Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] that [pers pn] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disappointed governors at Hummersknott School in Darlington have had to shelve their plans to reopen the sixth form after being told that they have no legal right of appeal against Durham county council 's rejection of the scheme . |
| 2 | I was only there a few weeks and was so bored and anxious to be gone that I remember very little about the place . |
| 3 | Against launderettes it also has to be said that they do not fit the media image of the perfect housewife . |
| 4 | Though it has to be said , he wrote , and Goldberg , his eye racing down the page covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , paused to sip from the glass of fresh orange-juice at his side , wiped his forehead and went on typing , it has to be said that I have occasionally had the illusion that I knew what step to take first and even , occasionally , what step to take second , I will not talk about a third . |
| 5 | To ease my conscience I would like it to be recognised that I have five co-founders : Jock Lewes , Paddy Mayne of the original ‘ L ’ Detachment , George Bergé who started the French S.A.S. , Brian Franks who re-raised the S.A.S. flag after the war and John Woodhouse who created the modern S.A.S. during the Malaysian Campaign by restoring to the regiment its original philosophy . |
| 6 | ( 1.3 ) The possible argument consists in the premiss ( 1 ) that decisions and the like are taken to be effects but also to be no more than events which follow on conditions which are required for them , the further premiss ( 2 ) that it is to be presumed that we have a single conception of effects rather than several , and the conclusion ( 3 ) that all effects , including what have been called standard effects , are merely events preceded by conditions required for them . |
| 7 | It is to be hoped that they do n't face the same fate as the prisoners in the 42nd Police Precinct of Sao Paulo City . |
| 8 | The Secretary of State and his Ministers do not like to be reminded that they have a welfare role , but I must stress that the back payment of entitlement at issue tonight occurs under the National Insurance Act 1946 , a Social Security Act and the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 which all state that DSS officers shall : ’ exercise their functions in such a manner as shall best promote the welfare of persons affected by the exercise of these functions . ’ |
| 9 | It 's cheered me up no end to be reminded that I do have work and a brain and something to do when I 'm allowed up again . ’ |
| 10 | I thank your ladyship for the information concerning the Methodist preaching ; their doctrines are most repulsive , and strongly tinctured with impertinence and disrespect towards their superiors , in perpetually endeavouring to level all ranks and to do away with all distinctions , as it is monstrous to be told that you have a heart as sinful as the common wretches that crawl on the earth . |
| 11 | In all of what conceptual situations , so to speak , is it to be supposed that we have a single conception rather than several related ones ? |
| 12 | They need to be shown that we love them . |