Example sentences of "be that [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the fish are obtained from the same area the chances are that they all came from the same parents . |
| 2 | ‘ Charles 's problem has been that he married a 19-year-old inexperienced girl who over the years has become a world figure , the most famous woman on the planet . |
| 3 | The Cartesian answer would be that they all stand for various kinds of mental activity , a distinguishing mark of the mental being that it is not extended in space like the other substance of Descartes 's dualism , matter . |
| 4 | We must , in , be constantly aware that correlation , a systematic relationship between two variables X and Y , does not imply causation ; it may be that a change in a characteristic or variable X causes a change in another variable Y , it might be that a change in Y causes a change in X , it might be that they both affect each other , or it might be that neither affects the other , but that a change in a further variable , Z , is responsible for the changes in both X and Y. |
| 5 | One of the reasons for this preference may be that I first came to know it at Windrush . |
| 6 | Can it be that you two are n't getting along ? ’ |
| 7 | Alternatively it may be that you hanker after some lost love and are therefore convinced that we are doing the same , when in most cases nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 8 | Their main grievances against the education system , which fell under the dual control of the church and state , were that it victimised teachers who showed dissent by questioning the working conditions or salary scale . |
| 9 | There may be an improvement in the child 's already abundant energy or that nebulous sense of well being that we all know about but find so hard to put into words . |
| 10 | And if you really want to know what I think , it 's that you Cretaceous people are insanely arrogant . |
| 11 | It is not that , in the face of a system of chattel slavery , we first insist on counting everyone 's interests equitably and then see if slaves should be liberated ; it is that we first recognise the moral imperative to liberate them , on grounds other than counting equal interests equally . |
| 12 | The fact is that we all earn our living by using parts of our bodies , and there can be no biological , or logical , reason for outlawing organs of the reproductive system . |
| 13 | The bottom line is that we all love music and want to play it . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ What is most important is that we all share the same vision , ’ said Fr Naidu . |
| 15 | What is important is that we all live in a society organised in a way which routinely excludes people who have impairments . |
| 16 | The to say anything is that we all have natural places where we feel comfortable , we all have particular styles where it 's easier to eat it 's more comfortable , perhaps is an example and very comfortable just staying where we are being passive it 's nothing particularly prognostic about that for us . |
| 17 | ‘ I know now to expect the unexpected , but the one thing I can be sure of is that we all have lots of laughs making the show . ’ |
| 18 | Now the second problem is that we all value our freedoms and we the greatest thing that we all have in our lives , whether it 's in work , or whether it 's in our marriages or just in our social life , we all value our freedom and initiative , we want to be able to use our own initiative . |
| 19 | ‘ The one thing I do have in common with William , ’ conceded Preston , ‘ is that we both grew up knowing the heavens might open at any moment and drop a load of shit on our heads . ’ |
| 20 | A friend of Rosemary 's has been teaching us a few basic ballroom dances — the deal is that we both go to his aerobics classes ! |
| 21 | One explanation is that they first immobilise their prey with sound . |
| 22 | What unites all these disparate activities is that they all help to maximise the impact and outreach of your message , to present the person or the party in the most effective way to enthuse and woo the voters . |
| 23 | The derivatives are infinite and the joy is that they all fly extremely well . |
| 24 | Partners are jointly and severally liable for a partnership 's debts , and their dealings with each other require the utmost good faith ; implicit in this is that they all know each other , including their strengths and weaknesses . |
| 25 | The answer is that they all are , because they apply to all financial statements intended to give a true and fair view , so they should be followed by societies . |
| 26 | The strange thing about these different ways of arranging the same information is that they all apparently mean exactly the same thing . |
| 27 | The pattern of symptoms in this patient refutes the theory that the reason why x , y and z co-occur is that they all reflect damage to a single system ( since if that theory were true you could never get x without y ) ; indeed , this patient shows that there actually is no syndrome ( in the theoretical sense ) defined by the joint occurrence of all three symptoms . |
| 28 | But the common factor is that they all require the judgement and the practical imagination which the actuary is trained to apply . |
| 29 | All I know is that they all supported the poll tax and they all voted for the guillotines that carried through the poll tax legislation . |
| 30 | Their one flaw however is that they all bear the same serial number , which has been circulated to all MOT centres across the province . |