Example sentences of "be that [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The indications are that he only began to reign in 738 , for an eclipse of the sun , followed by a lunar eclipse , which occurred in January 753 , is described in the eighth-century Northumbrian annals as happening in his fifteenth year , whereas Eadberht 's fifteenth year if he succeeded in 737 would have been 751–2 . |
| 2 | The director of the zoo , David Jones , believes that " it would be dangerous to conjecture that it is BSE at this stage , but the indications are that it probably is . " |
| 3 | I mean I 've been in more pubs than I 'd say longer than most people who drink a lot and er you know it 's just be I think music and and song is the big addiction in Ireland not the drink but because er it it the chances of a music session starting in a pub is just you know the chances are that it probably will at some stage of the day . |
| 4 | Basically erm I agree with what you say but that the County Council itself of course is a landowner of erm some quite attractive erm areas of land that could be used for below cost housing , but the problem in the past has been that they always had to sell erm at the market price . |
| 5 | The reason could very well have been that he simply desired to do it . |
| 6 | I have had lots of tanks almost from the beginning , and have probably worked out most of my fantasies regarding sizes from 15″ × 10″ × 10″ up to 48″ × 18″ × 18″ — the only problem has been that I always want to keep more species than I have room for . |
| 7 | ‘ The whole Virgin approach had been that you simply do n't fire people . ’ |
| 8 | I think that there 's a lot for your Lordship to read but I think it might be beneficial in the long run , it was certainly , our experience has been that it certainly would take time in the long run but to deal with it this way . |
| 9 | It may be that they simply see no value in the building or that they are concerned that any use of the building might detract from their estate or business . |
| 10 | Similarly the status of commas in the speech of the T(eacher) is not made explicit — presumably they are to indicate pauses in the stream of speech , but it may be that they simply indicate a complex of rhythmic and intonational cues which the analyst is responding to . |
| 11 | An officer said : ‘ It may be that they just did n't act quickly enough for him . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Indeed , ’ said Bishop Jon , ‘ 't is to be hoped that the two saintly souls got on well together in life ( if so be that they ever met at all , which I take leave to doubt ) now that the lord King has made a packet of them , so to speak , for posterity . |
| 13 | It might be that they genuinely do not feel that they have the energy or even the interest to effect change in their lives . |
| 14 | The reason is more likely to be that they only fly in ideal wind conditions . |
| 15 | One explanation for all this brilliant caricaturing of college teachers might be that they really are larger than life , as portrayed . |
| 16 | We might think that any differences reflected poorer performance but it may just be that they merely reflect the different impact of specific price changes on drugs compared with books . |
| 17 | Could it be that we just select randomly , in free variation , perhaps to add a little variety for its own sake ? |
| 18 | It may be that we secretly admire those who attempt to ‘ beat the system ’ , and that we sympathise with the underdog . |
| 19 | The suggestion I 've had is that we have got held in the budgets erm land acquisition , I mean it may be that we actually pool this the , the new land acquisition after the centenary , which might be erm a way of recognizing the centenary of the , of the parish council . |
| 20 | And my beloved mother — can it be that she ever existed ? |
| 21 | It may be that he just does n't feel very well , and decided to stay in bed . |
| 22 | I suppose it could be that he just wants to crow in his own back yard . |
| 23 | The consensus view seems to be that he probably did not . |
| 24 | ‘ W-who … ? ’ she stammered , while some part of her intelligence prodded away that — could it be that he somehow knew that she was not the person she was pretending to be ? |
| 25 | It may be that he really thinks there is nothing that he really thinks . |
| 26 | But he will not yet be either , since he will not , at that stage have been ‘ entered on the register ’ and , it may be that he never will be . |
| 27 | The INPFL 's withdrawal followed severe criticisms by interim government officials of Johnson 's action in ordering the execution of a senior commander whose offence appeared to be that he unilaterally complied with provisions of the peace agreement , arranging for his men to hand over their arms to troops of the 7,000-strong Ecowas Monitoring Group ( ECOMOG ) . |
| 28 | It could be that he too was preoccupied nearer home , for example , in wars with the Welsh and the Life of Guthlac may provide evidence of this . |
| 29 | It might be that there really is nothing else of importance , or it might be that I just do n't want to make the whole of me available . |
| 30 | It must be that you also perceive it . |