Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] be [vb pp] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has already been shown above that the argument can not be taken to mean that either institutional investors or the board of directors do in reality constrain corporate managers to profit-maximize . |
| 2 | In the past it has generally been assumed either that spending patterns will change incrementally from year to year or be based on some more or less rational overview of budgets . |
| 3 | It has also been claimed recently that Proconsul lacked a tail , as do extant hominoids , and that it had a relatively larger brain than comparably sized monkeys ( Box 2 ) , and there is now little doubt that Proconsul is phylogenetically linked with the Hominoidea . |
| 4 | It has also been found experimentally that the columns formed by a layer of viscous liquid falling over an edge can move around chaotically . |
| 5 | I am unaware of any allegations of malpractice at the prison I visited , but it has often been claimed elsewhere that frauds are common among both staff and prisoners responsible for storing , weighing and distributing food , and that the actual consumption per prisoner can be up to 20 per cent below that laid down in the regulations . |
| 6 | It had already been noted informally that vernacular speakers realized certain items of the /a/ class with a front-raised , lengthened , slightly diphthongized variant ; [ bĪ ? g ] is a stereotypical Belfast pronunciation of the item ā bag ā . |
| 7 | These figures had now been revised so that a truer comparison of the housing stock 's condition could be made . |
| 8 | There 's this guy there called Les , now it was put to us when we were down there last time that erm , attending this meeting when it happens would be er one Nigel , who 's , I do n't quite , I ca n't remember what he 's picked for , erm he 's actually been promoted , he 's pretty senior , he was basically in charge of the product engineering at , and he 's now been promoted so that puts him even further up the ladder |
| 9 | Now what 's happened the problem would be for your children , who are faced with erm building societies and banks who are red hot to sell endowments because of the better commission value to the company , and the , the endowments to make them competitive have actually been structured so that it 's the minimum premium , the minimum possible premium . |