Example sentences of "[noun] that [adj] [noun] [be] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their arrest followed press reports of allegations by unidentified members of the opposition that private armies were being assembled by people close to the government , including the former Minister of Energy and IndustryKiprono Nicholas K. Biwott [ for whose dismissal from office see p. 38563 ] . |
| 2 | Mrs Milnes was clear in her own mind that parental authority was being usurped : |
| 3 | It is not necessarily the case that similar patterns are being repeated in the quite different social context of the UK . |
| 4 | Where Clarke was wrong was in his broad assessment that British science is being adequately funded . |
| 5 | The concern culminated in the publication in 1929 by the Lord Chief Justice , Lord Hewart , of his book The New Despotism in which these arguments and the theme that arbitrary power was being concentrated in the hands of the bureaucracy were elaborated . |
| 6 | The British Library 's recent reports , Research Libraries in Transition and The Research Process , the most extensive surveys so far of the view of British academics , confirm the widely held opinion that academic research is being hampered by a decline in the quality of the collections in research libraries . |
| 7 | The fact that opposite directions of movement may in some circumstances be associated with different questions , considered a priori to encourage different types of cognitive activity , is not sufficient evidence to warrant the conclusion that opposite hemispheres are being engaged . |
| 8 | Evidence of fresh digging is a sure sign that active interest is being shown at the sett , and a careful look at the badger paths that lead to and from the area should reveal how frequently animals pass along it . |
| 9 | A typical house church is marked by the exercise of some or all of the gifts of the Spirit listed in 1 Corinthians 12 and by a belief that scriptural prophecy is being fulfilled today . |
| 10 | A central theme in the nineteenth and early twentieth century legacy of sociological theory ( and one closely linked to Giddens 's argument that social life is being stretched over time and space ) was that society was changing from one based on a small-scale and close-knit community of primary relationships based on blood , kinship and close association . |
| 11 | Almost always it was underlain by a passionate feeling that genuine rights were being trodden underfoot , that the structure of custom and tradition by which all but a small minority of Europeans lived was being wantonly shaken , that any increase in government activity must threaten the subject . |
| 12 | He described as ‘ absolute nonsense ’ suggestions that local government was being reformed for political reasons and in order to remove the big Labour battalions of Strathclyde and Lothian . |
| 13 | Claims by McEwan that undue weight is being placed on the episode strike one as disingenuous . |
| 14 | Recently , in these columns I repeated the claim that commercial hospitals are being subsidised by the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service , a division of the NHS . |
| 15 | Old people are often a source of fascinating information and opinion about the past that young people are being taught as history ! |
| 16 | Churchill , as First Lord of the Admiralty , could not explain that he had been conscious of enemy intentions , without giving away the secret that German codes were being broken . |
| 17 | Again , commercialism may lead to the pursuit of indicators , such as current balance sheet results , chosen more to convince the government that commercial goals are being successfully achieved than for their relevance to the economic objectives of the enterprise . |
| 18 | The Commission rightly made the point that ‘ there is a concern that voluntary effort is being used to compensate for deficiencies in the public services . ’ |
| 19 | The New York-based human rights organization Asia Watch issued a report on Sept. 1 claiming that political prisoners were being used as forced labour in prison factories producing for export in Liaoning Province , and rejecting the Chinese government 's claim that prison-made products were not for export . |
| 20 | A second objective of the research is to explore the way that managerial policies are being developed between HQ , divisional management , profit and cost centre management and at the establishment and work-place levels at a time when it is thought that large companies are decentralising their management systems . |
| 21 | It was in that year that female suffrage was being widely advocated and the militant suffragettes made their appearance . |
| 22 | THE boss of one of Britain 's big four banks hit back last night at claims that small firms were being squeezed into bankruptcy . |
| 23 | Blyth Valley objected to this , not on the grounds that industrial land was being used for non-manufacturing purposes , but because it wanted the site retained as a green belt . |
| 24 | The EC authorities will need to intervene on the grounds that potential trade is being stifled . |
| 25 | Elizabeth Maginnis , education convener of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities , said the extra cash was welcome but did not answer the main objection that non-specialist staff were being relied on . |
| 26 | The fact that real issues were being talked about was often sufficient to cure the problem . |
| 27 | This is a notably bad piece of drafting by the Commission , giving the impression that conservation considerations are being treated as cosmetics . |