Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] that [pers pn] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am grateful for the opportunity that we have been afforded by my hon. Friend the Member for Eccles ( Miss Lestor ) to debate an extremely important subject . |
| 2 | The Change Coordinator will inform the person who requested the change that it has been implemented . |
| 3 | Of course , it might be the case that it had been settled long before that . |
| 4 | They are not actually all that difficult , as we 've been finding in the teaching that we 've been doing where indeed we have students who take a ten week course , sort of once a week , and by about week six they 're already beginning to do that , they 're beginning to work out their own problems erm puzzles and games and little language understanding programs and that 's commonplace , actually . |
| 5 | I should have thought that the hon. Lady would now recognise that the description that I gave was entirely apposite . |
| 6 | Will he ensure that the decision that he makes is a positive one ? |
| 7 | I said so , and you fobbed me off with the excuse that you 'd been talking about Lilian 's twin . |
| 8 | Knowing the likely unpopularity of his mission , he concealed its purpose from the island 's inhabitants , and withdrew from their banquet early , with the excuse that he had been tired by the journey ; later , when they had gone exhausted to their beds , he entered Mildred 's church accompanied by selected monks and the soldiers he had prudently brought with him . |
| 9 | The skin , he noted , was still tinged golden — that faint tone which signified to those in the know that he had been subjected to the bi-annual treatment of Longivex , the Imperial longevity drug which , because of the rarity of the poppy from which it was produced , was restricted to the élite , the favoured few such as the royal family , the privileged , the very rich — and he frowned as he wondered how long it would be before the absence of the drug showed in his physique and appearance . |
| 10 | In this book we will be using the ‘ C-word ’ in these senses to refer to the present penal situation in England and Wales , albeit with slight embarrassment and the worry that it has been used so often and for so long that there is a danger that it may be losing its dramatic impact . |
| 11 | At the door which led back on to the landing he was looking around for a prop or a wedge to pin it open when he thought of the parcel that he 'd been hugging since the zoo . |
| 12 | Cases on which you are relying should be checked in the list of cases judicially considered in the Law Reports Indexes ( red and pink ) or in The Digest , lest they have been overruled , not followed or doubted , or in the hope that they have been followed or approved . |
| 13 | And in fact that is one of the affecting things : the story that we read is undoubtedly a love-story . |
| 14 | Which is the story that you 've been hearing about ? |
| 15 | I find that is the situation that I 've tried to er , guard against with the budget that we 've been put in on this occasion , and I hope that answers er , er , Mr but er , I 'll answer any other questions that are put up . |
| 16 | We had originally intended to freeze our budget at precisely the level that it has been at the last two years for a variety of reasons we have decided that it is sensible to actually bring it down yet further . |
| 17 | May I join the Prime Minister — and , I am sure , the whole House — in sending good wishes to Her Majesty , and in expressing the admiration that I know is felt throughout our country , the Commonwealth and , indeed , the wider world for the wisdom , strength and dedication that Her Majesty has invariably shown throughout the four decades in which she has been our sovereign ? |
| 18 | Local authorities have a separate and specific jurisdiction conferred on them by the Act , and the course that they take is a matter for their judgment . |
| 19 | This should permit a draughtsman to see instantly whether the part that he has been asked to design exists already somewhere in the company . |
| 20 | ‘ And the allegation that she had been disloyal to anyone was very firmly refuted . ’ |
| 21 | I 'd like to ask the convenor erm how would he have er replied to a young woman who came to me fairly recently whose husband had just left home by mutual agreement , and for the sake of their children and er she said to me after he had gone er that the home was a much happier place now that there was , they had been freed from the tension that they had been going through in a very difficult time . |
| 22 | We 've argued that that would stimulate migration as opposed simply to accommodate past trends , so we 've argued that , but the the problem for West Yorkshire well for Leeds in particular is that the brown field sites we have , the regeneration that we need is not of sites which would readily accommodate housing , they 're not sites which lend themselves as nice places to live . |
| 23 | But then he frowned , because the key that he 'd been expecting did n't appear anywhere in the picture — |
| 24 | They could tell from his footprints in the snow that he had been trying to find a fold , which is what we call a stone shelter built for gathering sheep . |
| 25 | The fan that she had been waving stopped in mid motion and clicked shut . |
| 26 | ‘ He has asked me to apologise to the family of the deceased for his part in the distress that they have been caused , ’ said the lawyer . |
| 27 | This has no mass of its own , so the force that it carries is long range . |
| 28 | A librarian may build up sections of the stock that he feels are important even though there is no immediate response in terms of issues . |
| 29 | The figure that I have is about 800 submissions , but most of them were tear-out strips from newspapers . |
| 30 | The figure that I gave was of those who are directly or indirectly affected by the opencast sector . |