Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [that] an " in BNC.

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1 Regarding that point , when the right hon. Gentleman saw President Yeltsin did he explain to him why until very recently this Government have said that a minimum effective deterrent is 512 nuclear warheads and why they are now saying that an effective deterrent could be fewer than 192 nuclear warheads ?
2 It can not be sensibly suggested that an estate agent is contractually bound to disclose to any one of his principals information which is confidential to another of his principals .
3 This is an interesting passage because Platt B. is effectively saying that an undertaking to pay this excessive charge had been extracted from the clerk before he commenced his search and that he could not honestly have gone back on that undertaking .
4 It is generally accepted that an analysis of functions ( ie using the FAI ) is a prerequisite to the use of the other instruments , as illustrated in 14.4 , which shows the planned sequence of application for the study ; moving from the method tailoring phase to the development of the requirements specification , followed by an evaluation of the proposed system in the final stages using the Benefits Analysis Instrument .
5 It is generally assumed that an individual candidate has little influence on voting behavior : party is the decisive factor , though the candidate can have some impact .
6 It is also assumed that an individual 's response to an item will be completely independent of his or her response to any other items in the test .
7 It is often said that an assault can be committed only by an act and that an omission is not sufficient .
8 It is even suggested that an homogeneous technological base will erase the distinctions between archives , libraries and museums ( Rayward 1993 ) .
9 Similarly it is well known that an easy item following a difficult one appears to be more difficult .
10 It is well known that an original tenant remains liable on the covenants in the lease , even after an assignment .
11 It is sometimes argued that an experienced programmer can detect the ‘ general shape ’ of a particular high-level language X from blocks of machine code , just by hunch and judgement , but this ignores the possibility that the code may have been written in language Y with the syntactic style of X precisely in order to create this confusion ; just as one can murmur English with a German intonation and cause a distant listener to believe he is listening to unintelligible German .
12 It is therefore expected that an inversion event would coincide with a major phase of migration , as previously suggested by Oele et al. ( 1981 ) .
13 In its northern part wheat was almost unknown , in the whole tract lying between Holkham and Lynn not an ear was to be seen , and it was scarcely believed that an ear could be made to grow .
14 It was also accepted that an increase in PAF was necessary with perhaps a higher fee for active teachers with an associate fee for non-teaching teachers .
15 It was also revealed that an unnamed Slovenian currency had been printed .
16 It was also recognised that an ‘ information gap ’ existed in relation to the knowledge of entrepreneurs as to the sources of finance available to small firms .
17 It was also agreed that an independent commission of inquiry would be established in Mopti in northern Mali on Feb. 19 and that talks would continue in Algeria on Feb. 15 [ see also p. 38708 for details of Tuareg rebellion in Niger ] .
18 It was therefore decided that an interview would be the best way of exploring the issues and would be particularly useful for the more qualitative type of issue .
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