Example sentences of "to [be] that a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The literal meaning seems to be that a man is so full of the Holy Spirit that he carries conviction when he speaks about Christ . |
| 2 | The true moral seems to be that a choice is difficult not because we can not decide which is the better but because we can not bear to give up the one that has not been chosen . |
| 3 | The argument would now tend to be that a child refusing to be toilet trained is not simply enjoying the experience for its own sake . |
| 4 | As regards the present argument , the law seems to be that a parent or guardian can consent only to treatment which is in his charge 's interest . |
| 5 | The general idea underlying this discretion seems to be that a court should not award a judicial review remedy if to do so would cause ( query , serious ) damage to the ‘ public interest ’ such as would outweigh the injury which the applicant would suffer as a result of refusal of a remedy . |
| 6 | The difference of view seems to be that a deficiency of official reserves and lack of access to funds by some countries is a reflection of their creditworthiness rather than a global lack of reserves . |
| 7 | The common law position appears to be that a dealer is not normally the agent of the finance company , and a customer is bound by the terms of the document , unless the finance company knows that it does not accord with the customer 's intentions ( United Dominions Trust Ltd v Western [ 1976 ] QB 513 ) . |
| 8 | The implications of this for the eucharist would seem to be that a woman , equally as a man , can represent Christ . |
| 9 | While these forms of subsidy are not exhaustive , a consistent message appears to be that a cash transfer is the most efficient way of increasing the welfare of the recipient ( i.e. , for any given transfer , welfare of the recipient may increase to a greater extent ) . |
| 10 | The lesson seems to be that a plaintiff has a better chance of attacking the exercise of ministerial power if he can show that in some general way , especially procedural and not substantive , the minister has not played the game according to the newly enlarged rules of natural justice . |
| 11 | The explanation for this appeared to be that a manager can not properly control and discipline subordinates if he is too close to them emotionally . |
| 12 | The key determination is whether ‘ originality ’ exists in the selection or arrangement of the database.The current position under UK law would seem to be that a database is protected under copyright law even if it only attains the ‘ sweat of the brow ’ criteria . |
| 13 | In this book the essential difference is taken to be that an objective must be quantitative in terms of results and time , while a goal may be less rigorously specified . |
| 14 | The implication would seem to be that an individual who does possess ‘ knowledge and experience ’ in a particular area of expertise will be required to satisfy a standard higher than that of the ‘ ordinary man ’ . |
| 15 | It appears to be that an agency which has an explicit power or duty to achieve a certain end , ( e.g. good race relations ) , can not exercise it in such a way as to disadvantage a person , unless that person has committed an independent breach of the common law or statute . |
| 16 | Again , the better view would appear to be that an announcement is sufficient . |
| 17 | Now when you moved to was that a kind different kind of work obviously you were doing a wee bit more variety . |