Example sentences of "[noun] that [noun] [be] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Communist regimes , by pointing at high growth rates , could once justify this squeeze on the consumer as an investment for the future , but with low rates of growth it becomes obvious to a work force that gratification is being denied rather than simply deferred . |
| 2 | An allegation that drugs are being supplied as a " liquid cash " to modify behaviour at a particular prison may point a sufficient finger at the medical officers working at that prison , even though they are not referred to by name . |
| 3 | At first , he was sympathetic to the ‘ popular cry that the premier team has not tried to encourage and develop local talent ’ , and assured readers of the club programme that steps were being taken to foster such talent . |
| 4 | I 've heard from people who have visited Brussels that meetings were being cancelled because the British Delegation were not even members of the trade union , but looking at the structure of the works councils in the U K this is no wonder . |
| 5 | Unsurprisingly , there was talk that Dustin was being considered for the title role of Portnoy 's Complaint , the film version of Philip Roth 's novel of a Jewish mother-dominated boy with masturbation problems . |
| 6 | No sounds of battle came to them , no indication that destiny was being decided not far off . |
| 7 | Did you say anything to the effect that Lawrence was being harboured at the flat at or did he merely say he was concerned for the safety of the occupier ? |
| 8 | This technique for calling subroutines has the disadvantage that locations are being modified in the instruction area , and that recursive subroutine calls are difficult . |
| 9 | The background to all of this is knowledge on the part of the creditor that security is being taken from the surety for the benefit of the debtor and that the surety is a person who is likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor . |
| 10 | She tells Karen that Victor is being excluded from school indefinitely for bullying and for kicking Joan . |
| 11 | It is a great pity that passes are being taken away from hard-working people , who are not even given any right of appeal . |
| 12 | Noel Hulse , a National Union of Teachers spokesman , said : ‘ It is a pity that resources are being wasted on repairing schools when they could be used for books . |
| 13 | Often it can be a great relief to a young child that issues are being brought out into the open and talked about . |
| 14 | It was not just in the treatment of syphilis that advances were being made at this time . |
| 15 | It was to safeguard Orkney that Paul was being left there at this moment . |
| 16 | For the layman , the question that matters is was she right ? |
| 17 | Barrier nursing and isolation will help the patient to feel some security that precautions are being taken . |
| 18 | Does that not return then to our point that exemptions are being granted more freely ? |
| 19 | Concerning the question of enhancing the role of the institutions of the Community , the Foreign Secretary made the point that work was being done to establish a more active role for national parliaments in considering Community legislation in line with the strong tradition of the Westminster and Danish parliaments . |
| 20 | The architect Richard MacCormac said , ‘ I believe there is a danger that classicism is being used as a cure-all architectural pill , when architecture has got a lot more to it than just putting in columns and capitals . |
| 21 | There is a suspicion that functions are being duplicated at home and in Europe and paid for twice , a situation not experienced by operators in other EC states which are members of the JAA because the CAA is unique in pursuing a government-driven policy of total costrecovery for its activities . |
| 22 | In addition , the legislation will be strengthened by granting powers to enable the Director General of Fair Trading to initiate investigations where there is a suspicion that prohibitions are being breached . |
| 23 | It is unhelpful for the health secretary to spout spurious statistics about increasing throughput and efficiency in the manner , and with the same hollow ring , of a beetroot producer or tractor manufacturer in the former Soviet Union reassuring commissars that norms were being exceeded . |
| 24 | It was around that time that I began to foster the notion that information was being withheld , that somebody was not telling me everything . |
| 25 | The notion that patients are being thrown out on to the street is not borne out , ’ he said . |
| 26 | The result , confirmed by the Jockey Club 24 hours after it had sought to head off rumours of a doping scandal , heightens speculation that horses are being ‘ got at ’ . |
| 27 | The Welsh-medium schools provide a first-class education and I am happy to tell my hon. Friend that Welsh is being taught in eight out of 10 primary schools in Wales and in nine out of 10 secondary schools . |
| 28 | If you look at the industry as a whole , there 's obviously the problem that by producing so much more content that people are are simply not going to have the time to get through it . |
| 29 | The franchising proposals indicate that where there is only one lawyer the board will seek evidence that files are being reviewed on a regular and objective basis by that lawyer . |
| 30 | But perhaps the most crucial sign that headway was being made into new territory came when the West Somerset District Council , which included Hinkley Point , came out firmly against Hinkley C. Its influential policy committee chairman was married to a nuclear worker and its previous attitude had been at best neutral . |