Example sentences of "be [pers pn] [adj] [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 Are you still seeing that Robbie Felton ? ’
2 Because we do give a training course we do n't send you know , are you happy to consider that that that there 's a two-way opportunity ?
3 Are we correct to assume that media coverage helps to excuse or justify police aggression ?
4 Are we right to think that this system , if system it can be called , is unsatisfactory ?
5 Is it possible to arrange that they be given blanks and do n't know which are the blanks and which are the real , because otherwise there 's a risk after you 've done this the schools will suspect that they 're low , and therefore they will add a little on to their blank or something like that .
6 No more is it possible to claim that the strict code of social morality and convention which helped to sustain the political system was held in place from outside against the will of most Japanese people .
7 Accepting for a moment this kind of argument , the question is , is it possible to argue that there is some accepted component of grammar that is non-autonomous with respect to pragmatics ( i.e. some component requiring pragmatic input ) ?
8 Is , is it possible to argue that the south is fundamentally different in terms of its ?
9 Successive Secretaries of State have stated that only by the unvarying observance of this practice is it possible to ensure that in no circumstances is anything said or not said which , by comparison with what was said on a different occasion , might imply that a warrant had or had not been issued .
10 Quite apart from the earlier argument about reification , is it legitimate to assume that the development of the whole school will be achieved by the collective professional development of its teachers ?
11 Nor is it unreasonable to assume that given a sufficient respite they hoped that Britain 's own nuclear force might become strong enough to act as a deterrent to a Soviet attack on the home islands .
12 However if this undefined elephant arises , bearing in mind the time the development planning process takes , is it reasonable to think that the elephant would wait around long enough for that to happen ?
13 Is it correct to say that the tramps actually used to make a special point of coming to see your father ?
14 Is it necessary to show that the defendant subjectively knew of the dishonest design or merely that he ought to have known ?
15 ‘ I must not be understood to be laying down a rule that in no case where a wife acts on her husband 's instructions and under his influence is it necessary to show that she has received independent advice .
16 Copying need not entail the whole of the work , not is it necessary to prove that it was done intentionally .
17 Nor is it fashionable to admit that even monsters have their uses .
18 Note : Is it fair to add that Gustave 's journal offers a different version of the story ?
19 Nowhere in Thucydides ' account is it safe to think that this expression includes the Spartans , and in the operations in the Megarid the Corinthians , and only the Corinthians , are mentioned by name on the Peloponnesian side .
20 Neither is it valid to assume that a full stop indicates sentence termination .
21 In these circumstances is it realistic to assume that workers , particularly workers covered by union agreements , make significant blunders in dividing W by P ?
22 If he 's back to basics , but is it realistic to suggest that there will that all concealed households will disappear ?
23 Nor is it sensible to wish that it were otherwise , since raptures , aesthetic , erotic , intellectual , mystical , in which the spontaneous floods the whole of consciousness , can lift us to heights of awareness beyond our ordinary capacities .
24 Is it sensible to consider that this natural intelligence or healing power would produce a situation that was without a purpose , for which no reason existed and which was harmful to the person when considered as a whole ?
25 ‘ How far is it true to say that VIETNAM became a quicksand that sucked the USA into an unwanted war ? ’
26 In what sense is it true to say that a watch or an airliner or an earwig or a person is complex , but the moon is simple ?
27 But is Mr Kinnock wise , having trimmed — having trimmed to a wiser policy , but all the same egregiously trimmed — is he wise to insist that the British people respect Labour for the changes it has made ?
28 Was it correct to assume that women were invisible in the public domain because their interests as ‘ partners ’ in the family were adequately and fairly represented there by men ?
29 But was it right to argue that British banking suffers from overcapacity ?
30 Was it insulting to assume that mothers still raised their children ?
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