Example sentences of "[be] that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disgusted as I am that an estate full of innocent people can be used as pawns in a much more complex and devious game , this threat comes as no surprise to me . |
| 2 | WHEN engineers working for the Tokyo gas company , get a telephone call in the middle of the night , the chances are that a computer will be at the other end . |
| 3 | In business sales cases the conflicting public interests are that a man is not at liberty to deprive himself or the community of his labour and expertise unreasonably and yet he must have a freedom to sell his business for the best price ; which may be only obtainable if he precludes himself from entering into competition with the purchaser ( see James VC in Leather Cloth Co v Lorsont ( 1869 ) LR 9 Eq 354 ) . |
| 4 | What the third defendant is asserting is a statutory cause of action under the Act of 1978 , the only necessary ingredients of which are that a person or persons , namely the plaintiffs , have against the third party a cause of action in respect of the same damage as gives rise to that person or person 's cause of action against the third defendant . |
| 5 | The key criteria are that a person has a range of needs that can not be met by one agency alone and his or her ability to live independently is in jeopardy . |
| 6 | The important things here are that a gas water heater may require its own flue ( usually a ‘ balanced flue ’ — see Chapter 11 ) and that an electric water heater will require its own electric circuit ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 7 | Disadvantages with metformin are that a minority of patients may develop a metallic taste in the mouth , indigestion or loose bowel actions . |
| 8 | The chances are that a management , such as described by Menninger or by myself , who take up a ‘ fight ’ /conflict posture vis-à-vis their workers , thus bring out the latent hostility and anger and push the worker , and themselves , into the rebellious position . |
| 9 | Proposals are that a union vote should be broken down to reflect the divergent views in a union 's membership and apportioned accordingly . |
| 10 | The odds are that a relationship that engenders such trust in infancy will continue to engender it in later childhood too , and who is to say at the end of it all that one period was more crucial than another in bringing about the final result ? |
| 11 | The striking differences are that a team increases seeking ideas , suggesting , building and seeking clarification and decreases proposing , disagreeing , difficulty stating and clarifying/explaining/informing . |
| 12 | If you can find nothing wrong with the external pickup wiring and associated circuitry , the chances are that a wire has broken inside one of the coils and will require rewinding . |
| 13 | The prime advantages are that a group develops a high level of cohesiveness and a high regard for its task functions . |
| 14 | The typical problems that occur are that a file created on your system using downloadable fonts works perfectly but , when you send it to another system , such as a bureau 's typesetter , what you had in , say , Bodoni Bold comes back as New Century Schoolbook Italic . |
| 15 | Where the circumstances are that a plaintiff ( such as a mail order company ) wishes to bring separate proceedings in one county court against a great number of defendants , provision is made for a combined request and particulars of claims by the Lord Chancellor 's Practice Directions made on 1 March 1979 and 17 March 1987 setting out full instructions ; these are given in the notes under Ord 3 , r 3 in The County Court Practice . |
| 16 | The advantage of systems such as Dbase 2 are that the user controls the number of fields available ( e.g. the school librarian may wish to have a field for the person who ordered the item and a teacher could have a list of all books or items ordered by him/herself or by the Geography department ) and the size of each field , which is limited by other programs . |
| 17 | The other requirements are that the liquid should not attack the specimen an should not be impracticably toxic . |
| 18 | The disadvantages are that the technique is very ambitious , is sensitive to data inaccuracies and incompleteness , and technical problems of model validation are formidable . |
| 19 | For the first category the two main concerns are that the software will accept input from whatever word processor you are currently using and that the page printer will support your required fonts . |
| 20 | All the indications are that the public likes the House being televised . |
| 21 | They are that the public expect Britain to be defended and want Labour to be what it has been for most of its history — a party prepared to provide resources commensurate with defending this country . |
| 22 | Chances are that the build-up to the Full Moon on the 16th will prove emotionally and financially draining , and there will be one last hurtle late in the month which could throw you temporarily off balance . |
| 23 | It may be legal but did what do you think the chances are that the programmer who created your application anticipated the way that you are trying to use the program . |
| 24 | If a computer program has been obtained for use in a commercial environment , whether it be a word processing package , accounts system or spreadsheet , the chances are that the original will fail at the worst possible moment . |
| 25 | Complaints about noise have increased tenfold in the past fifteen years , and all the signs are that the problem is still getting worse . |
| 26 | For the next two months , however , he must devote himself to his team and the signs are that the passage through India will be anything but smooth . |
| 27 | The facts are that the patient has requested that the doctor discontinue treatment , and the doctor has ignored this request . |
| 28 | The advantages of early identification are that the patient can co-operate in decisions , and support services can be introduced at an early stage . |
| 29 | In my judgment , provided the specified precondition is met , the only limitations on the type of order that can be made under section 6(2) that are justified by the statutory language are that the order must be intended to restore all the parties to the transaction to their respective former positions and that the steps directed by the order to be taken must be reasonably capable of doing so . |
| 30 | These are that the order impugned is not within the powers of the Act or that any requirement of the Act has not been complied with . |