Example sentences of "be that the [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's unique about Edhi 's centres are that the people in them are required to carry out all the daily chores and maintenance . |
| 2 | You always find wherever you are that the people who 've been there a long time get sort of erm a bit uppity , they think that they 're |
| 3 | It may be that the species difference between the Rusinga hominoids and those from all the other East African sites reflects these apparent ecological differences , for there are similar differences in several other groups of mammals . |
| 4 | Could it be that the statistics in seventeen hundred were wrong ? |
| 5 | The more often they mate , the more likely they are to be the one who fertilises the eggs , and the more certain they can be that the offspring they expend so much time and energy in rearing are theirs . |
| 6 | The problem seems to be that the people who prepare the lunches have never actually opened one sitting on a hill . |
| 7 | Could it be that the people of this country are storing up champagne to celebrate the wondrous event of the Tories ' being smashed at the next election ? |
| 8 | Erm it may be that the people who were right down at the bottom like that were people who were doing other things as well and were say blacksmiths or whatever |
| 9 | The limitation on the scheme is that the works must come from galleries or artists operating within the region covered by Northern Arts 's territory . |
| 10 | The major disadvantage is that the Works database function is a flat-file system , rather than a relational database , so that comparisons between separate databases had to made manually , rather than using relational database technology . |
| 11 | One of the saddest aspects of such family tragedy is that the statistics of divorce among Christians are not all that different from the rest of society . |
| 12 | ‘ The first impression is that the flora is vastly over-modelled . |
| 13 | It is hard to verify whether or not this is the dreadful fish it is made out to be or whether the tales are apocryphal , but what is certain is that the species itself does exist . |
| 14 | An alternative possibility is that the sperm may activate PLC- γ 1 through a tyrosine kinase-linked mechanism similar to that used by growth factors ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 15 | The prime reason for encircling dolphins to catch yellowfin tuna is that the tuna which associate with dolphins tend to be larger , and command a higher market price . |
| 16 | The real reason why a fluke is recognizably separate from its host , the reason why it does n't merge its purposes and its identity with the purposes and identity of the host , is that the fluke genes do n't share the snail genes ' method of leaving the shared vehicle , and do n't share in the snail 's meiotic lottery — they have a lottery of their own . |
| 17 | The impression given to those outside the unit is that the staff are prepared to tolerate misdemeanours that others would not . |
| 18 | Otherwise its only distinguishing feature is that the staff chalk up the latest Canadian baseball and ice hockey scores on a blackboard , genuinely believing that people are interested . |
| 19 | The second point is that the staff and the community , with the support of the Labour group and now the Democrats , have finally got a compromise solution which may not give them everything but again gives them what is achievable within the political complexion of this council and they must now accept that there is an onus upon them to make it work and thirdly we have got to make sure that the staffing arrangements that are referred to in here and I quote there there 'd be posts for each centre who will be expected to add each with staff teams to coordinate the delivery of services by the two centres . |
| 20 | A feature of such organizations is that the means are all-important and the ends are of relatively secondary importance . |
| 21 | To take advantage of the effect of sample size , that is that the means of random samples will have a nearly normal distribution if the sample is large , the decision to readjust is based on sample means rather than individual measurements , justifying the use of the 3s limits . |
| 22 | To take advantage of the effect of sample size , that is that the means of random samples will have a nearly normal distribution if the sample is large , the decision to readjust is based on sample means rather than individual measurements , justifying the use of the 3 s limits . |
| 23 | The first is that the £20 deposit required on hiring the punt was secured by means of a personal cheque drawn on Dennis 's account and duly signed by him . |
| 24 | The result is that the aircraft is about 30° off the inbound holding track , with less than half a minute to run to the holding point . |
| 25 | The generally accepted view is that the people of Lewis opposed Lord Leverhulme 's schemes . |
| 26 | The limitation is that the people under observation may well feel rather acutely that they are being observed and may react against the observers , act unnaturally and perhaps even lie . |
| 27 | One unfortunate result of our present habit of leaking any information of interest is that the people most concerned become the last to know . |
| 28 | The trouble with anonymous contributions to this page , not that I 'm not grateful for anything I can get , is that the people who send them ca n't get a lovely Community Care mug whereas those like Nicholas Holbrook , ( see below ) who refuse to hide their creative light under a bushel , have a mug winging its way to them at this very moment . |
| 29 | The most this can mean is that the people who voted for the party did so knowing that it was planning to do certain things , and that therefore these voters can be assumed to have consented to those plans . |
| 30 | He has several businesses in the district — a bobbin mill , a gunpowder factory , a cotton mill , and more — and what they have in common is that the people — usually women and children — who are unfortunate enough to be employed in them are driven as cruelly as possible and paid as little as possible . |