Example sentences of "be that [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered what the place with towers and searchlights had been that we passed in the night . |
| 2 | And the result of that , according to the Forum of Private Business , can be that they go to the wall , taking hundreds of jobs with them . |
| 3 | An alternative to thinking that Harald had been in England since 1016 , and returned to Denmark with part of a disbanded fleet in 1018 , might be that he had in the interval been expelled from it , and sailed with the fleet in 1018 in an attempt to regain control . |
| 4 | A managerial action could be that he transfers with the outside party services . |
| 5 | The behaviourists ' answer would be that I have in the past been reinforced by coffee when I have gone to C , but not when I have gone to B. This could well be correct . |
| 6 | What you are about to suggest , of course , is that we wait for the Kilcharran to come along and hoist the damn thing to the surface . ’ |
| 7 | The arguments given in favour is that we vote for the wise and then the wise go on to make a proper final decision about who 's best . |
| 8 | One of the contexts in which we are exercising ministry is that we have for the last fifty years well I have n't personally ! |
| 9 | The only other thing I would say is that we have in the report used the words , freedom to run and since writing the report we have been advised that er that is capa not capable or satisfactorily with legal terms and I would suggest that instead of the words , freedom to run we use the words , access management and permissive rights of way , to cover these . |
| 10 | I think that the first thing that one would have to say is that we work for the Ministry of Defence , and not the Ministry of War and therefore we are about defence , we 're about the maintenance of peace , erm this you know maintaining of justice etc etc . |
| 11 | Their belief is that we stand at the beginning of an age in which the microcomputer will truly become part of human culture . |
| 12 | What they have in common with sociological research , however , is that they depend for the accuracy of their results on choosing the right people to ask , and on having the right questions to ask them . |
| 13 | Their important characteristic is that they cut across the divisions of the formal structure and usually are very powerful if the matters to be communicated are formally confidential or affect the future of particular individuals . |
| 14 | A common feature of all these systems and methods of control is that they contribute to the setting of standards , as well as to the measuring of performance against standards . |
| 15 | The dates on the letters are quite clear , but a vague possibility is that they refer to the first actual parachute operation and that the dates are confused — by perhaps a month . |
| 16 | One flaw in the techniques of vertical thinking is that they proceed from the known into the unknown . |
| 17 | What can be said about the most recent generation of US television narrative subgenres is that they display on the screen a much higher awareness of the conventions they are operating than is the general rule on UK television , and they are therefore much more inclined towards an ironic or parodic re-scoring of generic regimes . |
| 18 | The good new s is that they go to the Ranfurly Library . |
| 19 | My view of the exhibition and these complementary texts is that they seem for the most part to lack the critical motivation and the dialectical irony of the Situationists . |
| 20 | All we can reasonably conclude is that they happened at the same time . |
| 21 | One of the drawbacks of the current changes and reviews in local government is that they mitigate against the development of standard patterns and practices . |
| 22 | Fatima : I think the main difference between the Feminist Movement in Europe and Third World Countries is that they originated on the basis of different histories . |
| 23 | But where she differs from Miss Finlay Johnson is that she looks beyond the facts to more universal implications of any particular topic . |
| 24 | Yes well the , the question is that I notice in the assets that investments at cost were twenty five million , the present market value is twenty eight million , indeed since that 's been written it may even be more and when I looked down to the other side of the accounts , I noticed interest on capital of twelve hundred and four pounds and I wonder where the interest from the twenty eight million has gone to . |
| 25 | One of the advantages of my job as a Minister representing local government is that I travel throughout the country . |
| 26 | The fact is that I think in the sense that from the north west . |
| 27 | And the reason I say it , and the reason I labour the point , is that I think amongst the problems that we 've encountered particularly in budget review is to have chief officers and their staff producing reports in which they have a very clear vested interest . |
| 28 | And therefore , the point I would make is that I disagree with the weighting or the the two ticks given to the A sixty four south in in Mr 's assessment . |
| 29 | The conventional political wisdom is that you hear from the losers , not the gainers . |
| 30 | However , what I would like to suggest is that you contribute to the Comment Column of our autumn edition . |