Example sentences of "[to-vb] that it be [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child needs to know that it is not his fault that everyone is so upset and that someone has died and he is not being punished . |
| 2 | So , like a mug , I went out and bought it , only to find that it is n't anything like Pink Floyd . |
| 3 | But in all these descriptions , as in his characters and his story lines , we are taken from the particular to the general ; we are led to see that it is not what happens that is important nor what effect action has on the people concerned , but what meaning we can extract , or guess at , from the impact on our senses and our intellect of the whole . |
| 4 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |
| 5 | Vain Chantecler refuses to recognize that it is not his own crying of ‘ Cocorico ’ which causes the sun to rise . |
| 6 | Not only is this virtually impossible ( and improbable ) in cases of injury — fatal or otherwise — to employees or the public , but in cases of financial irregularities it is always open for the suspect(s) to plead that it was not his intention to defraud shareholders , indeed even though he engaged in what appears to be financially irregular practices , his intention all along had been to improve shareholders ' financial interests , but unfortunately due to unforeseeable circumstances , matters went sour . |
| 7 | With breast-fed babies who are thought to have food sensitivity , the first step is to check that it is not something other than breast milk causing the problem . |
| 8 | It would be a chance to see her on neutral ground , maybe even a chance to explain that it was n't his bloody fault that Laura had shown up at the door only seconds before she herself had . |
| 9 | I think I ought really to say that it 's not something that 's particularly associated with opting out , it 's something we were already doing anyway as an aid to better management . |
| 10 | To say that it was not their business to stop the launch is not good enough . |
| 11 | Of course it would have been difficult for intellectuals to admit that it was precisely their own condemnation and neglect of films which had removed the one buffer that the film industry could have used to protect itself from the onslaught of ‘ the Meddlers and Busybodies ’ . |
| 12 | Pot ‘ Mr Major 's first comment when he finally emerged blinking from the air raid shelter last week was to protest that it was n't his fault — it was the markets that were irrational . |