Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [noun] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it has been as captain that he has excelled ; as the record of his club 's ‘ Cinderella side ’ demonstrates — 12 wins , seven draws and only seven losses ( two of them against immeasurably senior opposition ) . |
| 2 | The chances are of course that you will not have time go into so much detail , but you can use different headlines to highlight specific aspects of the story , and if you are aware of the requirements of each type of magazine you will at least be able to include back-up material which is relevant to their subject and readership and to follow up with ideas for more in-depth coverage . |
| 3 | Essentially what you 're saying is that a teacher who 's actually teaching you ought to be able to say to that teacher ‘ look , here 's a package , if you like , that you can insert into your range of skills , and these are of things that you can do with children which are worthwhile doing and fairly easily for you to acquire skills yourself , and they will be very good and helpful for the children ’ . |
| 4 | Essentially what you 're saying is that a teacher who 's actually teaching you ought to be able to say to that teacher ‘ look , here 's a package , if you like , that you can insert into your range of skills , and these are of things that you can do with children which are worthwhile doing and fairly easily for you to acquire skills yourself , and they will be very good and helpful for the children ’ . |
| 5 | I have come to the conclusion that the law of libel is one and the same as to all plaintiffs ; and that , in every action of libel , whether the statement complained of is , or is not , a libel , depends on the same question — viz. , whether the jury are of opinion that what has been published with regard to the plaintiff would tend in the minds of people of ordinary sense to bring the plaintiff into contempt , hatred , or ridicule , or to injure his character . |
| 6 | ‘ … I have come to the conclusion that the law of libel is one and the same as to all plaintiffs ; and that , in every action of libel , whether the statement complained of is , or is not , a libel , depends on the same question — viz. , whether the jury are of opinion that what has been published with regard to the plaintiff would tend in the minds of people of ordinary sense to bring the plaintiff into contempt , hatred , or ridicule , or to injure his character . |
| 7 | … As appears from the decision below , the plaintiff could have had no certainty of ultimate success , and we are of opinion that it was not called upon to take the risk of having its contracts disputed and its business injured and of finding the tax more or less nearly doubled in case it finally had to pay . |
| 8 | Moderator er listening er three double three , listening to Mr 's point er about bringing this in in conjunction with the , the section on baptism erm I think we 're in agreement that it would be more appropriate to raise this as a new section . |
| 9 | I am in hopes that your sister Hattie will come to ease your convalescence at the Rectory . ’ |
| 10 | We must know what these facts are in order that we can properly predict the enforcement of reparation , either specific or compensatory , in case of non-performance . |
| 11 | we are in trouble that you |
| 12 | It may also be through therapy that they 're able to explore that erm . |
| 13 | If I start thinking of It as a person , entitled to a dignified end , the next thing will be of course that I have no right to end It at all . |
| 14 | So eager were the Highlanders to be in action that they charged forward prematurely , to be swept by further fire from the hated artillery as well as by musket shots from the opposing infantry and from a detachment under the 18-year-old [ later Major-General ] James Wolfe , posted on the royal left flank , which took them in enfilade . |
| 15 | So , as far as the , the erm , erm , report is concerned er , if I 've got to make a recommendation , because obviously people have got different views on this one , it would be in fact that we go for total er , information so that people can make up their own minds , and if , and it might be wrong , but they can exercise their own prejudices . |
| 16 | It may well be in fact that there is a consensus about subjective taste , but this is quite different from saying that taste is objective ! |
| 17 | If the firm that you work for closes down , it will usually be beyond dispute that you are redundant . |
| 18 | Thanks be to God that we now perhaps have the opportunity of diverting our resources from the piling up of armaments which threaten our planet 's existence , to tackling the profound injustices and deprivations of the north/south divide . |
| 19 | Both Canada and Argentina admit that it would only be by default that they would take on the task of staging the tournament . |
| 20 | It is only when I am on leave that you do both , and you can use the jeep then . ’ |
| 21 | What was fascinating to me at the time , was their naming of teachers whom I also recognised , from familiarity with the five or six schools in that particular area of south Oxfordshire : I could immediately apply a cross-bearing as it were of confirmation that what indeed singled out these teachers was a vividness of personality , a cheerful infectious enthusiasm and an unusual energy and commitment . |
| 22 | ’ They kidnapped Richard ‘ and smytinge the said Margerie so being with childe that she fell downe as a dead woman there they let her lye , the which was the cause of the saide childe 's deth . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I was only a messenger but it was the closest job to actually being in films that I could get , ’ he told Expression magazine . |
| 24 | She wished desperately that Ellen were in London that she might send Lizzie to judge how Oreste fared and what he understood , but as it was she had no means of knowing . |
| 25 | Well there used to be just me but then they 've employed another one and we were so fed up with being on nights that we said look , I 'm afraid we 've had enough of this , you know so she I said to her how about you allocate us each to a ward you see |
| 26 | A shorthand representation of the above structure would be ‘ It is for X that we have listed the properties … ’ where the element presented as given is ‘ we have listed the properties … for X ’ and the element presented as new is ‘ X = such customers ’ . |
| 27 | This profile is for samples that I just north of South Georgia in the south Atlantic in nineteen eighty six . |
| 28 | It is through literature that we grow into a particular kind of awareness of ourselves and — an inseparable corollary — of our manifold relations with each other and all that is not self , without which there is really not much ‘ self ’ to talk about . |
| 29 | So do French politicians : ‘ it is through Europe that we affirm our presence in space and across the world ’ , declared President Mitterrand at the Le Bourget aerospace show in June 1987 . |
| 30 | It is through change that we grow and discover ourselves , that we begin to actualise some of the myriad possibilities of our lives . |