Example sentences of "that [be] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Our reasons for that are that the especially the eight year average used by the County Council , are unduly skewed by the boom of the late eighties , and give in our view , to high a trend t to erm to work from .
2 You might then wonder what the cutting of the hair had to do with it — well , one of the features of auto-immune diseases is that they cluster within individuals and sometimes within an individual 's family , and the reasons for that are that the immune responses that we have we inherit with our genes .
3 Assuming DOL comes back to full fitness that leaves us with DOL , Newsome , Wetherall , Fairclough and Jobson for effectively 2 places , and that s before we start looking at the youth team players .
4 Sunderland are shite at the moment but that s because all four of their new signings were injured in a car crash .
5 The US Baby Bells are telling the US powers that be that they will invest $100,000m upgrading their networks if they are permitted to carry any services they choose on them — if not , they will simply allow their networks to deteriorate and decay : no , they do n't actually go that far , but they say they will collectively invest only $25,000m .
6 Sir Thomas had quarrelled with my husband over some business matter and persuaded the powers that be that my husband was no fit person to hold the position , whatever the quality of his poetry .
7 In vain she had remonstrated with the powers that be that she had to be on the air in the Docklands by six , and when she finally pitched up , I had been put back on the phones for another session of ‘ And your address is — can you spell that please ? ’
8 How far away would that be that he might go ?
9 An uninformed reader of ‘ Safety : the perils of self-regulation ’ might be forgiven for concluding that the powers that be and their executive arm , the Health and Safety Executive , had been less than wholehearted in promoting and enforcing safety ( Talking Point , 12 January ) .
10 Erm well the first person to ask probably would be Paul , if he 'd download it onto a tape , how difficult would that be and he 'll give you
11 It seems as though you may run into opposition , either from the powers that be or the effects of economic cutbacks , and you may have to wait until November before this pattern changes .
12 and then just generally play with it say , Oh I wonder what would happen if you put two thirds together , how many twelfths would that be or what about if you had a third and you wanted to take a quarter away , if you cut a quarter off it .
13 ‘ Wise up ’ the powers that be or else all last year 's good work will be lost forever .
14 How can that be when the water workers have , by an odd quirk of fate , left her constituents high and dry , long before the dispute had a chance to hit anyone else ?
15 Could that be when Wetherby left his room to go down to the kitchen ? ’
16 Would that be because the Communist Party did n't want the rich peasant to think they 'd be s they were being singled out ?
17 That being that the county council and yourselves consider this strategically .
18 That being as it may , my immediate problem was how to compete against ‘ Jaz ’ in that afternoon 's shot putt competition .
19 So is that being as you were n't being assertive at the time
20 Nevertheless , there is a specific prediction to be examined and that is whether causally connected episodes are better recalled than temporally connected episodes .
21 Whether , for instance , concepts such as ‘ ethnicity ’ , ‘ class ’ , ‘ politics ’ are ‘ culture-free ’ , that is whether academics have succeeded in freeing them from their narrow everyday cultural uses and made them available for cross-cultural use , is a question of judgement and , ultimately , of ontology .
22 That is whether a report prepared by an employee valuer without due care and skill is a breach of contract by the society so as to constitute a ground of complaint within paragraph 1 ( a ) Part III to Schedule 12 .
23 I am satisfied , therefore , that the issue which arises for determination , that is whether it is in the children 's interests that the mother should be permitted to live with them in England or whether they should be brought up in Australia where they could have more frequent contact with their father , may properly be determined in either court .
24 That is whether the court has such a power .
25 The question which arises is whether the family proceedings court can make an order for no contact ; that is whether it could properly be said to be an order which was ‘ appropriate ’ with respect to the contact between the child and the parent .
26 The use by the Prime Minister of powers under the royal prerogative to ban trade unions at the Government Communication Headquarters at Cheltenham in 1983 was contested both for its lawfulness — that is whether such powers could be used and if so whether they were used correctly — and also for its legitimacy that is whether , even if the constitutional power existed , this was a proper and fair use of the power .
27 I determined to contact Jenny , but letters and telephone conversations seemed quite inadequate means of discovering what I wanted to know , that is whether I could be of any use to her .
28 One can tell whether a profit has been made in the period in question but it is necessary to have the results of several years trading , ideally together with several years forecasts , to form a judgement on the operating conditions , that is whether results are improving , stable or deteriorating .
29 One can tell whether a profit has been made in the period in question but it is necessary to have the results of several years trading , ideally together with several years forecasts , to form a judgement on the operating conditions , that is whether results are improving , stable or deteriorating .
30 hard copy status ; that is whether a hard copy of the module version has been requested and if so what stage the hard copy process has reached
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