Example sentences of "be that an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1993 is a year to really find the right person , so it may be that an unsatisfactory relationship has to go in order for the appropriate one to come in . |
| 2 | And it may well be that an equal share of interest does n't achieve the best result . |
| 3 | It could be that you were suddenly changing your motion , or it might be that an extra force of gravity had been switched on . |
| 4 | Our first thought might be that an individual bank which was short of base money could raise the rate of interest it offered to depositors . |
| 5 | The clear implication would appear to be that an individual cost-benefit approach is appropriate , with each monopoly situation being judged upon its own merits only after a careful weighing of the gains and losses . |
| 6 | Both these cases involved applications for orders to the Italian courts ; it may be that an English court would resist a contractual fetter on the power to grant injunctions under section 37 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 7 | But it may be that an unusual boost at A level could place students in situations where they find themselves uncomfortably out-performanced by their peers . |
| 8 | It might be that an American Association of Embalmers would emerge , but one world-wide Institute would be better . |
| 9 | The pattern is that an innovative company , after spending much time and money on a technically successful development embodying new technology , puts a first generation product on the market . |
| 10 | The pattern is that an innovative company , after spending much time and money on a technically successful development embodying new technology , puts a first generation product on the market . |
| 11 | When dealing with requests such as this we treat each on its merits , but the presumption is that an existing position is retained unless a more satisfactory alternative location is identified . |
| 12 | The second qualification is that an innocent party who accepts an anticipatory breach becomes under a duty to mitigate ( minimise ) his loss . |
| 13 | A pragmatic view is that an aesthetic experience is what is described as such , and as there are varieties of religious experience , so there may be varieties of aesthetic experience . |
| 14 | And if the Training Agency ( 1989 ) thinks it necessary to introduce an ‘ enterprise element ’ into degree courses , is that an implicit recognition that such courses tend to inculcate some other set of values ? |
| 15 | How far , though , is that an appropriate model to apply to the more aggressive racism of relative deprivation exampled in the ‘ fighting talk ’ transcript ? |
| 16 | The point is that an orderly community can exist only if it shares many practices , and that in all modern pluralistic societies a great measure of toleration of vastly differing outlooks is made possible by the fact that many of them enable the vast majority of the population to accept common standards of conduct . |
| 17 | The most obvious distinguishing feature of the experiment by Hall and Honey is that an appetitive reinforcer was used rather than the electric shock of the conditioned suppression procedure . |
| 18 | Is that , is that a sort of er is that an accidental er do you do you get what comes in through |
| 19 | The fact is that an externalized conflict with a psychopathic origin can be confused all too easily with a genuinely external one . |
| 20 | The danger is that an increased demand for imported goods could be created , so local facilities must exist and be really comprehensive when a new tax policy is instigated . |
| 21 | A counter to that argument is that an effective competition policy will seek to deal with related market price distortions at the same time . ) |
| 22 | The irony is that an effective scheme , which resulted in the rebuilding of Russian and eastern European industry with western expertise and equipment could help the West out of its recession as well . |
| 23 | The basic premise of the project is that an economic variable 's seasonal pattern arises from a corresponding pattern in the behaviour of the economic agents . |
| 24 | The explanation for this is that an automatic car is not always immediately available and they are more expensive to produce . |
| 25 | It said , the key finding of the survey is that an overwhelming majority of the Trusts are reporting an improved performance . |
| 26 | The stated reason for doing so is that an increasing number of cardholders are paying their bill at the end of each month , pay nothing for the card , and are therefore being subsidised by those who do use the credit facility . |
| 27 | The significant point is that an initial capital is a form of emphasis or highlighting in writing , and therefore can be used as a visual correlative of emphasis in speech ( see further 5.4.2 ) . |
| 28 | This book is not the place to undertake such a task ; but one comment that might be made is that an initial distinction between class and status is likely to be important ; for it is the evaluative rather than the economic dimension of stratification which seems to be relevant to linguistic variation . |
| 29 | From another point of view , what has happened is that an older Left position , whose model of an anti-commercial , genuinely ‘ popular ’ culture is ‘ folk ’ music ( regarded as a useful source primarily because of its potential for politically progressive lyric content ) , has been rewritten with an emphasis on the progressive potential of new , electrically mediated form , and its capacity to recreate community as an ‘ echo ’ of the ‘ folk ’ . |
| 30 | The reason for such lack of jurisdiction to review in the court is that an eleemosynary corporation is governed by a system of private law which is not of ‘ the common known laws of the kingdom ’ but the particular laws and constitutions assigned by the founder . |