Example sentences of "[noun sg] that it be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His skill at hunting living prey increased each day until he could stoop on a hare from half a mile away , judging its path and speeding his attack so that he hit it with such force that it was dead before his talons fully closed on it . |
| 2 | After being degraded to the level of a vegetable market , the Piece Hall was rightly recognized as an architectural and industrial monument that it was important to preserve , and part of it now houses the town 's Textile Museum , which is open throughout the year . |
| 3 | Daum said that he had thought before Wednesday 's 4-1 defeat that it was possible to field four non-German players . |
| 4 | The UK Parliament is certainly not widely regarded as being at all competent in the scrutiny which it exercises over public spending , and few people are under the illusion that it is difficult for government departments to deceive MPs and Select Committees about necessary levels of expenditure and unnecessary levels of waste . |
| 5 | But nobody should be under the illusion that it is likely to solve any problems . |
| 6 | They have also been attacked by the courts , with the result that it is difficult to see what practical effect such clauses might be thought to have . |
| 7 | Bearing in mind that it is essential to include your own product somewhere in the prize structure , consider the size of the top prize vis-a-vis the second tier of prizes , whether there should be more than two tiers of prizes or whether there should be , say , 50 or 100 prizes of equal weight . |
| 8 | It has come to my mind that it is contrasting er spiritual |
| 9 | Er there 's no doubt in my mind that it was efficient erm and it was , it was controlling time . |
| 10 | In deciding to take no action against the licence , Mr Peter said that he bore in mind that it was due to be renewed shortly when he would want a report on the company 's arrangements in regard to drivers ' hours and records . |
| 11 | There is no doubt in my mind that it was old — very , very old and I would think pre-dated the houses by several hundred years . |
| 12 | Sex was n't a problem in Sarah and Tom 's marriage — they just wanted confirmation that it was OK to do without it . |
| 13 | Now , new offices were being built for it on the other side of the road , but they were not quite ready , and meantime , the new publisher from the East and his editors functioned in an atmosphere of such utter confusion that it is doubtful if an efficiency expert could even have fought his way in through the door . |
| 14 | It is no mere epilogue , but a striking demonstration that it was possible for men and women to co-operate in the printing trade . |
| 15 | At first she had thought with a shock of fear that it was old age , that old age was like silicon , water-soluble , it flowed into you and as you dried out , it hardened , recasting you in blurred shapes and muted tones . |
| 16 | Any match of nine tries ( five by Stanley 's ) is bound to be entertaining but Oxford committed so many errors in every department that it was hard to keep a straight face while assessing their contribution . |
| 17 | So common is this way of thinking in social research that it is difficult to recapture its radical and innovative character . |
| 18 | It is an advantage of the analysis offered in the last chapter that it is capable of accounting for authority over a group on the basis of authority relations between individuals . |
| 19 | If the target word was the only word selected at a particular position and was below the threshold score then it was replaced by ‘ ? ? ? ’ — the recogniser 's indication that it is unable to recognise any word . |
| 20 | Standards such as those on depreciation and current cost accounting are so different from current practice that it is impossible to rationalize them . |
| 21 | But not the manual steering , which again has such an effect on the driving character of the car that it is impossible to overlook . |
| 22 | However , one still hears all sorts of rumours to the effect that it is possible for others to obtain information , yet one or two of my constituents found it difficult to obtain information about the identity of a car owner involved in an accident . |
| 23 | the holder of a valid certificate in a form supplied by the Secretary of State , containing the information required by it , and signed by a medical practitioner to the effect that it is inadvisable on medical grounds for him to wear a seatbelt ; |
| 24 | Biting back a retort to the effect that it was doubtful if Campion Price would even recognise her , Gina said equably , ‘ I 'll try to fit a visit in . ’ |
| 25 | The ‘ eminent doctors ’ had given evidence in the trial to the effect that it was acceptable to ‘ invoke a regime of starvation and sedation to quickly speed the demise of the handicapped child . ’ |
| 26 | Nevertheless , this approach has been included in the Department of Health guidelines ( DHSS 1984 ) with the recommendation that it is essential that each new intake of junior medical staff receives adequate psychiatric training in the assessment of attempted suicide patients , and that the physicians have regular access to psychiatrists to ensure that clinical standards are maintained . |
| 27 | So it our recommendation that it is premature at this pro frozen moment of time particularly with the additional thoughts of the inner northern relief road to be considering in a structure plan a western relief road . |
| 28 | I mean I have n't decided whether you are n't such a pig that it 's crazy to get involved with you again . |
| 29 | Notably , it produced the clearest suggestion yet from the Soviet side that it was willing to compromise in the 45-year-old territorial dispute between the two countries . |
| 30 | I accept [ counsel 's ] submission that it is relevant for this court to have regard to the fact that in Australia there is no longer any home or any financial support for the mother and for the boys , a situation for which the mother bears no greater responsibility than the father . |