Example sentences of "[pron] that [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone , it seemed , was doing well out of the erosion of the 1878 settlement except the Russians , for whom that settlement had been a defeat in the first place . |
| 2 | It was a strong probability that the Guardian still retained in their archives a numbered copy of the minutes which would have told us immediately to whom that copy had been issued and therefore the name of the informant . |
| 3 | The second point is on correspondence , I 'm absolutely certain that when a member of public writes in to any department , not necessarily highway , he expects and needs an immediate response , now I know you have , you have started the acknowledgement of our system , but I think it 's , it does n't go far enough , an acknowledgement card that simply says the thing is received and is receiving attention , needs to then indicate the individual to whom that matter has been passed for attention and that leads me to the third point and I think the general complaint on the public is that local government is seen as faceless people and I think we have to get in our mind to name people within our department , there 's not one mention about it in our promise , I think we need , unless I 've not read it , but I think , I think we , yes , but I think we need to mention people by name , senior people within the department who will respond to particular things and certainly where public comes into contact within the offices we must get around to wearing a name badge who says who that person is , people want to relate to a person and I think we can do that if we try . |
| 4 | The deviant is the one to whom that label has been successfully applied ; deviant behaviour is behaviour that people so label . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , we the wise , to quote Erving Goffman ( 1963 ) are allowed increasing manpower to pursue the cannabis/hallucinogenic using folk devil and to present the incompetent and the inept from the hippie element to the courts and the public for their solace ; and to assure them that drug taking is being stamped out . |
| 6 | A little after 3 o'clock this morning he rapped at several doors in Marlborough Street ( adjoining one of the piers ) and informed them that fire had been set to one of the ships in the harbour [ and ] matches were laid in several others ; the whole world would soon be in a blaze , and the town also destroyed … |
| 7 | The date by which that choice had been made can be defined fairly precisely , although the motives behind the decision remain obscure . |
| 8 | The date by which that choice had been made can be defined fairly precisely , although the motives behind the decision remain obscure . |
| 9 | However , the manner in which that influence has been exercised has changed over time . |
| 10 | an expression of the person 's thoughts , opinions or emotions regarding the serious offence or alleged serious offence of which that person has been convicted . |
| 11 | When the forest is gone , the great reservoir of moisture stored up in its vegetable mould is evaporated , and returns only in deluges of rain to wash away the parched dust into which that mould has been converted . |
| 12 | Therefore , the great bulk of the money to which that answer refers is for the King 's Cross and channel tunnel rail link projects . |
| 13 | If , on the other hand , ‘ domicile ’ had the meaning which that term had been given for the purposes of the application of the Brussels Convention , it must be assimilated to residence . |
| 14 | So far as service is concerned , this , in the county court , is the responsibility of the court itself and the judge should satisfy himself that service has been promptly effected . |
| 15 | He had already seen to it that fodder had been stored in stone-built barns situated at strategic points on lower pastures . |
| 16 | How is it that faith has been so divorced from knowledge ? |
| 17 | Whether any of these works would not have been produced under a ‘ Son-of-Sam ’ regime is debatable , but what is not debatable is that being convicted and imprisoned does not necessarily mean that one has actually committed an offence nor that what that person produces is of no value to society . |
| 18 | What that exercise predicts is that there should be particles mediating the influence of that field just as the photon mediates the electromagnetic field . |
| 19 | What that experience demonstrates is that the teacher very rarely uses the voluminous information , which is nevertheless conscientiously stored and retained . |
| 20 | What that reference does is invite the reader to compare unlikes . |
| 21 | What that review achieved was the compartmentalization of the Health Service , the breaking up of health authorities , from health authority into units , and the heading up of those particular units by , by general managers . |
| 22 | But unfortunately what that review meant was that what the review brought about was a near privatization of the Health Service through the government 's N H S White Paper and subsequently the N H S and Community Care Act . |