Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] that [pron] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is no legal justification whatever ’ , he thundered , ‘ in saying that Meehan was wrongly convicted , and having heard all the evidence in this case , you might well have come to the clear conclusion that he was in fact rightly convicted . ’ |
| 2 | As to the Scottish electorate , I reassure the hon. Gentleman that they were at the forefront in seeking the abolition of domestic rates and they will be at the forefront in resisting their reintroduction by the Opposition . |
| 3 | The Bank of England , old nanny that she is at heart , always believes that it is good for her charges to learn patience . |
| 4 | Status remains important but it is no longer the central feature of British society that it was in preceding centuries . |
| 5 | Perhaps it is due to the disproportionate numbers killed for food , or possibly that becoming vegetarian is an unmistakable gesture that it is within anyone 's competence to make . |
| 6 | Yet even migraine detained me with its potential , at first because of the popular assumption that it is above all a neurotic disorder and therefore confined to unstable personalities . |
| 7 | An inquiry was opened to ascertain why the accident had occurred when both ships had apparently been warned by the West German coastguard that they were on a collision course . |
| 8 | If the Policyholder authorises us to pay a contractor direct and there is an interest noted on the policy , we must obtain written confirmation from the interested party that it is in order to pay the contractor direct . |
| 9 | Even in the worst hours she never gave any public impression that she was on the ropes . |
| 10 | The interpretation for which both the applicant and the Attorney-General contended before the Court of Appeal was that the answer was affirmative ; either because the proceedings for habeas corpus were so firmly imprinted with a civil character that they were to be treated as civil , notwithstanding the essentially criminal nature of the proceedings from which they arose , or because they were of an indeterminate nature , which section 13(2) ( a ) was wide enough to embrace . |
| 11 | It is possible this is a case of hindsight colouring my memory , but I have a distinct feeling that it was at that moment I first sensed something odd , something duplicitous perhaps , about this apparently charming American gentleman . |
| 12 | But there can be no real doubt that it was on medical advice that Law resigned , for he was advised that only a complete break would save him from total breakdown , and he was actually suffering from the disease that was to kill him in less than three years . |
| 13 | The simple fact that he was in her husband 's employ gave her an advantage over him . |
| 14 | ‘ All I can say is that I recognise the incredible enthusiasm that there is for this sport among a section of the listening public — especially Daily Telegraph readers . |
| 15 | Struggling throughout his life with his own infirmity of will , and with a haunting sense that he was like some great tree possessing ‘ pith within the Trunk , not heart of Wood ’ , he was consistently drawn , for good and ill , to those possessing stronger personalities than his own . |
| 16 | Several times they crossed paths that led into the forest but it was not until another hour had passed and the moon was paling in the light of the false dawn that they were at last among strange scattered rocks like those which strewed the fringe of the forest where they had first entered the Waste . |
| 17 | On the assumption that neither Hezarfen on the one hand nor Ali and Kocu Bey on the other is simply in error , one can perhaps reconcile these two apparently contradictory statements on the grounds either that it was only in the technical matter of the that Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa continued to be regarded as 300-akce kadiliks , their holders actually being given 500 akce a day ; or that , while still being paid only 300 akce a day , they had come to be regarded as 500-akce mevleviyets from the hierarchical point of view , for the obvious reason that they were in fact higher in rank than any of the other kadiliks . |
| 18 | Intimation had been received during the previous year that they were considering paying over to the Official Trustee of Charitable Funds the sum of £12,000 , the interest on which would be sufficient to maintain their endowment of £300 . |
| 19 | He thus conveyed the false impression that it was in demand . |
| 20 | The police driver asked for her documents but the woman explained , with a pleasant smile that they were at her home nearby . |
| 21 | Many budget-priced car alarms have no visual indication that they are in operation and an additional flashing light could draw attention to this fact . |
| 22 | Try to achieve a well balanced follow-through position as it 's a good indication that you are in control of your swing . |
| 23 | These were er built in between the th that long period that I was on the council . |
| 24 | These examples should bring home the great difference that there is for Moore between intrinsic good and bad and anything of the nature of pleasure or pain . |
| 25 | Then an order came to pick up Weibel again ‘ I had to hide my dismay when Weibel was bought back without a blindfold — a sure sign that he was to be killed . ’ |
| 26 | There was a good chance that he was in Mariánské Láznë on holiday , was n't there ? |
| 27 | My answer to the first part of his question is that in the few weeks that I have had my present portfolio , two or three times in public I have stated my firm belief that it is in the interests of the people of Northern Ireland , the police and the security forces — indeed , in the interests of all of us — that the law be applied even-handedly and that those responsible for applying the law should do so . |
| 28 | Where Richard was during these years of military and diplomatic manoeuvring we do not know , but it is a reasonable guess that he was with his mother , since Aquitaine was her duchy and it was by her wish that it was to be made over to him . |
| 29 | Hamilton showed him the photographs he had taken from the German flier , and told the Prime Minister that they were of Rudolf Hess , who had crashed a fighter plane into a field in Scotland the night before . |
| 30 | At a consultation you 're not in the vulnerable position that you are in a hairdresser 's chair . |