Example sentences of "be [verb] that it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it not been realised that it was the work of a humble man , this poem would be thought a sacrilege and an example of striking pride and arrogance , but instead it is an invitation to extreme exaltation of spirit for it comes from a man who has submerged his ego in the All . |
| 2 | Earlier Griffin has bemoaned the fact that ‘ throughout our educational system students are taught that it is unscientific to ask what an animal thinks or feels ’ ( 1984 : vii ) . |
| 3 | A man stays in line because he has been taught that it is wrong not to . |
| 4 | Polygamy is now going out of favour , especially as the risk of contracting AIDS through multiple sexual partners is high , and as women become more liberated they are demanding that it be made illegal . |
| 5 | Staff and students are reminded that it is their responsibility to ensure that all books on loan to them from the Library are kept securely , in good condition , away from harmful environments , and readily accessible to Library staff in the event of their being required for other readers . |
| 6 | Teachers are reminded that it is necessary to notify the office if they have candidates for this award . |
| 7 | Especially when they are tipped that it was you who topped him . ’ |
| 8 | It will have been noticed that it was common for more than one child in a family to enter the same trade , and our sample very strikingly demonstrates the importance of sisterhood . |
| 9 | It had just been decided that it was not possible that the coffin in a horizontal position could be manoeuvred around the many angles of doors and walls between there and the front door . |
| 10 | It has been said that it is best not to know too much about salami and other sausages , in the same way that ignorance about haggis aids its enjoyment and easy digestion . |
| 11 | It has been said that it is unsporting to receive help from another angler when you catch a fish . |
| 12 | It has of course been said that it is possible to practice veterinary medicine and that many doctors do not communicate in any language but it has to be said that there is room for improvement . |
| 13 | In the annual report of the Ministry of Health it had been said that it was the practice , in some wards , to require a casual who was locked in a cell by himself to break a given quantity of stone , often very hard , down to a specified standard of size which was reached when it could be passed through a ring : |
| 14 | I heard it had been said that it was discouraged but er |
| 15 | Although its size is not yet known , suggestions have been made that it was larger than a normal auxiliary fort and may have accommodated either a vexillation , possibly of Legio IX , whose tile-works may have been situated some 8 km ( 5 miles ) south of Carlisle at Scalesceugh , ( though the stamped tiles from there may belong to a slightly later period ) , or the Ala Petriana before its transfer to Stanwix over the river . |
| 16 | Under SSAP 24 and UITF 6 these long-term obligations are accounted for on a full provision basis , even though in many cases it is likely that they will continually roll over , and it has been argued that it is difficult to justify a prohibition , as SSAP 15 would otherwise require , on the related deferred tax being treated on a similar basis if it , too , continually rolls over . |
| 17 | Under SSAP 24 and UITF 6 these long-term obligations are accounted for on a full provision basis , even though in many cases it is likely that they will continually roll over ( ie as one obligation is settled another will arise ) and it has been argued that it is difficult to justify a prohibition , as SSAP 15 would otherwise require , on the related deferred tax being treated on a similar basis if it , too , continually rolls over . |
| 18 | It has been argued that it is wrong for such a body to impose even a limited check on the activities of an elected Government . |
| 19 | It has been argued that it is the individual not the institution who is creative and that the schools can only adopt the ideas of individuals . |
| 20 | It has already been accepted that it is possible to de-MIRV ballistic missiles . |
| 21 | ‘ I am implying that it 's unnatural , and I want you to talk to your father . |
| 22 | Because if you 're told that it 's going to get a maximum of three minutes air time , and if the interviewer wants to ask five questions , you think there are five topics that you would like to get in , to make five points , then do a bit of mathematics , and work out how long you think each answer should be . |
| 23 | We 're told that it is not a commercial fish to breed in large numbers and that it is species more suited for the specialist or advanced hobbyist . |
| 24 | By this time next month we 're just about at the solstice we 're find that it 's not getting light until about seven o'clock in the morning and it 's getting dark again by about half past three . |
| 25 | That there 's an attempt here to trying to save as many of those jobs as possible and I do n't take the insurances of the gone through the system now , but exactly true you 're saying that it is . |
| 26 | We , we 're assured that it 's all anonymous . |
| 27 | You 're forgetting that it 's Hilary you would have to turn to if you want me taken out . |
| 28 | Various other studies have , however , attempted to do this ; the usual technique has been to suggest that it is a particular psychological characteristic that is inherited and which leads ‘ naturally ’ to crime . |
| 29 | And I am told that it is not advisable to use the same batch of acid for etching copper as has been used for etching zinc because the deposits of two metals in the acid creates erm an unpleasant , noxious , possibly poisonous gas and I do n't know what that would do . |
| 30 | Unpleasant symptoms are a lot easier to cope with if you know you have Whatsisname 's Syndrome than if you 've been told that it 's ‘ all in your mind ’ . |