Example sentences of "[verb] be that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result has been that discount deals have proliferated . |
| 2 | The result has been that sea walls have had to take the brunt of the power of waves and currents at high tide , which erodes them and requires rebuilding on an ever larger scale . |
| 3 | This has sometimes been justified on security grounds but often the argument has been that disclosure is not in the public interest , that " secrecy is at all times the condition in which the best men make the best decisions . " |
| 4 | And it has been that way for five seasons . |
| 5 | One of the problems with traditional remedial teaching has been that spelling and neatness are fetishes . |
| 6 | A more fundamental objection has been that music-hall and vaudeville were essentially controlled by showmen who were of course entrepreneurs . |
| 7 | One of the sad side-effects of industrial action during the early years of the implementation of ISS has been that work on improving the teacher-parent partnership has been more neglected by teachers than anyone initially expected . |
| 8 | In the past one accusation sometimes levelled against much primary school history has been that work is insufficiently " historical " in approach . |
| 9 | The underlying assumption has been that bureaucracy is desirable as an organizational principle because it attempts to clarify authority and accountability while depersonalising their application . |
| 10 | Until very recently the standard present-day answer to that question , at least among anthropologists , has been that man has culture and birds do not . |
| 11 | One result of this has been that theology itself has become ecumenical in a fashion undreamt of a century ago , and many of the main fronts in theological debate and controversy now run across rather than along denominational boundaries . |
| 12 | The reason given for this conviction has been that assessment , in grading pupils ' performance in any given test , would leave some pupils with a sense of being of less value than others in the class . |
| 13 | ‘ The argument for the reformers has been that punishment simply does not work . |
| 14 | The general view has been that theoria is the engine driving the historical development of science and that praxis is merely the application of theoria . |
| 15 | A significant milestone has been that product revenues for the AViiON line finally surpassed those of the proprietary Eclipse MV products . |
| 16 | One of the more important consequences of this action — a consequence , incidentally , that we are still feeling the effects of — has been that demand for UK goods has been reduced not only in the UK but also in the other major industrialised oil importing nations . |
| 17 | The result has been that sterling has become very expensive to borrow , but there is still far too much of it , and the supply is still increasing too fast . |
| 18 | The general assumption ( as in most phonetics books ) has been that speech is composed of phonemes and that usually whenever a speech sound is produced by a speaker it is possible to identify which phoneme that sound belongs to . |
| 19 | Much of the general comment has been that quality improvement is just common sense and that we have been doing it all of the time anyway . |
| 20 | A recurring complaint from industry has been that pension funds are too short-term orientated , to the detriment of the companies in whose shares they deal . |
| 21 | Suspicions have sometimes been voiced that , whenever government has supported civic education , the reason has been that learning of this kind has been interpreted as supportive of a respectful attitude . |
| 22 | To recapitulate : what Schopenhauer demonstrated is that music differs in character and origin from the other arts because they represent phenomena , while music represents metaphysical reality directly . |
| 23 | ‘ What matters is that art — however you choose to define it — is still considered something worth bothering about . ’ |
| 24 | For present purposes what matters is that legislation made in pursuance of powers delegated to Ministers of the Crown is a form of ‘ statutory instrument ’ . |
| 25 | For our purposes what matters is that RNA , or something like it , was around for a long time before it became self-replicating . |
| 26 | What these critics apparently ca n't stomach is that wealth creators have a tendency to acquire wealth in the process of creating it for others . |
| 27 | ‘ What many people commenting recently seem to have forgotten is that account managers have bosses too , ’ says the caterer . |
| 28 | What can not be claimed is that education is always the cause and economic growth the effect . |
| 29 | All I have claimed is that consent to obey is recognized , and with reason , as one way of expressing such an attitude . |
| 30 | In reality what has been happening is that humanity , driven by the inexorable power of the primordial desire for earthly happiness , has been producing a constant stream of decisions from which the good , which will ultimately help with the building of the Created God , have been extracted . |