Example sentences of "[verb] [vb mod] be that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another explanation for the relatively high proportion of those in residential homes reported to be bad tempered could be that relatives , friends or neighbours were less likely to report or perceive the person who died as being bad tempered than staff of institutions . |
| 2 | The justification given could be that it is easier to control girls than boys , and therefore the ‘ stronger ’ teachers should be given the more difficult classes , i.e. the boys ' classes . |
| 3 | It then , in October , expressed its concern that a high proportion of courses in subjects other than business studies were being turned down , and it suggested that one of the reasons making it difficult for such courses to be approved might be that ‘ the Council 's present structure of honours and ordinary degrees was not so appropriate for courses in those fields ’ as in science and technology . |
| 4 | Today , if we pose the difficult question of the relation of poststructuralism to postmodernism , one distinction between them that might be drawn would be that whereas postmodernism seems to include the problematic of the place of Western culture in relation to non-Western cultures , poststructuralism as a category seems not to imply such a perspective . |
| 5 | It would not matter that the consequence of so holding might be that the defendants , if they should lose the action , would satisfy the European Court of Human Rights that any verdict against them would constitute a breach of article 10 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms . |
| 6 | The danger with that we believe could be that we would set a date for the merger and take all the important issues and discussions , how many regions will it have will we have , the those regions and a hundred and one other problems raised by that merger into a tight timescale . |
| 7 | Best thing that could happen would be that Wilko signs the lon term contract and then 4–6 months into it decides that he wants out say to go and play with Terry Vegatables at England . |
| 8 | Normally what will happen will be that : |
| 9 | Er , I also wanted to raise the issue of er the public service section in respect to er this because there 's something prob perhaps not actually tackled in the resolution but equally er important I think is that it 's actually getting the resources into er er down to the br branch level and er if we took this resolution literally , er what it would actually mean would be that er in har with harmonization of agreements we would be handing over er our majority on the manual workers , public service workers to , so obviously we got ta take this resolution very seriously , but consider its implications and the relevance of the word appropriate because I do n't think that we want to be er handed over to come July the first er single table bargaining where we are an absolute minority and where th th that union merge that 's taking place is obviously hostile to our union . |
| 10 | Yet the effect of what you can play should be that you hear what Brahms wrote down , even if you do n't follow his notation absolutely to the dot . |
| 11 | The downside to registering might be that you get unsolicited mail every so often , but that practice seems to be on the decrease , and only genuine upgrades seem to be notified . |
| 12 | The next step that he foresaw would be that Mr Ramsay MacDonald comes to the King and asks for a Dissolution : indeed Mr Asquith believes that in accepting office Mr Ramsay MacDonald will very probably ask His Majesty to promise a Dissolution in the event of an early defeat of the Government in the House of Commons … |
| 13 | A tentative reply to these questions we think would be that an attempt to construct a purely feminist demand around housing presents major problems , in the way that demands around financial independence , sexuality , childcare and so on , do not . |
| 14 | In planning our analyses we were concerned to avoid the biases that affected the analyses of the period up to and including 1983 ; it was agreed in advance , at a meeting of a working group of the Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment , that the principal hypothesis to be tested should be that ‘ no excess of leukaemia or other cancer in 0–24 year olds has occurred in the area of the Sellafield plant from 1984 to the present , and that the diagnostic groups , areas , and calendar periods to be analysed should be these set out below . ’ |
| 15 | Hence a proper line for the president and his advisers to take would be that as productivity increases , so will corporate profits , investment , and the creation of new jobs . |
| 16 | Well up in Scotland of course we do n't need to save our rain water we get plenty of it coming from the unclear , but er one thing I would say would be that erm if we have a warm spell and the sun is beating on a bitumen roof and then of course suddenly a shower and that er goes into the water bucket or water barrel then it does give you maybe you know a few problems . |