Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [pers pn] be [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This holds good on condition that we are restricting our attention , as in this study , to syntax ; once we take the broader view which embraces speakers ' knowledge of vocabulary as well , then we must admit a real analogue to this relation since speakers are quite aware that their language habitually uses , for example this set of words to instantiate E , and that set of words to instantiate P ( or , in most languages , various sets of words to instantiate the Ps occurring in various different intensional patterns ; see Appendix B , Section 7 ) . |
| 2 | But Mrs McWhirter , cutting her losses , spent most of her time away , on the excuse that she was nursing her mother ; and the daughter , if she felt like coming home , preferred to regard home as where her mother was . |
| 3 | ‘ It seems my nephew is so besotted with your sister that he 's treated his parents with arrant discourtesy , walking away from the opportunity of meeting his father 's cousin who is flying in from the States — a man who could be influential in his future career . |
| 4 | Demonstrate in talking and writing about literature that they are developing their own views and can support them when appropriate by reference to the text , eg in making judgements of characters and their actions , or when building upon those characters and events in their own writing . |
| 5 | In addition it warns Sun that it is alienating its customers by not letting them apply their corporate discounts to the Classic and by letting them perceive Sun as turning its back on its established technical clientele to pursue the commercial marketplace . |
| 6 | So Taylor 's announcement that he 's to put his tactical paperwork in the office shredder and hand over the complete accounts ledger to Gascoigne is the most encouraging statement for English football since the surgeon passed Gazza 's knee A1 . |
| 7 | Boris Yeltsin , the CPSU 's most prominent radical , stunned the congress on July 12 with the announcement that he was resigning his party membership . |
| 8 | The sooner you make the announcement that you 're moving your horses away from Britain the better . ’ |
| 9 | Proteon 's announcement that it is splitting its business into two divisions ( one for adaptor boards and wiring centres ; the other for internetworking and intelligent hub systems ) is in line with what has been happening internally for some time , says Swan . |
| 10 | BP rose following yesterday 's announcement that it is selling its 49 per cent stake in a South Australian mine for nearly £300 million . |
| 11 | They say in the Hello ! magazine article that they are breaking their silence in the exclusive interview because ‘ now we have something positive to tell . ’ |
| 12 | It was like being in a supermarket during late-night shopping , with that overpowering sensation that you are losing your space . |
| 13 | The starting point is your recorded time and if this has been exaggerated and the defendants refuse to pay it will give the appearance that you are under-settling your costs . |
| 14 | ‘ Then how are you going to prove in court that he 's breaking his contract here by working somewhere else ? ’ |
| 15 | Livingston dismissed speculation that he was following his idol Ben Johnson all the way to taking drugs . |
| 16 | In March 1982 , matters came further to a head when the ILEA informed the polytechnic that it was withholding its block grant for 1982–3 until the financial crisis had been resolved . |
| 17 | They instantly felt less grown up , whereas Minton had encouraged them from the start to tackle imaginative work by giving them articles from Lilliput with the illustration blocked out and the instruction that they were to do their own . |
| 18 | Mary was spectacular to look at and her own knowledge that she was made her capricious and difficult , expecting the best of everything . |
| 19 | John Howell , for Anthony Hazell , the district auditor , said on the second day of a hearing into the legality of the council 's £6bn deals on the market : ‘ The council sold 49 gilt options on the mistaken belief that it was reducing its exposure . |
| 20 | Some management companies , including Murray Johnstone — which recently reduced its initial charge from 5 to 1 p.c. — welcomed the Securities & Investment Board announcement this week that it is to review its rules on unit trusts . |
| 21 | Menlo Park , California-based , Gupta Technologies Inc , duly announced at SunExpo last week that it is making its PC-based SQL database server , SQLbase , available on Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparcstations running Solaris 2.0 . |
| 22 | Muldoon was beginning to get an uncomfortable feeling that he was pushing his opinions too far , something he had never done in his life . |
| 23 | Pamela 's lack of confidence in her academic ability and her feeling that she was letting her parents down ( 10 months ) . |
| 24 | IBM Corp shares saluted the imminent departure of John Akers with a jump of $3.25 at $52.125 at the opening the day after the company accompanied news that it was cutting its quarterly dividend only 55% with the announcement that within 90 days it would have a new chief executive . |
| 25 | He was such a regular visitor that he was given his own pit boots and locker . |
| 26 | A lot of men are under the impression that a divorcee in her forties is so hungry for sex that they 're doing her a huge favour by providing it , at very little inconvenience or cost to themselves . |
| 27 | Conversely , those who decide to return to work very soon after having a baby get the message that they are neglecting their child . |
| 28 | It is not clear from the article to what extent it was Dutch society that he was basing his analysis on , but given that he appears to be making a general point about changes within Western Europe , it is important to point out that most of the literature on youth , adolescence and relations between the generations in Britain has tended to concentrate on , to use Elias ' term again , the changing balance of power between the generations within the working class . |
| 29 | This early writing by abolitionists on their own history also gave them assurance that they were vindicating their country . |
| 30 | And the thought that I was bedding his daughter … ’ |