Example sentences of "be that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantage of systems such as Dbase 2 are that the user controls the number of fields available ( e.g. the school librarian may wish to have a field for the person who ordered the item and a teacher could have a list of all books or items ordered by him/herself or by the Geography department ) and the size of each field , which is limited by other programs . |
| 2 | The other requirements are that the liquid should not attack the specimen an should not be impracticably toxic . |
| 3 | The disadvantages are that the technique is very ambitious , is sensitive to data inaccuracies and incompleteness , and technical problems of model validation are formidable . |
| 4 | For the first category the two main concerns are that the software will accept input from whatever word processor you are currently using and that the page printer will support your required fonts . |
| 5 | All the indications are that the public likes the House being televised . |
| 6 | They are that the public expect Britain to be defended and want Labour to be what it has been for most of its history — a party prepared to provide resources commensurate with defending this country . |
| 7 | Chances are that the build-up to the Full Moon on the 16th will prove emotionally and financially draining , and there will be one last hurtle late in the month which could throw you temporarily off balance . |
| 8 | It may be legal but did what do you think the chances are that the programmer who created your application anticipated the way that you are trying to use the program . |
| 9 | If a computer program has been obtained for use in a commercial environment , whether it be a word processing package , accounts system or spreadsheet , the chances are that the original will fail at the worst possible moment . |
| 10 | Complaints about noise have increased tenfold in the past fifteen years , and all the signs are that the problem is still getting worse . |
| 11 | For the next two months , however , he must devote himself to his team and the signs are that the passage through India will be anything but smooth . |
| 12 | The facts are that the patient has requested that the doctor discontinue treatment , and the doctor has ignored this request . |
| 13 | The advantages of early identification are that the patient can co-operate in decisions , and support services can be introduced at an early stage . |
| 14 | In my judgment , provided the specified precondition is met , the only limitations on the type of order that can be made under section 6(2) that are justified by the statutory language are that the order must be intended to restore all the parties to the transaction to their respective former positions and that the steps directed by the order to be taken must be reasonably capable of doing so . |
| 15 | These are that the order impugned is not within the powers of the Act or that any requirement of the Act has not been complied with . |
| 16 | The chances are that the felon who takes your car , raids your house , or robs you in the street will be no older than 15 , the national peak age for Britain 's criminal underclass . |
| 17 | Initial indications are that the treatment has had a marked effect , but a close eye will be kept on the situation , and regular reports made to the council . |
| 18 | Reasons are that the PC has become the conventional engineering tool ; most DSP applications programs run under ms-dos ; hardware interfacing of target DSP boards to the PC has become a standard practice , and the PC represents a low cost entry point into the field of DSP development . |
| 19 | All the signs are that the board , under its chairman , Sir Clifford Chetwood , is fully committed to demonstrating its value to the industry and others . |
| 20 | The two main things that go wrong are that the ball corrodes or that the valve itself starts leaking . |
| 21 | The two fundamental assumptions underlying the plate tectonics model are that the surface area of the Earth has not changed significantly with respect to the rate of generation of new oceanic crust , and that there is a lack of internal deformation within plates compared to the relative motion between them . |
| 22 | A survey based on a stratificational analysis is not appropriate or feasible for a sociolinguistic study carried out in Brazil ; the chief objections are that the notion of a continuum is neither congruent with the sharp distinction between rich and poor , nor does it adequately discriminate between the individuals studied , all of whom were relatively poor . |
| 23 | The reasons given for rejecting this paper are that the brain may compensate for poor hearing by enhancing hearing in the treated ear , resulting in an overestimate of the likely effects of treating both ears . |
| 24 | It is approached along a forty-mile-long fiord and the approach instructions are that the pilot should turn left at the entrance by the sunken freighter that sticks up in the fiord , or else run out of airspace and crash into the sheer mountains that rise to seven thousand feet at the end of it . |
| 25 | The first indications are that the pilot procedures adopted are proving satisfactory . |
| 26 | Possible explanations for a difference between older and younger women are that the operation has a delayed effect , that the operative technique has changed over the years so that it is less likely to affect bowel function , or that gynaecologists are doing fewer operations on women with pelvic pain of intestinal origin . |
| 27 | However , all the Indications are that the majority of casual workers in hotels and catering are " voluntary " casual workers . |
| 28 | The benefits to be derived here are that the school librarian will be able to use the microcomputer with someone who has experience in another school . |
| 29 | Its drawbacks are that the printing speed is low , the head only prints one dot of each character as it passes across the paper , and the ‘ ink ’ does tend to smudge . |
| 30 | ADD suggest that the reasons efficiency might be impaired in periods of variable inflation are that the price system fails to transmit as efficiently the information on relative prices needed to coordinate economic plans , that the optimum wage and price contract length shortens , making existing arrangements inappropriate , and that government interference in markets is likely to be increased . |