Example sentences of "be that [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JUST THOUGHT I 'd write to say how surprised and disappointed I am that the 10,000 Maniacs have decided ( at the time of writing ) to play only three live dates in the UK this year , all of which are in London . |
| 2 | JUST THOUGHT I 'd write to say how surprised and disappointed I am that the 10,000 Maniacs have decided ( at the time of writing ) to play only three live dates in the UK this year , all of which are in London . |
| 3 | Section three deals with the nineteen ninety three ninety four revenue budget , the main points for this year are that a similar saving on inflation in excess of two hundred thousand pounds can be put towards the extra items of expenditure listed in paragraph three point four , that will fall to the committee 's budget in nineteen ninety three ninety four , in addition the savings generated by the renegotiated electricity maintenance contracts contributes another eighty two thousand pounds , this leaves some two hundred and thirty thousand pounds of the extra commitments still to be financed . |
| 4 | Thus the general lessons are that a concentrated vertical market structure is not necessarily undesirable , and that freely negotiated contractual relationships are not necessarily benign . |
| 5 | With the principle of voluntary hospitalization accepted , and safeguards now surrounding the standards of treatment , the chances are that a better , more professionally trained mental health service will develop . |
| 6 | Among these are that a complete network may have only one start event and only one finish event ; that an event is not complete until all the activities leading to it are themselves complete ; and that a network must always move forwards in time . |
| 7 | But such aspirations may easily be frustrated when managerial priorities are that a local population of mentally handicapped people is routinely visited and monitored and that recurrent crises are dealt with by team members . |
| 8 | The two criticisms commonly levelled at Prince are that a particular song is ‘ overdone ’ or that it 's ‘ unrealized ’ . |
| 9 | The facts are that no such dossier was produced by Murrin in 1989 . |
| 10 | The only real grumbles are that the tagging system does n't go far enough , a column and page breaking tag is essential , and that the keyboard shortcuts for the PC version seem to have been changed from the earlier version . |
| 11 | It was too early in the negotiating round at the time of writing to be confident about trends for the coming year , although most expectations for the 1–10MW bracket are that the new deals will merely take account of inflation . |
| 12 | But the signs are that the upward curve is levelling out . |
| 13 | Older items have become extremely collectable , and the indications are that the better contemporary rugs may follow suit . |
| 14 | The odds are that the young man would not have laid a finger on her , but what if … ? |
| 15 | At the level of the local enterprise it is being hypothesised that the chances are that the political relations between management and workers are a re-enactment of patterns more reminiscent of family relations . |
| 16 | The indications are that the Muslim Brotherhood and its more liberal independent Islamic allies , who jointly control more than one-third of the 80 seats in the lower house , will make further gains in next year 's general election . |
| 17 | The main ‘ differences are that the submerged leaves are less finely divided , and are arranged in whorls much nearer . |
| 18 | The facts as related by the Rose-Noelle 's crew are that the 41-foot trimaran left Picton , on New Zealand 's South Island , for Tonga on 1 June and capsized in a storm about 125 miles off the North Island on 4 June . |
| 19 | You might then wonder what the cutting of the hair had to do with it — well , one of the features of auto-immune diseases is that they cluster within individuals and sometimes within an individual 's family , and the reasons for that are that the immune responses that we have we inherit with our genes . |
| 20 | ‘ My expectations are that the three athletes will be free , ’ he added . |
| 21 | The most significant are that the proposed SAS requires auditors to be active , rather than passive , and to perform procedures specifically designed to identify circumstances which might call into question the appropriateness of the going concern basis ; that the future period which should be considered by both the directors and auditors in assessing the validity of the going concern basis should be extended to one year from the date the accounts are approved by the directors ; and that emphasis is now placed on the need for adequate disclosures in accounts of matters giving rise to inherent uncertainties that affect a company 's ability to continue as a going concern . |
| 22 | Initial indications are that the basic rocks responsible for the gravity anomaly are more extensive than originally mapped . |
| 23 | All the indications are that the Hebridean flora and vegetation were more diverse than today , presumably as a result of the widespread more fertile , unleached mineral soils present immediately after deglaciation and the cessation of periglaciation . |
| 24 | I am always deeply suspicious of long and complicated menus ; the chances are that the busiest thing in the kitchen is a microwave oven . |
| 25 | The disadvantages are that the single battery has less stamina than a pod of AAs giving the same voltage , and the female terminal can splay ( or the segments fold under if the battery is installed carelessly ) . |
| 26 | Analysts ' best guesses are that the underlying operating profits of the big city banks will be down by as much as 30% for the financial year now ending . |
| 27 | Although he warns against treating France as an extension of the British market , he dismisses the view that it is an awkward place to do business : ‘ There is a market for everything in France and the chances are that the French do n't need any British imports — it 's a question of making it worth their while . |
| 28 | The signs are that the next few years will see some extensive soul-searching about art history ; several books have already appeared . |
| 29 | The chances are that the same cycle will repeat even if it is successful in doing so ; success in innovative technology can not be guaranteed . |
| 30 | The chances are that the same cycle will repeat even if it is successful in doing so ; success in innovative technology can not be guaranteed . |