Example sentences of "[be] [that] [subord] [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chances are that if you are told a nasty tale about the sexual misdemeanours of a headmaster , a vicar , a scout leader , a member of Parliament , a public performer or a novelist then you will assume it to be the truth . |
| 2 | It 's not bad , we 're saying that the rules here are that if you 're caught dealing you 're gon na be suspended but |
| 3 | One of the explanations for the dolphin 's superb streamlining seems to be that while they are swimming their skin surface shifts in folds or ripples , caused not by muscular action but as a response to changes in pressure on different parts of the body . |
| 4 | Kripke therefore sees the conclusion of the argument to be that if we are to find a ground for our belief that there is an objectively correct method of continuing the series , we must look beyond the individual to the community of rule-followers . |
| 5 | Faced with those kind of possible reductions in service , if there is a penny one penny more than necessary spent on administration and bureaucracy wherever it is in the youth and community programme that is gon na be less money for front line vision and the Labour group can have to think very , very carefully about that and the issue is gon na be that if we 're spending too much money or if they 're coming back to supplementary estimates which wo n't be available er given the financial situation next year if we 're having two heads of centres or whatever when we could have one that is gon na mean less money for front line services to the people of Highfields and there 'll only be one group that will be responsible for that , if that does come about and I think that 's something that we all need to bear in mind because what we were told as members of that committee is that the youth and community budget is gon na be in for some very serious times in the future and it 's mainly the government 's fault because of the way they 've decided to re-organise the situation it 's going out of our hands into the control of an unelected body and like most members of this council I think we would oppose that but that 's the reality of the situation and I could not support any increase of funds er for any community centres if I knew it was simply gon na be spent on administration . |
| 6 | My guess would be that if you were to place it over the letter and shuffle it about a bit , some sort of pattern might well emerge . |
| 7 | Obviously , BT 's hope is that once they 're hooked , companies will adopt EDI for talking to their trading partners , as well as to Customs . |
| 8 | The main advantage of using acrylic like a watercolour is that once it is applied , it dries to be water-resistant . |
| 9 | But my fear is that once it is cleared , he will start spending on things he wants and my car will get forgotten . |
| 10 | The maddening thing is that once it is realized that the environment is a mutually reactive system , it becomes extremely difficult to isolate and discuss specialized points in a simple way without at the same time being tempted to discuss every interaction and interrelationship which exists in the system . |
| 11 | The point I would like to make is that while we 're thinking of international relations , that we do bear in mind that United Kingdom is still a United Kingdom . |
| 12 | The justification is that while someone is receiving acute care they have the prospect of returning to an independent life in the community , with consequent retention of personal housing . |
| 13 | They , they think now that they 've got a feeling that this might be taken out , all these testing schemes and stuff because I said to them , While their argument is that while she 's doing these SAT schemes , and she 's following this , she 's all worked up , |
| 14 | ‘ What I do n't like about swapping around is that while you 're playing one song you 're thinking about getting near the end and that you 're going to have to swap over very quickly . |
| 15 | One of the advantages of pension funds — both company and individual — is that provided they are approved by the Inland Revenue they are exempt from paying tax on the growth of the fund . |
| 16 | The problem is that when we 're going slowly , the lights flicker . |
| 17 | How gear is that when everyone is jumping everybody else 's train ? |
| 18 | erm the thing about this title portrait which I always er like to emphasize and is that when you 're using props like these stools or any other props at all in this sort of glamour photography then they must be in absolutely pristine condition , and they are here . |
| 19 | What that means is that when you 're facing up to foreign situations , you tend to pull together you tend not to divide you tend not to emphasise the differences between you . |
| 20 | The point is that when you are disqualified you 're not just disqualified from driving you are disqualified from holding or obtaining any driving licence . |
| 21 | The point is that when you are disqualified you 're not just disqualified from driving , you are disqualified from holding or obtaining any driving licence . |
| 22 | The other thing to remember is that when you are caught in that fearful quiet , that sense of the hopelessness of ever writing again , then any commission , any writing task set by another person , is a lifesaver . |
| 23 | The position we have reached is that when it is said that the sea appears to a viewer to be uniformly blue this is neither a statement about what Reid calls the ‘ visible appearance ’ of the sea , nor straightforwardly a statement about the viewer 's opinion . |
| 24 | What upset charities is that when it was made law here , the Department of Trade and Industry decided to make the ruling stricter and to include second-hand toys . |
| 25 | If the document is to be regarded technically as a matter of law , as a codicil , of course it need not contain any appointment of executors , but the position still is that when it was signed by Mr. Winterbone it did not contain any effective disposition at all . |
| 26 | Yes , and one of the great ironies is that when I 'm talking to students about the nature of history , one of the first things I try and say to them is ‘ Look , do n't have this idea that there 's a great bundle of documents lying in an attic , and this is the way that history works , that people make a sensational discovery and then they write a book about it . |
| 27 | The point of the story is that when I was using softer rods and he favoured stiffer ones we both caught , relatively speaking , no fewer fish than we do today . |
| 28 | The point to note about the above defences is that if they are given a wide construction by the courts ( and it is too soon to tell , as too few cases have been brought ) , then the risk of prosecution diminishes even further . |
| 29 | The problem with alienistic attitudes is that if they are allowed to become the foundation of the system — the part of the system that everything else hinges upon — they are hard to shift . |
| 30 | The dilemma is that if they are enlarged the danger of stepping through them is increased . |