Example sentences of "[noun] that [pron] be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Empty phrases to give you the illusion that it 's Adam who 's holding you , and not me ? |
| 2 | The recognition that there are authors who have not traditionally formed part of the literary ‘ canon ’ in the past may also lead to discussion about present-day social inequalities . |
| 3 | The reason why this specific condition is not regarded as repeated is that it is incompatible with the condition to which the substitution is subject : the substitutes are to be admitted if no children are born to the testator or if any born die before puberty , whereas the manumission is subject to the condition that there are children who are still alive at puberty . |
| 4 | It was considered so repulsive by Queen Victoria that there are suggestions she actually allowed it to be stolen . |
| 5 | The examples of ( 32 ) are simply associatives , as treated above in Chapter 2 : ( 32 ) a criminal lawyer subterranean explorer electrical worker 6.6 This leaves us with a small number of other phrases such as those in ( 33 ) , which turn out to be worth further investigation : ( 33 ) a true poet our late president a sheer fraud a real friend the future king my old school We certainly agree that there is an intuitively different " feel " to these , and a few others which can be found in the corps of English adjectives , and we would agree also that this has something to do with the distinction between referent ( or entity ) and sense ; however , we can not agree with Bolinger 's verdict that they are adjectives which qualify sense only . |
| 6 | The Times hypothesised in the course of the election campaign that it was leaders who lost elections , not challengers who won them . |
| 7 | Although that has meant that not much can be done , in principle it is a good idea in that it forces underwater sites to compete with land sites for funding , and tends to keep the attention on the point that it is archaeology we are talking about . |
| 8 | At last the golden afternoon was over , and Robbie heard with regret Fen 's decree that it was time they returned to Water Gypsy . |
| 9 | I do n't think for one minute that there are teachers who are drunk in charge of children in the classroom . |
| 10 | Among a series of films designed to cash in on the success of Hitchcock 's Psycho ( 1960 ) , for example , was Seth Holt 's The Nanny ( 1965 ) , made with the visual flair of his earlier Hammer picture , Taste of Fear ( 1961 ) , and telling the powerful tale of two sisters , both dependent in their own way on the woman who brought them up , who pay no attention to the declarations of their son and nephew that it was nanny who killed his sister and now wants to kill him . |
| 11 | There is some evidence that it was Snowden who suggested the formula of the ‘ doctor 's mandate ’ , at a Cabinet meeting on 5 October , under which the component parts of the National Government were each to issue their own manifestos , with a separate personal appeal from the Prime Minister , According to Neville Chamberlain , ‘ Snowden … produced the suggestion that the Prime Minister should issue his own manifesto asking for a free hand [ i.e. on tariffs ] and the two Party leaders should each issue their own programmes and to our astonishment this was at once accepted by the Liberals , ' Amery , who perhaps got the information from Chamberlain , wrote in his diary on 6 October , ‘ Apparently when the deadlock seemed most complete Snowden suggested that the PM should issue his own manifesto , each of the other party leaders issuing theirs . ' |
| 12 | At the back of my mind lay the knowledge that there were men who enjoyed themselves sexually with other men . |
| 13 | ‘ No — but you dropped a dirty big hint that it 's time I was married , ’ he snapped tersely . |
| 14 | As soon as those are published , employers are put on notice that there are steps they really ought to be taking . |
| 15 | ‘ All three of these witnesses are , it is fair to say without intending any disrespect to them , not educated persons in the sense that they are persons who would have had any experience of judging mental ability . |
| 16 | ‘ One of the best things to have come out of this is the realisation that there are people who really do care about us and about Graham , ’ says Kathleen . |
| 17 | Her brow furrowed on the realisation that it was Niall who had been responsible for the last-minute change of plans . |
| 18 | DEEP THINKERS Forward planning O'Donovan also offers the simple but profound thought that it is women who will be giving birth to the next generation of Rugby League players . |
| 19 | But in his analyses of kinship relations or of cooking , for example , Lévi-Strauss 's approach is based entirely on the assumption that they are systems which are structured like a language ; that is to say , that their individual elements have meaning only in so far as they are part of an overall system . |
| 20 | This does not mean that national history and culture will not bulk large in the educational systems of particular countries , especially the smaller ones , or that they may not flourish locally within a much broader supranational framework as , say , Catalan culture today flourishes , but on the tacit assumption that it is Catalans who will communicate with the rest of the world through Spanish and English , since few non-residents in Catalonia will be able to communicate in the local language . |
| 21 | On Monday , the jury at Mold Crown Court , was told by Burgess that it was McLean who was responsible for the attack , kicking and stamping on her . |
| 22 | Despite Sartre 's reiteration that it is man who makes it , history increasingly assumes its own ontological status in the Critiques . |
| 23 | ‘ You know , the headmaster is quite right , you ca n't tell a teacher what you 're going to do … for your own good some time son you 're going to have to learn the lesson that there are people who can force you to do things and you 're going to have to do them and you 've got no choice . ’ |
| 24 | The violent metaphors which formerly had been freely used were absent , and the letter contained a suggestion that it was Anselm himself who had been going too far : |
| 25 | This brings us near to the suggestion that it was Massalia which provided the Celtic chieftains with a new , more exciting , way of getting drunk at their famous hierarchically organized banquets : wine made mead and beer less prestigious . |
| 26 | It is a curious joke of history that it was Stalin who gave Lithuania its capital city ( between the wars it was in Poland ) , and Tito who , in order to weaken great-Serbian chauvinism , created a much larger Croatia with a much larger Serbian minority . |
| 27 | This idea is at odds with the Saussurean principle that it is language which is primary , and that far from preceding language , meaning is an effect produced by language . |
| 28 | The first the first half a year that I was Holland I I do n't think I was away for a holiday , but then the the next Summer then I was away . |
| 29 | The answer is ‘ yes ’ : a recent article , drawing on Eusebius ' Life of Constantine , seems to show without doubt that it was Constantine who introduced this law : Eusebius describes measures implemented by Constantine which can only be understood as referring to this law . |
| 30 | But there was no doubt that it was Rangers who deserved to emerge from this memorable encounter as worthy victors . |