Example sentences of "be [vb pp] that [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am reminded that with the literal manhole — the actual thing in the street — we can indeed walk all over it . |
| 2 | It has been said that in the civil law tradition proof-taking ‘ often resembles a series of isolated pre-trial conferences rather than a concentrated trial ’ , which is helpful but must not be read as suggesting that these earlier stages are merely interlocutory ; they are an integral part of the judicial process . |
| 3 | Interestingly , it has been argued that within the Soviet Union itself the key date in terms of the development of socialist realism was not 1934 but 1936 , the moment at which Stalin finally acceded to full power , the moment of the Stalinist " purges " , the moment when the " nationalist " theses of Zhdanov came to the fore , coinciding with Stalin 's own preferred thesis of " socialism in one country " . |
| 4 | It had been agreed that at the General Election which would follow the end of the emergency period , there would no ‘ coupons ’ , pacts or other Party arrangements . |
| 5 | It has already been noted that in the British system of government MPs and councillors are elected in individual constituencies on the basis of a procedure in which the candidate with a simple majority is the winner . |
| 6 | In fairness it should be added that for the female guests the question of rooms was as much an affair of space as of rank , since many arrived with anything up to 25 pieces of luggage , clear proof that at Compiègne , unlike Fontainebleau , style played a primary role . |
| 7 | None the less , it should be stressed that in the changed climate of the early twentieth century , there was no question of abandoning the youth organizations : that would have meant jettisoning the principle of voluntary action . |
| 8 | It will be seen that under the European Convention an adequate balance is sought between the right to protest and the right to govern . |
| 9 | It will be argued that despite the obvious impact of government policy , the way in which policies are converted into practice within the enterprise and the precise form they take are problematic . |
| 10 | It could even be argued that in the special circumstances of colonialism the judicial system was biased against mainstream groups in order to increase the state 's control over them , and that in fact the poor and marginal , as in all societies , committed most crime . |
| 11 | For instance , using only components of the quartal chord D , G , C , F , we can move as follows , by abandoning the strict use of fourths without transposition , and using the notes in different groupings and in different registers : In spite of the abandoning of strict usages of harmony in fourths , it will be felt that in the above example the same harmonic mood persists throughout . |
| 12 | It can be shown that in the above model fibril yield depends upon the relation between the fibril aspect ratio ( length/diameter ) , A and the yield ratio ( yield stress of fibril ) / ( yield stress of matrix ) . |
| 13 | However , it must be recognised that at the current level of terrorist threat , full accompaniment of all patrols could be achieved only at the expense of aborting necessary anti-terrorist operations with a consequent increase in terrorist activity . |
| 14 | Before turning to the detail of sections 12–15 it must be noted that under the original Sale of Goods Act of 1893 the wording of some of these sections was slightly different prior to 1973 when the sections were amended by the Supply of Goods ( Implied Terms ) Act 1973 . |
| 15 | It should be noted that for the maximum production per female , pair mating is best . |
| 16 | Unlikely as that seems now , it must be remembered that in the early 1970s the private market was in a very bad condition and many developer builders were only rescued from bankruptcy by ‘ package deals ’ under which the DOE gave local authorities special loan sanctions in order to buy in whole estates of unsold private dwellings . |
| 17 | Whenever the affairs of men are in a sorry state , it will always be found that beyond the immediate manifestations of trouble , there is a root cause . |
| 18 | Indeed , while it is not the brief of this chapter to comment on state pension provision , it must be remarked that in the early 1960s , as subsequently , it was chiefly the low level of state provision which made the presence or absence of entitlement to occupational pension benefits so crucial to many household budgets , not least to lone female households . |
| 19 | However , having made the above comment , it must be stated that in the early 1980s the external debt situation of some LDCs made banks more cautious in their dealings with smaller and less well known banks and financial centres . |
| 20 | Not only is the local field acting on the nucleus altered by environment , it is also sensitive to molecular motion , and it has been observed that as the molecular motion within a sample increases , the resonance lines become narrower . |
| 21 | It has been estimated that in the early years of civil registration in some parts of England up to 15 per cent of births were not registered . |
| 22 | It has been estimated that in the early 1980s there were 240–300 million people involved in shifting cultivation who occupied perhaps half of the total tropical land surface . |
| 23 | It has therefore frequently been maintained that for the ancient Hebrews time was a unidirectional linear process extending from the divine act of creation to the ultimate accomplishment of God 's purpose and the final triumph , here on earth , of the chosen people , Israel . |
| 24 | It is claimed that during the hour-long phone call Prince Charles and Camilla exchange affectionate remarks as they try to find a ‘ safe ’ house to meet . |
| 25 | Official figures give average class sizes as forty to fifty , but it is reported that in the rural areas there are often seventy to eighty children in a class . |
| 26 | Nor were beards a feature of traditional Republican portraits , though it is said that in the early Republic the Romans wore beards and long hair . |
| 27 | Here the modest claim is made that without the social services , a section of the population will be permanently unemployed because in advanced industrial societies ‘ we can not expect industry to create many extra jobs because of the speed of technical change and job-saving investment . ’ |
| 28 | It is argued that during the dry phases , the humid forests would have been fragmented into island-like refugia ( Figure 7.1 ) of isolated blocks of forest . |
| 29 | It is argued that within the private sector the method by which the firm ensures that individuals behave so as to maximize profits is to pay workers the value of marginal product . |
| 30 | It is thought that from the late 16th century it was placed on top of the remaining tower of the ruined Kilwinning Abbey ( the Abbey was destroyed in 1561 at the time of the Scottish Reformation ) . |