Example sentences of "be that they " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Therefore , one further reason why policemen dislike dealing with rape might well be that they feel uneasy about having to ask the very personal questions which are necessary in order for the victim to be taken seriously , and on the occasion quoted above the sergeant went on to say that as a result of asking for these very personal details policemen ‘ have had a very bad rap over dealing with rape cases ’ ( FN 16/3/87 , p. 14 ) . |
| 2 | It may be that they are in fact onycophorans , a group of arthropods now represented by caterpillar-like velvet worms that burrow through dead wood in Australia . |
| 3 | According to Mr Birchall , the answer could be that they are protected by silicon and that the main biological job of silicon is simply to help living things keep aluminium out . |
| 4 | One other consequence of a fresh gradation of sexual offences might be that they would cease to be gender-specific : there are some strange inconsistencies in the law at present , and it is not at all difficult to draft offences which might be committed by males or females against males or females . |
| 5 | An officer said : ‘ It may be that they just did n't act quickly enough for him . ’ |
| 6 | The answer must be that they have nothing to do with crofting as such , and little to do with agriculture , although there are agricultural problems . |
| 7 | Even if the tentative identification of the advantages of specialist working for this client group were to be confirmed by more extensive data , it may well be that they could be offset by other features of a generic social work service to the area . |
| 8 | ‘ But I 'm certain as I can be that they ca n't win unless they have your grandfather . |
| 9 | It might be that they could only be reached through their elders . |
| 10 | One reason may be that they are less concentrated in low paid jobs than women . |
| 11 | That is , the results shown in Fig. 5.7 may occur because rats generalize readily between stimuli that have had the same consequence in prior training ; but equally it may be that they generalize less readily between stimuli that have had differing consequences ; or both processes may be operating . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , although it is not a reason to pass over them as Todd does , a limiting factor in the work of experimental novelists in Britain does seem , as he suggests , to be that they are consistently assigned to marginal rather than mainstream positions . |
| 13 | It may be that they simply see no value in the building or that they are concerned that any use of the building might detract from their estate or business . |
| 14 | The modern perception of the hills , however , seems to be that they are one gigantic Butlin 's . |
| 15 | Given that redistribution is a characteristic of the social services , the general presumption must be that they will be rendered only on evidence of need , i.e. of financial inability to provide each particular service out of one 's own or one 's family 's resources . |
| 16 | The consequence will be that they will actually become so . |
| 17 | It may be that they left the gate open when they went , and Joe just trotted out . ’ |
| 18 | Instead , the main ingredient of success appears to be that they have consistently geared themselves to the needs of international trade . |
| 19 | The answer seems to be that they are barely used at all . |
| 20 | And although that may mean that stars with planets are less likely to be found in places other than co-rotation orbits , the corollary would be that they are likely to be found within such orbits . |
| 21 | Ordinary domestic horses always suffered greatly in tropical Africa , and it could simply be that they attract more insects than zebras . |
| 22 | It may be that they have developed new sensitivities to foods , or that they are becoming chemical-sensitive . |
| 23 | It may be that they will enjoy an opportunity to talk about their models afterwards , perhaps how they were made , or comparisons of materials used , but this will obviously depend upon the child . |
| 24 | Could it be that they are discriminating unfairly against a gipsy family ? |
| 25 | It may be that they have been healed ; it may be that they have known the manifest presence of God as the church has drawn near to him in worship . |
| 26 | It may be that they have been healed ; it may be that they have known the manifest presence of God as the church has drawn near to him in worship . |
| 27 | It may be that they have been without God and alone and lost in the world and that through the preaching of the word they have become Christians . |
| 28 | The reason is more likely to be that they only fly in ideal wind conditions . |
| 29 | Whilst it is conceivable that some of these jobs will be craft based and thus provide an outlet for some initiative and self activism , the significant reality will be that they have no economic power and no industrial muscle . |
| 30 | Their crime seemed to be that they had sung the song ‘ Hernando 's Hideaway ’ too loudly . |