Example sentences of "[conj] that they [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | One government , anxious to steam-roller its programme through , scheduled five such Bills in a single motion , for no better reason than that they were likely to be vigorously opposed . |
| 2 | The council says the redevelopment is an historic opportunity for the city , and that they 're right to be optimistic . |
| 3 | These I think are self-evident ; that you can make these measurements and that they are relevant to assessing the welfare of the animal . |
| 4 | A genuine case for abolition , if it is so based , needs to establish both that the alleged abuses are as stated and that they are endemic to the practice ; thus unavoidable . |
| 5 | The reality that there are rights of ownership and that they are liable to , and do , conflict with those of labour can not be exorcised by pretending that they are not there ; and it is the exclusion of the public sector from the Committee 's purview which admits that reality . |
| 6 | They must be made to understand that they are not above the law and that they are answerable to the people who elected them and whom they are supposed to represent . |
| 7 | Experimental studies have also demonstrated that young babies can separate a continuous stream of speech sounds into discrete phonetic units and that they are sensitive to phonemic changes — for example , the difference between/p/ and/d/ — only a few weeks after birth ( Eimas et al . |
| 8 | The most common criticism of the arts and the most strongly expressed , however , was that they are ‘ useless ’ , that is not so much that they are useless to society , but that they are useless to the individual . |