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

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1 I 'm sure , then , that readers of Dogs Today will be as concerned as I am that a well respected and successful breed rescue charity looks set to collapse this year , unless they receive real help — financial and physical — immediately .
2 The consequence of these household arrangements today are that a very high proportion of older people live alone .
3 ( Labov 1981 : 30 ) Plainly , considerable ingenuity is needed to design rapid and anonymous survey questions which will reliably elicit the target feature , and the main advantages of the method are that a very clear view of the distribution of a single variant , geographically and sometimes socially , can be obtained extremely quickly .
4 So successful have these videos been that a partially self-supporting unit , NACAB Vision , has been formed which produces further training videos on a wider range of topics .
5 Additionally , with the exception of silver nitrate , the remedies tested in these latter experiments were different from those tested by Jones and Jenkins , and it may be that a less appropriate selection was made .
6 There can be a vital need for the encouragement of this type of activity , but it may be that a more conscious and directed effort by Dupont would have led to an earlier breakthrough and increased profitability from the work .
7 Where the issue is one that requires a consensus decision it may be that a more participative style is required .
8 But it might well be that an associatively activated X is simply not salient enough to produce effects of a measurable size .
9 What we learn from Wilde , Gide , Barthes , and others is that a conventionally understood politics which ignores sexual desire will quite possibly be as disastrous as one which makes that desire the prime mover — even , or especially , in the age of so-called post-liberation .
10 The reason is that a properly functioning price mechanism performs the function of inputting these values for us .
11 The major reason for this is that a rather small proportion of the population makes a will-only about 20 per cent on the most authoritative figures available ( Todd and Jones , 1972 ; Manners and Rauta , 1979 ) .
12 What they do maintain is that a vividly told story can make an important contribution to our knowledge of how and why strikes occur .
13 One is that a comparatively nearby star in our Galaxy exploded as a supernova , shining millions of times more brightly than usual .
14 But the more immediate problem in this context is that a totally flexible approach would prevent comparison of the reports of different organizations and the reports of the same organization over time .
15 One possible disadvantage of the hardware.based system is that a relatively large number of signal lines are needed to interface the control circuits to the microprocessor , particularly for the parallel loading of the counter , e.g. for a maximum travel of 128 steps ( 2 steps ) , seven signal lines are used to load the Counter .
16 What is eventually clear , however , is that a much more formal and regular division of labour , based not only on professionalization but also on conscious management , corresponds to an effectively new stage in the means of production .
17 The reward for the hard work is that a much better system of advanced courses is now in place , giving better service to employers and providing candidates with many more opportunities , with greater flexibility and with greatly improved progression routes from National Certificate Modules all the way through to degrees .
18 The neo-classical view is that a perfectly competitive economy always tends towards its full employment equilibrium position .
19 But if your complaint is that a less tangible term of your employment has been broken , as when you have suffered harassment from your superiors or your status has been eroded , it may be difficult to establish a viable claim for compensation if you do not quit .
20 The clear implication of this is that a fully autonomous civilian economy may not exist .
21 The problem with such a system is that a more detailed breakdown of costs into trades , elements or work sections would be difficult to achieve on a manual basis .
22 The Society 's view is that a more positive solution is needed : to amend the Financial Services Act 1986 so as to make it clear precisely how far rules made under the Act displace the general law .
23 Whether such substantial damage resulted from surgery or the disease itself is not known : what is certain is that a very restrictive policy regarding the insertion of grommets is necessary .
24 A consequence of seeing rules in this way is that a very high degree of consensus concerning the rule is to be expected among members cf the group or sub-culture in which the rule applies .
25 But I think one of the big differences with Oxford is that a very , very high proportion of students are living in college and so they 're behaviour is visible to college .
26 The result over all wavelengths is that a fairly large view angle 65° ( measured from the vertical ) gives the best discrimination .
27 What all this shows is that a distinctively structuralist kind of criticism is possible , and moreover , that it is more than the simple application and refinement of the tools of poetics .
28 The reason why a rational person would draw this inference is that an unexpectedly high price can be due to a positive aggregate demand shock or a positive relative demand shock , and it can of course arise from a combination of the two .
29 General opinion in the markets now is that an unexpectedly high number of prime cattle could come through after it starts on 1 April .
30 The central claim in this phase of the argument , then , is that an ostensibly relational statement depends for its meaningfulness and truth upon the meaningfulness and truth of certain " non-relational " subject/predicate statements , but that the opposite is not necessarily the case .
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