Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Indeed , ’ said Bishop Jon , ‘ 't is to be hoped that the two saintly souls got on well together in life ( if so be that they ever met at all , which I take leave to doubt ) now that the lord King has made a packet of them , so to speak , for posterity . |
| 2 | ‘ If [ the argument ] were right , then the result would merely be that the making of the contract constituted the appropriation . |
| 3 | If I were looking for a fault with the conception of the series , it could only be that it lacks a single volume overview of the whole of the development of quantum theory , a volume concentrating on the broad sweep of ideas and leaving out the mathematical detail . |
| 4 | The final reason for ignoring human actors can only be that they do not matter . |
| 5 | For the alternative view can only be that the assumptions on which that policy is founded are unsound , if only in supposing that employers can and will deliver wage restraint . |
| 6 | The reaction of any neutral bystander could only be that the judge had become the adversary of the defence . |
| 7 | All the suggestions for improvement had been adequately implemented so the conclusion could only be that neither party had grasped the size and nature of the problem . |
| 8 | Nor did she think he could ever feel anything but shame for the way he treated them ; if he was now ready to pretend otherwise , it would only be that he saw some advantage in it . |
| 9 | The latter point is debatable and it may only be that the practical aspects of creep measurements are simpler . |
| 10 | he was n't going to let them go , I mean we were n't told any of that on the news , there was n't a word of that , it only be that from the papers that we 'd got |
| 11 | So it wo n't necessarily be that patients from er a G P surgery or a G P practice will be referred directly to the local hospital . |
| 12 | This could perhaps be that the new doctor 's surgery is nearer , or easier for her to get to , has less steps to climb to the front door , or that she has a neighbour on his list who would accompany her to the surgery . |
| 13 | It may thus be that a client is a corporate finance client for some activities but not for others . |
| 14 | For the woman in our example , it might just be that in fact she has a very small frame and she should therefore be 8 st 2 lb. |
| 15 | If you take photographs as a hobby , you are likely to have produced at least one quality snap in your time and it might just be that a magazine would find it useful . |
| 16 | It could just be that some of us get married to creatures that fit that description , so perhaps there 's a mysterious kind of genetic memory involved here . |
| 17 | It may just be that Clinton is taking advantage of the transition period until he takes over the Presidency to air some personal prejudices and satisfy the grievances of some of his supporters . |
| 18 | Furthermore , it could just be that his union might contain diverse political factions within it which , thanks to years of forced and unenforced apartheid , have come to permeate every fabric of society and may well have forced SARU into an on-going powerplay with SARB . |
| 19 | It could just be that you are the indirect cause of the complaint and the action you take has a consequential impact on the customer . |
| 20 | Er I mean it could just be that they do n't like it , so anything which they do n't like is grating or |
| 21 | so it would n't be that they interruptions listening necessarily it would just be that would n't expect to have to . |
| 22 | So it could It might just be that that 's causing the problem . |
| 23 | We might think that any differences reflected poorer performance but it may just be that they merely reflect the different impact of specific price changes on drugs compared with books . |
| 24 | The output comparisons have to take into account social , economic and political considerations : it may just be that in Rochester the residents prefer not to have to drag their refuse up the garden path , at any price . |
| 25 | It might just be that the best way forward in Africa is by falling back on the spirit of silif , and building on it . |
| 26 | But it might just be that we ca n't have both and we ca n't ensure that people vote from the right from moral motivation rather than personal interest and we ca n't ensure vote |
| 27 | So it would certainly be naive to think that whenever people felt unhappy erm it was er was some kind of pathology and that , that evolution could n't explain it , and it may just be that the women feel a bit fed up because of hormonal changes and it does n't awfully much , it 's just one of things you pay for being a mother . |
| 28 | It could just be that you 're the person in your family who knows what 's on all those video tapes that nobody 's labelled up . |
| 29 | So it could It might just be that that 's causing the problem . |
| 30 | It becomes an argument about propriety : Smith says ‘ May it not be that in woman the physical pain neutralizes the sexual emotions which would otherwise … tend very much to alter our estimation of the modesty and retiredness proper to the sex , and which are never more prominent or more admirable than on these occasions ? ’ |