Example sentences of "be a [noun sg] [that] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But , if you want to be a success that s what you have to do .
2 However , coupled with this awareness of the benefits on offer must be a realisation that perceptions of management style , organization and staff development will be drastically altered .
3 John Aitken of stockbroker County Natwest said : ‘ There must be a chance that Lloyds will be tempted in .
4 Delivery times for most items were generally satisfactory , but there appears to be a possibility that readers consulting early or rare books in the South Reading Room have to wait a considerable time for items ordered over the lunchtime period .
5 There must at least be a possibility that Penda 's decapitation by Oswiu was an avenging of Penda 's earlier dismemberment of Oswald 's Gody .
6 It is not likely to be a coincidence that Guntram 's reign was marked by disagreements with his fellow rulers , and also by treason .
7 If there is a regional variation in the rate of treatment for glue ear need this be a sign that overtreatment occurs in some areas ?
8 I took this medical test to be a sign that things were happening and that we could hope to go on to Paris , which Alex said was the next staging post .
9 It can be a clasp that grips and devours and from which there is no escape .
10 There is a need on the part of the school to ensure that this is not a hasty decision , that it is in the best interest of the child and that it will not be a decision that parents will either want to reverse or repeat when any problem or difficulty arises .
11 I 've never fancied the stars , having been a computer programmer in early life , but it may be a truth that mathematicians are often superstitious . ’
12 First , there may be a view that consultation may do little but depress and demoralise the work-force which is bound to see the implementation of redundancies as a fait accompli .
13 ‘ This should be a lesson that drivers who carry burglars will carry the can . ’
14 Will it be a record that clubs get behind , or will the act become favourites with the media and no one else ?
15 But even if they were to be drawn up from scratch with the express aim of reducing the level of severity in sentencing , there would still be a danger that discretion might simply be displaced to an earlier point in the system , such as the prosecutorial decision .
16 There may even be a danger that CAD ( Computer Aided Design ) for example may largely replace ‘ practice ’ .
17 But there must be a danger that style will triumph over substance and that Artrageous ! will repeat some of The Late Show 's shortcomings , and end up looking as though more thought has gone into the studio design than the content of the items .
18 There needs to be a recognition that appeals for aid must also have spin-off for the company concerned if the appeal is likely to succeed .
19 There seems to be a feeling that labour supply ought to be very sensitive to taxation so that the disincentive effects of income taxation are large .
20 It does not have this appearance , however , and it may simply be a copy that updates but generally reproduces one that was written in about the 1270s by or for Richard of Haldingham .
21 I was n't supposed to be a novelty that people come to look at , like we became in the Beatles .
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