Example sentences of "[adv] that i be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I place my chair to the left of the swim so that I am hidden behind the wall of rushes and have a good viewpoint of both rods . |
| 2 | My Squadron 499 of the Air Training Corps became very successful , so much so that I was awarded a national honour , a Member of the British Empire , MBE ( Military ) . |
| 3 | ‘ My father and Edwin Garland were very close friends , so much so that I was brought up to regard Beryl and Francis as cousins . ’ |
| 4 | She 's made me angry with her anger , and then turned it around so that I 'm eaten up with guilt because she 's been ill and I have n't noticed , and now she 's taking the blame on herself and making me feel worse than ever . |
| 5 | I am not suggesting that I was a ‘ truly creative intellect ’ — merely that I was denied the opportunity to find out whether I could achieve any such position , and this was an omission I felt very keenly . |
| 6 | I have a battle to win and would ask only that I am given the chance to do so without intrusion in my private life . |
| 7 | It would have been so easy to spend a couple of weeks lazing by one of the swimming pools doing absolutely nothing in this idyllic setting , but there was so much going on that I was tempted off my sunlounger . |
| 8 | Not that I 'm bothered what they say about me . |
| 9 | In my own case it was not that I was considered pastorally unsuitable , or academically unable , which led to my being refused ordination . |
| 10 | She goes she said if we had n't have stopped we might have won yeah like you know not that I was bothered . |
| 11 | It arrived about two months after the news about my father , although it was only much later that I was told what was in it . |
| 12 | Just as I had been told repeatedly that I was destined to ‘ do well ’ , so then I was being told that I was destined to be ‘ stout ’ . |
| 13 | It seems odd now that I was offered a place at Somerville College , Oxford , by my Headmistress on the strength of my extra-mural Diploma and my war service . |
| 14 | My father had told me years before that I was born under the starsign of the Dog because Sirius was overhead at the time . |
| 15 | IT 'S not often that I am moved to feel genuine sympathy for a Cabinet Minister , let alone Norman Lamont . |
| 16 | It is simply that I was brought up in the East of Scotland and have lived in places whither the Orangemen walketh not , neither in triumph nor provocation . |
| 17 | As things turned out , it was probably just as well that I was brought gently back to earth by Beryl , who from one of the Trust 's head offices masterminds the working holidays with military precision , advised me that the only available option was a 21-plus Acorn Project at Clumber park in Nottinghamshire . |
| 18 | ‘ It was over two months ago that I was approached about the job , terms were agreed and I was a part of Bill Fox 's presidential platform . |
| 19 | Everton 's Peter Beardsley made a less optimistic assessment : ‘ When we get players injured there 's nothing like the depth of talent in reserve here that I was used to at Liverpool . |
| 20 | It was n't that I was tempted to eat those convenient nuts , just the very fact of their existence . |
| 21 | Now I find myself alone — that is irrelevant in terms of what happens to me , but for the idea that the Lord was homosexual , and for the perverted practices on his dead body not to be seen to be blasphemous if the case is lost — about that I am lost for words ! |
| 22 | It must have been then that I was blown up by the land-mine , which may well have knocked out Private Prescott as well . ’ |
| 23 | It was then that I was struck by another passage in Mothers and Daughters : ‘ As the middle- aged daughter develops reasonable expectations of her ageing mother , she will be able to develop reasonable self-expectations in relation to her daughter . |