Example sentences of "that it [vb mod] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usthinks the company doth protest too much : despite the fact that the countdown to its flotation has been under way for some weeks now , and Quality Software Products Plc has finally formally announced that ‘ following last week 's successful launch of Universal OLAS ’ it ‘ has decided to begin the process of seeking a listing on the London Stock Exchange , ’ it still says that ‘ no final decision will be taken for some time , ’ making it sound as if the company is signalling frantically that it would prefer to be acquired if only someone would come forward offering more money than it could raise in a public flotation . |
| 2 | Almost until the day of opening the new buildings were unnamed , and most people probably thought that it would continue to be the " Stockport Secondary School " . |
| 3 | Partly because , in spite of his professed indifference to the outside world , it nevertheless rankled with Franco that his regime was excluded from all the most important international circles , and he knew that it would continue to be blackballed for as long as it could be accused of denying the Spanish people free choice . |
| 4 | Er but nobody could tell me for certain what it was that they intended to use it for , er but it was apparently not guaranteed that it would continue to be used er as a market hall . |
| 5 | Birds kept in small , well-run flocks may indeed be better off , but ‘ free range ’ is not always the ideal that it would appear to be . |
| 6 | I am absolutely certain that such would be the very reverse of being the case , and that it would prove to be a particularly cheerful looking building . |
| 7 | It is of interest that it would seem to be the case that the Galatians verse , that in Christ ‘ there is neither Jew nor Greek , there is neither slave nor free , there is no ‘ male and female ’ , makes direct reference to Genesis . |
| 8 | According to The Lancet in 1859 photography was so ‘ essentially the art of truth — that it would seem to be the essential means of reproducing all forms and structures which science seeks for delineation ’ . |
| 9 | She insisted that it would have to be a high predicted major tide . |
| 10 | Much though my hon. Friend may dream about the days of beer and sandwiches , I should have thought that the Opposition were so besotted with Europe that it would have to be cafe and croissants , if that change ever came about . |
| 11 | It was finally agreed while still in Teesside that it would have to be done , and the only way was by explicit reference to the role of the Director , quoting the Articles of Government . |
| 12 | I agree with hon. Members who have said that it may prove to be a major step towards the valuable goal of greater unity in Europe , but let us face the fact that it changes nothing in today 's world . |
| 13 | The overriding criterion — that the service of a summons is impracticable or inappropriate — does not even have to be based on objective grounds ; it is enough that it should appear to be so to the constable making the arrest . |
| 14 | That was the only objection made to site D thirty nine , er that it should be The objection was that it should shown to be in the greenbelt . |
| 15 | I know that the Combined Heat and Power Association recently submitted a report to OFFER pointing out some institutional and administrative barriers that it should like to be tackled . |
| 16 | That it should need to be exorcised in that fashion , however , or at all , still leaves it looking potent , richly formative and far from innocent , and the fiction that ultimately emerges from it is ex-academic in much the same sense that it is ex-socialist . |
| 17 | We are not , however , forced to suppose that a baboon reasons , as a man would , that it will pay to be nice to X , because X is likely to reciprocate . |
| 18 | Taking in several large weirs and the Warden Gorge plus other smaller rapids , the 39km course offers plenty of interest and the organizers hope that it will grow to be comparable with the Liffey Descent and the Devizes to Westminster Race . |
| 19 | Hedley Bull argues that the state has demonstrated a formidable capacity to withstand challenges from other types of actors , and that it will continue to be able to withstand them . |
| 20 | Even though the statutory offence that replaces it reduces the public order characteristics of the offence and raises doubts as to whether affray is properly characterised as a public order offence at all , the likelihood is that it will continue to be employed in the prosecution of spontaneous brawls that result in no great injury in circumstances where the evidence of specific offences against the person is deficient . |
| 21 | I am confident Scottish Nuclear has a long-term future and that it will continue to be one of Scotland 's best engineering companies . |
| 22 | He added that " it seems to me likely that it will fall to be resolved by the Court of Justice at the end of the day " . |
| 23 | Once the settlor has put the property into the settlement the general rule is that it will cease to be his for all tax purposes . |
| 24 | We must recognise that it will have to be the consumer who pays , and it is up to animal welfare organisations such as the RSPCA to ensure that the increased price for food will be seen to be acceptable because of an improvement both in animal welfare and environmental protection . |
| 25 | The Monopolies and Mergers Commission has already been mentioned and it has been suggested that it will have to be involved again . |
| 26 | However , if this holist conception is to provide a standard for at least some explanations within the social sciences , and if it is to avoid the difficulties discussed in Part II , it is obvious that it will need to be greatly refined and elaborated . |
| 27 | My only gripe is that it could prove to be a little on the easy side for more experienced gamesplayers . |