Example sentences of "[be] that [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The indications are that he only began to reign in 738 , for an eclipse of the sun , followed by a lunar eclipse , which occurred in January 753 , is described in the eighth-century Northumbrian annals as happening in his fifteenth year , whereas Eadberht 's fifteenth year if he succeeded in 737 would have been 751–2 . |
| 2 | Basically erm I agree with what you say but that the County Council itself of course is a landowner of erm some quite attractive erm areas of land that could be used for below cost housing , but the problem in the past has been that they always had to sell erm at the market price . |
| 3 | The reason could very well have been that he simply desired to do it . |
| 4 | I have had lots of tanks almost from the beginning , and have probably worked out most of my fantasies regarding sizes from 15″ × 10″ × 10″ up to 48″ × 18″ × 18″ — the only problem has been that I always want to keep more species than I have room for . |
| 5 | ‘ The whole Virgin approach had been that you simply do n't fire people . ’ |
| 6 | Similarly the status of commas in the speech of the T(eacher) is not made explicit — presumably they are to indicate pauses in the stream of speech , but it may be that they simply indicate a complex of rhythmic and intonational cues which the analyst is responding to . |
| 7 | It may be that they simply see no value in the building or that they are concerned that any use of the building might detract from their estate or business . |
| 8 | An officer said : ‘ It may be that they just did n't act quickly enough for him . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Indeed , ’ said Bishop Jon , ‘ 't is to be hoped that the two saintly souls got on well together in life ( if so be that they ever met at all , which I take leave to doubt ) now that the lord King has made a packet of them , so to speak , for posterity . |
| 10 | It might be that they genuinely do not feel that they have the energy or even the interest to effect change in their lives . |
| 11 | The reason is more likely to be that they only fly in ideal wind conditions . |
| 12 | We might think that any differences reflected poorer performance but it may just be that they merely reflect the different impact of specific price changes on drugs compared with books . |
| 13 | Could it be that we just select randomly , in free variation , perhaps to add a little variety for its own sake ? |
| 14 | It may be that we secretly admire those who attempt to ‘ beat the system ’ , and that we sympathise with the underdog . |
| 15 | And my beloved mother — can it be that she ever existed ? |
| 16 | But should it be that anyone ever wished to posit that I have attained at least a little of that crucial quality of ‘ dignity ’ in the course of my career , such a person may wish to be directed towards that conference of March 1923 as representing the moment when I first demonstrated I might have a capacity for such a quality . |
| 17 | It may be that he just does n't feel very well , and decided to stay in bed . |
| 18 | I suppose it could be that he just wants to crow in his own back yard . |
| 19 | The consensus view seems to be that he probably did not . |
| 20 | ‘ W-who … ? ’ she stammered , while some part of her intelligence prodded away that — could it be that he somehow knew that she was not the person she was pretending to be ? |
| 21 | It may be that he really thinks there is nothing that he really thinks . |
| 22 | The INPFL 's withdrawal followed severe criticisms by interim government officials of Johnson 's action in ordering the execution of a senior commander whose offence appeared to be that he unilaterally complied with provisions of the peace agreement , arranging for his men to hand over their arms to troops of the 7,000-strong Ecowas Monitoring Group ( ECOMOG ) . |
| 23 | It might be that there really is nothing else of importance , or it might be that I just do n't want to make the whole of me available . |
| 24 | It must be that you also perceive it . |
| 25 | If you 've ticked a mixture of areas it could be that you just like to learn in lots of different ways . |
| 26 | Another problem may be that you only have one machine for both recording and playback so that only one of these activities can go on at one time . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The down-side may be that you now see without any shadow of doubt that you can not exist in an emotional or sexual wilderness indefinitely . |
| 29 | A principal justification for the change was said to be that it unduly restricted the proper development of the law ( Practice Statement , ( Judicial Precedent ) , [ 1966 ] 1 WLR 1234 ) . |
| 30 | It might be that it only affected the absorption and emission processes of black bodies and did not represent an abiding individuality — like drips from a tap which merge into the mass of fluid lying in the basin . |