Example sentences of "[be] [that] it [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , rumours are that it may launch a computing supplement under the Budapest Week name . |
| 2 | Rumours are that it may reappear somewhere else , perhaps Basingstoke , but who knows ? |
| 3 | If Robson Rhodes had not decided to make fundamental changes in its operating style five years ago , the chances are that it would have long since been swallowed up by one of its rivals . |
| 4 | The alternatives are that it should promote competition , per se , or that it should operate with fairly broadly defined public interest criteria . |
| 5 | She is in the grip of infatuation and … the odds are that it will lead precisely nowhere ; that they — and more probably he — will call the whole thing off . |
| 6 | The reasons for introducing terminology are that it will provide the reader a ) with confidence in using the microcomputer ; b ) with the knowledge to discuss the various uses of the microcomputer with colleagues ; c ) a basic knowledge of the microcomputer from which the reader can go on to discover other , more intricate aspects of the microcomputer . |
| 7 | The consequences for the vendor are that it will need to account for unpaid advanced corporation tax on the entire amount of the distribution unless there is a group income election in place . |
| 8 | All the indications are that it will increase , ’ he said . |
| 9 | The most important aspects of the ‘ green Budget ’ are that it will encourage people to act , and it recognises the environmental mantra that energy has for too long been too cheap . |
| 10 | Although this is unlikely to happen this year , the astrological pointers are that it will occur before the end of l993 . |
| 11 | The crucial repercussions of the company existing in its own right are that it can hold property , raise money on the security of its property , sue and be sued in its own name , and continue to exist and do business despite changes in membership or its directors . |
| 12 | Disadvantages said to be attendant upon a duty to provide reasons are that it can stifle the exercise of discretion and overburden the administration . |
| 13 | To his surprise , the strongest argument in favour of taking the job had been that it would keep him near to Frances . |
| 14 | A standard monetarist prediction of that decision would have been that it would produce two years of boom , followed by growing inflation and balance of payments deficit . |
| 15 | Since the NPT 's adoption in 1968 , the French government 's position had been that it would abide by the terms of the treaty but would not sign it because it granted the two superpowers a privileged position in international relations . |
| 16 | It may be that it may help those in business understand their own , or their trading partners ' standard terms ; however , it is not intended that it should be used by persons without legal knowledge to draft standard terms without legal advice . |
| 17 | Could it be that it might shake up the cosy , old fashioned world of the LTA ? |
| 18 | One danger in giving such an opportunity might be that it would give greater scope for industrial policy ( ‘ European champions ’ ) proponents , not least within the European Commission : however , that is not a reason for preventing DGIV from considering the point in a particular case , however sceptically . |
| 19 | John Paton. as General Secretary , pointed to the organizational hazards of withdrawing from the Labour Party : The practical difficulties of maintaining and developing the organisation outside the Labour Party were enormous and it might be that it would involve a risk of the complete disintegration of the ILP . |
| 20 | If the question is asked whether Gandhi is not aware of the dangers of contradiction in his use of personal and impersonal terms to describe God , the answer might be that it would depend whether the personal use of the term God refers to an entity , or being , in the form of an extra-mundane person , whether or not a contradiction is involved . |
| 21 | The advantage of this approach would be that it would enable a mixed economy to be operated i.e. some institutions be validated in the present way ; , others who were ‘ chartered ’ would not necessarily be accredited for all their courses in that their courses would be validated in the present ways . |
| 22 | The weakness of a political office must be that it would lack the knowledge and experience of traditional civil servants . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It could well be that it will take more than the measures that the Government have introduced to strip the glamour from smoking , notwithstanding the 115,000 smoking-related deaths per year in Britain alone . |
| 25 | The answer to the key question — what applications will it run — appears to be that it will run unmodified character-based MS-DOS applications , and converted Mac applications , to the extent that any developers are prepared to convert them , and will run on iAPX-86 processors from the 80386 up . |
| 26 | And the reason I would come up with would be that it must make you feel stonkingly great . |
| 27 | The general attitude seems to be that it must have been a madman and the Church does n't have to deal with madmen . |
| 28 | They 've done most of them are I mean the wo certainly the ones on the little little boat trips and that , I mean , they have all it does is that it 'll tell you there 's some fish about , I mean , it does n't |
| 29 | The only certainty is that it 'll make Mr Morton a millionaire |
| 30 | All I would say , Jerry , is that it 'll have to come out of something like our carry forwards for this . |