Example sentences of "be that [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may well be that Judge Huff 's knowledge of what is in those parts lies behind the tone of her comments and her refusal to allow Sotheby 's to bow out . |
| 2 | To anticipate the argument a little , my view is that consumption patterns of the majority of people ( not only in the Third World ) are ill-matched to their needs because both consumption and needs are generally dictated by transnational practices . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | The result is that company lawyers lack an intellectual tradition which places the particular rules and doctrines of their discipline within a broader theoretical framework which gives meaning and coherence to them . |
| 5 | The second reason is that church schools in general represent very good value for the taxpayer . |
| 6 | My argument is that state capitalism of the kind outlined above would be a highly progressive development . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The argument is that government spending and taxation unambiguously influence total income and expenditure . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The fact is that manufacturing output fell under Labour . |
| 11 | My opinion is that sex offending can not be cured , but it can and should be better supervised and controlled . |
| 12 | Another reason is that Lady de Bourgh , who is the heiress of a large fortune has advised Mr. Collins to get married and he changes his feelings of compassion quickly from Jane to Elizabeth and then from Elizabeth to Charlotte . |
| 13 | The implication is that cholesteryl esters may play an important role in the pathogenesis of alcohol induced pancreatic injury . |
| 14 | The upshot is that holiday/tour organisers who book hotels in this country are imposing stringent contract conditions on the hotels and may in some cases be looking for some performance guarantees or such-like so that they have some redress if your shortcomings result in them having to pay up to their customers . |
| 15 | Cooper 's conclusion is that houseproud housewives are ‘ abnormal ’ in the sense that their behaviour has something in common with that of obsessionally ill people . |
| 16 | One view is that successor States can not be regarded as third parties because of the continuing link between their territory and the treaty . |
| 17 | One argument is that venture funds apply inadequate investment criteria in assessing potential start ups . |
| 18 | The unfortunate thing is that problem solvers tend to polarise into two groups : the information gatherers who are not very comfortable with ideas , and the idea people who think they do not need information . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The fact is that diesel engines are produced in huge volume compared with a few years ago , reducing costs considerably , while petrol engines have grown ever more complex . |
| 21 | The implication is that pupil attitude change is not sufficient on its own to ensure that pupils will actually make non-traditional option choices . |
| 22 | The survey also considers that accounting for signing-on fees is non-standard and patchy : ‘ Our view is that signing-on fees are more akin to an emolument of a player rather than a transfer cost . |
| 23 | The consequence is that merger bids aimed at improving performance will tend to fail . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Indeed , the overriding impression is that referral patterns remained strikingly similar among both fundholders and non-fundholders after the implementation of the organisational changes . |
| 26 | Editor , — In their paper on the effect of the NHS reforms on general practitioners ' referral patterns Angela Coulter and Jean Bradlow state that ‘ the overriding impression is that referral patterns remained strikingly similar among both fundholders and non-fundholders . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Very broadly , his conclusion is that class inequalities in education — at least for boys — have changed very little since the First World War . |
| 30 | And they claim that the knock-on effect is that weather patterns change . |