Example sentences of "be that [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His hope has been that better use of woodlands will give the trees greater value , and so farmers and landowners will have an economic reason for managing their woods . |
| 2 | Why this large size evolved is something of a mystery : it may have been that larger gliders cruise at slower speeds without ‘ stalling ’ . |
| 3 | One consequence of this has been that further additions to the existing radio and television services would become deeply contested as efforts were made to detach them from the duopoly . |
| 4 | It may be that greater understanding of homosexuals is called for and that all measures aimed at countering misunderstanding should be welcomed . |
| 5 | Spyglass shoulder must be that lower place , there . |
| 6 | It may be that higher doses of charcoal ( equivalent to those used of terra fullonica and kaopectate ) would be as effective in this model . |
| 7 | The explanation may be that older women who had often completed their families were recruited to the study . |
| 8 | It may be that tougher-looking delinquents are more liable to be put away than fragile looking ones . |
| 9 | The underlying assumption is that this age gap between pupils in the same class is not important , but it may be that younger children are at a disadvantage educationally . |
| 10 | It may be that larger cars are not selling whilst smaller cars are . |
| 11 | Word from Ford is that better seats are on their way this year . |
| 12 | The clear implication is that greater weight is being given to macro-planning , in the hope that greater effectiveness here will indirectly benefit individual projects . |
| 13 | The question is how this expansion can be paid for , given that the new Secretary of State has said quite candidly that his present view is that higher education can not expect a higher share of public spending than it currently receives . |
| 14 | ‘ The really worrying thing is that higher education is being regarded as a commodity for sale rather than something that we should invest in . |
| 15 | Ultimately , there might have been differences between them in what enlargement meant , but the point is that higher education stood for an overriding and widening development of the mind . |
| 16 | Another way of making the point is that higher education traditionally formed a culture of the written word , albeit a kind of literacy which embodied a restricted code , understood by the few . |
| 17 | One of the most popular myths in weight training is that higher reps produce bigger abdominals . |
| 18 | However , it adds , an even greater risk is that higher mortgage rates will add to wage pressures . |
| 19 | Another assumption made by Marx throughout his work is that higher technology increases the total leisure time available . |
| 20 | One result is that higher rate taxpayers are switching their long-term deposits to tax free National Savings or to the taxable unit trust money funds such as Fidelity Cash , which pays 9pc gross . |
| 21 | The justification given is that richer people are better able than poorer people to carry a relatively larger share of the tax burden . |
| 22 | An alternative hypothesis is that lower birth weight results from the phenotypic expression of a genetic β cell defect associated with reduced fetal insulin secretion and reduced anabolic activity in utero . |
| 23 | The second is that lower taxes , not higher public spending , is the key to their continued supremacy over Labour and equally any softer Liberal Democrat challenge . |
| 24 | The only reason to prefer aid , as the EC appears to , is that freer trade could harm its own economies . |
| 25 | The first is that later texts suggest that the modus might be enforced directly . |
| 26 | A fascinating feature of Castells 's legacy is that later authors have continued to examine the sphere of reproduction and consumption despite the facts that Castells 's original theories have emerged as far less universally applicable than he suggested and that many of his followers are not Marxists . |
| 27 | It is that further mortgage , which was in all major respects recreating the terms of the September mortgage , which is alleged to be in breach of the court 's order and is the subject of the application for committal for contempt . |
| 28 | The main reason why dominance relations reduce the amount of overt aggression within a social group is that weaker individuals come to learn that they are weak , and therefore avoid entering into fights that would be effortless to the stronger , and dangerous to themselves . |
| 29 | A difficulty in interpreting laterality reaction time data according to a fixed anatomical model is that shorter response latencies for uncrossed as compared with crossed reactions would be expected simply on the grounds of stimulus-response ( S-R ) compatibility . |
| 30 | Especially in South-South trade , the evidence is that older notions of comparative advantage based on price elasticities still hold sway ( Thomas , 1988 ) . |