Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [adv] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each replied that he did not wish to see him without consulting his solicitor as the depositions had been taken and it was understood that nothing further was required other than a date to be set for the trial . |
| 2 | But the likelihood is that everyone else is consuming the same product ; with the inexorable rise in the number of books in print , there are now approaching 600,000 different titles to choose from , allowing each of us to tailor our reading precisely to our own individual needs and preferences . |
| 3 | There are other factors that recommend elimination , not least being the fact that everyone else is moving in the same direction ; so if British car makers want to sell their vehicles abroad , as surely they must , they must make car engines that run without lead . |
| 4 | As Adam Woolf of Crisis explains : ‘ Our perception is that everyone else is enjoying themselves at Christmas with roast turkey , mince pies and pudding . |
| 5 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 6 | The splendour of the room never failed to unsettle him , and the fact that everyone else was going through the same series of salutations did nothing to make him feel more comfortable . |
| 7 | Check that no-one else is infected , not just in the family but other possible contacts too , such as your children 's friends . |
| 8 | She tried to reason with them , to point out that I too was injured . |
| 9 | The more I read of the early months of Nicholas MacMahon the more convinced I became that I too was rearing a prodigy . |
| 10 | My first impression was how well everything runs and in saying that I really am paying a tribute to previous chairmen . |
| 11 | I do admit though that I really was looking for someone special ! ’ |
| 12 | there is an abiding dream in American literature that an unpatterned , unconditioned life is possible … there is also an abiding American dread that someone else is patterning your life , that there are all sorts of invisible plots afoot to rob you of your autonomy of thought and action . |
| 13 | If you examine the way people are behaving you may discover that someone else is acting as unofficial leader . |
| 14 | In addition , the existing nurses , who were given undertakings when the trust was set up that their posts would be protected , are now being told that all their jobs are up for re-examination and that anyone seeking extra education will soon be told that someone else is waiting to take her position — |
| 15 | Mr Bowles refused to go as his wife was ill and asked that someone else be sent to Scotland . |
| 16 | ‘ I always felt the pull between loyalty to ICI and a working life I enjoyed and the thought that someone else was looking after my children ’ . |
| 17 | I have warned before of the dangers of the celebrity publisher interview , and I 'm glad to seen that someone else was listening . |
| 18 | ‘ If it 'd been my missus , I 'd 've been relieved that someone else was taking an interest . |
| 19 | Mum and Dad could relax knowing that the children were being looked after , that someone else was cooking the meals and that every evening would bring some form of entertainment . |
| 20 | Circumstantial evidence could take the form of showing the defendant wished to cover up an offence committed by himself , such as driving over the prescribed limit , being involved in an accident and then , as mentioned ( C ) 2 ante alleging that someone else was driving at the time of the accident . |
| 21 | He said he 'd been to the pub and had 2 pints and that someone else was driving . |
| 22 | Even the fact that someone inside is writing fieldnotes will produce unease , as I have experienced ; and their collation can almost certainly be tantamount to something akin to espionage ; for as Sean Conlin ( 1980 ) observed : ‘ often our work can seem ‘ political ’ rather than scientific ’ . |
| 23 | Well I think I , I mean I do agree and I think that the that er that pressure is now getting on to these , these city institutions , but erm , but I still come back to the basic thing that , that really , you know what appears to me is happening is we 've we 're having literally millions of pounds taken out in , in issuing these massive massive writs you know , a hundred and seventy eight page writs are sort of being and really the money for those is coming out of the remaining money in our pension funds and really I feel that what wou what is happening is this , as far as I 'm concerned , is all due to the self-regulatory body being set under the Financial Services Act , and in a way I feel that you know we 're being made to pay for sorting out a mess that somebody else is making . |
| 24 | The Mayor and Corporation made their way back and grouped themselves round the cart , glad that somebody else was making the decisions . |
| 25 | He professed to be unnerved by Wordsworth 's towering self-esteem , which he judged a form of dementia because Wordsworth himself considered that nobody else was elevated enough to measure it . |
| 26 | He liked the look of the aircraft and at that time it was a type that nobody else was flying in the UK . |
| 27 | This clause , crisply abbreviated to the phrase ‘ no peace beyond the line ’ , recognized that the Spanish were not going to admit that anyone was entitled to contest the Papal award and also that nobody else was going to take it seriously . |
| 28 | Nobody knew that she really was playing with the local children , in her own way . |
| 29 | No , Saturday , well she 's got little jobs that she like 's to do you know at home |
| 30 | She looked a bit uncomfortable , from which Theodora inferred that she too was going to divulge professional information . |