Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [verb] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having said that , courts and tribunals are generally vigilant to ensure that an alleged deal bringing a job to a conclusion by mutual consent truly reflects the reality of what has occurred . |
| 2 | In the Japanese setting , for example , it would be wholly inappropriate to conclude that a particular element such as seniority-based wage payments would be desirable as a policy prescription elsewhere , without a prior understanding of how that wage system relates both to the general security of employment in large Japanese firms and , possibly , the cultural assumptions concerning the importance of age in other parts of Japanese society ( Dore , 1973 ) . |
| 3 | - Trade unionists would of course be most unlikely to admit that a time-served journeyman was not skilled and such admissions are rare , though they can be glimpsed behind the pleas for the vulnerable linesmen . |
| 4 | So would it be more realistic to accept that a voluntary system is doomed and legislate for compliance ? |
| 5 | Some imitation will occur , but it will be insufficiently clear-cut to guarantee that a law suit will not be protracted and expensive . |
| 6 | Indeed these two characteristics are all that is needed in the case of the adjective ; the relative clause is in a sense a stalking horse , convenient in that it is more tangible than the relation around which it is built , but unnecessary , and awkward in that it brings with it , in English , the requirement that it must express a tense ; for while it is often possible to read a tense into an adjective there is no reason whatever to suppose that there is always some particular tense present to the mind of the speaker but suppressed , as can be seen from instances like ( 35 ) , where more than one tense could plausibly be grafted onto the sense expressed by the phrase underlined , or , just as well , some adverbial notion like " because " or " if " without any specific tense being implied : ( 35 ) motorists guilty will have to pay heavy fines Likewise , the buildings adjacent of example ( 17 ) simply take their tense from that of the clause as a whole ; if , for instance , we were to switch the tense of the verb in that example in order to shift the whole situation to past time : ( 36 ) the buildings adjacent were closed for three days it would be quite unnecessary to presume that an independent mental re-assignment of tense , from present to past , internal to the phrase buildings adjacent , has to take place as well . |
| 7 | Hilary assured us of the continuing interest in Medau in Britain shown by the Medau Schule in Germany and teachers will be very pleased to learn that a new movement block in Coburg is to be named after Molly . |
| 8 | ‘ I have some rather good jewellery ’ ( and it was as if somewhere among her assortment of boxes was a very special one — but there was not — a mysterious Ali Baba store of necklaces , bracelets , rings , even a tiara ) ; ‘ I do n't think my insurers would be very pleased to know that a window was left open at night . ’ |
| 9 | But it 's going to be extraordinarily difficult to check that a piece of timber that you buy in a market here , or you buy down the road in a timber yard , is in fact , erm does in fact come from a particular forest in Ghana . |
| 10 | Migrants were more likely to say that a course would help them change career direction or , if they were currently unemployed , help them get a job . |
| 11 | When using this definition the results of conventional designs seem so good that it is effectively impossible to show that a new design is significantly better than conventional ones . |
| 12 | I am not claiming that meat is indispensable for good health ; it is only necessary to show that a diet to which it contributes can be no less healthy than one from which it is excluded . |
| 13 | It is only necessary to add that a consistency checking procedure is also called . |
| 14 | In the case where an E is extended by qualification in order to provide a more suitable identification to an audience , as in ( 14 ) , it is entirely natural to assume that a P which does the qualifying — typically an attributive adjective , in traditional terms — will apply to or be valid for the entity identified by the whole pattern [ P E ] . |
| 15 | As a basis for this calculation it is perhaps appropriate to assume that a single sprinkler system should be capable of dealing with three fires simultaneously involving the operation of all sprinkler heads in any vertically-related sections in which they might occur . |
| 16 | It is perhaps dubious to argue that a prayer or worship becomes more efficacious if more people join in , but there is no doubt that man was created a social animal and ritual that is shared is ritual that becomes more meaningful . |
| 17 | It is perhaps possible to say that a particular child tends towards introversion and , further , that he or she is therefore more likely to engage with characters such as Tom in Philippa Pearce 's Tom 's midnight garden , Max in Pauline Clarke 's The twelve and the genii , or Tolly in Lucy Boston 's Green Knowe stories , than a more extrovert reader . |
| 18 | ( 2 ) It is generally acceptable to state that an offer will not be made for a particular period of time . |
| 19 | But the Murray committee is probably right to say that a minimum five-year experiment with a four-day game programme is now due . |
| 20 | Nevertheless it is probably fair to assume that a private customer 's needs will be for " standard " investments . |
| 21 | It is probably true to state that a country must achieve sustained increases in real GNP per capita to avoid social and political tension . |
| 22 | While artisans certainly had better opportunities than had most of the lower orders , it is probably unwise to insist that a very wide behavioural gap separated them from the " crowd " , at least until the last years of the eighteenth century . |
| 23 | Graduates , whom Smith classed as gentlemen , and men of £10 a year were privleged to dress like their betters ; it is also reasonable to infer that a sizeable proportion of those who feature in the various returns as minor landowners were in effect ex-officio gentlemen , qualified by tenure of lesser public appointments . |
| 24 | It is also important to realise that a number of flow production producers are moving towards a ‘ just-in-time ’ ( JIT ) system of production . |
| 25 | It is also important to remember that a single impairment may give rise to numerous disabilities . |
| 26 | And it is also important to ensure that a will is correctly witnessed . |
| 27 | It 's also important to check that a trader who claims to belong to a trade association is in fact a member , and to check with the trade association that a code of practice offers what the trader says it does . |
| 28 | It is as well to appreciate that a body in free fall from a fixed starting event will follow different geodesics if it is given different starting velocities . |
| 29 | The past decade has seen immense progress in elucidating the scientific basis for a proper discipline of programming : it is now possible to prove that a computer program meets its specification , in much the same way that mathematicians and engineers know how to prove the correctness of a proposed solution to the relevant differential equations . |
| 30 | It is even difficult to say that a very rich person could be compensated in money terms ; thus , however heinous the libel , such a person should get not more than a nominal sum and his costs . |