Example sentences of "[adv] be that they " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ Indeed , ’ said Bishop Jon , ‘ 't is to be hoped that the two saintly souls got on well together in life ( if so be that they ever met at all , which I take leave to doubt ) now that the lord King has made a packet of them , so to speak , for posterity . |
| 2 | The final reason for ignoring human actors can only be that they do not matter . |
| 3 | Certainly not , and I think that that 's one of the things that causes people to be to switch off when you mention computers and think ‘ oh , I ca n't understand that ’ because their experience at school perhaps was that they could n't understand mathematics anyway . |
| 4 | Er I mean it could just be that they do n't like it , so anything which they do n't like is grating or |
| 5 | We might think that any differences reflected poorer performance but it may just be that they merely reflect the different impact of specific price changes on drugs compared with books . |
| 6 | The second characteristic of the type of statements given above is that they are stereotyped : the social argument against rural primary school closure generally consists of some or all of the following assertions : |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the strategy is placing renewed pressure on LAG : ‘ Lignite Action 's position has always been that they do not want to allow any form of boreholing or test-drilling by the company because this will give them a foothold into the area and once in , it will prove more difficult for them to be ousted again ’ . |
| 8 | Perhaps part of the fascination of movies has always been that they trigger off so many memories but what is interesting about so much film-making in the 1920s is that movies are so closely associated with that age of the masses that had come at the end of one century and the beginning of another . |
| 9 | ‘ For the railway monopolies , it has always been that they wanted the data network modernised . |
| 10 | And it pays to travel about You see the problem with Jackie and Nev is always been that they ca n't believe that you can get things in a place like W H Smiths that will that will do very nicely as a Christmas present . |
| 11 | Well it pays to tramp around you see the problem with Jackie and Len has always been that they can not believe that you can get things in a place like W H Smith that will , that will do very nicely as a Christmas present , they tend to go |
| 12 | Speaking on a visit to Magherafelt he said : ‘ All I can say is that the community 's reply will always be that they will not be moved by this type of thing , ’ he said . |
| 13 | In this case it would possibly be that they had the name of the subscriber but … |
| 14 | You were saying that the , the reason why the multinationals sell coffee very cheaply is that they buy in bulk . |
| 15 | It may also be that they did not want to listen to difficult questions we wanted to put . ’ |
| 16 | Now this time we 're here for four weeks so it would probably be that they want to get everybody through this time without anybody escaping the net . |
| 17 | In particular , the reason that adjectives such as alive and asleep do not occur prenominally is that they are derived from adverbial phrases , and they continue to occupy only those places available to adverbial phrases qualifying a noun phrase . |
| 18 | Hart 's most significant criticism of both is that they leave no or little room for a normative conception of law . |
| 19 | But their big-money approach was rejected , and the indications now are that they wo n't be back . |
| 20 | ‘ And the TCCB 's directive for pitches has for several years now been that they must start dry . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ The main difference between cricket and rugby now is that they 're both more competitive , which means they 're taken too seriously . |
| 22 | Right , now if we look on , erm we come to Regional Action Networks , another reason why Amnesty seems not to allocate more than one prisoner and all now is that they have expanded the ways in which we deal with prisoners and the world is more or less been divided up into areas , erm , of smaller regions and groups are asked to choose one or two regions to deal with particularly and we , we have for quite a long time now erm been concerned with Southern Africa and Central America and we get information through on prisoners and what 's happening in those two regions , so John do you have anything else on Africa at all ? |
| 23 | The problems that the Los Angeles police department has right now is that they are not community orientated . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | So my reading of the evidence so far is that they did n't want a body lying around on the river bed , where it might come up sometime , or perhaps even be found by divers , but they wanted him carried under water well out to sea . " |
| 26 | The best she could hope for now was that they could form some sort of working relationship , even though every minute they spent together would be for her sweet agony . |
| 27 | It could equally be that they had spotted my men following them and were attempting to shake them off . ’ |
| 28 | Ordinary domestic horses always suffered greatly in tropical Africa , and it could simply be that they attract more insects than zebras . |
| 29 | Therefore , one further reason why policemen dislike dealing with rape might well be that they feel uneasy about having to ask the very personal questions which are necessary in order for the victim to be taken seriously , and on the occasion quoted above the sergeant went on to say that as a result of asking for these very personal details policemen ‘ have had a very bad rap over dealing with rape cases ’ ( FN 16/3/87 , p. 14 ) . |
| 30 | Even if the tentative identification of the advantages of specialist working for this client group were to be confirmed by more extensive data , it may well be that they could be offset by other features of a generic social work service to the area . |