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

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1 Would that be where the local the local sort of gentry tourists stayed then at the Stenness Hotel ?
2 In this connection it is interesting to go back to William Smith , the father of stratigraphy , and to find him commenting in his memoir to the first geological map in 1815 : " The edges of the strata … are called their outcrops ; and the under edge of every stratum , being the top of the next , and that being generally the best defined , is represented by the fullest part of each colour " .
3 Some may be characterised as predominantly transaction orientated : that is , obtain the brief from the client and work as hard and fast as possible to fill that particular job , that being both the goal and the result .
4 There is no doubt that Marlborough , Massachusetts-based Sequoia Systems Inc has all its marbles in the right place when it comes to designing and building fault-tolerant Unix systems — it would n't be an important partner of Hewlett-Packard Co if that were n't the case , but it still needs to get its act together on the marketing and finance side .
5 That were n't the reason , ’ she snapped .
6 Cos that er cos that were n't the one he hired .
7 It is indeed true that balance of payments deficits can be sustained for longer than they could a generation ago ; we would have never got this far without a much worse sterling crisis if that were not the case .
8 Lastly , it is worth pointing out that that presence in the territory of the country of establishment must be intended to be permanent , or at least of an indefinite duration , because if that were not the case there would be no distinction between establishment and the supply of services .
9 Public business could not be carried on if that were not the case .
10 As Lord Justice Lloyd has said , if that were not the rule , no one would safely be able to advise litigants in personal injury cases to settle claims , or know what to pay into court .
11 If that were not the case then we would n't have er public consultation exercise and ask for people 's views in terms of which routes they support .
12 Sometimes she had the strangest feeling he knew her better than she knew herself , and if that were truly the case then how on earth was she to go on protecting herself ?
13 If that were indeed the case their Englishness was certainly no impediment to involvement in a cosmopolitan , international world in which French speech and culture was dominant .
14 So it was believed that a pronunciation change in one word would be followed by changes in all similar words — that there are laws of language evolution — and that is generally the case .
15 That is effectively the official Home Office ceiling .
16 The reason for that is partly the attitude of the people involved ; they will identify with individual cows and know them .
17 Changing that is partly the job of recently headhunted former Oracle staffer John Spiers , now marketing director for Northern Europe .
18 Changing that is partly the job of recently headhunted former Oracle staffer John Spiers , now marketing director for Northern Europe .
19 Italian food has a reputation for being a dieter 's foe — but that is largely the fault of all-you-can-eat pasta pig-out places which pile on the Bolognese sauce .
20 As an empirical observation , that is normally the case ; that set of shared norms is part of the culture of institutions of higher education .
21 That is ultimately the issue facing Britain .
22 But that is just the start . ’
23 Of course Kirillov is anything but a normal human being ; and that is just the point .
24 On the cover Horowitz himself beams at us like a naughty gnome , and that is just the way his irrepressible musical personality comes over in the performances .
25 That is just the intensification , the high point of an ongoing process .
26 To me , that is just the way people should behave , ’ says Houghton .
27 Matthew : That is just the right size now .
28 That is just the point , ’ claimed one scathing newspaper editorial .
29 In order to preserve modularity , this power could not , of course , extend to repairing the modules themselves , for that is just the sort of tinkering that a principle of modularity would rule out .
30 Many families thought that getting their baby home would be the hardest part , but that is just the beginning .
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