Example sentences of "be that [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it not be that during cleavage , when the egg divides up , each cell acquires special determinants , either cytoplasmic or nuclear , which would control the cell 's future development ? |
| 2 | Indeed , it may be that on occasion physical ill-treatment is a consequence of the tension this sort of situation produces . |
| 3 | In a third part , the objection must be that with respect to confirmed hypotheses as to condition-sets , it can not be that those condition-sets are causal circumstances as conceived . |
| 4 | It may even be that in Kent for about a year after Ecgberht 's death , ‘ Wulfhere could have been the effective ruler ’ . |
| 5 | It may be that in order to combat a particular problem , a different bit might help . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 " . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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. |
| 16 | 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 ? ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It may be that in future the bay area 's traffic needs will be better served . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | One of the most charming portraits in the gallery must be that by K. Škréta of Marie Maximilián of Sternberg in pastoral costume . |