Example sentences of "be that they [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantages of these methods are that they allow for careful preparation of material and can make use of the best teachers available . |
| 2 | The interesting points to note for both papers are that they emerged at a time when the SDP , a party of the middle-ground , was in the ascendant , and that neither moved to the ‘ left ’ , not even the social democratic ‘ left ’ , in the 1987 election . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Today we were close enough to the front of the plane to have a newspaper in English , and not have to settle for one printed in a strange dialect of Latvian ( or whatever it is that they use for those that are always left at the end ) . |
| 5 | The fact is that they know from their own experience that many of their contemporaries take drugs occasionally and do not become addicted . |
| 6 | But above all their value to user education is that they act as focal points , so that if practitioners have a problem there is an information centre or clearinghouse to take it to as a first resort . |
| 7 | The traditional view of zebra stripes is that they act as camouflage , but even in woodland cover this is not convincing and , in any case , zebra herds spend most of their time on open grassland where the stripes can not hide them . |
| 8 | Where many dieters fall down is that they concentrate on cutting down on food , cutting out pleasure from their lives . |
| 9 | The trouble with our research and development programmes in information technology ( IT ) today is that they concentrate on technology push . |
| 10 | My plea to the Government , therefore , is that they concentrate on what they can do , and that is to improve the long-term prospects for the economy . |
| 11 | One feature of the use of both dependency ratios and population projections is that they concentrate upon expected changes in structures . |
| 12 | One of the positive aspects of strong bosses is that they fight against injustice , and show themselves to be externally strong characters . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | What they have in common with sociological research , however , is that they depend for the accuracy of their results on choosing the right people to ask , and on having the right questions to ask them . |
| 16 | I mean we can Toyota can produce , you know , sufficient Corollas or whatever it is that they make at Derby erm , to sat to satisfy the whole of the world market for that particular car , just from one plant . |
| 17 | One reason for them being so common is that they reproduce at a high rate , and their high reproduction rate is one of the main topics of this chapter . |
| 18 | Their important characteristic is that they cut across the divisions of the formal structure and usually are very powerful if the matters to be communicated are formally confidential or affect the future of particular individuals . |
| 19 | What is most worrying about these two episodes is that they smack of an orchestrated campaign on the part of the English rugby powers-that-be to create added tension between nations , for which Brian Moore is singularly well-equipped to be the aggressive mouthpiece . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The danger with these time-removed antecedents is that they come to be regarded as irremediable causes ( which they are ) . |
| 22 | THE trouble with debutantes , lamented Lady Tryon , chairman of yesterday 's Berkeley Dress Show , is that they come in such a peculiar range of sizes . |
| 23 | Another major advantage of bananas over other sweet foods is that they come in their own hermetically sealed biodegradable packaging — the ideal food for when you are on the move . |
| 24 | The dates on the letters are quite clear , but a vague possibility is that they refer to the first actual parachute operation and that the dates are confused — by perhaps a month . |
| 25 | One flaw in the techniques of vertical thinking is that they proceed from the known into the unknown . |
| 26 | The answer to the question whether motivation arousal patterns derive from one 's past or from the situation in which one finds oneself is that they derive from both . |
| 27 | What can be said about the most recent generation of US television narrative subgenres is that they display on the screen a much higher awareness of the conventions they are operating than is the general rule on UK television , and they are therefore much more inclined towards an ironic or parodic re-scoring of generic regimes . |
| 28 | The good new s is that they go to the Ranfurly Library . |
| 29 | The reason I touched upon the problem of realisation and the related questions of a rising organic composition of capital is that they relate to both growth and crisis theory . |
| 30 | The value of the Survey 's findings on book condition is that they relate to material actually issued to readers , and do not simply describe books stored on the shelves . |