Example sentences of "[adj] that [pers pn] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not , I 'm not I 'm not putting it on you anyway mostly it 's c mainly fucking Catherine , I 'm beginning to s not like her any more the way she 's going and do n't you dare mention a word of this that I 'm saying to you |
| 2 | Other aspects of the grammar and phonology of these sentences ( from different speakers ) make it clear that they are intended to be " Patois " . |
| 3 | Although it is clear that he is committed to making changes , he has taken up fluent corporation-speak surprisingly quickly . |
| 4 | By that it was clear that he was referring to some sort of spiritual renaissance , and he succeeded , as so often , in implicitly prophesying the emergence of men like Solzhenitsyn . |
| 5 | I felt Niki was trying to be as much an elder statesman as a driver and though to say he was perfunctory in his driving would be an exaggeration , it was clear that he was looking to the future , and the development of the new engine , rather than to the present . |
| 6 | It was clear that he was attracted to her . |
| 7 | Thus it is clear that it is owing to her body that a woman is defective . ) |
| 8 | It is not very clear whether section 17(2) adds a third element or is subsumed in ( b ) , but it is clear that it was intended to be more difficult to obtain an interlocutory injunction in trade dispute cases than in others . |
| 9 | Now the tense of the main verb , in other words not the bit in the when clause or the as soon as clause or whatever , normally virtually it gives it away because if it 's future in the main the chances are extremely high that it 's going to be future in French at least in the time clause . |
| 10 | General knowledge quizzes of the trivial pursuit type are useful money raisers but are so popular that they are beginning to be dominated by teams that take an almost professional approach to the game . |
| 11 | The consumer was helping to delay recovery ; the consumer was scared , afraid that they were going to be squeezed further . |
| 12 | It is possible that they were taken to northern France ( Brittany ) by Cornish refugees about 1,500 years ago and that there continued to be trading between the two regions for several hundred years ; there is certainly a theory that the Breton cattle originated largely in Cornwall . |
| 13 | Part of the time he may almost be unaware that he is speaking to another person — after all Gila does n't understand English very well and it is unlikely that she would fully understand the references to Rupert Brooke and the poem ‘ The Old Vicarage , Grantchester ’ . |
| 14 | However , this good fortune can not be guaranteed and human psychology may be such that we are doomed to permanent hesitancy or disagreement , a fact with which each will have to cope from the perspective of his own attitudes . |
| 15 | When found , her behaviour was such that she was thought to be mentally deficient : |
| 16 | In February this year , the pain grew so much that she was confined to a wheelchair . |
| 17 | The middle of Oxford is a pretty unpleasant place to be , and we 're hoping very much that it 's going to be a sort of signpost er to the County Council 's greater study which was agreed last Tuesday . |
| 18 | It is said that his influence came through his extraordinary power , both learned and ‘ uncanny ’ , to rearrange suggestively the letters of the divine Name ( the Tetragrammaton : YHWH ) , which are so sacrosanct that they are considered to be unpronounceable . |
| 19 | As far as Europeans are concerned , they 'll undoubtedly come here , as we are going to be travelling to France and Germany and Italy and wherever , but I think it 's getting the North American tourists convinced that it 's going to be okay here , they 're going to get a value for money holiday . |
| 20 | I feel very sad that it 's fallen to me to make the decision to close after 4 generations . |
| 21 | She was glad that she was going to Rome as it brought their relationship to an end , cleanly and conclusively . |
| 22 | His predecessor , Nicholas Ridley , had favoured the building of Foxley Wood , but his approach to the environment was so unpopular that he was moved to another department . |
| 23 | Indeed , they are often considered to be so routine that they are taken to be ‘ normal ’ . |
| 24 | It is , on the whole , more likely that they are responding to the cumulative temperature building up slowly until a threshold has been passed , and they are away . |
| 25 | It was n't likely that it was connected to the local cop shop . |
| 26 | He drew the conclusion that this cult was popular in Britain , although it would seem more likely that it was restricted to the Army . |
| 27 | The subjects with influenza B were not so ill that they were confined to bed , so influenza could possibly endanger people 's safety at work . |
| 28 | He also fell so ill that he was sent to the family 's country house to convalesce . |
| 29 | When Paul called me back to ask whether he was serious about this , I replied , yes , although I must admit I did n't hear strings and flutes on ‘ Space Oddity ’ at the beginning but once the track was done , it was obvious that it was going to work really well . |
| 30 | I mean , it was obvious that it was going to be erm , well , I mean , she 'd been married , she 's married , ten years |