Example sentences of "that [modal v] [adv] [be] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The honest response is , yes , that may well be the case .
2 erm That may well be the caricature picture .
3 That may well be the experience in Japan , but it is a far cry from practice in most developed and developing countries .
4 That may also be the implication of the phrase ‘ Gods of the Greeks and Persians ’ at hellenistic Tabai in Karia ( CRAI , 1978 , p. 28 1 ) .
5 It almost goes without saying that in contemporary society a certain amount of money is an important human requirement , not necessarily for its own sake ( though that may also be the case ) , but because it is the wherewithal for other requirements .
6 But that may just be the pattern of my work .
7 That may still be the case .
8 And that thin stump of a thing , that must surely be the pump .
9 erm I think that must often be the case .
10 Cos the if there is to be a proposal modification , that must inevitably be the subject of another examination in public .
11 So I 've asked her just to phone cancel it out , and that should just be the end of it .
12 That might well be the result at the end of the day when all issues are properly balanced .
13 It is this all important human love between parent and child , particularly the mother , that could well be the origin of the power which has made it possible for there to be established within the human mind this thing we call a ‘ conscience ’ .
14 That could well be the motto of Miss Pam Bosworth , who set up a hat hire business because her friends kept borrowing from her wardrobe .
15 That could well be the compost , poor leaves and things
16 ‘ If Pinder was right , and the statuette was not on the table when he crept past at twelve-thirty , that could well be the time of the murder , or very shortly afterwards .
17 And that would normally be the end of it .
18 That would normally be the leader of the largest party or , if he had resigned , the leader of the next largest party .
19 But FA spokesman Mike Wilmore said : ‘ We have said that in principle we would n't be in favour , but it would be a brave man who said that would always be the position . ’
20 my Lord that , that must be right because that would only be the way in which they could give negative clearance , because the clause or the membership rules were inappreciable
21 That would certainly be the case for vectors drawn on the page , which I used as my opening illustration .
22 That would really be the icing on the cake . ’
23 If a version of the terms is supplied , that will normally be the version incorporated .
24 ‘ Faced with that choice there can be no doubt what the outside friends of Russia should choose and I hope that will also be the choice of the Russian people , ’ Mr Hurd said .
25 She went the whole way now : ‘ He 'll pull the switch for the first television transmission to Danu , and that will also be the moment Danu is absorbed into the republic as the fifty-eighth province .
26 In other words if the non-inverting input is at +3V that will also be the value of the inverting input .
27 That will rarely be the case !
28 Whether that will still be the case come the annual summer meeting on June 25 if England lose badly against Brazil and then against Germany in Detroit in a week 's time must be debatable .
29 It will try to leave as much of the restriction as is reasonable in force , but that will only be the result if what remains after deletion of the void provisions can stand alone as a coherent , meaningful agreement : all too often the several restraints are jumbled and effectively unseverable , so that the whole fails .
30 And he said oh well that will always be the case , that will always be the case .
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