Example sentences of "[be] [verb] that the " in BNC.

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1 A set of raw recruits was marching up and down with a new drill instructor , who sounded every bit as determined as the late Sergeant-Major Philpott had been to see that the snow was never allowed to settle .
2 In the early stages of the planning of the New York show , it had been mooted that the pictures from the Russian , French and American institutions could be lent to each musem in turn .
3 It had never been intended that the flimsy structure should support such a weighty assembly , so with a creaking and a cracking and much shouting and swearing down it went in a flurry of legs and arms and broken planks and red Australian dust .
4 Over thousands of years it has been recognized that the human body has a non-physical component , and it is striking that through all the descriptions there is a strong energy theme .
5 IT has long been recognized that the electrical conductivity of the lower continental crust is anomalously high .
6 Going back to the early thoughts of the RHA on the matter in the mid-1970s , it had been recognized that the reduction in the hospital populations meant that there would be competition for any savings between the hospitals themselves and district services .
7 In the absence of formal evidence , this claim can not be checked , but it has always been recognized that the choice of Gloucester to head the government was an obvious possibility for the dying king .
8 Additionally it has been recognized that the largest concentrations of first-class villas often clustered around the small towns in preference to major towns or cities .
9 It has been recognized that the European Directives are increasingly affecting what happens in the workplace .
10 It has also long been recognized that the same distinction occurs in attributive adjectives ( see , for instance , Jespersen , 1924 ) .
11 In the absence of formal evidence , this claim can not be checked , but it has always been recognized that the choice of Gloucester to head the government was an obvious possibility for the dying king .
12 But in the 1990s many citizens , particularly among the English ( who tend to be less conscious of their ‘ Englishness ’ than the Scots and Welsh are of their national identities ) , do not even feel British : it has been commented that the British lost their sense of identity along with their empire and have not yet found another identity .
13 In second form science ( at least in the author 's day ) we are taught that the atmosphere contains roughly four-fifths nitrogen ; one-fifth oxygen ; and traces of carbon dioxide , water vapour , and ‘ rare ’ or ‘ inert ’ gases , such as neon and xenon .
14 Optimistic economists are suggesting that the surge in shares and the increase in High Street retail sales indicates that we might finally be emerging from the recession .
15 What I 'm not clear about is whether you are suggesting that the panel , make some strong comments in their report to the County Council on the need for appropriate phasing , or whether the panel should recommend that policy H one be divided into phasing periods .
16 The most pessimistic observers are predicting growth rates of less than 1 per cent , and are suggesting that the Japanese economy is heading for a deep and prolonged recession .
17 Essentially , however , I am suggesting that the majority of workers avoid this extreme rebellious position .
18 The reason I am suggesting that the church of Christ lives in this subcultural world is because I want to insist that God 's spiritual family , as well as the human family , has also been radically altered by modernity .
19 I am suggesting that the British crime survey is very important .
20 However , after it had been explained that the former was aimed at the past and present situation whereas the latter was about the future , responses were forthcoming and are included in Table 9 .
21 Steel-Maitland also explained to Lord Robert Cecil that " it has been arranged that the National Conservative Union should send out leaflets produced by several of the ancillary organizations , such as the Tariff Reform League , the Anti-Socialist Union , the Primrose League , the London Municipal Society etc . "
22 However , it 's now been arranged that the guys abroad will each run their own particular operation and only call on me when there are policy matters to be discussed .
23 It has been calculated that the 1½-inch quills penetrate tissue in this way at a rate of an inch a day .
24 For the period 1757–1822 it has been calculated that the aggregate drain was approximately £250 million , while it has been pointed out that for the period from the 1850s to the First World War surpluses from the Indian economy were crucial in allowing Britain to balance its deficits with Europe and the USA ( Bagchi , 1982 , pp. 81 , 88 ) .
25 Mr Brown said : ‘ I am demanding that the Chancellor publish the letter circulating from the Treasury which itself demands that civil servants plan for 2.5 per cent and 5 per cent cuts in their budgets .
26 Souza 's commitments were no doubt the more complicated because he had been raised as a Catholic , and had been taught that the eroticism of Hindu religious philosophy was wicked .
27 We have been taught that the only solution for us is to take our sick body to a doctor who will make decisions about it , an all-powerful doctor who carries our life or death within his hands .
28 Equally important , Britons have been taught that the political system works .
29 Have you been suggesting that the dead girl might have been your father 's mistress ? ’
30 The ‘ pro-Palestinian ’ faction has been suggesting that the National Front abandon the pretence of attempting to build a mass party .
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