Example sentences of "be that [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chances are that you belong to one of the groups Derek Dean has identified . |
| 2 | The Regatta chairman talks about the way hospitality had taken over the regatta course and howm glad they are that it seems to be declining . |
| 3 | The unique and dangerous features of the listeria bacterium are that it appears to be transmitted through meat or even vegetables grown in areas fertilised by the manure of infected animals . |
| 4 | Du Cann 's fundamental problem has been that he wanted to be seen as cross between a Tory grandee and country squire . |
| 5 | And the result of that , according to the Forum of Private Business , can be that they go to the wall , taking hundreds of jobs with them . |
| 6 | In vain she had remonstrated with the powers that be that she had to be on the air in the Docklands by six , and when she finally pitched up , I had been put back on the phones for another session of ‘ And your address is — can you spell that please ? ’ |
| 7 | Well one year it used to be that she come to us at dinner time |
| 8 | Indeed , the professor 's rationale may be that he wishes to be involved in two completely different activities . |
| 9 | Oh so and was it all sort of erm erm society do 's that you went to and cocktails and things like |
| 10 | The one thing that even the anti-Maastricht rebels must realise is that whatever happens to the other countries of the Community affects Britain profoundly . |
| 11 | The how we come to Jesus , the why 's we come to him are not the important thing , the real issue is that we come to him . |
| 12 | The result is that we try to ‘ give pupils confidence ’ by providing simple tasks with little or no challenge . |
| 13 | So what I 'm proposing is that we write to er Mick and erm Richard , asking what powers and responsibilities that they propose at the moment to devolve to Southwell . |
| 14 | The other point I would make is that our company policy is that we write to every policy holder when we receive their policy . |
| 15 | It is that we tend to be left with an RE which effectively has lost its " R " . |
| 16 | So what I would suggest is that we reply to this for you . |
| 17 | Well , we do see a good deal of what is around us and not simply whatever it is that we happen to be staring at . |
| 18 | The reason for this is that we want to be able to attribute all changes of meaning on substitution to differences in the semantic properties of the items being substituted . |
| 19 | ‘ I am afraid , Prime Minister , the answer is that we have to be more efficient than our European competitors . ’ |
| 20 | I think the other issue is that we have to be defending erm , the family planning centres that are being closed down , like the forty or fifty in Glasgow , the thirteen in er Edinburgh , th the east of Scotland |
| 21 | One of the factors which must be taken into account is that we have to be responsive to changes in our scientific activities in order to provide the necessary Library support for them . |
| 22 | What they would say is that we have to , perhaps we do have to leave things to the individual , but we should leave as little possible to individuals , as little as practically possible so that we should the people involved in making all the important decisions , particularly the carrying out of them that we have to leave to particular appointed individuals . |
| 23 | It has had considerable benefits , it 's had one or two drawbacks and er I think the biggest lesson that we have probably learned so far from the Eurofighter programme , is that we have to be very careful when we make work sharing agreements in future , that er we do n't try to drive the work sharing requirement down to too low a level . |
| 24 | One of Pearce 's main points is that we need to be able to apply monetary values to environmental gains and losses . |
| 25 | All , all I 'm saying is that we need to , before we literally start dotting I 's and crossing T's in any literal sense is to sussed out whether that 's gon na , whether they 're going to be receptive to the subject matter . |
| 26 | But I think there 's something more important than funding that was realised at that Conference between Eastern and Western Local Authorities and that is that we need to be there to assist because we can assist . |
| 27 | There is n't , you know , there is n't one thing is that we need to , with the short-term programmes we did n't do it work out the financial we need to go one stage further identify where the labour is |
| 28 | The single most startling fact for girls , however , is that they tend to be taken into care for ‘ status offences ’ rather than for breaking the law . |
| 29 | Sir Ranulph 's wife , Lady Virginia Fiennes , speaking from her remote Exmoor farm , said : ‘ All I know is that they asked to be picked up and the pick-up has come in and got them . |
| 30 | A common feature of all these systems and methods of control is that they contribute to the setting of standards , as well as to the measuring of performance against standards . |