Example sentences of "be that [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Latest available estimates are that between 1984 and 1988 the United Kingdom received about one third of all inward direct investment to the EC — higher than any other member state . |
| 2 | The merits of these coalitions are that through direct discussions and active support they should raise as many questions as they pose . |
| 3 | From mother to child ( perinatal transmission ) — Estimates are that in developed parts of the world such as Europe , around 15% of children born to mothers with HIV will themselves be infected . |
| 4 | It is not always possible to say precisely which kind of eyes these are pretending to be , but the chances are that in most cases they are mimicking the forward-facing eyes of birds of prey . |
| 5 | The depressing facts of the matter are that in those sectors still covered by the councils , areas like shops and catering and laundries , security and administration , people are already working punishing shifts for pittances because their employers know the chances of being caught dispensing illegal hourly rates are minimal as are the resultant fines in those few cases successfully brought to prosecution . |
| 6 | The chances are that in some organizations there will be real difficulties and dangers such as in nursing , coal mining , and heavy industries or indeed any work situation which has machinery . |
| 7 | Moreover , trust in Hitler was not simply based upon an early end to the war , but on an early victorious conclusion , and all the indications are that before late 1942 and early 1943 — centring around Stalingrad , the North African reverses , and the mounting allied air supremacy — only a minority of Germans ( around a third of the population according to American surveys carried out in 1945 ) were prepared to concede that the war was lost . |
| 8 | The basis of the Good Friday belief appears to have been that on that day the soil is redeemed from the power of Satan — the old chthonic god of the pre-Christian religion — and for this brief time he has no influence on it at all . |
| 9 | A comparable area of research has been that by Genevan workers with a concern for environmental processes such as Doise and Mugney ( 1984 ) and Perret-Clermont ( 1980 ) , who have claimed significant advances in cognitive development when children work in pairs on Piagetian tasks . |
| 10 | The effect of this change in responsibility has been that in many schools the provision of meals and the supervision of children during the mid-day break has drifted out to the margins of importance and there has been , in general , a gradual decline in the numbers of children receiving cooked meals on school premises . |
| 11 | The result has been that in many GIS spatial queries initiated by the user must be formulated in terms of a software-specific command language . |
| 12 | In view of this , a frequently canvassed suggestion has been that in referred mergers the onus should be placed upon the firms to demonstrate that the proposed merger would directly confer benefits to the public interest . |
| 13 | The result has been that in some cases the insurance premiums which manufacturers have to pay to protect themselves are so high as to make it no longer profitable for them to remain in business . |
| 14 | But the assumption must have been that before nineteen forty nine there was a lot of that going on |
| 15 | The reason for this seems to have been that until 1914 , the return on UK securities was very low , rarely more than 3 per cent , and better returns could almost always be obtained abroad . |
| 16 | Just just think about that and just use that graph there If you wanted to work out the angle there , the tan of the angle would be that over that , but only when the scale is the same on both axes . |
| 17 | The assumption seemed to be that through some mechanism or other , the additional allocation of relatively small sums to be used for capital projects would moderate the problems of the inner-urban areas . |
| 18 | It may be that on such a consultation the Lord Chief Justice will take a different view from that of the trial judge , but under the present procedure the prisoner will be unaware of any variation of the trial judge 's original advice . |
| 19 | It may be that at various stages the teacher will rearrange the room . |
| 20 | Modem linkage for Dawyck will be needed within the next five years , and it may be that at that point we could decide to install a multiplexor to deal with all of our external computer links — use of local EUCS services , JANET , PSS , Royline and others . |
| 21 | It could be that at some future date we may wish to consider running DOS-based PCs from a Unix file-server , but it is preferable that we leave this as a possible option at the moment , rather than a definite commitment . |
| 22 | Warwick 's chief stewardship in the duchy of Lancaster went not to Gloucester but to Hastings and the implication seems to be that at this stage the king was more concerned to reward his allies than to undertake a major reconstruction of royal authority in the north . |
| 23 | It may be that at this time he was retained also by Simon of Montfort , Earl of Leicester [ q.v. ] , who had awarded him a money fee before 1245 . |
| 24 | The sample may be biased insofar as Livingstone and Wilkie used middle management as their study and it may well be that at this level individuals are reasonably well paid and hence money is not as important as other factors . |
| 25 | Warwick 's chief stewardship in the duchy of Lancaster went not to Gloucester but to Hastings and the implication seems to be that at this stage the king was more concerned to reward his allies than to undertake a major reconstruction of royal authority in the north . |
| 26 | Even so it may be that regarding each individual , he is less likely successfully to follow right reasons which apply to him anyway if left to himself than if he always obeys the directives of a just government including those which are morally reprehensible . |
| 27 | The fact seems to be that in such cases it is inappropriate to think in terms of discrete variation . |
| 28 | It is useful to know what other models can do since microcomputers have a limited life and it may be that in five years time , the librarian and teachers will be involved in seeking a replacement for the existing microcomputer . |
| 29 | It may be that in various painful and other unpleasant conditions animals deal with them by an increased usage of endogenous opioids . |
| 30 | erm It may be that in certain places there 's so much pressure on land from the people that there 's not a lot they can do . |