Example sentences of "have [prep] [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Mark Brett , economist with Barclays de Zoete Wedd , said : ‘ The risk has to be that the figures will be better than everybody is assuming . |
| 2 | The other disadvantage has to be that your ferret must then be a line ferret , and it then suffers the disadvantage of having to pull an obstruction , albeit a small one , around any snag that exists within the burrow . |
| 3 | The main criterion for an engine , says Mr Nearn , has to be that it fits the car . |
| 4 | The final verdict has to be that the underlying intelligence of the man , for all his shrewdness , combativity and skill in a car , was insufficient to match an ambition that was almost forced upon him by his milieu , by his family and by his status as a Brazilian national hero . |
| 5 | Again the first point has to be that the rapes were unusual . |
| 6 | One of the benefits of making an acquisition has to be that duplicated positions can be eliminated , and NCR Corp has had to tell a total of 284 employees at two Teradata and two NCR locations in Southern California that they are surplus to requirements . |
| 7 | Apricot Computers Ltd , which always likes to be first with Intel 's latest chip , will reportedly announce a P5-based machine in September , but with the enormous leap in complexity in the microprocessor , the other major worry has to be that it will take early users of the chip at least 18 months to find all the bugs in it and for Intel to correct them . |
| 8 | The explanation has to be that the company shot itself in the foot by announcing the Sparcsystem 10 machines with such a long lead time , many would-be customers are holding back and waiting for them , and that things will not really start to pick up until those start shipping around September time — which suggests that dullness will continue for the current quarter . |
| 9 | His consolation has to be that although she is , as an ideal , constantly changing , ‘ yet she dies only when the race of men is dead — then to be gathered to the number of the Gods . ’ |
| 10 | The reservation has to be that the performance always keeps something in hand , in many ways effectively so , but in the end missing some of the physical thrill of this work . |
| 11 | Accordingly , the conclusion has to be that a knowing breach of the order by the appellants has not been proved . |
| 12 | So it has to be that the load shifted backwards . |
| 13 | It does not have to be that he has conceived what the French are calling the coup de force for Miss Jonathan . ’ |
| 14 | It does seem , though , that when the death of someone we love is sudden it does not have to be that the shock is greater than when we have been expecting it . |
| 15 | If not , Hick 's position would presumably have to be that the many gods of one tradition were equivalent to the one god of another tradition . |
| 16 | If all this had to be summed up in one sentence I suppose it would have to be that Wittgenstein 's treatment of the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem is an extended illustration of a point in philosophical logic : namely , that the meaningfulness of some of the things we say is dependent on contingent facts of nature — such as that the Earth revolves on its axis , and that we moan with pain and react as we do to others who moan . |
| 17 | In response to further letters in A Quarterly , the Society justified its stance by saying that while it accepted some correspondents ' views that certain butlers of excellent quality were to be found in the houses of businessmen , ‘ the assumption had to be that the houses of true ladies and gentlemen would not refrain long from acquiring the services of any such persons ’ . |
| 18 | it was held that the circumstances were such that the conclusion had to be that the passenger was ‘ a person using the vehicle ’ for the purpose of clause 6(1) ( c ) of the mib agreement of 1972 and was not therefore entitled to compensation from the bureau . |
| 19 | Feeling certain that her imagination was playing tricks on her , Fabia , who knew that Ven was still in Prague , saw that it just had to be that Lubor owned an exactly identical pair of shoes . |
| 20 | But I , I had no idea that he then had to be that , being given his own funding , he then had to be organized by a committee . |
| 21 | The only difference is that , the fewer roses you have space for , the more certain you have to be that the varieties you grow give the greatest possible pleasure , for the longest possible period and with the most resistance against pest and disease . |