Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [that] [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The voice of George Sanders gave the character the right blend of conceit , disdain and intelligence that we were looking for . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps you could say to both daughter and stepdaughter that you are finding it hard to cope with your husband and need to ease up on the child minding . |
| 3 | As had occurred before , and was to occur again , pacifist agitators had more impact on the reorganization of the party system than they did on the issues of war and peace that they were trying to affect . |
| 4 | Lester Piggott , his brilliant successor from the 1960s to the 1980s , was driven by such a desperate , obsessive need for wealth and security that he was sent to prison for persistently defrauding the Inland Revenue of its share of his millions . |
| 5 | PLEASE could I thank all the people who supported the ‘ Save Eldorado Campaign ’ in Northern Ireland and stress that we are campaigning for the re-introduction of the programme . |
| 6 | When she outgrows her cot , it is important for her developing limbs and back that she is given a new bed , not a hand-me-down that has been shaped by somebody else 's body . |
| 7 | I would n't want my son to lose touch with the notions of right and wrong that we are trying to give him . ’ |
| 8 | In Spain this was particularly serious since the age of major railway building in the mid-nineteenth century preceded industrialization and the massive shifts in population and traffic that it was to bring , especially from the 1940s . |
| 9 | In Germany , for example , there 's nothing like the division between Parliament and Government that I was speaking of erm as far as France was concerned , erm nor is there to quite the same extent erm the sort of links between administrative politicians and political administrators , but one of the things they share in common is a tendency to have a legal background and a legal approach to administration , and almost all senior civil servants in Germany , for example , have gone through a legal training . |
| 10 | Then of an old lady known , because of her big stomach , as ‘ Mrs Jones the Bol ’ , who after an operation for gall-stones boasted so much of their number and size that she was called thereafter ‘ Mrs Jones the Pebbly Beach ’ . |
| 11 | We hope that the enthusiasm and effort that we are investing in these options will be reflected in the recruitment of graduates into obstetrics and gynaecology . |
| 12 | They were both out for most of the time , and my mother was torn between relief that they were n't under her feet all the time and resentment that they were treating her house like an hotel . |
| 13 | As a result they push it beyond its design — a bit like trying to fly a plane at twice the speed and height that it was designed for . |
| 14 | As explained earlier when describing the model of living and the model for nursing , the 12 ALs are interrelated ; so too the body systems as categorised by the human biologists are interrelated and it is only for the purposes of description and discussion that they are dealt with separately . |
| 15 | They do n't come cheap but they do offer the sort of value , wear , sound and heat insulation and dirt-resistance that you 're going to expect . |