Example sentences of "that [pron] be [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our recruitment to English ( and it is with English that I am in this paper principally concerned ) was again untypical . |
| 2 | ‘ It was through their trust that I was in this unique position to walk among them , and I felt I owed it to them not to let them down . ’ |
| 3 | Again I was making no contact with the flying control and as I did not have a WT operator I could not use my wireless set to inform the station that I was in this predicament . |
| 4 | Although I denied being ill and scorned to make the demands for attention usually employed by invalids or malingerers , there is no doubt that I was by this time making a bid for power . |
| 5 | ‘ The fact that these tapes and stories keep reappearing at regular intervals suggests that someone is behind this attempt to hurt him . |
| 6 | She 's just written to her to say that she 's on This is Your Life on the third or fourth of March , whatever it is |
| 7 | I heard him tell Fagin that you were at this hotel . |
| 8 | I did explain to her that you were on this case — ‘ |
| 9 | Well , that you were in this afternoon . |
| 10 | ‘ All I can say is that I recognise the incredible enthusiasm that there is for this sport among a section of the listening public — especially Daily Telegraph readers . |
| 11 | er , given the amount of poverty and misery that there is in this country , can we really justify , or can we really say that by paying Prince Andrew a hundred thousand pounds a year we 're being cost effective ? |
| 12 | Mr stresses that there is in this case , a much longer life expectancy than in Abbel , namely fifty five compared to forty two . |
| 13 | the old Anti-Slavery Society committee [ was not prompted ] to make a vigorous opposition to the grant of Twenty Millions and one parliamentary leader T. F. Buxton felt so much doubt upon the propriety of turning the attention of the country prominently to it that there was on this subject a want of cordial cooperation with those who wished to make use of it to its full extent . |
| 14 | Please send contributions direct to the office at Epsom , clearly stating that they are for this fund . |
| 15 | I think I would say about universities that they are in this country offering a uniquely good service to our children . |
| 16 | It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment standing in the presence of a master . |
| 17 | Their justification for doing it is that it 's for this thing , this painting or whatever , and I always wonder if it could n't be more without all that . ’ |
| 18 | He did this so effectively that it is to this day referred to as the Wallace Line . |
| 19 | It seems entirely possible that it is to this period — roughly from 873/1468 ( or perhaps earlier ) to 878/1473–4 — that the Muftilik of Abdulkerim belongs , that he succeeded Fahreddin Acemi on the latter 's death and must then later have resigned or been removed from the Muftilik , perhaps to make way for Molla Husrev when he returned from Bursa . |
| 20 | Indeed it will be argued later in this book that it is at this level — the level of field support — that the greatest single power to achieve innovation may lie . |
| 21 | The Copenhagen school therefore says that it is at this stage that results get fixed and knowledge is established . |
| 22 | One could argue that it is on this account that the restorer applies his efforts to the material element of the work . |
| 23 | I suspect that it is in this challenge to popular feminist orthodoxies that the book 's significance will rest . |
| 24 | It is probably true to say that it is in this way , rather than in any other , that governments learn exactly where the limits of tolerance lie . |
| 25 | To suppose that this century can fix the definition of democracy or , even more arrogantly , that it is in this century that democracy has been finally and definitively realized , is to be blind not only to the probabilities of the future but also to the certainties of the past . |
| 26 | And it might even be said that it is from this , far more than from early Christianity , that we have inherited our sense of the dubious physical nature of the female , and our idea that the human norm is male and that to be female is in itself a pathological state . |
| 27 | Not until the 1880s did ‘ social purity ’ have any major legislative purchase ; and it is significant that it is from this period that the earliest critiques of ‘ Victorianism ’ stem . |
| 28 | In spite of all that has been said by popular moralists , along the lines of honesty being the best policy , everyone really knows implicitly that it is by this test of universalisability that one should determine what one ought to do . |
| 29 | As one example , we know that it was at this time that he took the opportunity to fill the vacant see of York since the canons were present and thus he could postulate and consecrate Walter Gray . |
| 30 | Talking to Andre Malraux years later , Picasso went so far as to say that it was on this occasion that he all of a sudden received the revelation of why he was a painter at all and that ‘ I realized what painting was all about ’ . |