Example sentences of "[that] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a common observation that spatial disparities tend to be reduced when national economies as a whole experience growth and vice-versa . |
| 2 | This was a country where only 3% of the land could be used for agriculture but where farmers received considerable financial assistance from the government to ensure that rural communities continued to be viable . |
| 3 | This meant that reserve assets had to be at least 12½ per cent of eligible liabilities . |
| 4 | It is argued that political programmes have to be worked out by actors within the state , rather than emerging automatically from the ‘ needs ’ of the economic system . |
| 5 | In such a situation , it was inevitable that political disputes tended to be expressed in the language of Court versus Country rather than in terms of the old party ideologies — even if the use of such rhetoric was forced on people for tactical reasons , and a Tory who espoused Country arguments in order to make common cause with opposition Whigs still remained recognisably Tory at heart . |
| 6 | Other philosophers argue that free agents need to be self-directed ( or ‘ autonomous ’ ) and hence need to choose in a sense not cashable as the effective satisfying of desires . |
| 7 | In particular , the rapid ossification of the Soviet hardline position in the East and the Cold War division which resulted from this meant that clear decisions had to be taken . |
| 8 | Like another release in the same series — Benedict Mason 's Lighthouses of England and Wales , which I 've reviewed at length below — Birtwistle 's work is also , for all its contemporary superstructure and substructures , a species of tone-poem in a genre that British composers tend to be good at : in this case the quasipantheistic dark-pastoral in the tradition of North Country Sketches , In the Faery Hills , Enter Spring and , perhaps especially , the ‘ Ritual dances ’ from Tippett 's Midsummer Marriage . |
| 9 | In conclusion , we have demonstrated the presence of M tuberculosis DNA in sarcoid lung and lymph tissue and shown that archival specimens seem to be suitable for research based on polymerase chain reaction techniques . |
| 10 | Which means that ontological object-categories have to be analysed in conjunction with certain experiential modalities . |
| 11 | It requires either a full repeat survey to identify the life style-groups again if any follow-up research is to be done , or else the creation of a sort of shorthand classification for research and analysis ; it seems that different products tend to be best looked at in terms of rather different life style groupings , so that , ideally , each requires its own major survey — which rather loses the point of the exercise — and researchers have had some difficulty in replicating the results . |
| 12 | He warned the congress that old dogmas had to be abandoned and new principles adopted for the changing times . |
| 13 | On the current market situation Mr Peel noted that Old Masters continued to be the strongest area , although there had been a reduction in both size of sales and prices realised in some areas . |
| 14 | It is consequently scarcely surprising that Somali men tend to be very ambivalent in their attitudes towards these women 's ailments , especially since some impatient husbands find that the best cure is often a good beating ! |
| 15 | It is in these schools that personal contacts begin to be built up and these help to produce the ‘ old-boy networks ’ . |
| 16 | There is evidence that verbal reprimands tend to be less effective in various disciplinary encounters than other techniques . |
| 17 | Confrontation with a novel or unexpected event , in which few replicative aspects are evident , may mean that inappropriate constructs come to be applied as when a viewer orientated towards figurative painting attempts to discover recognizable content with an abstract work . |
| 18 | The report maintained that human rights continued to be violated in the territories , and cited house demolitions , deportations and collective restrictions . |
| 19 | Pecquet even claimed that good diplomats needed to be prepared from childhood for the work . |
| 20 | It was originally decreed that great economies had to be exercised in the provision of stations , which were to be mainly of wood . |
| 21 | Anglo-Saxon archaeology has n't come to a crisis point as did prehistoric studies in the early 1960s ; rather it is gradually slipping into new directions with the establishment of a generation of archaeologists more aware that alternative approaches exist to be tried and which have been available for 20 years . |
| 22 | I have not always found it easy to counter my wife 's complaints that frozen peas have to be eaten the same day . |
| 23 | It has been well observed that classical revivals tend to be of short duration . |
| 24 | Opposite : The restrictions on the blue-cars of Lytham St. Annes in Blackpool meant that considerable efforts had to be made to advertise the line . |
| 25 | As the fashionable trade came in so more thought had to be given to subject-matter and to technique and in America this meant that short films had to be replaced or shown in conjunction with multiple-reel films as already pioneered by European film-makers . |
| 26 | This means that initial conditions need to be specified so as to provide the data for the first set of calculations . |
| 27 | The British Home Office still takes the line affirmed in its committee report ( 1979 ) that live animals need to be used and the statement of the British Medical Research Council , included in it , that ‘ the LD50 test is the only reliable measure of acute toxicity and yields a result with the least possible expenditure of life ’ ( 1979 : 16 ) . |
| 28 | Showmen knew that middle-class critics had to be bought off and that topicality could sell films to certain audiences but they also appreciated that audiences were more likely to go to the movies for spectacle , for adventure , for comedy , for sex , to see particular stars , and to be entertained in the widest sense . |
| 29 | Earlier this week the Ministry of Agriculture confirmed that Dutch eggs known to be infected with salmonella had been allowed on sale in the UK . |
| 30 | With this goes the argument that small enterprises tend to be more efficient than larger ones , both in their use of scarce resources and the flexibility of their response to market processes . |