Example sentences of "[that] it be in [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As has already been pointed out in section I .2 , practical redistributional measures are not costless , so that it is in all probability more efficient to tell the telephone company it has to bear the expense of maintaining rural telephone boxes than to fund these separately . |
| 2 | To suppose that this century can fix the definition of democracy or , even more arrogantly , that it is in this century that democracy has been finally and definitively realized , is to be blind not only to the probabilities of the future but also to the certainties of the past . |
| 3 | It is probably true to say that it is in this way , rather than in any other , that governments learn exactly where the limits of tolerance lie . |
| 4 | I suspect that it is in this challenge to popular feminist orthodoxies that the book 's significance will rest . |
| 5 | People often feel that it is in some way distasteful deliberately to use your behaviour to influence others and this also leads to the conclusion that manipulating behaviour is unethical . |
| 6 | It may be that the state of affairs in which everyone ( as opposed to just some people ) is guided by such a maxim is an impossibility , or it may be that it is in some way a thing that no individual can wish for . |
| 7 | Retributivism claims that it is in some way morally right to return evil for evil , that two wrongs can somehow make a right . |
| 8 | I do not accept the intervener 's argument that it is in some way undignified for the decision of a visitor on the basis of advice from an eminent judge to be subject to judicial review and that if certiorari is held to be available senior judges will not wish to give such advice . |
| 9 | Miss T. being an adult , it is doubtful whether we have power to make a restraining order of the kind which is often made in the case of children whose medical treatment is in issue before the courts , but I hope and believe that it is in any event unnecessary . |
| 10 | He also notes that the fact that transcendental meditation changes one 's brain waves does not imply that it is in any way helpful ; he might have added that the brain waves during meditation show a remarkable resemblance to those of someone who is drowsy or even asleep . |
| 11 | The fact that a rug is signed or dated does not imply that it is in any way superior to similar items that have not been inscribed , although it is fair to say that weavers rarely sign inferior examples of their work . |
| 12 | To suggest that it is in any way a radical new Tory revolution for the 1990s is far from the truth . |
| 13 | I do not think that it is in any way insulting to say that the epithet , ’ Clyde-built ’ , which was a badge of quality in the last century , was getting somewhat tarnished during the post-war years . |
| 14 | This is hypothetical , of course , but Sweeney Agonistes had demonstrated that it was in such drama , rather than social realism , that his theatrical talents really lay . |
| 15 | It was simply guesswork that it was in that place that some of the Western hostages were kept . |
| 16 | Hank was just about to say , in order to irritate his mother , that it was in another school district and he would , therefore , have to change schools , when he remembered that he was no longer at school , and shut his mouth . |
| 17 | I knew that he too would tell me I was wrong and that it was in another part of the country . |
| 18 | If Greg Martin was alive then was it possible … was there the chance that it was in any way possible that her mother was alive too ? |
| 19 | Reagan himself claimed that the SDI was defensive in character , since it was designed to dispose of nuclear weapons before they reached their target , and that it was in any event a programme of research in the first instance . |