Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] be a [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose for example that I am a smoker who has just heard about the dangers of lung cancer . |
| 2 | Now that I 'm a teetotaller it 's become even harder . |
| 3 | Once having framed the thought in my mind that I was a lesbian I found myself unable to keep silent about it . |
| 4 | I waited till we heard him on the stairs , then told them how I had offered to drive this run , but now that I was a passenger it would be against the rules . |
| 5 | Prosecutor : Do you appreciate that she is a person who has the right to refuse ? |
| 6 | At 18 she went to East Anglia University in Norwich to study English and American Studies but there was little sign then that she was a girl who would go far . |
| 7 | The Lodge also said that her reasoning was ‘ inaccurate and biased ’ , and went on to imply that she was a Fascist who could not be trusted . |
| 8 | If I remind you that you are a person who is aware , receptive to new ideas and willing to give them a try , then my suggestion that you buy Ecover is likely to be well received . |
| 9 | Exercise 2 : Pretend that you are a witness who is going to have to give a description to the police . |
| 10 | There had been long periods when I could only enter you and come in you by secretly pretending to myself that I did not know you , that you were a tart I had picked up in a bar — or on the street corner . |
| 11 | I I p I 'm inclined to suggest that it 's a pity we have n't got that in , somewhere at the beginning or the end to sort of give a bit of beef to it . |
| 12 | But besides that there 's a lot of other influences that come into it , and you must n't ever forget that it 's a song you 're playing — to me , that has absolutely everything to do with what notes you 're playing . |
| 13 | He says that it 's a situation they find unacceptable . |
| 14 | It may be that it is a price which none of us will pay . |
| 15 | The government has at last acknowledged that ‘ disappearances ’ do take place and that it is a problem which needs addressing , and Amnesty International expects to be submitting cases for investigation by the Commission . |
| 16 | We seem to feel that it is a sense we can manage without . |
| 17 | A column entitled ‘ Bulletin ’ informs her that Marilyn French will be discussing her new book , Beyond Power : Women , Men and Morals , at a public meeting to be held later in the week in London , and it crosses Robyn 's mind , not for the first time , that it is a pity she lives so far from the metropolis where such exciting events are always happening . |
| 18 | Evelyn Goldsmith ( 1984 , p.407 ) , however , found that ‘ The depiction of objects of which parts are implied as lying beyond the picture frame does not seem to cause any particular problems of interpretation ’ and comments that a researcher , M. Crago , ‘ feels that it is a convention which children quickly learn to accept ’ . |
| 19 | He forbids divorce , but implicitly accepts that it is a man who initiates divorce , ‘ the man who divorces his wife … |
| 20 | In much of the discussion it has been assumed that it is a parent who seeks the information . |
| 21 | I think that whether as er Mr submits and is a guideline case and to be adapted to changing conditions or whether it is a case which lays down a bounding rate , that it is a case which I should follow and that the reasoning leading to the adoption of two percent as the appropriate percentage to be applied still applies today , thus the calculation is one hundred and thirty five thousand pounds times two percent , is two thousand , seven hundred pounds times seventeen , is forty five thousand , nine hundred pounds , to this there is to be added a cost of conversion , thirty two thousand , four hundred and seventy two pounds less the enhancement in value thereby created of twelve thousand , five hundred pounds that is a figure of nineteen thousand , nine hundred and seventy two . |
| 22 | Someone must plough the fields or milk the cows , but much of this endeavour takes place hidden from public view and when a tractor is glimpsed across a field it is often assumed that it is a farmer who is in the cab . |
| 23 | I think if you do n't do that , you 'll very easily become over-influenced at the time by the fact that it is a crisis you 're dealing with . |
| 24 | It is not absolute in the sense that it is a rule which allows no exceptions . |
| 25 | Dominique is shocked , but agrees that it is a car everyone can enjoy , ‘ although my mother would have a heart attack in it ’ , she adds with glee . |
| 26 | That suspicion of the referendum or plebiscite which we noted was partly based on the fact that it is a device which had been used by some dictators and despots to give their rule at least the semblance of a basis in popular consent . |
| 27 | It allows parents to see that the process is not at all mysterious and that it is a device they can use themselves in future for other problems . |
| 28 | My submission is that the identification and analysis of the two key features mentioned above indicate that it is a right which is far from being the general bulwark it purports to be . |
| 29 | Its popularity probably lies in the fact that it is a game which is cheap and easy to play and understand . |
| 30 | Now I think this is a brilliant speech , but I have to admit that it is a speech which , in showing the egoism , the confusion and the self-deception of Eve , assumes a valid order which is being destroyed . |