Example sentences of "[is] that [pron] [be] [vb pp] to " in BNC.

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1 He noticed the one bagpiper like I did , and what I say is that we were meant to .
2 The general maxim of the law is that what is annexed to the land becomes part of the land .
3 The only difference between railways and the other utilities is that they are precieved to be costing the exchequer money , not providing revenue to it .
4 What makes some people happy for example , is that they are committed to a cause or to a person ; their happiness derives from something other than the pursuit of happiness .
5 Perhaps the reason is that they are dedicated to something outside themselves , namely to God , and are not interested merely in the selfish development of their right hemispheres .
6 The usual procedure for roads within the curtilage of the development site is that they are dedicated to the local authority and adopted .
7 Often the attraction of broader approaches like counselling is that they are thought to be able to tackle many massive problems at the same time .
8 ‘ Well , the only conclusion is that they were lured to their deaths .
9 The truth is that I was sent to Scotland to find out what happened , is happening and might happen . ’
10 The good thing is that I was introduced to Tracey right from the start .
11 The only difference between this demo and the full commercial version is that you are limited to a single theatre of operations .
12 The third feature of English discovery to be noted is that it is limited to the discovery of documents .
13 The genius of our constitution is that it is geared to the real world .
14 One of the most important aspects of a presentation style is that it is suited to your intended output — be it 35mm slide , overhead transparencies , screen show or printed output — in black and white or colour .
15 The first is that it is considered to be premature to introduce a SAS dealing with going concern before parallel guidance has been developed on what constitutes adequate disclosure on inherent uncertainties in respect of going concern .
16 Mr. Pannick submits that the only justification for section 9(4) in terms of the Convention is that it is addressed to avoiding prejudice to the sovereignty of the Crown since the states party to the Convention can never have contemplated that one of their number could limit the scope of its own obligations simply by refraining from giving the judiciary power to execute letters of request in particular circumstances .
17 The third problem with the existing legislation is that it is confined to gold and silver only , giving archaeologists no control over accompanying objects in other materials which are often of equal archaeological importance .
18 Am I right in supposing that one essential quality of poetry is that it is meant to be read aloud ?
19 ‘ The saddest thing of all about it , ’ he says , ‘ is that it was meant to be the proudest . ’
20 What roughly he says is that he is committed to the following scientific arguments , arguments based upon scientific principles , regardless of any pain that may be caused to him or to others by so doing .
21 It is difficult to understand why Clemens Alexandrinus called him a Peripatetic ( Strom. 1.72.4 ) , but perhaps the important point is that he was assigned to a philosophic school at all , because this was quite unusual for a Jew of the second century B.C. Aristobulus quoted Greek writers — authentic or forged — to support the truth of the Bible and the dependence of the Greeks on Jewish wisdom .
22 But what he must not pretend is that he was led to this solely by his ‘ rational doubt ’ when in fact he was led to it by his faith , that is , his humanism .
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