Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] that [pron] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should make our being so open that it is like one of the old free cities — open to all eyes . |
| 2 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 3 | I would say always remember that what is on show is oneself , not necessarily the ability to perform brilliant characterisations . |
| 4 | The court can disregard any injury or damage and still find that he was in charge of the vehicle . |
| 5 | So we swapped addresses with er , ca n't remember , it was a man middle-aged sort of man and er he then said ooh , well he said I still think that we were in the right in as much as if that policeman was supposed to have been directing traffic blah blah blah blah blah ! |
| 6 | I ask a simple question to which I know that there is a simple answer , but I still think that it is worth a little time to discover it : why are the Government in such a desperate hurry to get the Bill back to the House on 26 February ? |
| 7 | He enclosed a cover note , explaining in his clerkly style that it was of course only a rough estimate , and that I was n't beholden to reimburse him penny for penny . |
| 8 | My own view is that for readers to be promised even a glimmer of understanding as to the origins of our world and the universe was tempting enough , but the further promise that it was to be told briefly was irresistible . |
| 9 | ( No. 2 ) [ 1990 ] 1 A.C. 109 , after reference to the principle of law that , in cases concerned with government secrets , the Crown , in order to restrain disclosure , must show not only that the information is confidential but also show that it is in the public interest that it should not be published , continued , at pp. 283–284 : |
| 10 | I nearly like that he was like a . |
| 11 | ‘ I also see that we 're about as alike as chalk and cheese , because I would never sell out a whole species for the wrongs of one group . |
| 12 | People often feel that it is in some way distasteful deliberately to use your behaviour to influence others and this also leads to the conclusion that manipulating behaviour is unethical . |
| 13 | My word , Bodo , I really think that you are in the wrong profession . |
| 14 | Recent advances in medical treatment of HIV mean that some doctors now think that it is worth knowing if you have an HIV infection . |
| 15 | It is with stanza 3 that we really discover that we are in the fabliau mode , not the romance . |
| 16 | Various ways of studying water strongly suggest that it is in a similar category — that is , it is a fluid containing clusters of water polymers of varying sizes which are continually changing and reforming . |
| 17 | It was an even bet that whoever was in the Renault had the Bonnards ' documents and would use the open-ended return tickets . |
| 18 | ‘ without going into further detail I respectfully suggest that it is on any view wrong to introduce into this branch of the criminal law questions whether particular contracts are void or voidable on the ground of mistake or fraud or whether any mistake is sufficiently fundamental to vitiate a contract . |
| 19 | I respectfully suggest that it is on any view wrong to introduce into this branch of the criminal law questions whether particular contracts are void or voidable on the ground of mistake or fraud or whether any mistake is sufficiently fundamental to vitiate a contract . |
| 20 | If we go to consider the folk as being on the ‘ inside ’ we then assume that what is on the ‘ outside ’ can only be impersonal processes that just have effects upon people . |
| 21 | In Europe Christians everywhere know that they are in trouble because their churches are empty and attendance continues to decline . |
| 22 | What proportion of asylum seekers come into this country on visitors ' permits and then decide that they are in fear of persecution just as their permits come to an end ? |
| 23 | Many of the GPs who are now budget holders are proudly boasting of the better service they can offer patients but all freely admit that it is at the expense of the patients of nonbudget-holding GPs . |
| 24 | Some children never learn that it is worth the effort and so do not learn to read efficiently . |