Example sentences of "that [noun] be [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She kept her eye on things generally , such as : tactfully suggesting to an under-housemaid ( caught out bypassing Lizzie 's careful instructions ) that pos were meant to be scrubbed till their inner china gleamed , as well as being emptied every morning . |
| 2 | It was not just that degenerates were thought to be intelligent and gifted ; their intelligence manifested one of the most disturbing paradoxes of the perverse : a vitiating regression to the primitive from within an advanced cultural sophistication . |
| 3 | In addition , they say that prisoners are going to be employed in the kitchens to work alongside civilian staff , because recruitment is so difficult . |
| 4 | We must also ensure that teaching is seen to be important , and a simple way to start is to insist that all doctors must document their experience when applying for jobs and that all appointments committees should ask about it . |
| 5 | However , since representations of satyrs are often given negroid features , there is a suggestion that negroes were considered to be in some sense monstrous . |
| 6 | Whatever the problem , there is always a solution , so long as you are prepared to use your ingenuity , be flexible and remember that rules were made to be broken — or at least bent a little . |
| 7 | Where documents are admitted during the discovery process , RSC Order 27 rule 4(1) provides that copies are presumed to be ‘ true ’ unless authenticity is disputed by the other party . |
| 8 | Well I think that we have shown that we 're prepared to support Gorbachev in so far as er peace reform in the Soviet Union , but I think we 've got to look towards our own security in the West and we 've done very well with NATO , with the defensive block NATO over the last 40 years or so , and until we can have cast iron guarantees that Gorbachev is going to be secure and that he 's actually going to carry out his promises we 've got to keep our guard up . |
| 9 | The multiplication of life tenures , the scramble for reversions , and the attempt to make posts hereditary are all indications that offices were coming to be regarded as forms of property rather than as jobs to be done . |
| 10 | Because the County Council realize now that they 're a little bit in advance of everybody and because the District Council feel that they can get designation by supporting this and not voting against it , the chances are that Wheatley is going to be totally deprived of a public enquiry , which practically every other site is guaranteed . |
| 11 | Under the previous law , the offence was committed where the onlooker believed that violence was intended to be provoked or ‘ whereby a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned . ’ |
| 12 | Following last night I think that MUFC are going to be VERY worried about trying to reassert themselves … more importantly , I think that the rest of the Premier league will be saying , ‘ well look at that , MUFC wre made to look a bit silly by a group of no-hopers … |
| 13 | " I 'm sorry to have asked for an explanation — you will understand that bankers are trained to be cautious . |
| 14 | Both Jesus and Paul will say that marriage is designed to be a one-flesh lifelong relationship , but they both recognise the human realities . |
| 15 | He commented : ‘ We were woken up with a jolt when we found out that Spinneys were going to be bought out by some ‘ jocks from over the border ’ . |
| 16 | ( xvi ) Is there still going to be a single pay and staffing framework for AEA , now that AEA is going to be reorganised into three Divisions with different objectives ? |
| 17 | A physics of the infinite was the correlate of a theology of the infinite , however heterodox that theology was perceived to be . |
| 18 | Once intimate told me : ‘ Now he 'd just come back from the ‘ A ’ tour and his confidence was sky-high when he learned , at second hand as far as I know , that Matthew was going to be vice-captain . |
| 19 | And it was just bad luck that Stephen was scheduled to be away that night . |
| 20 | They are everything and nothing that rock'n'roll is meant to be . |
| 21 | Both this novel and the one which it resumes are ‘ hung ’ books , in the sense that Parliaments are said to be hung . |
| 22 | Commenting on the findings of the report , Ian Hunter , tax partner at Ernst & Young 's Edinburgh office , said : ‘ Although this survey indicates business confidence is high it also demonstrates that recovery is going to be slow . ’ |
| 23 | The truth is , few people believe that revelations are going to be made to them in dreams — and even on the rare occasions that an individual really felt a dream was of overwhelming " significance " , the so-called dream-books could only taken in the most gullible . |
| 24 | Miss Coltman , a friend of the deceased since they were teenagers , told the court : ‘ Paula was saying that Eddie was going to be promoted . |
| 25 | As a result of this , their professional commitment to arms grew : in France , in the second half of the fourteenth century , some esquires ( men on the very fringe of noblesse ) were promoted over the heads of knights , whose numbers in the French army declined anyhow after about 1380 , a suggestion that professionalism was coming to be well regarded . |
| 26 | ‘ The only really important thing is that Anna 's going to be fine . ’ |
| 27 | Anne Barnes , general secretary of the National Association for the Teaching of English , said : ‘ Teachers will feel very confused and disappointed to hear that changes are going to be made and the ground will shift from under their feet again . ’ |
| 28 | We can not assume , for example , that counsellees are going to be willing or able to immediately divulge the full nature of their feelings and difficulties . |
| 29 | Is it just a coincidence that Jesus is said to be thirty years old when he embarks on his ministry ? |
| 30 | The advantage of a low Christology would seem to be that Jesus is considered to be just another human , one among us , our brother . |