Example sentences of "[be] that a " 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 | Disgusted as I am that an estate full of innocent people can be used as pawns in a much more complex and devious game , this threat comes as no surprise to me . |
| 3 | The two criticisms commonly levelled at Prince are that a particular song is ‘ overdone ’ or that it 's ‘ unrealized ’ . |
| 4 | The consequence of these household arrangements today are that a very high proportion of older people live alone . |
| 5 | Disadvantages with metformin are that a minority of patients may develop a metallic taste in the mouth , indigestion or loose bowel actions . |
| 6 | The striking differences are that a team increases seeking ideas , suggesting , building and seeking clarification and decreases proposing , disagreeing , difficulty stating and clarifying/explaining/informing . |
| 7 | WHEN engineers working for the Tokyo gas company , get a telephone call in the middle of the night , the chances are that a computer will be at the other end . |
| 8 | If you can find nothing wrong with the external pickup wiring and associated circuitry , the chances are that a wire has broken inside one of the coils and will require rewinding . |
| 9 | The chances are that a management , such as described by Menninger or by myself , who take up a ‘ fight ’ /conflict posture vis-à-vis their workers , thus bring out the latent hostility and anger and push the worker , and themselves , into the rebellious position . |
| 10 | The odds are that a relationship that engenders such trust in infancy will continue to engender it in later childhood too , and who is to say at the end of it all that one period was more crucial than another in bringing about the final result ? |
| 11 | What the third defendant is asserting is a statutory cause of action under the Act of 1978 , the only necessary ingredients of which are that a person or persons , namely the plaintiffs , have against the third party a cause of action in respect of the same damage as gives rise to that person or person 's cause of action against the third defendant . |
| 12 | ( 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 . |
| 13 | Thus the general lessons are that a concentrated vertical market structure is not necessarily undesirable , and that freely negotiated contractual relationships are not necessarily benign . |
| 14 | The key criteria are that a person has a range of needs that can not be met by one agency alone and his or her ability to live independently is in jeopardy . |
| 15 | But such aspirations may easily be frustrated when managerial priorities are that a local population of mentally handicapped people is routinely visited and monitored and that recurrent crises are dealt with by team members . |
| 16 | The typical problems that occur are that a file created on your system using downloadable fonts works perfectly but , when you send it to another system , such as a bureau 's typesetter , what you had in , say , Bodoni Bold comes back as New Century Schoolbook Italic . |
| 17 | The prime advantages are that a group develops a high level of cohesiveness and a high regard for its task functions . |
| 18 | Among these are that a complete network may have only one start event and only one finish event ; that an event is not complete until all the activities leading to it are themselves complete ; and that a network must always move forwards in time . |
| 19 | With the principle of voluntary hospitalization accepted , and safeguards now surrounding the standards of treatment , the chances are that a better , more professionally trained mental health service will develop . |
| 20 | The important things here are that a gas water heater may require its own flue ( usually a ‘ balanced flue ’ — see Chapter 11 ) and that an electric water heater will require its own electric circuit ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 21 | Where the circumstances are that a plaintiff ( such as a mail order company ) wishes to bring separate proceedings in one county court against a great number of defendants , provision is made for a combined request and particulars of claims by the Lord Chancellor 's Practice Directions made on 1 March 1979 and 17 March 1987 setting out full instructions ; these are given in the notes under Ord 3 , r 3 in The County Court Practice . |
| 22 | In business sales cases the conflicting public interests are that a man is not at liberty to deprive himself or the community of his labour and expertise unreasonably and yet he must have a freedom to sell his business for the best price ; which may be only obtainable if he precludes himself from entering into competition with the purchaser ( see James VC in Leather Cloth Co v Lorsont ( 1869 ) LR 9 Eq 354 ) . |
| 23 | Proposals are that a union vote should be broken down to reflect the divergent views in a union 's membership and apportioned accordingly . |
| 24 | Section three deals with the nineteen ninety three ninety four revenue budget , the main points for this year are that a similar saving on inflation in excess of two hundred thousand pounds can be put towards the extra items of expenditure listed in paragraph three point four , that will fall to the committee 's budget in nineteen ninety three ninety four , in addition the savings generated by the renegotiated electricity maintenance contracts contributes another eighty two thousand pounds , this leaves some two hundred and thirty thousand pounds of the extra commitments still to be financed . |
| 25 | The account he gave just after his release was that the threat had been that a British soldier might ‘ accidentally ’ shoot one of the women . |
| 26 | The result has been that a century which has seen so much development in terms of resources and method in historical research , has also seen a recurrent historical scepticism in theology . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The assumption has been that a communication worker who is imbued by his/her faith will inevitably wish to express it in a manner which is sensitive , sincere and creative . |
| 29 | The theme of this chapter has been that a great deal of antislavery argument grew out of a fundamental concern for proper order in the world . |
| 30 | It might have been that a long time ago , when people believed in prayer . |