Example sentences of "today [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The consequence of these household arrangements today are that a very high proportion of older people live alone . |
| 2 | Thus , leaving the graduated scheme out of account for a moment , the position we have reached today is that the state pays to all retired persons , without regard to means , a pension roughly of subsistence value . |
| 3 | The snag today is that those black sheep will create much bigger problems than they could in the past . |
| 4 | One of the bizarre things I find today is that England does n't really like traders . |
| 5 | And — in answer to the second question — the only reason that oxygen gas exists in such large amounts in the atmosphere today is that plants and some bacteria produce it in vast quantities through photosynthesis . |
| 6 | The increasingly accepted argument in Israel today is that Eretz Israel in any case belongs primarily to the Jews and that all the Palestinian Arabs , refugee or otherwise , have a lesser claim upon it . |
| 7 | The result today is that few important functions ( measured in terms of expenditure ) are handled by local government in Northern Ireland : most , like housing , are instead the responsibility of non-elected quangos or , like education , of area boards . |
| 8 | What is more disturbing today is that the Germans have been quicker and more successful to recognise the causes of the decline in their research community than we have in the UK . |
| 9 | The first great motive for planting churches today is that we might reach the lost . |
| 10 | I say that the greatest tragedy in the world today is that God had made man in his image and made him to worship him , made him to play the harp of worship before the face of God day and night , but he has failed God and dropped the harp . |
| 11 | What is unfortunate today is that scientists are still trying to build science on foundations that are known to be inadequate . |
| 12 | What , I believe , makes Lewis 's view of the Bible so important today is that it is very similar to the view of the fathers of the primitive church . |
| 13 | The challenge that many of us face today is that we have a choice — whether or not we go out to work , how much domestic machinery we use , how much we involve the rest of the family in housework , whether or not we employ someone else to do the cleaning , how many take-away meals are put on the table , and so on . |
| 14 | The prevailing ethos today is that the state not the individual is responsible for his welfare , that the erosion of private property rights and the control by the state of many areas of our lives is legitimate and welcome and that the distribution of wealth must take precedence over its creation . |
| 15 | Mr Harvey Edgar , a disabled pensioner , said : ‘ The only thing the politicians have said about this island today is that they are pulling another bit away from us — a very large bit . ’ |
| 16 | One reason for the widespread torture today is that many victims are killed , while others are afraid to speak out . |
| 17 | The reality we are left with today is that : |
| 18 | For the most cheering news out of Greece today is that the country may at last be getting tired of the bumbly , floppy politics of the past . |
| 19 | An objection frequently heard today is that it is being unduly literalistic to discuss whether or not the Bible history is true . |
| 20 | Possibly the only use for hedgerows today is that they help to keep people and litter out of fields , rather than animals in , but if hedges and trees were uneconomic during the war , how much more so are they today ? |
| 21 | The trouble today is that the student body has moved so far away from asserting its academic rights that it has become largely passive , simply accepting the fare put before it . |
| 22 | … the crisis today is that we have fictions which no one admits to be fictions , whereas before people had myths , people had religions , and so on , and a lot of it was believed in as a matter of faith , whereas now everything is presented as real , and it is no more real than the myths of before . |
| 23 | The trouble with our research and development programmes in information technology ( IT ) today is that they concentrate on technology push . |
| 24 | I think basically what I 'd like to say today is that I personally agree with what Ida 's saying that it is an attack on the Health Service , and it is the greatest achievement that the Labour Party has done in history in my opinion . |
| 25 | The crux of the matter today is that those children were not listened to or believed when they complained to the very people in whose care we had put them for protection . |
| 26 | Another inadequacy about the way that we have to deal with the matter today is that there is not time to debate the issue , which we debated in Committee , about the role of a funding council in strategy and planning . |
| 27 | What must be hurting him today is that others did not have the courage to do the same to him . |
| 28 | However , the overwhelming reality today is that the Book Trade is highly professional , commercial , competitive , flexible and increasingly computer literate . |
| 29 | Right , okay , so the situation we 're in today is that we 're actually got to defend our Party , the Party is the whole labour movement , from that political direction in which the leadership or ex-leadership and some people in the Parliamentary Party seem to want to take us . |
| 30 | Well now , the starting position today is that the North Yorkshire County Structure Plan was approved by the Secretary of State in November nineteen eighty . |