Example sentences of "be that [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The implications of these determinants of the balance of power are that before negotiations ( and , indeed , during them ) a salesperson will benefit by assessing the relative strength of his power base . |
| 2 | It may be that in rivers there are times when two or even more shoals rendezvous at a point along a shared beat and pass each other — whether travelling in the same direction or not — by swimming over the top of whoever has arrived first . |
| 3 | An alternative is that under conditions which are maximally unfavourable for plural reference , when a plural reference is made , it is made only because no strain exists in those ( rare ) cases . |
| 4 | Evidence so far is that for providers , the care programme approach does not assist in clarifying the roles of different staff in different agencies , but it may offer a global package of mental health care , comprising both social and health care services . |
| 5 | The point is that for Callinicos , Nietzschean thought is an instance of Romantic anti-capitalism : that form of refusal of the implications of capitalist modernity which has been present virtually since the birth of that condition , described by Michael Lowy as ‘ opposition to capitalism in the name of pre-capitalist values ’ ( cited p. 67 ) . |
| 6 | My own view is that for readers to be promised even a glimmer of understanding as to the origins of our world and the universe was tempting enough , but the further promise that it was to be told briefly was irresistible . |
| 7 | A common feeling among Tory MPs is that on matters such as the resurrection of Christ , on which the Bishops should be certain , they are full of doubt ; but on matters such as the precise level of the public sector borrowing requirement , they are vociferous in their certainty . |
| 8 | An example is that on leukaemias , managed by the Leukaemia Research Fund Centre in Leeds ( Alexander et al. 1989 ) . |
| 9 | What is more disturbing if we wish to achieve a simple separation of grammar and semantics is that on occasions one and the same deviance may be cured either by adjustment of closed set items , or by the replacement of open set items . |
| 10 | But every sign now is that to shortages , inflation and a runaway budget deficit must be added serious shortfalls in output of coal , oil and nuclear energy . |
| 11 | What we mean by this , is that at times of great stress we can all be overwhelmed by the experience and find ourselves ‘ at sea ’ , not knowing what to do . |
| 12 | My one gripe is that at times the control system is not as good as expected . |
| 13 | What can be said about fluoride is that at concentrations of even less than one part per million ( the official dose ) it can cause toxic reactions in sensitive people and recent reassessments of the fluoridation scene suggest that this measure may be much more harmful to health than has been hitherto realized . |
| 14 | My belief is that at Co-ordinators Meeting we should examine that concern and discover a workable and economic way of expressing it . |
| 15 | One particularly crucial relationship at local authority level is that between officers and councillors , but there is no uniform pattern . |
| 16 | Another lag , for example , is that between changes in instruments and the achievement of the employment and prices objectives . |
| 17 | One important structural relationship is that between bureaucracies and groups that represent particular interests . |
| 18 | A crucial and obvious biological distinction is that between plants and animals , but a more important distinction is the way life is based on one type of cell or another . |
| 19 | What distinguishes visionary leadership is that through words and actions , the leader gets the followers to ‘ see ’ his or her vision — to see a new way to think and act — and so to join their leader in realizing it . |
| 20 | What is , however , a matter of concern is that within days of receiving and failing to reply to that letter , on 23 October 1991 , the local authority moved the children from the family friends with whom they had lived since 17 July 1991 and placed them with foster parents . |
| 21 | It is the attraction of opposite charges that holds the negatively charged electrons in the atomic periphery where they encircle the positively charged nucleus , but the corollary is that like charges repel ; two protons , each one positively charged , repel one another . |
| 22 | The only paragraphs in Section 2 which does allow any exemption for individuals is that concerning emigres who " although of Russian blood " had " not been in USSR since 1930 " prior to their " joining the German forces " . |
| 23 | With agency workers the only clear relationship is for the service sector , and again the suggestion is that in establishments where a large proportion of the labour force is unskilled this form of labour is less likely to be found . |
| 24 | The assumption is that in cases of arousal , memory for central information will be enhanced while memory for peripheral information will be impaired . |
| 25 | The practical significance of this distinction is that in cases of ambiguity an exception will be construed against the landlord , while a reservation will be construed against the tenant ( St Edmundsbury & Ipswich Diocesan Board of Finance v Clark ( No 2 ) [ 1975 ] 1 All ER 772 ) . |
| 26 | The first is that in cases of doubt the courts will construe the restriction contra proferentes . |
| 27 | What the polyptychs clearly suggest , however , is that in areas west of the Rhine , landlords ' cash-demands ( backed as they were by the threat of force ) drove peasants to acquire coin through transactions on their own account . |
| 28 | One possible answer is that in periods of structural change major upheavals and dislocation are felt — a crisis is obvious — whereas in the intervening years changes occur smoothly and are felt to be less dramatic . |
| 29 | The snag is that in countries with persistently high inflation hardly anyone holds paper money ; instead they put all earnings in index-linked bonds or interest-earning savings accounts . |
| 30 | ‘ The encouraging news is that in countries such as Finland and the USA where vaccination against Hib disease had been extensively administered the incidence of this form of meningitis has been dramatically reduced . |