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

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1 The counter arguments , however , are that in practice health care markets are highly imperfect both on the demand and supply sides .
2 It may even be that in Kent for about a year after Ecgberht 's death , ‘ Wulfhere could have been the effective ruler ’ .
3 It may be that in order to combat a particular problem , a different bit might help .
4 But again the suggestion through the media would be that in order to gain top priority you need to be a young single parent with at least one child .
5 If in some of these instances the writer appears to be trying to get more out of a rendering than a rendering will reasonably yield , the reason may be that in Horace 's line there is a fortuitous convergence , a hovering ambivalence , of two possible constructions : , " the celestial losses of the moon " , i.e. the moon 's waning , and , " swift — i.e. quickly returning — moons " .
6 If the terms of an agreement are unclear , or incomplete in some material aspect , it may be that in law the parties have not yet entered into a contract .
7 One possible reason could be that in addition to a general sense of guilt associated with the organs of sex and reproduction , there is the added fact that most surrogate mothers belong to the economically disadvantaged classes ; and it is arguably a case of exploitation if a woman is driven to use her reproductive organs to escape from a state of poverty .
8 Lotze 's own notion would appear to be that in addition to the experience of the touch we have a visual image of the whole body , with one part , as it were , highlighted .
9 It may be that in New South Wales , Category 3 , which carries the seven-year penalty , has been constructed too broadly and that some conduct which it covers should have been placed within the more serious categories .
10 For it may well be that in America , it is all part of what is considered good professional service that an employee provide entertaining banter .
11 It may be that in rivers there are times when two or even more shoals rendezvous at a point along a shared beat and pass each other — whether travelling in the same direction or not — by swimming over the top of whoever has arrived first .
12 The output comparisons have to take into account social , economic and political considerations : it may just be that in Rochester the residents prefer not to have to drag their refuse up the garden path , at any price .
13 For the woman in our example , it might just be that in fact she has a very small frame and she should therefore be 8 st 2 lb.
14 It becomes an argument about propriety : Smith says ‘ May it not be that in woman the physical pain neutralizes the sexual emotions which would otherwise … tend very much to alter our estimation of the modesty and retiredness proper to the sex , and which are never more prominent or more admirable than on these occasions ? ’
15 There was no justification for the ban in the first place and is the Secretary of State not concerned that the International Labour Organisation has expressed much concern over the continuing ban and it may well be that in view of the fact that the government is not willing to compromise in any way the I L O may well decide to formally rebuke and reprimand the government .
16 It may be that in future the bay area 's traffic needs will be better served .
17 On the other hand , it may be that in practice a court would not refuse judicial review in a case of seriously illegal action even if an alternative remedy was available .
18 The difficulty of this model is that in actuality some businesses are still run by families , and a good deal more have started as family enterprises but , in time , have gone public .
19 What Coetzee 's work suggests , and it is a pity he does not pursue this point fully , is that in Britain before 1914 the potential fragmentation of the political right was contained .
20 The trouble is that in Britain our women are expected to behave like servants , and we are not used to behaving like servants and we ca n't .
21 Another difficulty is that in Britain mining rights for minerals are held by individuals ; not , as in many countries , the state .
22 Instead , Sisson maintains that the real reason is that in Britain multi-employer bargaining has increasingly been found to be incapable of performing what employers regard as its major function , namely the neutralisation of the workplace from the activities of trade unions .
23 The difference between the two countries is that in Britain such sources are primary sources , and in the United States , the primary source is the written document .
24 In short , what happens is that in England — and here one does mean England , rather than Scotland or Ireland — the non-academic makers and moulders of literary opinion are judging poetry by standards which are sixty years out-of-date .
25 The trouble is that in England a tomato good enough to be eaten raw and unadorned is becoming a good deal more of a rarity than a ripe avocado , and nearly as elusive as a perfect fresh peach or purple fig .
26 The final point to be made is that in Re G ( a minor ) 1988 ( A11 FR p. 7(15) the House of Lords upheld the argument that adoption orders can be made with access but that these should only be made in exceptional circumstances although a distinction may be drawn between the position of birth parents and other relatives .
27 ‘ The only difference is that in Rome everybody has been talking about this game for three months .
28 ‘ The problem here is that in West Germany we have an increasingly split labour market , ’ Mr Brauninger explained .
29 With agency workers the only clear relationship is for the service sector , and again the suggestion is that in establishments where a large proportion of the labour force is unskilled this form of labour is less likely to be found .
30 A much admired memorial is that in Lichfield Cathedral dedicated by Sir Francis Chantrey to ‘ The Sleeping Children . ’
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