Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This being impossible , the next thing to be wished for is that , at every instant , seeing reason to believe as much , and not being able to satisfy himself to the contrary , he should conceive himself to be so " ( emphasis in original ) . |
| 2 | Now when you moved to was that a kind different kind of work obviously you were doing a wee bit more variety . |
| 3 | Accepted procedural rules appear to be that the person selected must have the support of a majority in the House of Commons ( if need be , after a new general election ) , and that the Monarch must ‘ secure the strongest Government in the minimum time ’ while still observing the need for public impartiality . |
| 4 | The point that my hon. Friend is about to come to is that the advertising directed at young people creates a climate of social acceptability in which children will then not complain about the awful smell of smoke from the other side of a physical barrier — |
| 5 | Mr Mark Brett , economist with Barclays de Zoete Wedd , said : ‘ The risk has to be that the figures will be better than everybody is assuming . |
| 6 | The other disadvantage has to be that your ferret must then be a line ferret , and it then suffers the disadvantage of having to pull an obstruction , albeit a small one , around any snag that exists within the burrow . |
| 7 | The main criterion for an engine , says Mr Nearn , has to be that it fits the car . |
| 8 | The final verdict has to be that the underlying intelligence of the man , for all his shrewdness , combativity and skill in a car , was insufficient to match an ambition that was almost forced upon him by his milieu , by his family and by his status as a Brazilian national hero . |
| 9 | Again the first point has to be that the rapes were unusual . |
| 10 | One of the benefits of making an acquisition has to be that duplicated positions can be eliminated , and NCR Corp has had to tell a total of 284 employees at two Teradata and two NCR locations in Southern California that they are surplus to requirements . |
| 11 | Apricot Computers Ltd , which always likes to be first with Intel 's latest chip , will reportedly announce a P5-based machine in September , but with the enormous leap in complexity in the microprocessor , the other major worry has to be that it will take early users of the chip at least 18 months to find all the bugs in it and for Intel to correct them . |
| 12 | The explanation has to be that the company shot itself in the foot by announcing the Sparcsystem 10 machines with such a long lead time , many would-be customers are holding back and waiting for them , and that things will not really start to pick up until those start shipping around September time — which suggests that dullness will continue for the current quarter . |
| 13 | His consolation has to be that although she is , as an ideal , constantly changing , ‘ yet she dies only when the race of men is dead — then to be gathered to the number of the Gods . ’ |
| 14 | The reservation has to be that the performance always keeps something in hand , in many ways effectively so , but in the end missing some of the physical thrill of this work . |
| 15 | Accordingly , the conclusion has to be that a knowing breach of the order by the appellants has not been proved . |
| 16 | So it has to be that the load shifted backwards . |
| 17 | Thus , it has come to be that the disability ‘ professionals ’ and us , their ‘ clients ’ , live within the carefully crafted , mechanical embrace of ‘ care ’ . |
| 18 | What ‘ sociological punch ’ had amounted to was that actors could still make films work . |
| 19 | The message needs to be that the school serves their community and accepts children from their area . |
| 20 | The trouble with all the views which we have looked at is that they tie the notion of autonomy firmly and solely to that of knowledge interpreted in either a broad or narrow sense . |
| 21 | ‘ The only thing I can think of is that there is a convent near where I live , and they take a few elderly people . ’ |
| 22 | The closest analogy I can think of is that it is very much like fishing , you never know what you are going to catch , you have to pull in the small ones when you are hoping for the big one , but occasionally a big one comes along when you least expect it . |
| 23 | and the biggest pro for a fax that I can think of is that you can send the message and that 's that , there 's no risk of it dribbling on into , into doubt |
| 24 | When we first started with him , even when we were rehearsing properly with him , all we could think of was that he could n't sing . |
| 25 | All he could think of was that he wanted to sneeze . |
| 26 | I thought for a while and said that the only thing I could think of was that the British government did not — although it would have been slow to admit it — at that moment cut much ice with the South African government , but the United States government cut considerable ice . |
| 27 | All she could think of was that they 'd all been in on this — a kind of family Mafia , working behind the scenes to make sure that Lucenzo ended up with everything , his empire untouched . |
| 28 | All I could think of was that I knew that a Lee Metford was the forerunner of the Lee Enfield .303 rifle and almost became standard issue to the British army before WW1 . |
| 29 | Luke Calder was nothing but a ruthless manipulator who made people do what he wanted when he wanted it , yet all she could think of was that she wanted to feel again the hot urgency of his mouth ! |
| 30 | She had all that to fill her heart with but at this moment all she could think of was that the stranger had left her side . |