Example sentences of "be that [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had just been that one phrase … |
| 2 | Thus , for example , in a police operational matter it may well be that one individual must make a decision and make that decision quickly . |
| 3 | Can it be that one day , off it goes on , that one day I simply stayed in , in where , instead of going out , in the old way , out to spend day and night as far away as possible , it was n't far . |
| 4 | It may be that one day we shall discover a complete unified theory that predicts them all , but it is also possible that some or all of them vary from universe to universe or within a single universe . |
| 5 | The outcome of such competition may be that one firm emerges as the ‘ winner ’ , able to dominate the market and earn monopoly rents ( Gilbert and Newbury , 1982 ) . |
| 6 | It may be that one strand of his personality has not yet matured , and even if it never does , that does not mean that he does not love you . |
| 7 | It may be that one partner is so involved with their own painful feelings during the experiences of midlife , that there is no room for the other 's needs . |
| 8 | It may be that one cell which habitually fed by flowing round other particles , took some bacteria and blue-greens within it and these , instead of being digested , survived to collaborate in a communal life of hitherto unparalleled intimacy . |
| 9 | There are slight stylistic differences in the execution of the relief work , and it may be that one cup is an exotic , a Minoan import , and the other was made by a Mycenean craftsman to make a pair ; on balance , I think it more likely that both are Minoan ( Figure 31 ) . |
| 10 | Or it may be that one environment is over-stimulating for the child — a classroom full of other children , with colourful posters covering all the walls may be so distracting for a mildly hyperkinetic child that he or she behaves far worse than usual . |
| 11 | Over this unimaginably ( for humans ) long time , each of the two lineages that branched from that remote ancestor has preserved 305 out of the 306 characters ( on average : it could be that one lineage has preserved all 306 of them and the other has preserved 304 ) . |
| 12 | It may well be that one consequence of increasing complexity will be a return to standard units . |
| 13 | First check your water quality — it could be that one fish is indicating a problem that will soon be common to all , such as nitrite poisoning . |
| 14 | Close inspection of Figure 3.3 , which is based on Wood 's simulation , show 's that two conditions have to be satisfied for this sort of result to emerge . |
| 15 | Among the claims is that five men accused in a rent boys scandal walked free after fears that gay judges would be named in court . |
| 16 | What I should perhaps point out here is that seventy percent of people who have fallen from the top of the falls have died in the process . |
| 17 | And the good news is that 10 % from every sale will go to help the World Wide Life Fund For Nature in its quest for earth 's survival . |
| 18 | What I do worry about is that one day , somebody 's going to find me out . |
| 19 | But their real hope is that one day they 'll be able to take them home . |
| 20 | Implied in the diagram is that one LECTURER can give more than one COURSE ( Fred , for example , gives business studies and computer science ) and one COURSE is given by more than one LECTURER ( maths by Tom and Dave , for example ) — a many-to-many relationship . |
| 21 | Smith says the message from Soviet data is that one year is the most people can take . |
| 22 | Claudia , the problem is that one Masai , cruel as this may sound , is not considered very important . |
| 23 | ( i ) " Active Play " discs ( CAV : Constant Angular Velocity ) The essential property of these for education is that one revolution of the disc produces one frame of video at any point on the disc . |
| 24 | One reason is that one clue for recession-watchers , the build-up of manufactured stocks ( inventories ) , is not much of a guide to a financial recession . |
| 25 | The essential point , then , is that one person 's ‘ common sense ’ is somebody else 's nonsense , and there are numerous examples of sociological and anthropological investigation questioning and exploding many common-sense notions about behaviour . |
| 26 | What they have in common is that one person 's actions have direct costs or benefits for other people which that individual does not take into account . |
| 27 | One commentator suggests that : " the essence of agency is that one person is entrusted with the power to act for another in that other 's interest , a clause enabling him without warning on a particular occasion to act in his own interest , or in the interest of another principal , seems plainly inconsistent with the whole nature of fiduciary responsibility . " |
| 28 | Another puzzle is that one kind of large reptile survived — the crocodiles . |
| 29 | Another very neat feature is that one Postscript interpreter can handle both the user 's screen and a printer directly from the same source material . |
| 30 | The typical pattern is that one box will show more ticks than any of the others , but there may be one or two further boxes with scores not far behind . |