must be that many of those who were deeply disappointed by the government 's record and lack of ‘ Socialism ’ still regarded the party as the lesser of two evils . |
| 20 | To revert to the Scottish question that was raised by the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan ( Mr. Salmond ) , has the Prime Minister noted the statement today by the leaders of the financial services industries north of the border that in the event of a measure of devolution or independence , to which the Opposition parties aspire , the likeliest result would be that many of the financial services companies would move south of the border ? |
| 21 | It could just be that some of us get married to creatures that fit that description , so perhaps there 's a mysterious kind of genetic memory involved here . |
| 22 | It might be that some of your own domestic banks participate regularly in syndicated euro.credits . |
| 23 | It may be that some of the liabilities you listed have actually been overcome in the last few years . |
| 24 | We do not believe that such operations can be shown to meet our public transport target safety level , and it may be that some of our European colleagues do not consider such operations to be public transport , or do not apply the same target level of safety to such operations . |
| 25 | First , it may be that some of the old churches are resistant to change and to the gospel . |
| 26 | Yet if many of the toxic chemicals that animals possess have evolved in order to aid survival , either by predation or protection , it may well be that some of these compounds could assist our own survival . |
| 27 | It may be that some of the produce offered to the temple for the gods and goddesses was discreetly diverted to the royal household ; it may also be , as with many later monarchies , that the royal authority depended on the religious establishment for validation . |
| 28 | It may be that some of the campaign violence was independent activity by local commanders , not the result of orders issued by Khmer Rouge headquarters . |
| 29 | Just as it is almost impossible to apply what is now called the ‘ Japanese ’ system of management to other parts of the world , because of the differences of culture and background of the people who are working in industry , so it is equally unlikely that the particular , precise ways that I have found so useful will have the same application to others ; Nevertheless , since I have spent so much of my life developing these ideas it may be that some of my experience will hit a chord of recognition or cause others to reflect or contemplate . |
| 30 | It may be that some of our roles conflict ( e.g. parental responsibilities might conflict with commitments at work ) or different groups might impose conflicting expectations in relation to one particular role ( e.g. in a man 's role as shop steward the managers might expect him to calm disputes while his work-mates might demand that he never compromise with the bosses ) . |