Example sentences of "[be] [verb] that the [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A set of raw recruits was marching up and down with a new drill instructor , who sounded every bit as determined as the late Sergeant-Major Philpott had been to see that the snow was never allowed to settle . |
| 2 | Will the Minister confirm — yes or no — that it is not only the local authorities that are demanding that the money be unblocked , but the Secretary of State for the Environment ? |
| 3 | It has sometimes been claimed that the village is a peculiarly English invention . |
| 4 | It had been decided that the child was too young to understand and as a result she might suffer unpleasant after-effects , rather as people tend to do after eating something which disagrees with them . |
| 5 | . A group set up not too far away from here in Newark said that the erm , It has been said that the river is worse now than it 's ever been in history . |
| 6 | But for the fact that the rioters supported the Government , itself widely believed to regard the riots with tacit approval , it could have been said that the country was on the point of revolution . |
| 7 | If the statutes had gone no further , it might have been said that the regime was simply trying to turn all serfs into " obligated peasants " ( in line with Nicholas I 's statute of 1842 ) . |
| 8 | It has been said that the report was the civil servants ' idea of heaven , with even more figures for the number-crunching mandarins to compare with those that British Rail provided yesterday — to be followed by requests for further reports tomorrow to explain the discrepancies . |
| 9 | It has always been said that the House is concerned with the rights of individuals and that any injustice , or possible injustice , to an individual is as much the concern of the House of Commons as is injustice to a large number of people . |
| 10 | The order recites that an interim order had been made that the child was not to be removed from the Province of Ontario . ’ |
| 11 | The suggestion had been made that the house be sold to release Mrs Brockett 's share . |
| 12 | Particularly since the Second World War and the advent of television , with its concentration on individuals and the personalization of political issues , it has been argued that the system is becoming increasingly presidential . |
| 13 | On such grounds it has been argued that the novel is not authentic communication , notably by the Marxist critic Walter Benjamin . |
| 14 | Sometimes it has been argued that the evolution was the other way round ; and more recently still it has been argued that no evolution in either direction took place . |
| 15 | But because the F major , treble-clef version was published in 1692 , it has been argued that the dialogue was composed in that key , with Mopsa sung by a soprano in the original show and uproariously ‘ sent up ’ by Pate in the revival — hence the G major , alto-clef version in the theatre score . |
| 16 | Indeed , it has been argued that the government is the most likely source of excess demand inflation : through its policy measures , it can finance its own spending by raising taxes , by borrowing or by printing money . |
| 17 | It has been argued that the scheme is geared too closely to the needs of the industrial worker disabled by accident or disease in middle life , who , following full medical care and rehabilitation , needs help in returning to the routine of work , in adjusting to disability and in finding new skills within his or her capacity . |
| 18 | It is only if all these conditions are met that the adult is likely to respond appropriately ( see acts performed by children 's first words , Chapter 3 ) . |
| 19 | So you 're saying that the treasurer was wrong to say that er in funding |
| 20 | ‘ If I am told that the economy is much worse than the Government has said … there 's something wrong with the way things are run in this country . |
| 21 | I am told that the authority is not answering the telephone and that is not good enough . |
| 22 | I was not very worried as I had been told that the school was very good . |
| 23 | I know what I see when I look at the grass and I have been told that the colour is called ‘ green ’ . |
| 24 | We have been told that the case is of no interest to Mr. Bell , he now being in custody in relation to other matters . |
| 25 | By then the press had already been told that the likelihood was that this was a terrorist act : the media were already speculating on whether the perpetrators were Arab or Irish . |
| 26 | ‘ They say that it was a mistake that we had been told that the outbreak was due to Salmonella enteriditis , ’ she said . |
| 27 | The Liberal Democrat conference has been told that the party is on the verge of a breakthrough in the Central South region . |
| 28 | He said that there was definitely a mortuary in Bala and had been told that the key was kept at the police station . |
| 29 | Also , the way we are told that the plan was connected with Swegen 's first visit to Essex suggests that he had been there again since this occasion and the drawing up of the confirmation . |
| 30 | We are told that the hermit was once sitting alone in his cell after dinner when there came to him the lady of the house … and many persons with her , and found him writing rapidly . |