Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] that [ex0] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever since 1945 it had been widely accepted that there was a need to reform local government to bring greater efficiency and more vigour into the system . |
| 2 | But Gray and Gallistel are merely denying that there is any certainty in the selection . |
| 3 | In earlier decades it had been generally agreed that there would be benefits from standardisation , but with the benefits accruing variously to consumers , undertakings generally and appliance manufacturers , while the costs fell on the non-standard undertakings alone , there had been a failure to agree on finance for a common scheme . |
| 4 | I am not saying that unpleasantly : I am just recognising that there is a philosophical divide between us . |
| 5 | He said it had been clearly stated that there would not be any unilateral change in Articles 2 and 3 . |
| 6 | And we are also told that there could be a case where the peasantry had no such effect . |
| 7 | Indeed , it has recently been convincingly argued that there was an extensive network of minor officials , not all necessarily employed in the king 's service full-time , but all involved in some way , and to their own financial advantage . |
| 8 | No doubt I shall be briskly told that there is nothing new about that — and , of course , there is not . |
| 9 | It must be frankly recognized that there is at present no means of providing adequate protection for the people of this country against the consequences of an attack with nuclear weapons . |
| 10 | The 1957 government White Paper on Defence baldly admitted : ‘ It must be frankly recognized that there is at present no means of providing adequate protection for the people of this country against nuclear attack . ’ |
| 11 | Erm I 'm simply saying that there is a possibility of a an inner relief road taking some of the traffic , an inner northern relief road , taking some of the traffic that might otherwise have remained on the A sixty one . |
| 12 | But it can be validly claimed that there is a crisis in at least two senses , identified by Morris ( 1999 : 125 ) . |
| 13 | To walk into a pub function room as I have often done during the ten years I was collecting fieldnotes and see two or three hundred detectives in their ‘ uniform ’ of modern suit and tie , neat haircut , and the fashionable moustache of the times , is to be visibly reminded that there is a narrow symbolic range of bodily correctness within which all policemen can properly operate . |
| 14 | The point has been frequently made that there is no necessary reason why ‘ dog ’ should mean the familiar , faithful , barking , domestic quadruped , which in other languages , gets referred to as chien , Hund , cane , etc . |
| 15 | It was not until the effects of R.A. Smith 's surveys of the evidence county by county , which appeared in the Victoria County History during the years 1900–26 , had been fully felt that there was any appreciable advance . |
| 16 | The potatoes were so filling that there was n't a great deal of room left for all the other foods they usually ate . |
| 17 | Prices and conditions were so controlled that there was little scope for initiative . |
| 18 | That " of course " tells us that even if women were in reality doing other things besides typesetting , almost all commentators were nevertheless agreed that there was such a thing as a " true compositor " who could handle every process of the trade , and that women were being trained to do essentially the simplest part of the work . |
| 19 | They were also hinting that there 's more moves to follow . |
| 20 | The Maronites were later to claim that there had been provocation for the killings but the attack appeared to have been carefully planned . |
| 21 | Some people were openly informed that there would be no special help . |
| 22 | Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) in late August 1989 visited prisons at the request of the government , which claimed that organizations such as the permanent human rights commission ( CPDH ) and the support group for families of political prisoners were falsely estimating that there were between 6,000 and 7,000 inmates . |
| 23 | By the middle of the nineteenth century it had been firmly established that there was something curious about Mercury 's orbit . |
| 24 | Because the level of transactions was so high ahead of the slump in house prices , it is widely believed that there is a substantial number of homeowners waiting to sell when prices do start to recover . |
| 25 | It is widely known that there are harmful effects from inhalation of outfall from a lead works ; for children who ingest it by licking lead-painted toys ; and for families whose drinking water is supplied through lead pipes . |
| 26 | There 's been plenty of speculation about what will be cut and what will be taxed , but it 's widely expected that there 'll be a big increase in the scope of VAT . |
| 27 | The accommodation consisted of semi-converted stables , and it will be known by those acquainted with the residence of horses that the door of a stable is so constructed that there are two gaps , one between the door and the floor and another between the door and the ceiling , and through these gaps blew drafts of freezing cold . |
| 28 | I wish I could join him in the corridor , but now it is so crammed that there is no room . |
| 29 | On many issues , the convergence with the Liberal Democrats is so marked that there may be mileage in cross-party initiatives . |
| 30 | He 's already feeling that there is a counter movement in him which he is prepared to call nature , which links him to Eve and which will lead him to join Eve in her defiance of God . |