Example sentences of "that the [noun] [be] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Do you think that the Americans are being over-cautious about this or are we perhaps being a bit lax ?
2 Do you think that the Americans are being over-cautious about this or are we perhaps being a bit lax ?
3 I would agree that the scientist being is probably is constant withdrawal from his because he ca n't cope with what 's going on around him , whilst he is in his scientific research .
4 It is the purpose that the premises are being used for , rather than the purpose of the visitor , that is important .
5 Held , allowing the appeal , that , where a creditor knew that security was being taken for the benefit of a debtor from a surety who was likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor , the creditor should seek to ensure that unfair advantage was not taken of the surety ; that , if the creditor failed to do so and the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by the debtor 's undue influence or material misrepresentation or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction , the security would be unenforceable ; that the bank knew that the defendants were husband and wife and that the wife was being asked to provide security for the husband 's business and was likely to rely on his judgment , and they should have ensured that she understood the nature and effect of the document which she was asked to sign ; and that , since the bank had failed to do so and had left it to the husband to explain the transaction , so that as a result of the husband 's misrepresentation the wife entered into the charge on the misunderstanding that her liability was limited to £60,000 , they could not enforce the charge against the wife save to the extent of £60,000 ( post , pp. 620C–G , 622F — 623C , D–F , 635G — 636F ) .
6 We might say that the narrator is being fucked by the same in the position of the other — a formulation intentionally ambiguous as to who exactly is in the position of the other , since it is both : the narrator is in the position of the woman being fucked by the other of woman ( man ) .
7 Is the Minister aware that there is a feeling among farmers that the Ministry is being less helpful than it used to be in dealing with compensation claims arising from low flying by jets or helicopters ?
8 When her husband returns , she first pretends that the cat has taken them , but when he does not believe this reassures him that the birds are being kept hot and that he should fetch his knife to cut them .
9 The Koreans have become increasingly angry that the tour was being turned into a war between the royal couple .
10 He got the strange feeling that the dragon was being made more genuine .
11 The Rwandan government repeated the accusation , as made in connection with the invasion of October 1990 , that the FPR was being assisted by the Ugandan army .
12 They say there 's no evidence that the land is being damaged , in fact it 's undergrazed .
13 It is ironic that the changes are being adopted just after the dismemberment by the Government of the Nature Conservancy Council , mainly at the instigation of Scottish Office .
14 He should be asked to mention in his statement the fact that the vehicle was being used by virtue of the trade licence .
15 And did you think that the Germans were were bad or ?
16 It is clear from the above that the rules are being bent to the benefit of some .
17 Everyone knew that the rules were being stretched , but it took a skilled operator to persuade an official to ignore evidence that was blatantly paraded before him .
18 This letter is a direct breach of both the Government 's election manifesto promises and shows that the public are being misled .
19 The expenditure was justified by the argument that the newspaper industry existed to vilify the GLC and the rest of the left , and that the public was being denied the chance to hear the other side .
20 The evidence recovered by excavation emphasises that the landscape was being fully utilised by the inhabitants of farms dispersed across the landscape .
21 One thing that regular reviews also reveal is the range of new publications that the system is being asked to produce .
22 Section 188(1) of the Insolvency Act 1986 requires that where a company is in liquidation , every business document on which the name of the company appears must state that the company is being wound up .
23 GM did not put in a counterbid , as it considered that the company was being overvalued .
24 The Bank has quadrupled its investment in environmental projects over the past year , from US$404 million to US$1,600 million , but critics charge that the money is being used to make projects look green rather than cancelling bad projects , which Bank officials are said to be reluctant to do .
25 Predictably they said that the money should be going into the overall prize fund ; and , equally predictably , the sponsors replied that the money was being paid for Krantz to head up a special promotion for the company , and anyway they wanted some extra glamour and colour which a top American golfer would provide .
26 What is , to my mind , incredible , is that he could ever have supposed that the money was being either paid by the plaintiffs or received by the defendants with the intention or on the footing that the defendants were to keep it in any event .
27 King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV finally acknowledged in an interview with New Zealand television in March , in which he claimed that Pohive and other dissidents were Marxists who wished to overthrow the royal style of government , that the money was being held in a United States bank so that the government would not spend it .
28 Nine of the seventeen original members resigned , claiming that the DHAC was being used to further the aims of a ‘ political group ’ .
29 Mr Poole said there were signs that the Army was being put on standby to intervene in the three-week-old dispute .
30 Perhaps I was wrong , but I could not see that the King was being kind and generous in ordering such an inhuman punishment .
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