Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never threaten any action that it is not your real intention to carry out . |
| 2 | ‘ To have intercourse with a woman who is not your wife is , even today , not generally considered to be a course of conduct which the law ought positively to encourage and it can be argued with force that it is only fair to the woman and not in the least unfair to the man that he should be under a duty to take reasonable care to ascertain that she is consenting to the intercourse and be at the risk of a prosecution if he fails to take such care . ’ |
| 3 | Academia is by now a necessary experience , in a manner it is never likely to have looked to Defoe or Dickens — something to be lived , for a time , and not forgotten — but quit in the consciousness that it is ultimately unlivable . |
| 4 | When you know something like that , you have absorbed it so deeply into your consciousness that it is never likely to be displaced , except perhaps by brain-washing or frontal lobotomy . |
| 5 | Mr de Soto tells the president that it is not just the size of Peru 's state sector , which includes several hundred companies as well as the ministries , that burdens the people via the fiscal deficit . |
| 6 | I , I ca n't understand the secretariat allowing this to come out were told by the president that it was not possible to use this money unless it was grant related . |
| 7 | Churchill , backed by the military leaders , persuaded the President that it was too soon for a direct assault on Europe , and that in its place there should be an Anglo-American invasion of North Africa ( Operation Torch ) to link up with the British Army already fighting the Germans and Italians in the Western Desert . |
| 8 | And there was poor Fred , speaking up for the reviled council block in which he , unlike any of the others , lived : ‘ Nay , it 's not that bad , it 's a lot of it exaggeration , ’ he interposed mildly , as Steve repeated the time-worn allegation that it was n't safe to walk under the deck walkways for fear of having a television set or an old mattress chucked on your head : ‘ Nay , it 's not that bad at all . ’ |
| 9 | She looked at her watch and realised with disappointment that it was much earlier than she had expected . |
| 10 | The general theory of the second best then provides the unhelpful result that it is not necessarily better to move prices in those sectors which can easily be adjusted , so as to align more closely with marginal cost . |
| 11 | The first paragraph , for example , comes from p. 10 and the second from p. 13 ; and all the connections Leech and Short make between these pages have been lost , with the result that it is not clear how the first paragraph leads to the second paragraph . |
| 12 | In explosive breeding , all reproductive activity is packed into a few days , with the result that it is highly synchronised . |
| 13 | Satisfactory for a time , this afterwards perished , with the result that it is now almost impossible to find an example where most , if not all , of the leaves are not loose in the binding . |
| 14 | It has also been shaped for ease of packaging , rubberised and refined , with the result that it is often quite tasteless . |
| 15 | So successfully indeed did the Bishops of Saintes oppose the claims of their rival that it was not until the seventeenth century that La Rochelle was allowed to have a cathedral of its own . |
| 16 | The acceptance of a claim within the terms of the Statement of Practice is not an acceptance by the Revenue that it is factually correct . |
| 17 | In the case of Archer-Shee , which is said to have established that such income is income of the beneficiary , it appears to have been conceded by the Revenue that it was not to be so treated as regards liability for Income Tax . |
| 18 | I simply wan na say two things and that is this that within a month if this scheme is to work I believe that the council or the social services committee must draw up a long list of homes which it proposes to close and that long list will be in teams and that must be done not behind closed doors so that people know what is being proposed , we level with people who live in those institutions and they are fully acquainted with our , with our intentions and secondly I think it 's necessary to understand from this programme that it is not just refurbishment programme , it is a refurbishment and closure programme the simple equation being that the money that comes from closures from capital receipts and some revenue savings , actually goes into the rest to refurbish them . |
| 19 | There is only , well there are sixteen hours that er that Norman 's put down for the total technical work supervision on the job , I would have thought that perhaps that might be quite tight , er you know bearing in mind that it 's maybe a job that requires a |
| 20 | Even if this argument is unsuccessful , it should be kept in mind that it is not all security interests which will be prejudiced by automatic crystallisation but only those lacking priority to a crystallised floating charge . |
| 21 | Mm , you 've got to bear in mind that it is actually erm it is n't something you can take for granted , it is something that is a given thing and that er , it can be taken away , that 's the main thing , but |
| 22 | But one has to bear in mind that it is always possible that you could have other materials for riding and so on . |
| 23 | There is no doubt in Sir Adrian 's mind that it is more demanding today being a top executive than it used to be . |
| 24 | You should also bear in mind that it is only once you have reached the end of the road in trying to obtain satisfaction through the Bank 's own complaints system that the Ombudsman will be able to formally consider your complaint . |
| 25 | However , before taking any adverse moral position it should be borne in mind that it is only the existence of such risk takers that allow risk-averse ( such as those described in motives 4 to 5 ) investors to effectively sell the risk of their portfolios or investments . |
| 26 | It flashed across my mind that it was just what he would do , he would n't go to the doctor . |
| 27 | The thought passed through Theodora 's mind that it was almost impossible for a Bishop to enter a room other than dramatically . |
| 28 | So intense is the chameleon 's concentration that it is quite unaware of imminent danger . |
| 29 | I could n't shed the fear that it was n't really happening , that at any minute , some legal snag would get me hauled back to prison . |
| 30 | But Charles had a nagging fear that it was n't that , that Michael Banks really was trying , that he did go through the lines time after time in the evenings , but that his mind could no longer retain them . |