Example sentences of "[noun] that [pron] be [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their conversation was interrupted by the familiar sound of a girl 's badly-acted laughter from behind the bead curtain which led to the interior of the brothel , punctuated by the growling of a man who is under the illusion that he is cock of the dunghill . |
| 2 | Cattle-ranching requires only a small number of cowboys and large tracts of land , which could alternatively be intensively cultivated , with the result that there is underemployment of labour and a low physical and economic return per unit of surface area . |
| 3 | I should say that he was good for at least another five years of hard work and although there are various rumours about his suffering from some obscure disease which makes his hand extremely shaky , I have had it on the quiet from his medical adviser that he is sound as a bell . |
| 4 | I shall argue in the next chapter that it is part of a teacher 's duties to attempt to redress the balance between children who have and those who have not the advantages of a supportive home . |
| 5 | If I can demonstrate that the Kaiser himself , the monarch who ruled Germany for thirty years until nineteen eighteen , had ideas very similar if not identical to those of Hitler 's , at a time when he was not in contact with Hitler , when Hitler 's party was nowhere in political terms , then I think that 's yet another very important indication that there is continuity in German history from say the Bismarckian period through to nineteen forty-five , and that Hitler stands in that national tradition , and is not some kind of lightning erm that , that struck Germany erm from a blue sky . |
| 6 | That was the one thing that was that I read in the books that it was kind of tradition for the men to wear black . |
| 7 | He agrees with renowned biologist Sir Alister Hardy that there is evidence of ‘ a general subconscious shaming of form and behaviour patterns — a sort of psychic blueprint . ’ |
| 8 | It is in these environments that there is evidence of real ability to anticipate the future and plan responses in a systematic way . |
| 9 | Once there is a recognition that there is room for improvement there comes the task of developing a commitment and determination to bring about change . |
| 10 | Now my Lord as is er then made clear in a statement of claim paragraph three fifteen erm between the twenty third of October and about the twenty second of November the plaintiff then acting upon the advice of Peter that it was not possible to withdraw on this contract , did endeavour to complete upon the deal as soon as possible , very much with the timing in his mind and eventually after some toing and froing which er will be demonstrated in the course of the evidence , agreement was reached with the landlord for his consent to the assignment to be given er on condition that there was payment of some advance rent by the plaintiff . |
| 11 | We recognise that it is crucial for any settlement that there be agreement between the two communities , as communities . |
| 12 | Now I suggest Chairman that there are number of on your paper which probably the Committee could really of this stage I think the sort of important ones . |
| 13 | Further , it is only for the kingdom of the Burgundians that there is evidence for anything like an all-embracing comital structure , and while most , if not all , Merovingian civitates must have had their comites , or in the north , their graphiones , in all probability local administration could vary according to regional tradition and to the will of an individual king , whose main concern was to ensure the loyalty of and to realize the revenues from his civitates . |
| 14 | And nine times out of , alright say I 've got another four choices but nine times out of ten I 'll go and I will have put those four on , in the mood that I 'm sort of feeling then I 'll fucking , I want to listen to something completely different . |
| 15 | Prolonged prosperity is as likely as prolonged adversity to engender the mood that it is time for a change . |
| 16 | Clinton , who the opinion polls consistently suggested enjoyed a significant lead , continued his relentless attack on the economic record of the Bush-Reagan years and repeated the underlying message of his campaign that it was time for change . |
| 17 | Today , however , there is a much greater realisation that the quality of the data is important to their precision and quantification and , in this regard , it is important to be able to assess the validity and the reliability of those data by understanding the nature of the collection instrument itself , the biases that it is heir to , and the kinds of instrumental corruptions that can affect the quality of the material it provides . |
| 18 | There is absolutely no question that there are kind of money advice people in the City sitting around with nothing to do , quite the contrary , so I mean it 's not a duplication , erm and of course we make sure that we that all the people involved in money advice within the City , whether funded directly or indirectly by the City Council , work with each other and co-operate with each other and form a network . |
| 19 | It 's a word that has been percolating in dance music for the past couple of years , a reminder that there was life before raves , gripping club culture by the scruff of its Joe Bloggs shirt , and shaking it until the penny drops . |
| 20 | Having reached the conclusion that there was consideration for the agreement made on June 28 and June 29 , 1973 , I must next consider whether even if that agreement , varying the terms of the original ship-building contract of April 10 , 1972 , was made under a threat to break that original contract and that the various increased instalments were made consequentially under the varied agreement , the increased sums can be recovered as money had and received . |
| 21 | In making this break with tradition , James , it seems , had come to the conclusion that it was time for the intellectual elite to shut up and listen to the workers for a change for it was they who were at the sharp end of the production system and therefore they who first sensed any changes in patterns of production . |
| 22 | People think that because you have sold millions of records and are now also in films that you are part of this movement ; which is why it would be helpful to discuss in a little detail what your work really involves . |
| 23 | Deputy co-ordinator John Hinchcliffe told Middlesbrough Victim Support 's annual meeting that it was part of a wider increase in the group 's work . |
| 24 | He had no answer — save that British scientists had been reorganised so often in recent years that it was time for stability . |
| 25 | Believing still that the catastrophe had been caused by other people and the actions of other people , believing it as firmly as Kate believed that it had been caused by devils and Quentin that it was part of God 's mystery , Lavinia saw a spark in the gloom . |
| 26 | On the Canterbury estates , the initial period of leasing from 1380 to 1440 was followed by a time when it was harder to secure tenants , but after about 1490 there was some recovery in revenues and evidence that there was competition for leases ( 80 , pp.79 , 86 ) . |
| 27 | There is also evidence that there was disagreement in the Council on the recognition of certain religious groups . |
| 28 | Admittedly there had been almost no money in it , but he took it as evidence that she was saving in order to leave him . |
| 29 | The curtains were not drawn half across the window and so closing out the light as most curtains were wont to do , but were wide apart showing , of all things , a piece of grassland parched by the sun but , nevertheless , still giving evidence that it was grass by the strip in the shadow of the house . |
| 30 | When he split up with his wife , a while before , she spread some damaging stories about him , and I think the college was secretly quite relieved to have some evidence that he was het after all . |