Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [adj] be that " in BNC.
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| 1 | My reply to that is that the quiet passage of a canoe going with the current is less likely to disturb the otter than a walker tramping along the bank of the river . |
| 2 | The reply to that was that the IDB do not have an idea of how to develop West Belfast . |
| 3 | One reply to this is that most offences of bad driving have the potential to cause death or serious injury ; and that the North Committee 's proposals undervalue the element of endangerment where no harm occurs rather than over -value the resulting harm where it does occur . |
| 4 | A common reply to this is that you can not have social control without crime or deviance and hence , if social control is necessary , then crime and deviance must be , too . |
| 5 | The key to this was that they all began life with a strong philosophical commitment to development and were given some of the new , additional staff needed in order to give life to this philosophy . |
| 6 | The postscript to this is that such a conclusion would follow from the revised contractualism and , I suggest , is in the mainstream of our moral thinking . |
| 7 | that the only kind of learning worth seriously measuring is that which can be evaluated by making a mark on a card for subsequent ingestion by a machine ( An awful corollary to this is that judgments made by human beings must be given less weight than electronically certified facts . ) |
| 8 | The corollary to this is that few books that are too enjoyable , too funny , or too popular could possibly be ‘ classics ’ . |
| 9 | The main corollary to this is that , while CSPs in general are gradual in their strength ( depending on how fast or carefully one speaks ) , socially differentiated CSPs are likely to be discrete . |
| 10 | The corollary to this was that a unit operating according to such principles would have to be trained to arrive on the scene of an operation by every practical method from land , sea or air . |
| 11 | The counterpart to this is that they are naturally limited intellectually and so not actively encouraged to excel in academic and the more cerebral pursuits and , of course , they do not . |
| 12 | The snag to this is that although a pan-head can rotate through a full circle , your hips are limited to about a quarter of this movement . |
| 13 | The first reaction to this is that the speller needs to be looked at more closely : the inversion of letters here , and the production of a completely un-English-looking word , suggests that the child has considerable difficulty with visualisation , and possibly has trouble reading , too . |
| 14 | A contributing factor to this is that a dictionary aims to provide for every usage of a word with little indication of how common that usage is . |
| 15 | The counter-claim to this is that if your goods and services are competitive future trade will not be lost because you have a reasonable and commonsense approach to limiting credit orders to a certain size . |
| 16 | An important caveat to this is that the agreement must be fair and reasonable . |
| 17 | Mm yeah Brian 's argument to that is that er if you 've got if you were hit in the back |
| 18 | Now the opposing argument to that is that if you create a special environment during the educational phase of a child 's life , then what happens after that for his I mean how far have you then separated them off from the sort of life that they will have to lead thereafter . |
| 19 | The plea or defence to this was that the notes were made jointly and severally by the defendant 's father , John Revill , and by Samuel Revill , as well as by the defendant , and that before the action the plaintiff , without the defendant 's knowledge or consent , struck out the name of Samuel Revill on the notes and wholly discharged him from liability . |
| 20 | Erm the general response to this is that it was a failure . |
| 21 | Perhaps one of the reasons she had gone from one man to another was that she could not bear to lose the excitement and flattery of the early stages of love . |
| 22 | The answer to that is that nine times out of ten you do not know what you really want , you do not know your own mind and have not made a choice . |
| 23 | My answer to that is that I do n't feel that my job is to do PR . |
| 24 | And the answer to that is that the People of this Country govern Parliament . |
| 25 | The short answer to that is that we do n't know . |
| 26 | The answer to that is that the consideration is not the rendering of the services , as is plain from the fact that the document is to take effect in Equity from the date . |
| 27 | I think the the answer to that is that the reference e should be made to the village making a significant contribution to the development needs of Greater York , be it housing , employment or comm erm social and community . |
| 28 | Peter Davis , North Yorkshire County Council , erm I think the clear answer to that is that districts , erm and county , erm were very aware of the greenbelt constraints on greenbelt sites |
| 29 | One possible answer to this is that such a person is felt to be not only a representative but also representative as a person of those who chose her/him . |
| 30 | The exception to this is that only a parent may receive the results of the pupil 's assessment . |