Example sentences of "[det] be that [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The sole reason for this is that Philips lighting have been unable to increase production to match our orders due to difficulties in obtaining glass for the lamps . |
| 2 | The reason for this is that UK per capita consumption of alcohol has been static from the late 1970s , as shown in Figure 5.2 . |
| 3 | The reason for this is that Germany 's huge trade surplus is overwhelmingly with the Community ( approx. 70% of it was with the EC , although in late 1991 , there has been a significant drop , albeit temporarily , in Germany 's surplus ) . |
| 4 | It 's a lot of money Well this is that Ian was making in the first place is n't it , product actually |
| 5 | The reason for this is that Field 's New Tribe is imbued with the rather vague mission of transmitting ‘ Western techniques ’ to traditional societies and although this opens the door to many fascinating details about the structures of culture contact , it is at a rather high level of generality for explanatory purposes and it seriously underplays the role of the classes responsible for capitalist expansionism . |
| 6 | This is that Basildon only swung 1.3 per cent to Labour ( and so stayed Tory ) because it has the highest Sun readership in the country ( half of all households there take it ) , whereas Hampstead fell to Glenda Jackson because it is top of the Guardian 's league ( 14 per cent of homes ) . |
| 7 | One thing , at any rate , would seem to be clear , and this is that Jesus , after his baptism in the Jordan , undergoes a significant change . |
| 8 | One of the reasons for this is that John Lee 's history and musical bent is just too weird to accommodate in their stories and theories . |
| 9 | The significance of all this is that Utah had already convinced themselves that test-tube fusion could be an economic bonanza of unimaginable magnitude , and the first shots in the skirmish for priority had already been fired in February with the accusations that Jones had pirated the Utah chemists ' work . |
| 10 | One possible conclusion from all this is that Edward 's legislative impulse was as likely a product of his contact with indigenous clergy as with contemporary popes and kings . |
| 11 | The difficulty with this is that Althusser ( and Engels ) are convincingly describing a change in problematic , perhaps even a paradigm shift , but it is not clear that what went on before is contrastable as ideology , as non-science . |
| 12 | Erm the reason for this is that Luton er is not an attractive proposition on a long term basis but it anti er and that , that is largely for an environmental point of view of the fact that it will also not provide an awful lot of additional capacity but it is a highly economic airport from the point of view of the number of er the cost required to expand it er further er passenger and facilities they already have designs for the extension of the facilities in that airport and I am concerned that er delays in the planning process for terminal three er or for any other alternatives in the South East or for making alternative arrangements elsewhere in the country . |
| 13 | One reason is that its rag-bag of products is hard to evaluate ; another is that Hanson appears to have a poor image on community and environmental responsibility . |
| 14 | One consequence of this was that IBM Deutschland , IBM France and IBM UK were all in Europe 's top 100 companies by sales in 1985 ; together these three IBM subsidiaries had sales of nearly $16 billion — about 30 per cent of IBM 's world sales . |
| 15 | The irony of this was that Galbraith 's working title for the book was Why People Are Poor . |
| 16 | Although much of the argument before him and much of his judgment were devoted to the legal rights of a 16-year-old , the only reason for exploring this was that W. was resisting a change of regime . |
| 17 | The reason for this was that Angela was a very neat , spruce and tidy little person . |
| 18 | These are that Japan now matters as much to America as America does to Japan , and that it would do both some good if Japan acted accordingly . |
| 19 | He thinks that he wants a reconciliation , and up to a point he does ; but what he hopes most of all is that Alfred will give his blessing to the new play he has written — a drama of sibling rivalry called Brother Mine . |
| 20 | The irony of it all is that Jim does not eat fish . |
| 21 | And I think the most disgusting thing of all is that Alan Sillitoe does n't show that he 's disgusted by his young man . |
| 22 | The most damning fact of all is that Seb had been drinking . |
| 23 | The outcome of it all is that Wainwright heads the points table with 55 and is followed by Karen Cross with 48 . |
| 24 | The implicature we can draw from it all is that Anderson 's enthusiasm for the topic overrides his concern for his positive face , but that the conflict between these two concerns remains , and is visible in the nervous flaws in his linguistic performance . |
| 25 | The upshot of it all is that Major-General Holomisa has made Transkei a haven of sorts , a thorn in Pretoria 's side , for the ANC . |
| 26 | The hope among many is that Lamont , or as looks increasingly unlikely , his successor , will be able to pull back from the second rise when he comes to the December 1994 Budget . |
| 27 | And the irony of it all was that Fernando had n't planned it that way . |
| 28 | There would , however , appear to be one question on which there is unanimity of opinion and that is that Japan must be protected as far as possible from Communistic influences and from infiltration from the USSR . |
| 29 | ‘ I know what all the world knows , ’ his sister maintained stoutly , ‘ and that is that Fatima has always been a true wife to you . ’ |
| 30 | But one problem about showing that is that Dennett has opted ( perhaps unnecessarily for his argument ) for a flow-chart explication , which is inherently a static rather than a process one . |