Example sentences of "it [be] that the " in BNC.
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1 | Could it be that the Germans in the west did not want unity after all , despite those opinion polls over decades showing they did ? |
2 | Can it be that the tales I heard in Geneva were true ? |
3 | Could it be that the Prime Minister did n't want to admit to a U-turn , to reneging on a commitment to European partners , ‘ some of those European Commissioners ’ , ‘ the mining areas ’ and ‘ the people of Britain ’ ? |
4 | Could it be that the decision was taken in a temporary depression from drugs ? |
5 | How could it be that the cells that will form the gut and the bones and muscles are on the outside of the early embryo , yet they will form structures that are clearly on the inside of the animal ? |
6 | Could it be that the cytoplasm completely controls gene action ? |
7 | Could it be that the bureaucrats of primate research saw a way to parlay an admission of poor husbandry into a public relations campaign for the primate centres ? |
8 | Could it be that the bureaucrats of primate research saw a way to parley an admission of poor husbandry into a public campaign for the primate centres ? |
9 | Could it be that the fusion community is trying to solve this problem early on ? |
10 | Or could it be that the front-runner in the fusion race does not look very promising as the basis of a reactor ? |
11 | Could it be that the sponsor of the competition — Lloyds Bank — expects to revolutionise its money sorting system ? |
12 | Could it be that the stripes are intended not for the eyes of lions but for the eyes of other zebras ? |
13 | Could it be that the natural wealth visible throughout the land is just too much to ignore ? |
14 | Could it be that the calories supplied by a diet high in natural fibre were being digested and utilized in a different way by the human body ? |
15 | Could it be that the friend is actually someone whom you recognize from a previous life , and that is why you immediately feel that you have a mutual link ? |
16 | Could it be that the UK products are either deficient in non-price factors or alternatively too expensive relative to goods being produced elsewhere ? |
17 | Could it be that the only people they really care about are the ones who can afford big cars and foreign holidays ? |
18 | Could it be that the Universe 's first white holes have yet to form ? |
19 | Could it be that the success of Microsoft is due partly to the fact that Bill Gates is an avid reader of your newspaper , therefore winning the ‘ severe contest between intelligence , which presses forward , and an unworthy , timid ignorance obstructing our progress ’ ? |
20 | Could it be that the first creatures to leave any sign of their existence were as complex as worms and molluscs ? |
21 | Could it be that the statistics in seventeen hundred were wrong ? |
22 | Could it be that the awareness of this factor has contributed , at least in part , to the observed decrease in human toxoplasma infection , at least in some geographical areas ? |
23 | Could it be that the bourgeois educational system was flawed ? |
24 | Could it be that the bloody human history of the past 5,000 years is nothing more than an evolutionary side-road ? |
25 | Or could it be that the boy had taken his spying into the Essoldo Cinema ? |
26 | How can it be that the chap next door has a PC , yet his has a different processor from yours , has a different monitor , and probably has a different keyboard ? |
27 | Could it be that the people of this country are storing up champagne to celebrate the wondrous event of the Tories ' being smashed at the next election ? |
28 | Could it be that the alien does not want to steal the spaceship , but wants the key for some other purpose ? |
29 | " Can it be that the foreign settlor is liable to pay Surtax on the income derived from those United Kingdom securities ? " ; 7. that case was not before the court but the " answer must be : Yes , because the Act in plain terms so provides " . |
30 | they use er , a very sort of sparse unpopulated area obviously and so you do get erm plants and animals having to , well change it so that they , er you take as it were that the genes changed , some does mutation probably alright , some probably not . |