Example sentences of "be that [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The general implications of Lienhardt 's argument are that all languages have the potential to make abstract , relatively neutral statements , if called upon to do so .
2 Yes er erm my instructions are that all persons are accounted for in the premises and er once they 've been accounted for er then it was safe for other officers , i.e the C I D or Superintendent to go to that yes and they would not have been allowed in had I not received instructions that the house was secure and all persons accounted for .
3 The predictions are that some records will tumble .
4 The results of this approach are that some individuals may be committed to lifelong drug therapy which they do not need .
5 Other advantages for registration as a charity are that those parents and friends who can be persuaded to make covenants to the association will be able to gain tax relief and companies that give donations will find it easier to convince the tax man that their gift was entirely for charitable purposes .
6 Teachers are probably more conscious of teaching knowledge and skills than they are of passing on attitudes , yet if , as former medical students themselves , they were to identify ideals in teaching the chances are that those ideals would be closely associated with one or two of their own teachers whose attitudes and behaviour made the most favourable impression at an impressionable age .
7 The good reasons are that these projects have not been chucking people out into the community " willy-nilly " .
8 The buyer 's concerns here are that these items be properly used and cared for by the seller , that they be used only for the purposes of the sub-contract ( ie that the seller does not use them to make goods for third parties which can then be sold by them in competition with the buyer ) , and that they be returned to him at the end of the sub-contract .
9 A side effect of the Act , however , has been that many owners of leasehold property no longer regard such investments as sound and they have voluntarily negotiated the sale of freeholds even where the property concerned did not fall within the provisions of the 1967 Act .
10 The prediction had been that these elections would result in more women and fewer Scots around the shadow cabinet table as a result of the voting system .
11 Juliet Mitchell in her work Psychoanalysis and Feminism has pointed to the significance of this task , but the problem , as suggested above , has been that most analyses have not been sufficiently historically specific to make them usable .
12 Although Conservative Members have had a lot to say on the subject , in Standing Committee E the hon. Member for Maidstone ( Miss Widdecombe ) said : ’ The effect of the amendments ’ — in other words , an amendment to the Bill in order to make these affirmative orders — ’ would be that all regulations under the Bill would be subject to the affirmative procedure . ’
13 Alternatively it could be that all subjects perform differently on junctions they previously knew well compared to those they did not know well .
14 Not all summons forms can be used as addresses ( e.g. hey you in ( 47 ) can not occur in the slot occupied by Madam in ( 48 ) ) , although it may be that all addresses can be used as summonses ( Zwicky , 1974 : 791 ) .
15 We may like to think that such changes enable the organisation to be more efficient and effective in achieving its goals and yet it may well be that such changes arise as a result of trying to satisfy an individual 's political ambitions or to undercut the ambitions of a rival .
16 Nevertheless , it may well be that such birds are conditioned to this colour and it has been shown that nectar quality can overcome colour prejudice .
17 It may be that such moves towards a willingness to detach comment from political allegiance and dogma is a passing fad but it does also suggest that many journalists are uneasy about blind , albeit volunteered , political commitment .
18 It may also be that such employers were , at least in the early 1970s , less prepared to make the organizational adjustments which make it feasible for mothers to combine paid work with responsibility for young children .
19 The universal feeling used to be that such books belonged in the libraries they came from .
20 If there is any iron law of bureaucracy it must be that such organizations will not willingly do anything that may be against the organization 's perceived long-term interests and that , on occasions , this will lead the organization to ignore its nominal masters .
21 Although it has rarely been the subject of judicial pronouncement the conceptual basis of the " conventional " sums awarded by the courts in respect of non-pecuniary losses appears to be that such sums are what are considered fair and reasonable compensation in the social , economic and industrial conditions which prevail in England and Wales .
22 Well of course erm the basis used to be that many courts erm had written above them ‘ Police Court ’ and I think some of the older courts where this was sort of carved in stone may still have this above them , but Magistrates have gone to great lengths erm in recent times to emphasise this is not a police court , this is a magistrates ' court .
23 The problem seems to be that many women are having a tough time making their mark higher up the career ladder .
24 and there ca n't be that many authorities left that are n't already involved .
25 Well there wo n't be that many cars off two houses , but I would also like to add
26 It may be that many children will live for years with only episodes of severe illness .
27 It may be that these cases are an authorial slip ; but the point seems to be that Lok is shown painfully developing analytic skills .
28 If Soviet women choose to ignore men 's dinner-time conversation it is not necessarily because they lack education : it may be that these women too have difficulty getting a word in and risk being verbally assaulted by men 's sexism .
29 And it may be that these disadvantages help to cause parental difficulties , and hamper good parenting .
30 It may be that these differences in proliferative organisation between the skin and oesophagus explain why metaplasia and cancer are relatively rare in response to contact carcinogens in the former but common in the latter epithelium .
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