Example sentences of "be that [pers pn] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Jim Howe , Tony 's doctor , said : ‘ His parents said how peaceful their son has looked over his last few days and how relieved they are that he is finally at rest . ’ |
| 2 | The odds are that he is no longer alive , but I have a silk thread hanging in there with God that he is still alive . |
| 3 | I find her difficult to handle and my soundings are that she is deeply unpopular in Fleet St. She is also said to be extremely bitter about the way she has been treated and evidently stands to make millions from various lawsuits . |
| 4 | If the colours are lighter near the surface , the chances are that it is either old or has genuinely been bleached by the sun . |
| 5 | The drawbacks are that it is significantly slower than the mainframe version , and the user is limited to the amount of data which can be fitted on to a PC ( a typical county takes up about 20 MB ) . |
| 6 | Disadvantages are that it is very expensive . |
| 7 | One of the major criticisms of the battery cage has been that it is so small that the hens have no room to move or to perform their natural behaviour patterns . |
| 8 | The only physical change should be that she is no longer able to have children . |
| 9 | The problem seems to be that it is fundamentally about attitudes to work and such attitudes are subject to an inextricable and non-monotonic range of influences not only from work itself , with all the pressures of technological change , but also from prevailing economic , social and cultural changes in the community generally . |
| 10 | The answer must be that it is much less important by what mechanisms people come across art than what they themselves bring to the encounter . |
| 11 | It could be that it is really a form of fall-back insurance . |
| 12 | The moral to this little story must therefore be that it is always worth checking that the components you receive from a supplier are the ones that you actually ordered ! |
| 13 | However , it has also been suggested that since there is a dominance hierarchy among the females and only the subordinates do badly , it may be that it is only younger females that fare worse in big harems than they would if they were monogamous . |
| 14 | The paradox in Leapor 's response to her experience is that she is firmly aware of its physical nature , yet she also insists on the intellectual and spiritual dignity of women . |
| 15 | ‘ One thing you notice about her driving is that she is quite precise but she is never afraid to go into battle . ’ |
| 16 | One of Margaret Donaldson 's outstanding qualities is that she is highly adept at encouraging people not only to think and give rein to the excitement of ideas , but also to think critically , and , above all , to think for themselves . |
| 17 | ‘ Matilda 's trouble ’ , she said , trying once again , ‘ is that she is so far ahead of everyone else around her that it might be worth thinking about some extra kind of private tuition . |
| 18 | The third aspect of the egalitarian feminist address to sex differences psychology is that it is increasingly trying to take the diversity of these differences into account . |
| 19 | For , as he explained , the point about literary sex is that it is invariably tacky and clichéd out of context , no matter how high-brow the author . |
| 20 | One of the most important aspects of deixis is that it is invariably distinguished by its use . |
| 21 | This reason is that it is mathematically much less powerful than Chomskian grammar . |
| 22 | What is special about nut-cracking is that it is particularly difficult and energy-demanding , and an adult standard of performance is reached only after 10 years of practice . |
| 23 | The major limitation of the measure is that it is theoretically open-ended — it is not possible to say that there will be no further citations to a particular thesis in the future . |
| 24 | The nearest description of the text that I can manage is that it is kindly didactic . |
| 25 | All the evidence is that it is overwhelmingly harmful to the patient . ’ |
| 26 | The first is that it is analytically flawed in the sense considered above . |
| 27 | The second characteristic of my industrial world is that it is incredibly international . |
| 28 | ‘ The good news is that it is finally your turn to go to the Fair . |
| 29 | In fact , thanks largely to Sir Robin Day — ‘ the Grand Inquisitor ’ , as he calls himself in the title of his new book — the impression that the average viewer probably has of politics on television is that it is predominantly adversarial . |
| 30 | While the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) decision R v Sanyo Electrical Manufacturing ( UK ) Ltd , is a case which is of interest in its own right , its real significance is that it is yet more evidence of an increasing awareness by the courts of the crucial role they have to play in securing a healthier and safer working environment by ensuring that infractions of health and safety , and related legislation , are properly penalised . |