Example sentences of "[be] [verb] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During their lives faithful Roman Catholics are taught that by certain sacraments a person becomes a Christian , obtains ongoing pardon for sins and is prepared for the life hereafter . |
| 2 | I am suggesting that within the one is the other — in some respects a Chinese Box would have provided a better diagram than a polarisation continuum , although it would have been difficult to decide which box should be on the outside . |
| 3 | Allowing for the three major leakages of imports , savings and taxation , it has been calculated that for every £l paid to an employee in the UK , a further 80 pence of expenditure is generated throughout the economy . |
| 4 | On the basis of an estimated 10 per cent of the Earth 's surface currently being part of a hot-spot swell it has been calculated that on average hot-spot epeirogeny should affect a particular area of crust about every 600 Ma . |
| 5 | Indeed , it has been calculated that by the end of the decade some 3 billion pages of information will be published by businesses worldwide . |
| 6 | It has been calculated that in 1922 an average of 38 minutes would be spent on going to work and coming back , with a working day of between 14 and 15 hours in the warmer months . |
| 7 | It has been calculated that in general elections from 1922 to 1977 inclusive average " leakages " amounted to roughly one-fifth of Fianna Fail 's potential votes , a quarter of Fine Gael 's and one third of Labour 's . |
| 8 | It has been calculated that in an average semidetached house only twenty-five per cent of the heat generated actually warms the house : twenty per cent may be lost through unlagged upstairs ceilings and the roof ; twenty per cent through windows , doors and flues ; twenty-five per cent through external walls and ten per cent through the ground floor . |
| 9 | This system worked very slowly and made secrecy virtually impossible : it has been calculated that in all some 2,000 people may have had some influence , direct or indirect , on the functioning of this cumbersome machinery . |
| 10 | Schooled children , on the other hand , may have been taught that in formal school situations such assumptions must be suspended , however strange that may appear to be . |
| 11 | Many have been taught that in a relationship they have no right to make demands on a partner ; to say clearly what they want may lose his affection . |
| 12 | The Tory coal rebels are demanding that at least 15 collieries remain open and gave warning that the Government could face defeat if it tried to push through proposals that were significantly out of line with the report of the Commons industry select committee earlier this year . |
| 13 | It has been forgotten that in the case of a very common expression ( historical materialism ) one should put the accent on the first term — ‘ historical ’ — and not on the second , which is of metaphysical origin . |
| 14 | Investors are reminded that as a consequence of the general nature of the investments held and of possible exchange and interest rate fluctuations , the value of their shares and the yield from them may go down as well as up and that past performance is no guide to the future . |
| 15 | Instead , we are reminded that for every shining ‘ Eight Miles High ’ or raving ‘ Psychotic Reaction ’ , there were 20 million twee twats wheedling through wank called ‘ Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal ’ , and an infinity of squeaky-voiced college boys pretending to be on acid and singing garbage called ‘ Ego Trip ’ . |
| 16 | I am reminded that with the literal manhole — the actual thing in the street — we can indeed walk all over it . |
| 17 | Ministerial Flannel IT HAS been reported that at the launch of National Dyslexia Week , the Duke of Westminster , entering into the spirit of the occasion ( and surely nothing else was intended ) , introduced the junior education minister and Darlington MP . |
| 18 | It has been reported that in Canada and the USA literally thousands of lakes and rivers are no longer able to support fish or plants . |
| 19 | It has been reported that in stages III and IV of PBC , portal hypertension if present reflects sinusoidal pressure . |
| 20 | It has been disclosed that within a short time of leaving Aberdeen Royal Infirmary yesterday where she stayed three nights and underwent an operation to remove a piece of fish lodged in her throat she was entertaining guests . |
| 21 | It has been reckoned that in the Northern Ireland Assembly election of 1973 eight seats out of 78 were won thanks to alphabetical voting . |
| 22 | Incidentally it has now been revealed that at his farewell party , Berkshire director Anne Parker described him as ‘ round and cuddly ’ . |
| 23 | It has been said that with × 20 binoculars they make a striking pair . |
| 24 | It has been said that at the court of Poitiers " the gilded youth of Poitou and Aquitaine breathed an air that seemed to belong to some tale of chivalry " . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It has been said that in recent years his allegiance shifted from Sisley to Monet ! ’ |
| 27 | It has been said that in s.9(1) ( b ) , which does not mention the term " offence " , grievous bodily harm does not necessarily mean the offences found in ss.18 and 20 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 : Jenkins [ 1983 ] 1 All ER 993 . |
| 28 | Again , the suggestion has been made that in cases where a woman 's SB is withdrawn because she is found/thought to be cohabiting , a ‘ tiding over ’ allowance should be made to ease the adjustment . |
| 29 | It has been argued that at this stage ‘ the growth of Protestantism was far from a major problem ’ ; its spread , and the numbers involved , were very limited . |
| 30 | But against this theory it has been argued that over large parts of the zebra 's range , insects are not a major problem , so without further analysis the idea is once again inconclusive . |