Example sentences of "[adv] that [pers pn] be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | But certainly when we in the regional office get that that advice before before we put a submission to ministers , we will of course try to reconcile the figures so that they are on a consistent basis . |
| 2 | The devil of it was the vehicle was a left-hand drive , so that I was on the side that would go over the edge first . |
| 3 | He pulled the drawer right out so that it was on his knee . |
| 4 | In the 1960s , the Clydesdale almost disappeared without trace , so much so that it was on the Rare Breeds Survival Trust 's list of protected animals . |
| 5 | Number One , would you tell McKenzie to warn the four seamen who were with us tonight that they are on no account to mention the fact that we were on the Delos . |
| 6 | MB GROUP , the old Metal Box company , refused to confirm yesterday that it was on the verge of a £300m-plus bid for Caradon , the building products group . |
| 7 | I knew also that he was on drugs . |
| 8 | Here I need mention only that my work at the Staff College and the Royal Military College in Baghdad put me under suspicion of espionage , and that had the pro-Nazi rebellion of Raschid Ali of May 1941 ( during which I was given protection in the American Embassy ) been successful , I should have fared badly , as it was surmised much later that I was on the rebels ' hit list . |
| 9 | He observed from the way peter Yeo gathered himself and sat up straight that he was on familiar territory , and understood further that the general patter was well rehearsed . |
| 10 | Flavia thought , She 's lost face because it has come out that she is on Christian-name terms after all with Therese . |
| 11 | who speaks to you , er it 's easy enough to just er have the microphone handy that they do n't see and just switch the tape on and I 'll record what they 're saying , come away , see , do it secretly like that , they do n't have to know really that they 're on tape and it does n't really matter , I mean the people who will listen to these tapes are er anonymous you know |
| 12 | They were speaking in favour of it , now here he comes along er and er we we 're I I find myself , regrettable I think because er er his er a minister very well informed in these areas with er who made in those committees a very powerful and effective contribution , now we find ourselves on the er opposite side but I have to say now that we are on opposite side that what is introducing today er is really er too little er and far too er too too late . |
| 13 | We could be accused of listening to foreign propaganda even if we were not , and now that we were on the suspected list this could have been a good excuse for having us arrested again . |
| 14 | We 're stretched as it is talking to every kid in the school now that they 're on holiday . ’ |
| 15 | anyhow , but I found out now that they 're on prescription so , he said this morning you can have some more tablet , no I said I can get them off the old quack |
| 16 | Dan had suggested a drink , and she 'd agreed , happier now that they were on their way back . |
| 17 | Now that he 's on short time he 's doing more round the house . |
| 18 | He had gone out for air while Mary reverted to her servant role , but an impulse had taken him much further than he anticipated and now that he was on the shoreline he knew that he had followed an instinct which was directing him to resolve this business with Mary . |
| 19 | Although he was no stranger to the town , now that he was on a case he was seeing it with new eyes . |
| 20 | After all the doubts and uncertainties , wrote Harsnet , most of which I did not admit to myself , or else tried to pretend were an integral part of the project , sense now that it is on its way . |
| 21 | They knew now that it was on these and on nothing else that their lives depended , and they were not going to waste anything they possessed between them . |
| 22 | ‘ Before that we were on a bit of a roll . |
| 23 | Paul was invited to give a series of public lectures at the school , and word got around that I was on the verge of retirement and Paul would be happy to take my place . |
| 24 | The Cardiff centre was so disillusioned after the 63-6 thrashing by Australia in Brisbane 17 months ago that he was on the verge of walking out on his country . |
| 25 | I was very unhappy , because I saw then that I was on an island . |