Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [that] [pron] [is] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some form of pupil assessment , intelligible to everyone and as far as possible uniform throughout the country , is held to be essential since it is through such public assessment that what is taught and learned at school is most clearly related to the world outside school . |
| 2 | request or a direct request that something is changed , then it |
| 3 | It is in a rather different sense that it is said of the wicked that they will soon fade like the grass ( Ps 37.2 ) , for there it is not an inbuilt weakness of the human constitution that accounts for the imminent death of the wicked but a fate peculiar to wrongdoers . |
| 4 | One of them , written by the InstaPlan Corporation of California , has the additional merit that it is sold in several packages starting from the basic planning system . |
| 5 | When Newham Members raise the problem with social security Ministers , they are given the official answer that it is caused by the number of Somali refugees . |
| 6 | The mere fact that something is sold as a bulk product to a specification need not , in itself , decide that one should move out of it . |
| 7 | Despite the serious limitations to a general theory equating anomaly and mystical danger , there is respectable if sometimes ambiguous psychological evidence that what is perceived to be unclassifiable ( and this is perhaps the crucial thing ) is cognitively and emotionally disturbing . |
| 8 | It is currently a prerequisite of a qualifying corporate bond that it is expressed in sterling and contains no provision for conversion into , or redemption in , a currency other than sterling . |
| 9 | This week UK , Cambridge-based IXI Ltd is going to confirm our months-old story that it 's signed HaL Computer Systems to license and bundle IXI 's Motif-compliant desktop manager X.desktop on its anticipated 64-bit Sparc machines ( UX No 388 ) . |
| 10 | Were it face-on to us , I suppose that binoculars would show the spiral ; it is a great pity that it is placed at such an unfavourable angle . |
| 11 | There is good evidence that it is associated with individual galaxies as these seem to have dark haloes which extend well beyond the visible stars . |
| 12 | Mansell has so dominated pre-season testing in his Ford-powered Lola that he is expected to win on Sunday by the large margin familiar during his dominance of Grand Prix racing in the Williams Renault last season . |
| 13 | He presumably wants to say that the idea that there can be a general definition of the economic sphere is a residue of the classical claim that it is defined in terms of some universal trait such as human needs . |
| 14 | Well it 's where we 're called out , probably with the initial belief that somebody is trapped , and the person 's either released before we arrive there , or , you know , |
| 15 | Part of the confidence surrounding the 19 DX comes from the very fact that it is turbocharged . |
| 16 | Her famous voice ( ‘ Percet ’ said Sir Colin Davis of the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden ) , is in such worldwide demand that she is booked up for years to come . |
| 17 | But the only reason that it 's called The Dark Ark is because it travels in the shadow of Noah 's Ark . |
| 18 | But the only reason that it 's called The Dark Ark is because it travels in the shadow of Noah 's Ark . |
| 19 | And here is William , medieval scholar , sitting on a park bench , a plaque on the back of which informs the enquiring public that it is dedicated to the memory of a Mrs C. M. Elliott who so loved … |
| 20 | For Rosemary , the insult on top of all the cruelty is in the fact that forty years had to pass before she was able to find the courage to lift the lid on the private hell that she 's bottled up all those years . |
| 21 | What is problematic about this is the common assumption that it is caused by , and in turn indicates , some relationship of efficiency between the object and its use , such that this is the prime reason for its particular form , being either the natural outcome of adaptation , or the product of deliberate design processes for industrial goods . |
| 22 | The reduced concentrations of γ-interferon were surprising in view of its involvement in other forms of immunopathology and of the recent finding that there is increased spontaneous production of γ-interferon by lamina propria cells in Crohn 's disease . |
| 23 | However , a husband has no other relationship that he is told to love as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her . |
| 24 | Perhaps it oversimplifies the situation to treat these as two quite different uses of such expressions as ‘ I believe that seems , rather , that it is built into the meaning of ‘ I believe that … ’ that it hovers between expressing tentative belief that what is specified by the following wording is so , and expressing belief or awareness that the speaker believes that it is so . |
| 25 | For our purposes , however , no harm will be done if we distinguish two uses of ‘ I believe that … ’ . one in which it expresses the tentative belief that what is specified by the following wording is so , the other in which it expresses the belief or awareness that the speaker has the belief . |
| 26 | This research is known to have caused the Commission great concern and the Society has told the Royal Commission that it is determined to deal with the problem . |
| 27 | Peter Ackroyd is all of the formidable pasticheur that he is praised for being , and Dyer 's tale , which affects to be that of someone who lived in the eighteenth century , and in which the element of imitation , present in writing of every kind , is more obtrusive than it is in the other tale , is the livelier of the two . |
| 28 | We still fall well short of that , I mean er it 's bad news that anyone is addicted to drugs but what is important is that we should actually know who is and so we can help them . |
| 29 | But it is difficult to get there and to find people being tortured ; it is such a horrible activity that it is done in secret . |
| 30 | Just as fishkeepers tend to start their hobby with ‘ easy ’ livebearers , so the herpetologist invariably begins with an inexpensive animal that he is told will be easy to keep . |