Example sentences of "be that [art] [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | The disadvantages are that the technique is very ambitious , is sensitive to data inaccuracies and incompleteness , and technical problems of model validation are formidable . |
| 3 | Complaints about noise have increased tenfold in the past fifteen years , and all the signs are that the problem is still getting worse . |
| 4 | Where unemployment is not defined as per the Act the only common requirements within the policy wordings are that the claimant is in receipt of unemployment benefit ( or registered as unemployed with the DOE/DHSS ) and is available for/actively seeking employment . |
| 5 | The major problems facing the industry are that the product is still seen as difficult to cook and boring by non-buyers , said Keith Simpson , head of the British Turkey Information Service ( BTIS ) , at the annual turkey industry conference in Norwich yesterday . |
| 6 | The figures actually which I got from the director yesterday are that the department is counting four hundred and ten vacancies of those four hundred and ten , two hundred and thirty four are out of commission , they 're in homes being refurbished seventy two are in blocked places , that is double rooms being lived in by a widow or widower where er they 'd previously shared it with the spouse or er disability reasons , health reasons , behaviour reasons of a resident er in a previously shared room . |
| 7 | The advantages put forward for the traditional system are that the project is fully designed before the tender and , therefore , the cost should in theory be known at the commencement of the contract . |
| 8 | The chances are that the answer is no . |
| 9 | The problem has been that the field is owned by the builders Wimpey Homes , who refuse to allow the path to be developed unless they are given planning permission to build on at least part of the field . |
| 10 | It may also have been that the government was unwilling to lend further strength to the clamour for the reform of the Official Secrets Act ( which has now happened ) that had been mounting for some years . |
| 11 | If the verdict of the experts had been that the artist was in truth Gabriele Munter , the claim would not have arisen . |
| 12 | But the initial impression of that first-night audience in June 1945 , a month after the end of the war in Europe , seems to have been that the music was above all something new , a fresh beginning , or , for those who disliked it ( a fair number ) , a regrettable break with the English tradition . |
| 13 | The other trend has been that the midfield is more cluttered than it ever was . |
| 14 | The message had been that the reception was for the ticket agencies , and the cast were requested to ration themselves to one glass of wine each . |
| 15 | He would n't have minded the meanness of only allowing one glass each , if it had n't been that the reception was so timed as to prevent that vital half-hour in the pub before closing time , which was so much a part of the necessary wind-down from giving of himself in performance . |
| 16 | Often in such circumstances , it may have been that the dog was teased in the past , by a stranger who encouraged it to bark by tapping repeatedly on the window , for example . |
| 17 | If the telephone conversation amounts to no more than an inquiry or preliminary discussion , it may be that no contract is made then . |
| 18 | ‘ I know that no harm was intended and it may be that no harm was done . |
| 19 | For example , it might be that a driver was deliberately altering his records in some way . |
| 20 | For our purposes , the distinction could be that a diary is written at the time of the event , memoirs are a writer 's recollections of a particular period ( perhaps aided by diaries ) in which he was not necessarily the central character , while an autobiography is an attempt to give a systematic and chronological record of the author 's life , with himself at the centre of the story . |
| 21 | The literal meaning seems to be that a man is so full of the Holy Spirit that he carries conviction when he speaks about Christ . |
| 22 | It can not then be that a man was present on earth before a woman , and the woman formed from him . |
| 23 | The true moral seems to be that a choice is difficult not because we can not decide which is the better but because we can not bear to give up the one that has not been chosen . |
| 24 | It may be that a judge is well qualified to conduct enquiries to establish what took place on particular occasions . |
| 25 | The key determination is whether ‘ originality ’ exists in the selection or arrangement of the database.The current position under UK law would seem to be that a database is protected under copyright law even if it only attains the ‘ sweat of the brow ’ criteria . |
| 26 | It may thus be that a client is a corporate finance client for some activities but not for others . |
| 27 | The common law position appears to be that a dealer is not normally the agent of the finance company , and a customer is bound by the terms of the document , unless the finance company knows that it does not accord with the customer 's intentions ( United Dominions Trust Ltd v Western [ 1976 ] QB 513 ) . |
| 28 | If a piece of music is frenetic and forceful , it may well be that an interlude is a peaceful moment like the ‘ calm before the storm ’ . |
| 29 | Again , the better view would appear to be that an announcement is sufficient . |
| 30 | Yet , like the Christian cross , the sacral horns were used in a general symbolic way , and it may be that the Labyrinth was , as a whole , dedicated to Poteidan even though individual sanctuaries and shrines within it were dedicated to other deities , in much the same way that within a cathedral there may be chapels dedicated to a variety of Christian saints . |