Example sentences of "[that] [pron] be [adv] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the least , the seller should agree to ensure that the business of the offeree group is carried on in the ordinary and usual course so as to maintain the same as a going concern ; and that nothing is voluntarily done or omitted which would result in a material inaccuracy in the warranties if they were repeated on , and as at , completion . |
| 2 | If you have gained the impression that you are dealing with a balding manic-depressive axe-wielding lunatic , then I must hasten to add that I am generally regarded as a bit eccentric but quite harmless by my neighbours ! |
| 3 | It 's not that I 'm totally assured that this time round I wo n't be quite so foolish , it 's simply that I know it 's possible to progress to that stage beyond ‘ falling in love ’ — if I do n't opt out as soon as he starts to look less like Prince Charming and more like Mr Very Ordinary and Boring . |
| 4 | I can not resist the admission that I was profoundly flattered when a telephone call from Harold Wilson at Downing Street invited me to mediate on the basis that , so far as they could see , I was for the moment the only tolerable candidate . |
| 5 | Looking at the event dispassionately , I realise that I was probably chosen because the film had to be ‘ in the can ’ ( a technical term we film people use for ‘ finished ’ ) by the end of February . |
| 6 | Nell dies in mid-winter , far from home ; but we all know that she is homeward bound and will see another and better spring : |
| 7 | Helping an elderly woman to adjust and to find a new identity is never easy , but it can nearly always be achieved if she is shown that she is still loved and needed , by her family and friends . |
| 8 | She thought she saw a hint of admiration in his eyes , but knew that she was utterly mistaken when , totally impersonally , he said , ‘ Shall we return to the drawing-room for coffee ? ’ |
| 9 | Due to family pressures her parents married , but they reminded Alison constantly that she was neither planned nor wanted . |
| 10 | It is difficult to believe that she was not embalmed and Elizabeth Southwell , a minor courtier , relates how Lord Cecil ordered it to be done and Clapham , in his Elizabeth of England , states that ‘ The Queen 's body was left in a manner alone a day or two after her death and meane persons [ embalmers ] had access to it . ’ |
| 11 | Hence , it is likely that she was openly acknowledged as his consort , and was present when he was chosen as king in 1016 . |
| 12 | He had the impression that she was fully dressed but told himself that it must be a trick of the light . |
| 13 | Good food , plenty of sleep , and the knowledge that she was really wanted and loved gave her face a serenity it had never had before . |
| 14 | on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day . |
| 15 | Now if you 're going to put somebody under a shower as I say be care be very careful that you 're not splashed and get the ambulance on the way . |
| 16 | Make certain that you are not disturbed when making a call and that there is the minimum of background interference . |
| 17 | You can be more confident that a negative test result means that you are not infected if you do n't put yourself at risk of infection through unsafe sex or by sharing injecting equipment in the three months before taking the test . |
| 18 | The more care you have taken in your application , gathering background information , knowing what questions you want to ask , preparing yourself to counter any awkward questions , ensuring that you are suitably dressed and that you arrive unflustered in good time for your appointment , the less reason you will have to be nervous and the more confident you will feel . |
| 19 | Your line manager will ensure that you are fully trained and given the maximum encouragement to help you become effective . |
| 20 | It has been suggested that early alarms were ignored but I would like to emphasize that we are greatly curtailed as to actions a public body can take based only on hearsay and rumour . |
| 21 | To all whom this epistle shall come , Greetings — Whereas we have been credibly informed by our well-beloved subject the right honourable Lord Clovelly , of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk , and on behalf of our well-beloved subject Christopher Everard , Gentleman , that the said Christopher Everard hath lately discovered several Islands in the Hesperidean seas towards the continent of America , the one called Saint Thomas 's , alias Everhope ( though this be error ) , or in the native tongue Liamuiga , and another , as the savages of those parts name it , Oualie ; that we are further informed that these said Islands are possessed and inhabited only by the aforementioned savages and heathen people , and are not , nor at the time of the discovery were , in the possession or under the government of any Christian Prince , state or potentate , and thereupon the said Christopher Everard , being set forth and supplied on our shores for that purpose , made entry into the said Islands for and on behalf of our dear Father in heaven , and hath since with the consent and good liking of the natives made some beginning of a plantation and colony and likewise of an hopeful trade there , and hath caused divers of our subjects of this realm to remove themselves to the said Islands with purpose to proceed in so hopeful a work : KNOW THEREFORE that the said Lord Clovelly and Christopher Everard may be encouraged and the better enabled with the more ample maintenance and authority to effect the same , We do command the said Christopher Everard to be possessed of the said Islands and all our other loving subjects under him : And of our especial great and certain knowledge have given and granted unto the said Christopher Everard during our pleasure custody of the aforesaid Islands and of every creature , man , woman and child upon them together with full power and authority for us and in our name and as our Lieutenant to govern rule and order all . |
| 22 | It is unthinkable that we should be unconcerned about the difficulties that our disabled patients face : it is essential that we are better informed and respond to them more appropriately . |
| 23 | We in South Cambridgeshire feel from time to time sitting on the doorstep of a university city that we are often ignored and I 'm sure that that is a very fair criticism as far as our District Council is concerned . |
| 24 | and we looked on it more as a party and a family gathering and showing everybody else that we were now committed and we 're going to spend the rest of our lives together . |
| 25 | God 's people are to be practical in their love , because we realise that we were once restrained and confined , unable to live as God intended us to live . |
| 26 | it 's evident that they 're not informed because they 're not doing what they 're required to do , |
| 27 | The sums involved are potentially huge , and we are anxious that they are properly spent and that the reform programmes are in place . |
| 28 | It is important to note , however , that they are not trained as judges ( in marked contrast to most continental jurisdictions which adopt a professional career structure for judges who are recruited immediately on graduating from law school ) . |
| 29 | ( b ) They are not written down in any formal sense in that they are not expressed as Acts of Parliament nor are they established by judicial precedent . |
| 30 | The reason for the exclusion of associative adjectives from predicative position is an immediate consequence of the fact that predicative position explicitly assigns the property of the adjective to the entity of the noun phrase in subject position , while associative adjectives are characterized by the fact that they are not taken as valid for the entity which they qualify . |