Example sentences of "[pers pn] that it be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the three years I 've been here , and because C&P was one of the first ICI groups to move into quality , the value of the quality ethos has taught me that it 's the only way to do business . |
| 2 | But he urged on me that it was the Prime Minister 's particular wish that I should do anything I could to prevent its publication . |
| 3 | The doctor told me that it was the first time she had made an advance to anybody . |
| 4 | It seems to me that it was the high-water mark of collective Cabinet government [ of ] the traditional type in recent times . |
| 5 | " I 'm saying this , Chuck , to remind you that it 's the rich and powerful nations that call the tune around the world , " continued the senator through a burgeoning cloud of pale blue cigar smoke . |
| 6 | Because I said to yo , I said to you that it was the same in Russia ! |
| 7 | While you are dressing him , you should make the patient aware of what you are doing by naming each garment as you put it on , and showing him that it is the right way round . |
| 8 | Derek refused and they again threatened him that it was the only way to save his sister from being interned and himself from being charged with murder and gunrunning . |
| 9 | I take it that it was the clear intention of Parliament ( certainly it 's in line with my own inclination ) that the net of secondary education should be cast more widely into the lower income scales ; that class-distinction should be tempered and blurred throughout the educational field , and that merit — whatever that may be — should be the test , rather than money or social background , of a person 's fitness to receive an expensive secondary education . |
| 10 | Hardly : the history of the world teaches us that it is the new form of arrowhead , the canny general , the full stomach and the prospect of plunder that are the decisive factors in war , rather than sentimental minds drooling about home . |