Example sentences of "[noun prp] is [adv] [adj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Hilton is always careful to stress that the cleansing process to eradicate sin involves patient inner effort ( the expression of the anchoress 's fixed intention to God ) not violent physical punishment ( chapters 72 – 5 ) . |
| 2 | Anglican Bishop Hugh Montefiore is less keen to accept that his church is losing influence . |
| 3 | Well the honourable gentleman for Great Brimsea is quite right to say that these matters er had some consideration given to them during the passage of the the legislation er but it is also true to say that er er th in the Bingham report there was a broad acceptance that the present s system of supervision of banks should continue . |
| 4 | Professor Peter Green is surely right to suggest that the cult of Pericles , and the idea of a decline following his death in 429 BC , reflect the persistence of a mistrust of democracy among many modern commentators on ancient Greece . |
| 5 | Although Nelson is probably right to say that the DUP had lost its role ‘ as the articulator of poor Protestants ’ social grievances ' by the end of the 1970s , this would not cost it votes until there was an alternative . |
| 6 | At length , with a sigh and in a conversational tone which did not match Dr Dunstaple 's oratory for effect , he observed : " Dr Dunstaple is quite wrong to suggest that there is an accepted treatment for cholera . |
| 7 | Editor , — David Griffith is quite right to emphasise that the new Community Care Act potentially will have negative as well as positive effects on the development of support for carers . |
| 8 | In fact Professor Hayek is sufficiently honest to admit that the free society which we have seen grow in Europe since the Enlightenment has produced through the writings of Marx and Freud a set of values which if not renounced will destroy the civilisation itself ; namely the pursuit of egalitarianism at the collective level leading to the replacement of the market economy by the planned economy and the pursuit of freedom at the personal level leading to abandonment of traditional morality based on the concept of right and wrong and good and evil . |
| 9 | They want to hang on to their fat subsidies and America is entirely right to say that this is unacceptable . |
| 10 | The bluffly categorical manner is misleading ; Pound is always ready to concede that ‘ circumstances alter cases , . |
| 11 | While Porter is obviously right to argue that there is no economic reason for completely separable SBUs to be combined , it does not follow that they would function any better by becoming completely independent . |
| 12 | Mr Smith is quite correct to suggest that the experience for the pilot would be uncomfortable to say the least . |