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

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1 I know it sounds silly , but I say , the silly things like that are the ones that sometimes are the
2 And we 've now reached a situation in which there 's something over twenty percent of our streets is multiple occupation , erm and this is noise and other activities in relation to that are the things that cause the sort of low level of concern , and this was just the peak on top of that of major aggravation .
3 You 're setting up a place for people to live and conduct their business , and the people most able to do that are the gipsies themselves .
4 The woman had not looked like a prostitute , besides which had that been the case Fedorov 's driver should have been taking a walk along the quay , or just sitting gazing tactfully ahead .
5 Had that been the case with the National Bus Company , one would not have quarrelled with it .
6 Why 's that been the case ?
7 Too late now to withdraw this confession into privacy , even had that been the abbot 's inclination , for it had been spoken out before all the brothers , and as members of a body they had the right to share in the cure of all that here was curable .
8 but that be the way
9 Would that be the will of the assembly ?
10 that be the floor .
11 Though how could that be the case ?
12 So again there 's some restatement , so just to clarify things we 're looking at primarily life insurance for yourself and your wife savings plan for your daughter PHI say in six months ' time and pension planning is the , the least of your , your main concerns today , would that be the case yeah I guess so .
13 Another argument is that advertising has only been around for a while , so how can that be the reason for all our hang-ups , but that 's not true either .
14 Could that be the reason her face was familiar ?
15 Would that be the sort of thing that ?
16 And w would that be the talk about the door but once you had the door off .
17 He pledged that a FIS government would respect international conventions entered into by Algeria and that " we shall work within the framework of the Constitution , which allows us to review it [ the Constitution ] , should that be the people 's demand " .
18 He was a big , bald man who had toed the papist line for the past few years under Mary , and was now willing to return to Anglicanism should that be the wish of his Bishop .
19 I had a close look at that table , obviously a matter of some interest and that 's the reason I return to this , as I read the table , there is a very substantial amount of double counting within it , for this reason , that all outstanding er planning permissions are included once , and there are then separate categories of allowance for all types of sites , namely large windfalls , conversions , small sites , and allocated sites , those are all put in , er or most of them are put in at thirteen years worth , that being the remainder of the plan period to two thousand and six , it will not have escaped you that if you include thirteen years worth all the existing commissions are part of that thirteen years , and so simplest approach to correct that table would simply to discount the outstanding commitments , because they 're all counted again as part of the thirteen years , I do have a secondary point that the allowance for conversions is very much higher than what seems to be happening , and in what is in the tables that er Mr Thomas drew it to your attention from the York City er appendix eight , so that er on on two counts , but mainly the double counting one there is a great deal of er erm optimism , if I can call it that , in that table .
20 that being the benefit .
21 These fugitives that are Negroes go by the name of Maroon , whilst the renegades to the King 's laws are called by the common sailors red legs ( that being the colour our white skins take on in the heat of the sun in these regions ) .
22 That being the price fixed at which the was presented .
23 That being the case , Ann and I quickly arranged to visit our son , to see his new home — and have a few casts ; and Blair took me to where he had landed his sea-trout , in the sea-pool between Clett headland and Rubha Glas , over the golden sands at Geireann .
24 That being the case how did it happen that a system which worked so ill had not been altered long ago ?
25 That being the case , I have accepted my father 's invitation to live with him again and to return to the stage under his direction .
26 ‘ And that being the case , ’ the Doctor said , wandering again into the twining array of whorls , blocks and threads , ‘ Pool has n't a snowflake 's chance in hell of pulling it off . ’
27 That being the case , the breeze she felt was probably being caused by air which had got in at low tide being forced out at high tide .
28 Alexei was always taken by surprise by the Yek talent for blunt speaking , ‘ That being the case , ’ he said , ‘ I am surprised you have given your consent to your daughter 's betrothal to me . ’
29 And , that being the case , she supposed she just had to hope that , having been insulted so thoroughly , Count Romano de Sciorto would renege on his promise to Mother , and strike her off his guest-list for the whole duration of her stay in Malta …
30 That being the case , come to the barn . ’
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