Example sentences of "[adv] be that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The standard Marxist critique of market relationships under capitalism has long been that what Marx called ‘ the noisy sphere of exchange ’ constitutes an illusory area of equality and freedom , one that helps to stabilize capitalism by obscuring the uneven distribution of power between social classes in the more basic sphere of social production . |
| 2 | The arguments against doing so are that : |
| 3 | The drawbacks of this style used alone are that it can be slow and you have less control over your objective . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ If [ the argument ] were right , then the result would merely be that the making of the contract constituted the appropriation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The final reason for ignoring human actors can only be that they do not matter . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The reaction of any neutral bystander could only be that the judge had become the adversary of the defence . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The latter point is debatable and it may only be that the practical aspects of creep measurements are simpler . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , one reason why Mr Hammer 's message has been received so eagerly is that , to a large extent , he is preaching to the converted . |
| 17 | In fact one thing he says er which might make you doubt his motives somewhat is that the reason for giving people more than one vote is that they 're more educated , but in general there is also a rough correlation between property ownership and education and so there 's a good reason to give the property owners more than one vote , people who own a lot of property more than one vote . |
| 18 | One reason they have not done better is that the largest and most inefficient Italian banks remain in the hands of the government , which has done its best to protect them . |
| 19 | A seventeenth-century libertine who wrote excellent satirical verse ( he 's the author of the famous epigram about Charles II : ‘ God bless our good and gracious king/Whose promise none relies on ; /Who never said a foolish thing , /Nor ever did a wise one ’ — one of the reasons I like him so much is that allegedly he recited it extempore to the king ) and some great , great poems about sex . |
| 20 | The problem that is now faced apparently is that there is not a sufficient number of paediatric specialists available to give clinical care . |
| 21 | You mentioned erm tumours , in fact you get this as I said the same picture with , with X-rays as you get with magnetic resonance imaging , but what is different about tumours apparently is that the erm relaxation time with which the erm nuclei move erm varies erm according to whether a cell is , is cancerous or not . |
| 22 | One advantage of the fly and inner going up together is that the inner is kept at a set distance from the fly , preventing the two from touching and allowing moisture to leak through to the inside . |
| 23 | And the net result of all of these things together is that it narrowed the cost value differentials between U K and overseas holidays . |
| 24 | Erm the main difference between a non-executive director and a director basically is that the directors are added to by the shareholders and are re-elected at the annual general meetings . |
| 25 | That 's what I 'm saying , right , now , what I 'm saying is there 's a , that , that , is , there 's , there 's , there 's , there 's things , there 's things , there 's guides to be able to do that , right , and the guide is there 's certain things you do and certain things you do n't do , because what you do basically is that you close him on his final objection which is what you 're just saying you did , right , but you close him on his final objection , how did you manage to close him on his final objection ? |
| 26 | The situation basically is that I am confident I can come to accommodation with Norfolk from my way of thinking as the neighbouring Highway Authority , those the people we 've got to er to make certain are on site , I 'm sure , I 'm confident enough to do that . |
| 27 | The trouble with reaching all day long is that there are no aims to your sailing . |
| 28 | How long is that longer term is still a matter for debate . |
| 29 | ‘ The reason people have been concerned about this case for so long is that it is about far bigger issues . |
| 30 | The difficulty many pupils experience with the scale illustrated below is that each division represents 0.2 of a centimetre and not 0.1 . |