Example sentences of "[adv] [that] [pron] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wavy black hair curled behind his ears so thickly that she was reminded of an Ingres portrait of a nobleman she had seen in one of Miss Hatherby 's books . |
| 2 | Better that it 's used to revamp the old chestnut about ‘ how many electricians does it take to change a lightbulb ? ’ in the form of ‘ how many reissues does it take to relaunch a band 's career ? ’ |
| 3 | Audiences in South Wales liked her so much that she was invited to return there to sing time after time . |
| 4 | Especially that it 's headed by Mrs Grigorovich , Natalya Bessmertnova . |
| 5 | Skin tones varied , and scars like scarlet ropes ran about the anatomy , so that one was reminded of a butcher 's diagram . |
| 6 | Will the Home Secretary expedite his consideration and either grant a posthumous pardon or at least instigate a public inquiry , so that what is regarded as the greatest injustice of our post-war criminal justice system left unremedied will be put right before the last member of the Bentley family dies without knowing the result ? |
| 7 | Dr. John Whitcomb , professor of Theology and Old Testament at Grace Theological Seminary in Winona Lake , Indiana , summed it up very well when on page 52 of his book ‘ The Early Earth ’ , he wrote , ‘ the testimony of an honest evolutionist could be expressed in terms of Hebrews 11:3 as follows , ‘ By faith , I , an evolutionist , understand that the worlds were not framed by the word of any god , so that what is seen has indeed been made out of previously existing and less complex visible things , by purely natural processes through billions of years ’ . ’ |
| 8 | In addition there is , as yet , no consensus of opinion among Keynes scholars over his treatment of the labour market so that what is presented here must be regarded as the personal view of the author . |
| 9 | It is also , very importantly , of two kinds : short term and long term ; so that what is recalled in the short term ( the classic example is a string of numbers ) may fade rapidly from the memory , while other elements of the communication , which are not so easy to recall immediately , stay in the mind long afterwards . |
| 10 | I want to question my belief , so that what is left after I have questioned it , will be even stronger . ’ |
| 11 | The question was : could the situation be resolved by improving the integration of the thought and design processes , so that what was built better achieved what was intended ? |
| 12 | A complete and intentional obliteration of a will or any part of it , so that what was written can no longer be seen , amounts to a revocation of what is obliterated ; but merely striking words through with a pen or altering them has no effect , unless the cancellation or alteration is signed by the testator and attested by two witnesses like a new will . |
| 13 | In her forty-four year life , Mary ruled for only six , so that we are faced with another thirty-eight years when she had virtually no role in her kingdom , being a minor and absentee ruler for the first nineteen , and a deposed queen for the second . |
| 14 | This essentially rational nature of the human essence explains why thought — such thought as Spinoza tries to express in his work — can influence our behaviour , so that we are guided by conceptions of good and evil . |
| 15 | May the merciful God hold his hand over us so that we are guided in his way and seek for peace which he has prepared for us . |
| 16 | And part of the reason of course the dialect is gone is that we unconsciously sort of translate what we 're going to say into good English so that we 're understood . |
| 17 | So that we 're prepared within the Rural Housing Trust to look at all these ideas , and we 've been looking at the whole question , we feel that this has got to be one for the planners , the planners must be involved in identifying where these problems lie , they 're not uniform , all across the country , er and it 's something that er we therefore need to use the planning er scenario entirely and fully in order to identify where the problem lies . |
| 18 | We went off to parade for lunch ; this meant ten minutes doing press-ups with the Corporal halting us in mid exercise so that we were poised between the ground and the arms-stretched position — as our limbs weakened so people started to slump and collapse , which resulted in kicks and blows . |
| 19 | As we pulled through a grove of bedraggled trees , the horse shied violently and stood up on its hind legs , neighing , between the shafts , so that we were tipped backwards . |
| 20 | There were no cinemas or pubs or dances so that we were forced to find pleasure in the ordinary things which surrounded us , the sky and books and the changing seasons . |
| 21 | to look at er , a P R job about changing the way those resources are used so that they 're used in the way that 's been talked away , er , talked about tonight which is way that clearly many wo , many women want to see them being used . |
| 22 | Recent health promotion has therefore concentrated on developing children 's self confidence and ‘ refusing skills ’ so that they are empowered beyond ‘ just saying no . ’ |
| 23 | Similarly Joseph Priestley concluded that men were treated as ‘ mere brutes ’ in the slave trade ‘ so that they are deprived of every advantage of their rational nature ’ . |
| 24 | Brush one edge of the strips with a dampened brush and carefully place them against the cake so that they are supported by the cocktail sticks . |
| 25 | Expressions like , ‘ at this moment in time ’ , ‘ in this day and age ’ , ‘ part and parcel ’ may be practised so that they are recognized and ignored . |
| 26 | I thought Eng v SM was 16th & Pol vs Hol 17th but I 've heard that they 've been rescheduled so that they are played at the same time . |
| 27 | You can take cuttings in summer of this kind of herb and keep them protected through the winter , or shield the parent plants in some way , so that they are sheltered from the worst of the cold and wind . |
| 28 | Whatever the wedding organizers decide , it is important to let the toastmaster and the speechmakers know , so that they are prepared and do not disappear at the vital moment . |
| 29 | Communication is an activity in which there is a sharing of thoughts , ideas , information , feelings , so that they are understood . |
| 30 | It preserves a relative autonomy for cultural and ideological elements ( musical structures and song lyrics , for example ) but also insists that those combinatory patterns that are actually constructed do mediate deep , objective patterns in the socio-economic formation , and that the mediation takes place in struggle : the classes fight to articulate together constituents of the cultural repertoire in particular ways so that they are organized in terms of principles or sets of values determined by the position and interests of the class in the prevailing mode of production . |