Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Mark Brett , economist with Barclays de Zoete Wedd , said : ‘ The risk has to be that the figures will be better than everybody is assuming . |
| 2 | The other disadvantage has to be that your ferret must then be a line ferret , and it then suffers the disadvantage of having to pull an obstruction , albeit a small one , around any snag that exists within the burrow . |
| 3 | The main criterion for an engine , says Mr Nearn , has to be that it fits the car . |
| 4 | The final verdict has to be that the underlying intelligence of the man , for all his shrewdness , combativity and skill in a car , was insufficient to match an ambition that was almost forced upon him by his milieu , by his family and by his status as a Brazilian national hero . |
| 5 | Again the first point has to be that the rapes were unusual . |
| 6 | One of the benefits of making an acquisition has to be that duplicated positions can be eliminated , and NCR Corp has had to tell a total of 284 employees at two Teradata and two NCR locations in Southern California that they are surplus to requirements . |
| 7 | Apricot Computers Ltd , which always likes to be first with Intel 's latest chip , will reportedly announce a P5-based machine in September , but with the enormous leap in complexity in the microprocessor , the other major worry has to be that it will take early users of the chip at least 18 months to find all the bugs in it and for Intel to correct them . |
| 8 | The explanation has to be that the company shot itself in the foot by announcing the Sparcsystem 10 machines with such a long lead time , many would-be customers are holding back and waiting for them , and that things will not really start to pick up until those start shipping around September time — which suggests that dullness will continue for the current quarter . |
| 9 | His consolation has to be that although she is , as an ideal , constantly changing , ‘ yet she dies only when the race of men is dead — then to be gathered to the number of the Gods . ’ |
| 10 | The reservation has to be that the performance always keeps something in hand , in many ways effectively so , but in the end missing some of the physical thrill of this work . |
| 11 | Accordingly , the conclusion has to be that a knowing breach of the order by the appellants has not been proved . |
| 12 | So it has to be that the load shifted backwards . |
| 13 | The message needs to be that the school serves their community and accepts children from their area . |
| 14 | ‘ I happen to believe variety is the spice of life , it just happens to be that women end up victimising themselves a lot , or subjecting themselves to a lot of bullshit to get some sort of coverage . |
| 15 | I think really I need to say that that someone been creating happens to be that they 're not sold off and |
| 16 | It 's as , what I 'm looking for is that the people who tick it off as being okay know what they are looking for , and that maybe that it 's the right number of boxes , it might be it 's the right grade of paper , whatever it happens to be that , that , if they tick it to say it 's right , then that 's what , that they have checked in some way . |
| 17 | What it amounts to is that the weak choice is just as valid as the hard choice provided the tracks are examined on their merits , not in terms of weakness or laziness . |
| 18 | What this amounts to is that on theoretical grounds one excludes certain possibilities and hence excludes the possibility of an observationally equivalent model . |
| 19 | It 's all classified , but what it amounts to is that we wo n't play the Great Game over here and they wo n't play it in the UK . |
| 20 | Erm so I do n't think that one 's achievable erm I think what this amounts to is that erm there are two cuts that we do n't agree with er there 's a vast on reserves we do n't agree with but we managed to put forward a thousand pounds for education at the same time erm i this does strike me as a budget of a party which it knows has no prospect of any sort of responsibility in this council for a long time to come . |
| 21 | Maybe three lads to the drawings and maybe two lads to do the calculations , whereas it would be slightly in the bridge office or the works office because of the present resource availability , it tends to be that you only have a smaller number of people doing , doing those tasks . |
| 22 | I doubt very much whether we 'll have a score on that because it tends to be that we do n't find out what happens in Italy until er the following morning . |
| 23 | The important difference between habituation and conditioning when it comes to context specificity appears to be that the latter involves the recall of associative information whereas habituation requires no more than the recognition of the stimulus as being familiar . |
| 24 | The only truism appears to be that the smaller the town the greater the extent of the exchange . |
| 25 | Instead , the main ingredient of success appears to be that they have consistently geared themselves to the needs of international trade . |
| 26 | The testator 's intention once again appears to be that his daughter 's whole estate should devolve according to the rules of intestacy , and so end in her brother 's eager hands . |
| 27 | The answer appears to be that it arrived courtesy of the Romans . |
| 28 | The heart of the problem appears to be that this institutional framework is itself founded on a conventional gesellschaft- type representative model . |
| 29 | The reason for this appears to be that the territories occupied by red-winged blackbirds in these marshes vary enormously in their quality , specifically in the amount of food they contain . |
| 30 | The hypothesis appears to be that we have inherited from our animal ancestors the habit of discrimination , but have added an additional criterion , namely the conscious calculation of relatedness , to the criteria of propinquity , and perhaps physical and biochemical similarity , used by animals . |