Example sentences of "be that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , seeing that a fine picture is nature reflected by an artist , the criticism which I approve will be that picture reflected by an intelligent and sensitive mind . |
| 2 | Sinclair 's , at all events , is the work of a Modernist , and is unlikely to be that of an occultist . |
| 3 | Peter Ackroyd is all of the formidable pasticheur that he is praised for being , and Dyer 's tale , which affects to be that of someone who lived in the eighteenth century , and in which the element of imitation , present in writing of every kind , is more obtrusive than it is in the other tale , is the livelier of the two . |
| 4 | And it can be particularly useful to have some background in this area , as a first job may often be that of an ‘ acting ASM ’ — particularly if you join a small touring group or a Theatre in Education company . |
| 5 | And yet , he wrote , the impact of the whole must be that of a storm . |
| 6 | The format may be that of a text book — with first fruit then nuts dealt with on a family group basis — but it does n't read as one . |
| 7 | Do whatever you believe in your heart of hearts is God 's will , and that will be that . |
| 8 | Sometimes they were a little lifeless , not with lethargy or simple weariness ( they could be that , but then his whole body-language ‘ drooped ’ accordingly ) , but with a specific withdrawn quality which , when taken with a certain passivity of the face , can be hard and unyielding : betokening a concern — even a resentment — in being examined in that particular way . |
| 9 | Or could it be that , by the merest possible chance , Steffi is in fact … |
| 10 | It may be that to choose is to distort so protean an entity . |
| 11 | The decision , however , will be that of the case doctor ‘ and must be made solely for clinical , not financial reasons ’ . |
| 12 | The result of this hunger could simply be that opera houses survive the dog days of Thatcherism with full houses for Carmen etc. , or it could be the creation of new works that express and mirror the social and political needs of our culture in opera 's emotive language . |
| 13 | The advantage to Britain of ERM membership would be that , in addition to the Bank of England 's $42bn of foreign currency reserves , the pound could be supported by other European central banks , such as the wealthy West German Bundesbank , making speculation against sterling a much riskier business . |
| 14 | But the greatest danger could be that which is not shown , the commercial temptation for sponsors to play safe . |
| 15 | It could be that Navigation Mixte is teaming up to buy Paribas or that friendly defenders of Paribas such as Axa-Midi are strengthening their holdings . |
| 16 | They knew of a fourth case , later confirmed to be that of Keith Parchment , and believed the fifth referred to the Brown case , which technically involved two separate trials . |
| 17 | Our image of the typical newspaper reader in Britain has to be that of someone reading a tabloid , not a highbrow quality paper . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the conclusion must be that , down to 1982 , Mrs Thatcher was anxious not to give many hostages to fortune by breaking too openly with the one-nation traditions of Butler and Macleod . |
| 19 | The content of education must therefore be that which men would wish to know for its own sake . |
| 20 | On the contrary it seems to be that , as the respective numbers become closer together , or even tend to overbalance in the opposite direction , alienation is bound to progress . |
| 21 | Gatfield is still surprised by the record-buying public 's assumption that the first record they purchase by a new act must be that artist 's first release . |
| 22 | This is manifested through the unity of supposedly civilized life and the most elementary barbarity on a level which appears to be that of the basic ‘ need ’ which Eliot had accused the anthropologists of ignoring . |
| 23 | One reason might be that androgyny typically envisages a unity ostensibly beyond sexual difference , but in fact inseparable from it ; androgyny especially has too often been a genderless transcendent which leaves sexual difference in place . |
| 24 | On the one hand , it could just be that Conservatism has changed . |
| 25 | Loved by Fenna and by Rachel it had never occurred to her to consider herself unlovable , but now she needed a counter-weight in the real world , and her mother would never be that for her . |
| 26 | ‘ When he 's nice he can be that way , ’ Mona looked up gravely from her school work . |
| 27 | The general consensus now would be that , even if systems of kinship terms are closely linked to social systems , the link is not as simple as Morgan Made out . |
| 28 | Of course there are ethical problems here but , in the absence of these control experiments , it might be that light is exerting its effect by some other means , say , by encouraging the patient to become more active . |
| 29 | There could never now be that bridal night she had dreamed of , that uninhibited leap into love and happiness . |
| 30 | A murder hunt was launched yesterday after a body , believed to be that of Monica Cantwell , aged 24 , from Lingfield , Surrey , was found in New Zealand . |