Example sentences of "be that by [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In the UK , the most notable defection from an international company to set up an independent search business has been that by David Norman and Miles Broadbent , who were both previous Mds of Russell Reynolds in London , and who took with them other colleagues to found Norman Broadbent .
2 If we do n't grant a , what 's going there now , it could well be that by default , the building will revert to the county council , and it would be lost to the people of Ottery .
3 One of the most charming portraits in the gallery must be that by K. Škréta of Marie Maximilián of Sternberg in pastoral costume .
4 The only published study that can be directly compared with the Gardner report is that by Mc Laughlin et al on workers at nuclear facilities in Ontario ; they found no increased risk of leukaemia in the children of fathers working in these facilities .
5 Despite his magnetic personality and his enormous popularity the PNI was slow to win members : one calculation is that by September 1929 there were less than 6000 .
6 Among the works referred to in this introduction , the other important historical study is that by Jane Lewis in The Politics of Mother-hood ( 1980 ) .
7 The important point is that by Interpretation 2 we mean that , on the whole , the deltaic deposits shown in the centre of the diagram were laid down later than the fluviatile deposits but earlier than the offshore deposits .
8 One of the most often cited studies is that by E. F. Loftus and Burns ( 1982 ) in which 266 subjects watched a short film of a bank robbery .
9 Another article to show much ingenuity in spotting small-scale correspondences and diagnosing their significance is that by John Irving , who aligns well chosen items of keyboard music ( and some consort music ) by Byrd and Tomkins to illustrate the extent to which the younger composer applied ( among other influences ) principles of ‘ creative reinterpretation ’ ( p157 ) of Byrd 's procedures in the development of his own personal style .
10 The point is that by thinking of concepts as variables we also begin to think of suitable ways of reflecting their character by numbers .
11 The third and most important reason is that by virtue of its ownership of an almost infinite variety of coasts , countryside , woods and waterways , gardens , historic houses and works of art , it can make a unique contribution to public and professional debate , and to environmental education .
12 A main reason for this is that by comparison its history is so brief .
13 The fear is that by custom and tradition the Press will never leave the bar .
14 Joint third prize was won by London-based Allies and Morrison , two Edinburgh University architecture graduates who a few years earlier won the Edinburgh Mound Competition : one short-listed design from Midlothian was that by Duffy and Batt which stood the Glasgow salmon on its tail .
15 The cumulative effect was that by Anne 's reign relations between Dissenters and Anglicans in many communities were no better than they had been in the 1680s .
16 One informed estimate was that by December 1942 , about two out of every five people had changed their political outlook since the beginning of the war .
17 So it was that by Thursday morning Charlotte could detect within herself an ebbing of urgency , a slide towards fatalism , a creeping acceptance that Samantha 's absence might be as permanent as Maurice 's .
18 Whether it was when he 'd scored 10 or at some other delicate fulcrum in his innings that the Smallholder decided that he 'd sufficiently built his innings and could start unleashing his shots I know not , but the incontrovertible fact was that by tea he had 34 to his name , including five boundaries .
19 Another Requiem Mass which enjoyed considerable popularity was that by Eustache Du Caurroy ( 1549–1609 ) , a member of the Royal Chapel , whose motets for double choir are supposed to have introduced the ‘ Venetian ’ style n France .
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