Example sentences of "that [adv] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , the increase in the importance of state benefits must have tended to reduce the inequality in the economic circumstances of the elderly that hitherto was determined in the labour market . |
| 2 | In an integrated service will dementia sufferers be given sufficient priority , or can that only be achieved in a specialist service ? |
| 3 | It was only by chance that Long was prevented from driving his 72-seat National Express double-decker from London 's Victoria coach station just after midnight . |
| 4 | It is not easy , admittedly , at this point in time , when the Commonwealth seems so obviously a fig-leaf for imperial decline , to credit the extravagant hopes that once were entertained of it as the foundation of everlasting British dominion — influence , as it were , eternally made flesh . |
| 5 | This is now a symbolic exchange , but it is a relic of the numerous treaties that once were made in the Pyrenean valleys to regulate the use of the high , communal pastures and put an end to the age-old practice of trespass or holding to ransom of intrusive livestock . |
| 6 | Then it had been Roman revenge against an uprising — but the seizure and detonation of an Israeli atomic bomb by terrorists had made a second holocaust of the land that once was known as Holy . |
| 7 | Only one Japanese factory ship remains in operation , and one Japanese whaling company is left , accounting for only a fraction of the income that once was earned from whale products . |
| 8 | As for keyboard music , ‘ the first musicke that ever was printed for the Virginalls ’ , the famous Parthenia containing 21 short preludes and dances by Byrd , Bull , and Gibbons , appeared only in late 1612 |
| 9 | On 2 August he had a spectacular military victory at Baggotrath , calling it ‘ the absolutest victory that ever was got in this kingdom and the least loss of our side ’ , and , after a short interval back in England , he was in command at the siege of Tecroghan Castle near Trim in May 1650 . |
| 10 | An examination of the general tone of [ military-political publications ] reveals that these political officers are among the most vocal proponents of the so-called hawkish positions that mistakenly are attributed to professional line officers by many Western observers . |
| 11 | A farmer friend — I do have some — said to me , ’ You realise that as soon as the quota was introduced dairy farmers put more sheep on land that previously was used for cows . ’ |
| 12 | He could admit that the 7 million days that allegedly were lost in one year under a Labour Government were lost under this Government , in less than three days because of unemployment . |