Example sentences of "[be] [det] [noun sg] [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been some speculation that Mohammed 's father was a member of a Nazarean sect and that Mohammed himself was raised in Nazarean traditions . |
| 2 | Secondly , there has been some recognition that unemployment and job creation should be the concern of a whole range of agencies and departments , not just the DED and its off-shoots . |
| 3 | There has been some suggestion that parents are more likely to argue in front of their sons than their daughters ; that a disturbed parent is more likely to pick on a son than a daughter ; and that mothers may transfer negative experiences with their husband into negative expectations of their sons . |
| 4 | There has been some suggestion that computer trading techniques have been partly responsible for the crash ( or what is called programme trading ) . |
| 5 | Prior to the meeting there had been much speculation that Shamir would face a challenge at the meeting ; in the event even Sharon urged the party to unite behind Shamir . |
| 6 | Probably the best known of the quartets in Britain is No. 8 , composed in Dresden in 1960 and dedicated to the victims of Fascism and of the War , and in view of the constant use of the DSCH motif and the quotations from several of his own pieces , there can be little doubt that Shostakovich considered himself among their number . |
| 7 | There can be little doubt that attractiveness in women is more closely associated with sexuality and sexuality with youth , than is the case for men . |
| 8 | Briefly summing up , there seems to be little doubt that Mozart distinguished dots and strokes , and while he was nonchalant about the graphic shapes where it mattered little , he distinguished the signs with deliberation where it did matter . |
| 9 | On the basis of the most recent evidence , there could be little doubt that Judas Thomas was indeed Jesus 's brother — the brother mentioned in the Gospels as Jude . |
| 10 | Whatever one may think of its application to the particular case , there can be little doubt that Banfield has at the very least described in an ideal form a society in which thrift , enterprise , trust and cooperation are impossible , and therefore one in which political and economic development along liberal democratic and capitalist lines are grossly inhibited . |
| 11 | Although there has been a proliferation in inner-city innovations in the 1980s , there can be little doubt that enterprise zones , together with Urban Development Corporations ( see Chapter 6 ) , have been the most significant of initiatives . |
| 12 | Yet there can be little doubt that Joseph 's reformism was genuine and was combined with an attempt to appeal to the national past ; he encouraged the national theatre , set up a commission to exhume Cervantes ' remains , patronized a national museum of painting . |
| 13 | Opinion such as this was well established long before Hitler rose to power and there can be little doubt that Germanisation was one of the many items of baggage the Prussians left behind for the Nazis to snatch . |
| 14 | There would seem to be little doubt that Parliament could , by passing an Act ( which would , of course , necessitate the Royal Assent ) establish a republic . |
| 15 | There can be little doubt that Hayward had come to rely upon him over that period , and felt in some sense that he had been abandoned . |
| 16 | Yet there can be little doubt that Nizan himself certainly did perceive the party in terms similar to this when he joined its ranks in late 1927 . |
| 17 | There can be little doubt that Nizan departed for the Soviet Union in January 1934 in a crusading spirit . |
| 18 | There can be little doubt that Nizan was profoundly affected by the 1934 Soviet Writers ' Congress . |
| 19 | There can be little doubt that Nizan was ideologically committed to the view that a writer 's allegiance to communism enabled him/her to grasp the true significance of political developments from the inside , that is to say , from the perspective of the proletariat . |
| 20 | There can be little doubt that Picasso was excited by the work that Braque brought back to Paris from l'Estaque in which he was drawing such original answers from the questions he had been putting to Cézanne 's art . |
| 21 | With James McAdam from Coats Viyella ensconced as chairman and Ratner himself still chief executive , there can be little doubt that Ratners will develop a policy of doing what it is best at : selling cheap jewellery cheaply . |
| 22 | Because an army 's main aim may have been the devastation of land , the destruction of its produce , and the seizure of moveable property , there can be little doubt that war 's chief victims were those who , if they did not live within reasonable distance of a defended town or garrisoned castle , ran great risk to their personal safety . |
| 23 | There could be little doubt that Richard and his elder brother would give very different answers to these questions . |
| 24 | But there can be little doubt that Häagen-Dazs has really put premium ice-cream on the marketing map , not least by its bold , passion-exuding press ads through Bartle Bogle Hegarty . |
| 25 | There can be little doubt that liberalization ( by which is meant effective restriction of the colonial trade to a larger number of Spanish merchants than under the old system ) greatly increased the volume and the proportion of Spanish goods in the legal trade , and therefore acted as a direct stimulant to industrial and commercial revival . |
| 26 | And , although you do get Patsy Kensit to show that not all Boers are boors , there can be little doubt that casting like this will in the long run do more to bring about the end of white rule in South Africa than Robert Royston 's worthy but long-winded drama of apartheid horrors . |
| 27 | As the Nuffield historians of the election put it , ‘ There can be little doubt that Mr Attlee had the better of these exchanges ’ . |
| 28 | The fact that local people had not been informed of the exploratory work as it proceeded , or asked what they thought , had been discussed at some length during the evening , and there seemed to be little doubt that people who are to be " invaded " by a major installation for which they will bear much incidental , site-specific cost , would like to be party to discussions about the project . |
| 29 | There can be little doubt that Hoccleve is describing his own experience . |
| 30 | There can be little doubt that Hitler 's conquests were ideologically bankrupt , but they were built on a profound understanding and wilful exploitation of German fears and ambitions . |