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

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31 What evidence there is certainly suggests that UK investment is relatively interest-inelastic , reducing the effectiveness of the interest rate as a policy instrument .
32 Dining in the perfect Jacobean hall of Trinity it was only fitting that we should wear dinner jackets ( Hooray for a touch of elitism ! )
33 As in Miss Austen 's day it was universally accepted that a young unmarried man with a house and fortune was in need of a wife , so Mrs Girdlestone might have been beguiled into accepting a somewhat similar assumption that one elderly lady living alone is in need of an even more elderly lady to live with her ( prudently stipulating , however , the three months only , in case she should wish to draw back ) .
34 Scalars and vectors are in fact the simplest types of tensors , and from SR it is well known that if an equality can be proved between vectors ( or scalars ) in one inertial frame then the equality remains true under Lorentz transformations to other inertial frames .
35 For example , in the UK it is commonly argued that Labour governments give a special role in public policy-making to the trade unions ( with whom the party is closely associated ) , whilst excluding business interest groups from comparable influence .
36 In the UK it is commonly agreed that this happens at least in part because of the extent to which farming , relative to industrial , interests are " understood " in most Conservative cabinets ( and even some Labour ones ! ) .
37 Moreover , recent surveys have suggested that not so many members of these societies are ‘ literate ’ by the standards expected than had previously been assumed : in the UK it is now held that over one million people have an acquaintance with literacy that is insufficient for the demands made on them by this kind of society ( DES , 1980 ) .
38 For in accepting that age and , more importantly , insanity could influence the degree of individuals ' responsibility for their actions it was also accepting that in some cases , and to some extent at least , human actions could be seen as determined .
39 OUR man in the stalls writing a preview more in hope than expectation : Last night it was confidently expected that the Fifth Estate 's performance of Scapegoat at the Netherbow Theatre , Edinburgh , would go ahead .
40 More happily , a colleague told me of a seventeen-year-old girl in his last parish who was cruelly told that she would be dead in a year .
41 So of his falling in love with Mrs Moore we are merely informed that ‘ even if I were free to tell the story , I doubt if it has much to do with the subject of this book , ’ and of his father 's death in the late summer of 1929 that this ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ .
42 This is why to account for their longevity it is now believed that they were a qualified kind of ectothermic homeotherm continually striving to become endothermic homeotherms .
43 The polemical and ideological edge to this debate must be borne in mind : not all those engaged in it were in favour of increased public spending , due to fears about its effects on investment and on incentives ; and in some quarters it was passionately felt that the ageing of society was socially , economically , and even politically undesirable ( Thane forthcoming ) , and hence that its dangers should be emphasized .
44 For example it is generally accepted that , since the real-balance effect concerns the net wealth of the private sector , indebtedness arising from within the private sector should be excluded from the definition of NW .
45 For example it is well known that asthma and eczema are linked but what is frequently overlooked is the way that a person 's asthma can be bad at a time when their eczema is quiet and their eczema can be its worst when the asthma is quiet .
46 In order to increase it 's market share and to build exciting long term business prospects it was quickly realised that Noble Metals would have to provide more value to it 's customers that their competitors .
47 In the building trade it is well known that the cost of building a new building may be less than the cost of modifying an old one .
48 In theory it is typically assumed that we are concerned with the distribution of taxes and benefits among individuals according to their ability to pay ( the normative basis for this is not discussed here — see Lecture 11 ) ; in empirical work , this is typically taken to mean measured money income .
49 For older people he is implicitly saying that the usual pattern is to go into residential care ’ .
50 With his Yorkshireman 's eye for economy he was soon suggesting that the more impecunious aeronauts might seriously consider the process .
51 He was opposed by Corazon Aquino ( the widow of the country 's most prominent opponent of the Marcos regime until his murder in 1983 — see pp. 32517-18 ) , and although Marcos claimed victory it was generally believed that Aquino had secured a greater number of votes .
52 Although Marcos claimed victory it was generally believed that Aquino had secured a greater number of votes .
53 On the other hand , in the debates on the Bill it was officially stated that :
54 In Britain it is well known that the 1968 Donovan Report identified bargaining structures as a major strategic variable in determining the effectiveness of industrial relations .
55 10–12 After consideration it was unanimously agreed that the Session see no cause to come to any findings upon the report meantime .
56 On the other hand if someone dies of a heart attack it is just accepted that the cause is hereditary , ‘ He over-exerted himself once too often , ’ or most commonly , it was ‘ Just bad luck ’ .
57 In the latter case it is easily shown that the matching in fact yields an equivalence once induction has been used to deal with lower levels .
58 This is the part where there is a surfaced footway or pavement but at present it is so overgrown that pedestrians have to walk on the road .
59 At the European level it is widely believed that common standards will allow an expanded internal market to be developed and thus facilitate the economies of scale considered necessary for effective competition against foreign manufacturers .
60 In vertical mergers it is often claimed that there are important gains to co-ordination and planning .
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