Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [that] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are constantly reminded that they are an independent body , and the decisions they will be called upon to make must be based on their own findings from the information put before them . |
| 2 | ‘ They are obviously regretting that they let her start the paper round , but there seemed to be no reason for them to object to it . ’ |
| 3 | We also need Government investment to back up the youth services , teachers and parents so that the next generation of youngsters does not include a minority whose self-discipline , self-esteem and respect for their own future are so lacking that they get kicks from racing stolen cars or lobbing bottles at the police . |
| 4 | Their calls are also very intricate , and the sounds of some of them , the young , sexually mature humpback males , are so haunting that they have become a best-selling record . |
| 5 | Some have been toppled , and some are so eroded that they appear to be nothing more than wind-scoured boulders . |
| 6 | In fact , these two warts are so enlarged that they look like long swellings behind the animal 's eyes , covered with pores through which the poison seeps . |
| 7 | Some people have average abilities , but are so driven that they get their way . |
| 8 | ‘ Teaching at home is a bloody waste of time — the students are so alienated that they are just not interested . ’ |
| 9 | Artificial languages have been constructed for which it is possible to ascribe unique , non-zero probabilities to generalizations , but the languages are so restricted that they contain no universal generalizations . |
| 10 | I am not alleging that they are mechanically unsafe , but when people go to parties or dances they find that some of the buses are not clean and up to the standard that they had come to expect when buses were under local authority control . |
| 11 | ‘ He said ‘ I am not saying that they are happy but the treatment has been unfair and exaggerated in the papers ’ . ’ |
| 12 | an awful lot from teachers , you know , we 're just expecting that they know everything about sex education . |
| 13 | Surely you 're not suggesting that they had anything to do with his death ? ’ |
| 14 | No , but we 're not , we 're not arguing that they 're not working . |
| 15 | Well could you , could you expand on that , cos you 're not saying that they , it 's actually passed from people 's D N A ? |
| 16 | Chairman , if , if I may and it is just basically to look at the recommendation and wonder you know perhaps if we 've got it the right way round er that 's all , where we 're saying er there are certain things still outstanding wh which we would need to re-relate before er issuing er general conformity notices I understand b but we 're almost taking that they 're going to do that without any doubt , now I do n't know maybe there are things not said in this report which are well understood , but and members of are quite happy to accept erm er s some more more changes to , to the local plan so that it does conform with with the structure plan , but I just wondered whether round the wrong way . |
| 17 | People are always complaining that they do not have enough work space/dumping space , but it may well be what they really need is better organized storage . |
| 18 | In the United States it has been clearly demonstrated that they do . |
| 19 | The idea has been carefully propagated that they lead a ‘ middle-class ’ way of life . |
| 20 | A curious situation has emerged in which the Khmer Rouge guerrillas , who boycotted the election , are now saying that they will resume the war if the CPP , their most-hated enemy , does not respect the results . |
| 21 | When one begins to take passages of Scripture and to ask how those can be so presented that they speak with equal force and with the same intended meaning as when they were originally communicated , all kinds of possibilities emerge . |
| 22 | The most influential policy norm in the Maud proposals was that local government services should be so organised that they were made available on the most economic basis possible , having regard to economies of scale . |
| 23 | What I 'd like to do is to help them to see that they do n't need to give up on the computer , that they can actually be the master of it , although of course I do n't I 'm not suggesting that they become programmers — that would be to abdicate their function in another way — but certainly they can understand it , and I think of course it keeps coming back to this issue over and over again , an issue about education . |
| 24 | Yes I think that probably this had been er very wise in this er in so I 'm not saying that they 've helped us or anything but they 've kept the middle of the line and erm In the beginning when things were beginning to whatsit er the inspector sent two policemen down here and asked me would I ask the lads not to do any damage to property and all this , and that and said , Right there 's a lodge tonight and I shall ask them I shall tell them to do that . |
| 25 | I 'm not saying that they are uneconomical , but there may be the odd one or two cases , like the of Berwick St James is a fine example , when it became uneconomical to maintain that school for the number of pupils which were attending , or proposed to be taken in the near future , and it was a sensible option for those children , and economically to close that school . |
| 26 | I 'm not saying that they should n't make a mess or like that |
| 27 | I 'm just saying that they could 've gone |
| 28 | One driver told the interviewer : ‘ I 'm always thinking that they 're sat back in the office thinking ‘ Where has he got to ’ , and it puts you on edge so I always drive faster in a company car because time is against me . ’ |
| 29 | Non-Company ( such as maintenance contract ) staff must be clearly instructed that they must adhere strictly to all safety procedures with particular reference to fire evacuation and the whereabouts of such persons must be known by the warehouse management , a member of which should undertake the responsibility for control . |
| 30 | Their general demeanour was like that of elderly clubmen determined that it should be clearly understood that they were men of the world , fully alive to all the tricks of your Tom , Dick and Harry ; yet their actual questions and comments revealed that they had not the remotest notion what sort of a world it was that these East End people they were listening to actually lived in , or how to evaluate their characters and the plausibility of what they said . |