Example sentences of "[vb -s] [that] [pers pn] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He adds that it is nature 's intention , for the purposes of generation , that some foetuses should turn out female . |
| 2 | First of all they say that if she thinks that they 're waxworks she should pay , and then they say that if she thinks that they are real , she should be talking to them . |
| 3 | Dr Dowling thinks that it is time that we stopped ‘ tinkering at the edges of the problem ’ of the preregistration year and totally rethought our responses to it . |
| 4 | Mitsubishi Electric Corp is said to be looking to the second source agreement with Digital Equipment Corp on the Alpha RISC to build a new base for its semiconductor business : the company gave up manufacturing its own mainframe and mid-range computers several years ago , in favour of selling IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co machines on an OEM basis , and focusing its strategy on client-server systems , where it was assisted by its purchase of the Apricot Computers Ltd hardware division — but Apricot insists that it is 100% wedded to the Intel Corp iAPX-86 architecture and has no plans to build Alpha machines , although if the instruction comes in from Tokyo , it wo n't have much option ; there is an element of two-timing in Mitsubishi Electric signing up with DEC because it is already a member of the Hewlett-Packard Precision RISC Organisation . |
| 5 | The argument goes that it is women who are in fact doing all the reproducing of labour power and servicing other people 's escapes . |
| 6 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper of his client as ‘ an important , refined , knowledgeable collector ’ , he says that it is Lloyd Webber 's intention to ‘ buy only world-class art already in Britain with the aim of keeping it here ’ . |
| 7 | Nokia Oy , Helsinki says that it is increase its capital base with an international placing of about $100m of new preference shares ; no details yet . |
| 8 | Taking an existentialist approach , he says that it is God who delivers us into freedom , which is not something which we can accomplish for ourselves . |
| 9 | He says that it 's part of the town 's heritage . |
| 10 | He says that it 's rubbish — the recession is n't over , and anyone can see this just by looking at the number of failed businesses . |
| 11 | He says that it 's rubbish — the recession is n't over , and anyone can see this just by looking at the number of failed businesses . |
| 12 | Keynes has shown that he and his brothers , six of them according to Florence of Worcester , appear in the witness lists of royal charters for some time before 1006 ; but it was in 1007 that Eadric received his ealdormanry , and Florence says that it was Eadric who had Ælfhelm murdered and the king who blinded his sons . |
| 13 | The relatives of both Leofsige , abbot of Ely from 1029 to 1044 , and of Ælfwine , bishop of Elmham in Cnut 's reign , granted estates in Norfolk , Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to Ely when their sons entered the monastery , and the Liber Eliensis says that it was Leofsige 's own policy to accept no monk who was not well-educated and of good birth , so that the church might be enriched by liberality . |
| 14 | But she says that she 's years ago she used to put an onion in her ear or something . |
| 15 | ‘ There 's a guy on the phone says that he 's Linford Christie , the European Indoor athletics ’ champion , and he badly needs help . ’ |
| 16 | He says that he 's nt been offered a grant , and the case has been refered to higher officials . |
| 17 | Recent research by White ( 1989 ) confirms that it was internment , in particular , which galvanised young , working-class Catholics into adopting political violence . |
| 18 | TIM PEACOCK joins them on the road and discovers that they 're dab hands at snooker , Ian T Tilton gets them in the frame . |
| 19 | TIM PEACOCK joins them on the road and discovers that they 're dab hands at snooker , Ian T Tilton gets them in the frame . |
| 20 | This shows that they are words you are mentioning , or borrowing from another type of discourse , rather than words which you are using " in your own voice " . |
| 21 | He cranes to catch sight of her face , and as she turns towards him he sees that it is St Julian of Norwich . |
| 22 | Mellor , again , who realises that it was irascibility over broadcasters in general that got the then government into the fine mess from which he had to extract it . |
| 23 | Yes , whether they can actually , whether they 've got the skills to silver serve , if your menu requires that it 's silver served then , then , yes clearly you would need to consider that . |
| 24 | Although it does n't quite tie-up with the listing of Sugar 's operations , Albert Wallace 's logbook states that it was Sugar 's ‘ 130th Operation ’ . |
| 25 | The friend replies that it was A. For Wigner the electron 's wavepacket then collapses into the state in which the spin is definitely " up " . |
| 26 | She apologizes to Thrift for having been angry , then remembers that it was Thrift that had dictated her previous parsimonious , sparing applications , and is confused . |
| 27 | It hints that it is politicians , not disposal plants , which make the two places differ . |
| 28 | They are very pretty , but somewhat ludicrously sentimental ; that is , when one reflects that it was Rousseau that wrote them . |
| 29 | But gradually it emerges that it is Michael who is the real success . |
| 30 | Every other group produces more sophisticated results than yours , your own results seem to vanish in the general feedback , and to cap it all she then shows you work which is more sophisticated than any of yours , probably containing a result which is on the A level further mathematics syllabus , and declares that it is work from mixed-ability 13 year olds ! |