Example sentences of "[noun pl] [that] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not wearing any special clothes , but this lady — she was from an old Lucknow family could see by my manners that I was not a common person . ’ |
| 2 | Having assessed the possibilities of the transaction , the financiers will then wish to evaluate in detail the risks that they are likely to take . |
| 3 | During his tours of the Middle and Far East Duncan Sandys was made well aware by British Governors , High Commissioners and Commanders-in-Chief of the political and military risks that he was taking ; and local political leaders , like the Tunku Abdul Rahman in Malaya and Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore , warned him of the dangers of creating power vacuums that could be exploited by the Communist powers . |
| 4 | A dangerous species is defined as ‘ a species ( a ) which is not commonly domesticated in the British Islands and ( b ) whose fully grown animals normally have such characteristics that they are likely , unless restrained , to cause severe damage or that any damage they may cause is likely to be severe . ’ |
| 5 | er I should imagine they 'll be singing ‘ There 'll be blue birds over the White Cliffs of Dover ’ erm ‘ I 'll be seeing you again ’ and all the songs that I 'm not quite sure of , but I 'm sure that of my readers know well . |
| 6 | I 've thumped it into your ears that she 's mine and she 'll remain mine . |
| 7 | ‘ The trouble with foresters , ’ said Kāli , ‘ is that they 're permanently hungry : feed them well and they 'll leave you alone : forget to and they 'll scour the entire village for evidence of green wood , musk , tār and all the other protected animals that you 're not supposed to kill . |
| 8 | Amphibians in the wild are food for so many other animals that it is not surprising that they do not always show themselves well even in confinement . |
| 9 | He had worked for so many nineteenth-century showmen that he was able to outdo them all . |
| 10 | He has dismissed warnings from the Office of Fine Arts that it is forbidden to deal in State property , quoting the former assistant secretary of state L. de Graaff , who in 1984 stated that the artists were free to do with these works as they wished . |
| 11 | But the prejudice against money-lending was a bar to the development of credit and of the money economy in general ; and it was singularly fortunate for the Europe of the eleventh and twelfth centuries that there was a substantial group of active and intelligent people who had overcome the prohibition of usury . |
| 12 | Be that as it may , the judges assumed this duty in 1292 and there are dicta from time to time in the succeeding centuries that it is one they have no power to give up . |
| 13 | Hodge hoped that the Joint Commission would resume its work and he did not wish to convey the impression to Koreans that it was American policy to prevent unification . |
| 14 | There was one about a fortnight ago , and would have given my ears for the sort of civilian committee , and the methods that they 're using here , compared with the ones I saw in London . |
| 15 | The paradigm presents him with a set of definite problems together with methods that he is confident will be adequate for their solution . |
| 16 | He needs to persuade foreigners that it is safe for them to lend the best part of £1000 million a week to the Treasury ; and he needs to persuade Britons that it is safe for them to start spending their money again . |
| 17 | You need to have a think during the next week about how you can illustrate the lists that you 're drawing together , are you going to use newspaper cuttings ? |
| 18 | ‘ We are totally convinced as a committee that the losses that we are facing — losses on an unprecedented scale — are a result of reckless and negligent underwriting , ’ said Mr Nutting . |
| 19 | In an article in the British Journal of Religious Education in 1989 , Nicola Slee notes that in practice , There is little respect for the claim of religious believers that it is a lifetime 's work to come to know and be possessed by ( note , not to possess ) the truth of even one tradition . |
| 20 | The thing reportedly could n't find its critical paths and gave off false signals that everything was hunky-dory when it was n't . |
| 21 | A vast and ordinarily unnoticed area of the history of the arts is the development of systems of social signals that what is now to be made available is to be regarded as art . |
| 22 | Even when our bodies give us very clear signals that something is wrong , we will hardly ever take responsibility for any problems that we may incur . |
| 23 | This seems an absurd consequence and signals that something is wrong with Freeman 's basic assumptions . |
| 24 | Large demands have to be floated gently and you must stay in touch with the other party 's reactions by looking for signals that they are being pushed too far or too fast . |
| 25 | But my ex-husband says I 'm inclined to be intimidating and also I give out powerful signals that I 'm desperate to get another husband . |
| 26 | According to Parker these compounds are such strong ionophores that they were ‘ highly ineffective ’ at detecting arylammonium ions , such as ephedrinium , in the presence of metal ions . |
| 27 | ‘ The aim is to show the kids that we are in the new Europe , that the Dutch children are n't far away and that we are all one . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ The first thing I did when I came out was try to explain to the kids that we were n't bad people . |
| 29 | But other gang members warned my kids that I was to get slashed for grassing . |
| 30 | These and others ; schoolteachers , students , the.police , media , and even researchers , are welcome , if only , ‘ to show kids that there are other adults besides teachers around the place prepared to talk with and listen to them ’ . |