Example sentences of "be that a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the principle of voluntary hospitalization accepted , and safeguards now surrounding the standards of treatment , the chances are that a better , more professionally trained mental health service will develop . |
| 2 | If your wife is unhappy , now it may well have been that a better policy could have been put on the vehicle . |
| 3 | It may be that the effect of diagnosis is real and that duodenal ulcer is more persistent than gastric ulcer , or it may be that a higher proportion of gastric ulcer patients have been operated upon in the time between the two periods of registrations of drug use . |
| 4 | It may well be that a fairer test must await an examination of the poll tax over an entire electoral cycle . |
| 5 | It may be that a further Hurricane was also lost , some sources recording R.A.F. fighter losses for this day as five Hurricanes and three pilots . |
| 6 | The frequent argument of the left is that a greater clarity on the National Curriculum would provide a lever with which to prise out more resources for the schools . |
| 7 | A second lesson is that a greater effort should be made to cushion the poor ( who are often women ) from the hardships that go with adjustment . |
| 8 | What might , however , be the case is that a greater proportion of people in temporary jobs are " involuntary " rather than " voluntary " temporary workers than a decade or so ago , in other words that the structure of the temporary worker population has changed over time . |
| 9 | If our analysis is valid , one consequence is that a greater proportion of observed health differences in childhood would be associated with socioeconomic variations in circumstances than can be accounted for by conventional social class groupings . |
| 10 | What seems to have happened over the last twenty years or so is that a higher proportion of juveniles are being dealt with officially by the police rather than being dealt with unofficially or warned . |
| 11 | The intuitive explanation for the negative slope of the aggregate demand curve is that a higher price implies , ceteris paribus , a lower real quantity of money in the economy since the real quantity of money is defined to be the nominal quantity of money , M , divided by the general level of prices , P 1 that is M÷P , One way in which people may respond to finding themselves with less real money than they had before is by selling off holdings of bonds to rebuild their holdings of money . |
| 12 | The corollary of that is that a higher proportion of their income is spent on tobacco products . |
| 13 | The general consensus of modern medical opinion is that a lower intake of fats , less cholesterol and more fibre in our diets lowers the risk of heart disease , stroke , high blood pressure , arthritis , gall stones , ulcers , constipation and even , perhaps , certain cancers . |
| 14 | My point here is that a further rapid increase in unemployment might have weakened the unions ' power of resistance ( one can draw a comparison with the Thatcher government ) , but playing according to rules which prohibited blatant mass unemployment tied the government 's hands . |
| 15 | The snag is that a stronger economy might mean higher inflation and therefore higher interest rates . |
| 16 | What it means , eventually , is that a smaller base of committed players will have to shoulder the burdens and , in a country that remains strictly amateur , a coterie of liberal employers will be required to grace the scene . |
| 17 | The most obvious is that a larger amount of time is required from the writer . |
| 18 | One of his intriguing findings is that a larger proportion of uncited articles are published in the higher priced journals . |
| 19 | Only weeks ago speculation was that a further £1bn might be needed . |