Example sentences of "be that [pers pn] have " in BNC.

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1 The answer must be that they have nothing to do with crofting as such , and little to do with agriculture , although there are agricultural problems .
2 Instead , the main ingredient of success appears to be that they have consistently geared themselves to the needs of international trade .
3 It may be that they have developed new sensitivities to foods , or that they are becoming chemical-sensitive .
4 It may be that they have been healed ; it may be that they have known the manifest presence of God as the church has drawn near to him in worship .
5 It may be that they have been healed ; it may be that they have known the manifest presence of God as the church has drawn near to him in worship .
6 It may be that they have been without God and alone and lost in the world and that through the preaching of the word they have become Christians .
7 Whilst it is conceivable that some of these jobs will be craft based and thus provide an outlet for some initiative and self activism , the significant reality will be that they have no economic power and no industrial muscle .
8 It may be that they have just had their operation or they are just about to have it . ’
9 It may be that they have found a way to train humans .
10 When archaic figures of this type first became known they were called ‘ Apollo ’ , and it may be that they have an early association with his worship , but certainly not all can represent him and the non-committal ‘ kouros ’ is preferable .
11 It may be that they have feelings stronger than law-abiding persons , which is why they have committed crimes .
12 It may be that they have discussed the matter with other witnesses , or even the opposition , and reconsidered their evidence .
13 Include it in that , those twelve weeks because I know it 's , you know , a bit erm I would try and see if I could set up some sex education with the health centre and the , you know , that she used to take them and they went through contraception and condoms and whatever at the , and she used to take them down for an afternoon it might well be that they have to miss a lesson
14 Where beat officers come into play is where you 've got the non-urgent , what we call , the traffic , the non-urgent jobs , erm , where people can afford , maybe a couple of hours , it might be that they have to wait until the beat officer gets on duty could be a day or so 's time and they they do do an awful lot of work , and it 's an ongoing thing .
15 The solution to ‘ He was not really afraid of any landlady ’ might appear to be that we have here a masked first-person avowal , and that it is simply an indication of Dostoevsky 's boldness that it should be surrounded by authorial statements which are firmly outside and ( so to say ) on top of Raskolnikov in the classical omniscient third-person mode : for example , information about his poverty , irritable frame of mind , withdrawal from society , his ‘ not naturally timorous and abject ’ disposition .
16 The other development officer predicted making considerable use of volunteers as well as paid carers : ‘ it may be that we have two types of carer , an informal unpaid visiting service , and then the regular paid carers ’ .
17 It may not be that we have become too sophisticated but that we are so confused we seek salvation even from out there .
18 It may be that we have upset someone and a rift exists .
19 In a letter to his congregation he said : ‘ It may be that we have no influence on those who plan and carry out murders in both parts of our community , but we can all help create a climate of opinion where they will be increasingly isolated and disowned . ’
20 The hypothesis appears to be that we have inherited from our animal ancestors the habit of discrimination , but have added an additional criterion , namely the conscious calculation of relatedness , to the criteria of propinquity , and perhaps physical and biochemical similarity , used by animals .
21 I mean it may well be that we have in this country we have erm pretty much Mill 's system because MPs get paid relatively little bearing in mind what most of them could be getting elsewhere , so maybe we 've got something like Mill 's system but it strikes us as rather a bizarre suggestion that MPs should n't be paid to prevent adventurous and lower classes becoming MPs .
22 The problem will be that we have no great tacklers in the midfield without Batts .
23 If I had any criticism of our organisation it would be that we have a tendency to hide our light under a bushel .
24 I mean it may well be that we have to resort to some sort of er
25 Do you think it will always be that we have one ?
26 We know more about Milton , his personal concerns and his literary plans than we do about any other poet of his time , and indeed it may be that we have to come right up to the nineteenth century before we learn so much about the inner life of any poet .
27 The behaviourists ' answer would be that I have in the past been reinforced by coffee when I have gone to C , but not when I have gone to B. This could well be correct .
28 ‘ It could be that I have had some new shafts put in my clubs ’ , Woosnam pondered , ‘ and they are too stiff .
29 All the events recorded in this book took place more than forty years ago and memories are apt to play tricks on us , so it may be that I have made a few mistakes .
30 It could well be that I have prejudices about what makes a decent DTP system , but I tried to outline and then to justify them as part of the review .
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