Example sentences of "be that [pers pn] [vb mod] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two other requirements that Beccaria makes of punishments for them to be effective are that they should be prompt and certain . |
| 2 | The chances are that we will be able to shoe the horse without any further tranquillisers . |
| 3 | The odds are that you will be delighted with the results of this simple little shoot , particularly if you have managed to avoid the besetting sin of most first-time camcorder users , that is of panning the camera in an aimless fashion over everything in sight . |
| 4 | If you are unable to find a relatively easy way to measure the adverse behaviour then the chances are that you will be unable to decide what to do about it . |
| 5 | A reply from the Ministry is expected within days , and all the signs are that it will be positive . |
| 6 | The drawbacks of this style used alone are that it can be slow and you have less control over your objective . |
| 7 | Or it could be that they would be appropriate for the reception area in one of the factories , or we might give one to a distributor and say , here you are , this you know , put this in if you 've got the right sort of area and would like to use it for a bit , stick it in there . |
| 8 | The message to teachers seemed to be that they could be flexible in the prescribed way but not in their own . |
| 9 | A spokeswoman for Devon and Cornwall Police said today : ‘ It might be that we will be able to make further comments after the meeting . ’ |
| 10 | Indeed it may well be that it would be impossible to stand in no relation to the past , or to the framework in which one 's mind and one 's awareness as a religious person were formed . |
| 11 | Erm we have put forward an alternative er mechanism for environmental discounts and er I can say by at this stage , by reference to the erm critique that has taken place of that of those environmental discounts in N Y eleven , that erm , while we would n't go along with making anywhere near the the additions that are suggested there , erm it may be that it would be sensible to make a further discount in respect of the heritage coast . |
| 12 | The conclusion must be that it will be unusual , though not impossible to envisage , that business policy etc will be protectable . |
| 13 | The Apache lacked the grace of Cessna 's more powerful model 310 but its design aims were that it must be undemanding to fly , cheap to buy and inexpensive to operate . |
| 14 | Does the Minister recall telling the House that the four criteria for the reform of Sunday trading were that it should be practicable , enforceable , and acceptable to the country and that it should command the support of the House ? |
| 15 | ‘ And Mama has written to say how grateful she is that we 'll be able to see how the old house has stood up to the war and cope with any disasters for her . ’ |
| 16 | What the results do indicate is that we must be prepared to consider radically new views of reality without placing locality in a central position . |
| 17 | If they were not told the embarrassing source of these words — and perhaps even if they were — most Asians would give a vigorous nod of approval to the sentiments expressed by Neville Chamberlain when Germany annexed the Sudetenland in 1938 : ‘ How horrible , fantastic , incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing . ’ |
| 18 | We need to know how to see the world as the Christian Fathers saw it ; and the purpose of reascending to origins is that we should be able to return , with greater spiritual knowledge , to our own situation . |
| 19 | The second lesson is that they must be thorough . ’ |
| 20 | The unstated part of the equation is that they must be tough on the Vietnamese boat people because they are poised to be tough on Hong Kong 's own claims to British passports . |
| 21 | The point is that they should be reasonable rules . |
| 22 | The key requirement is that they should be selective , which suggests that an authority on the subject has sifted through the literature and identified the most important books , periodicals , etc . |
| 23 | In our electronic technology the discrete , digital locations have only two states , conventionally represented as 0 and 1 although you can think of them as high and low , on and off , up and down : all that matters is that they should be distinct from one another , and that the pattern of their states can be ‘ read out ’ so that it can have some influence on something . |
| 24 | The important thing is that they should be non-invasive : in other words , play music rather than leave crystals . |
| 25 | The best hope for tree-nests is that they should be inaccessible . |
| 26 | The main consideration with envelopes is that they should be large enough and strong enough to accommodate the material to be contained within them . |
| 27 | All that matters to the Secretary of State and the Prime Minister is that they should be able to face the electorate with the commitment to replace the poll tax enshrined in legislation . |
| 28 | The gain for The Law Society is that they will be able to certificate solicitors who have undertaken further training entitling them to rights of audience in the higher courts . |
| 29 | franchise , so the difference the difference now , is that they will be able er in some , certain circumstances to come in and bid directly at the outset . |
| 30 | Er I mean the er it 's er , course there are three orders that we are looking at tonight , it includes the er the third order er in relation not to boundaries but to the registration of overseas er voters to enable them to vote er in this , in this er election within U K constituencies and therefore that 's why the position that Mr David Robeddow as the chairman of Conservatives abroad er in Monte Carlo is relevant , er but also bec because of course the purpose of the European parliament for the first time as it will go through under these new boundaries , now is that they will be able to remedy some of that democratic deficit . |