Example sentences of "be that [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fiscal argument is that welfare state benefits for the poor cost relatively less in the more affluent States , because they are drawing on a larger tax base ; the higher the average income in a State , the smaller the effort required to finance a programme at a given level of payments ( because presumably there will be both fewer recipients plus more rich people to tax than in States with low average incomes ) . |
| 2 | My argument is that state capitalism of the kind outlined above would be a highly progressive development . |
| 3 | The claim is that working memory is cleared as each clause is completed , and the results of initial processing are recoded for storage in long-term memory , with the effect that syntactic information is lost . |
| 4 | The argument is that government spending and taxation unambiguously influence total income and expenditure . |
| 5 | Again , our conclusion is that name mapping does not always occur during reading and that the mental representation of texts is , in that sense , often incomplete . |
| 6 | The fact is that manufacturing output fell under Labour . |
| 7 | My opinion is that sex offending can not be cured , but it can and should be better supervised and controlled . |
| 8 | So I must say I entirely agree with Heather on this , it seems to me inevitable logic of Freud 's theory and erm my own view is that group psychoanalysis is a contradiction in terms , you can not do psychoanalysis in a group of this and those who say they can I think have n never understood what psychoanalysis is all about and are misleading the public and people pay good money for it . |
| 9 | The implication is that pupil attitude change is not sufficient on its own to ensure that pupils will actually make non-traditional option choices . |
| 10 | The alternative view is that merger policy , far from being too lax , is too tight and that companies should be encouraged to merge in order to be able to face foreign competition . |
| 11 | The implication is that peasant militancy in 1905 was not a function of overall impoverishment and that minor concessions , such as the reduction in taxes and ending of redemption dues , were unlikely to transform peasant attitudes . |
| 12 | The fact is that class conflict provided little or no revolutionary potential in Britain and that apathy was far more potent a force among the British working class than action . |
| 13 | One view is that insider research calls for the free-ranging exploration of what goes on in the classroom without the constraint of any preconceived theory . |
| 14 | The fact is that teacher release for professional development is cost intensive through supply cover and even with funds is very disruptive on the teaching process for young people . |
| 15 | As the consumer associations and others have said , the result is that consumer representation in most of the utilities is completely inadequate . |
| 16 | However , a β type error can not be excluded in this study because the prestudy assumption was that microalbuminuria progression was exclusively pressure dependent . |
| 17 | A further consequence was that brewery share prices were generally depressed during the 1950s . |
| 18 | Elinor 's first astonished impression was that Matron Braddock looked like a female impersonator — a sergeant-major in drag : she could n't wait to describe her to Buzz . |
| 19 | The main conclusion was that shaft flexibility does not play an important dynamic role in the swing . |
| 20 | At Ford , where workers across the country have been put on short time because of the slump in demand , the feeling was that car tax should have been scrapped much sooner . |
| 21 | Quite apart from any utility or negative political advantage that came out of popular culture , the important thing was that establishment culture was at least in touch with the masses . |