Example sentences of "[vb pp] that the [noun sg] is [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it can not be claimed that the competition is easy , but the experience is incomparable and the rewards worth fighting for . |
| 2 | Portugal has not claimed that the treaty is void , but that its negotiation and conclusion are with a State that has no legal authority over the territory in question . |
| 3 | It is claimed that the church is one of the most complete examples of the Milanese baroque style , but I think the best feature is the campanile , the only part of the older building that remains . |
| 4 | As an editorial in the British Journal of Religious Education put it , " It could equally be claimed that the syllabus is defective because it did not refer to Krishna , Allah and the Guru Granth Sahib anywhere . " |
| 5 | If the debts and expenses have not been paid but have been secured , the report must state whether it is considered that the security is satisfactory ( r 6.207(3) ) . |
| 6 | I also would n't switch to a serial mouse until you have checked that the driver is up-to-date . |
| 7 | He has heard that the King is ill and he has sent for me , from the distant land beyond Kelfazin , to find the cause of his sickness . |
| 8 | He may be not qualified for a number of reasons , including that in the above paragraph , save that if a returning officer has decided that the nomination is valid , that decision may not be questioned ( 1983 Act , sch.1 , para.12(5) , ( 6 ) ) . |
| 9 | Its San Jose , California-based developer , Software Systems Inc , has now decided that the time is right to provide a lower cost version , which runs on Silicon Graphics Inc workstations . |
| 10 | However , if it is felt that the estimate is excessive , an alternative estimate should be obtained . |
| 11 | This thought can be entertained only if it is accepted that the universe is eternal and timeless , and the theory of a once only chance association of circumstances causing life , be abandoned . |
| 12 | On the other hand if someone dies of a heart attack it is just accepted that the cause is hereditary , ‘ He over-exerted himself once too often , ’ or most commonly , it was ‘ Just bad luck ’ . |
| 13 | The point must not , however , be missed that the Host is able to grasp a moral point made in the tale . |
| 14 | And we 're going to grant this protection order which is temporary permission to keep the premises open and I must tell you that there will be a lot more investigation before the order is granted that the transfer is specialist . |
| 15 | It is of course taken for granted that the loading is such that always so that the response is given by equations ( 8.11 ) ( 8.13 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ It is only when the full transfer is granted that the applicant is eligible to display their name above the door , ’ Mr Parry explained . |
| 17 | In broad psychological terms , it can be said that the male is achievement-orientated , directing his efforts towards a specific goal , whereas the woman is more concerned that the differing elements in her life should be in harmonious relation to one another , and that the circle of light in which she is centred includes them all . |
| 18 | . A group set up not too far away from here in Newark said that the erm , It has been said that the river is worse now than it 's ever been in history . |
| 19 | ‘ It is said that the past is another country . |
| 20 | ‘ It may be said that the duty is difficult to define , because when the act of negligence in manufacture occurs there was no specific person towards whom the duty could be said to exist : the thing might never be used : it might be destroyed by accident , or it might be scrapped , or in many ways fail to come into use in the normal way : in other words the duty can not at the time of manufacture be other than potential or contingent , and only can become vested by the fact of actual use by a particular person . |
| 21 | It has always been said that the House is concerned with the rights of individuals and that any injustice , or possible injustice , to an individual is as much the concern of the House of Commons as is injustice to a large number of people . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't have to defend myself to you , or explain myself , especially when you 've just said that the truth is irrelevant ! ’ |
| 23 | In this section , I have argued that the inductivist is wrong on two counts . |
| 24 | We have seen that the viscosity is important only very close to the wall . |
| 25 | It is only if all these conditions are met that the adult is likely to respond appropriately ( see acts performed by children 's first words , Chapter 3 ) . |
| 26 | Nor from the point of view of the speaker , is there any hard and fast boundary between these and a non-restrictive adjective used in order to make explicit some property , when it is suspected that the hearer is unaware that it is implied by the use of the noun , as with poisonous in : ( 10 ) she threw Maisie 's lunch-box out of the window because it had a poisonous red-back spider in it Note that ( 10 ) further exemplifies the fact that whether an adjective is taken as restrictive or not depends on the rest of the entity-identifying phrase rather than just on the head noun . |
| 27 | The further assumption is made that the material is isotropic . |
| 28 | Again no claim is made that the list is complete . |
| 29 | It is thought that the platelet is necessary for the maintenance of normal vascular integrity in that patients with thrombocytopaenia show a generalised haemorrhagic tendency and bruising when the platelet count falls below about 5 × 10 9 /1 , spontaneous bruising and more severe bleeding being possible as the platelet count falls below 20 × 10 9 /1 . |
| 30 | SCHOOLGIRLS are being told that the door is open to them to pursue careers in the once traditionally male dominated fields of science and engineering . |