Example sentences of "[be] [adj] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or are they expected to be grateful that after the hamfisted handling of Sir David ( now Lord ) Wilson 's resignation , Hong Kong is to be the possible reward for a loser in the game of political musical chairs ? |
| 2 | Firstly balance , how can it be right that in future authorities , future authority should be evenly balanced between elected and non-elected members . |
| 3 | But you have to be careful that by doing something like that you 're not making life completely onerous |
| 4 | We 've got ta be careful that in er using that sheet , we do n't do it in such a way as to bully and turn off the customer by saying , by the way , you 'd better make sure you 've done this , this , this , this and this , cos I 'm not doing it . |
| 5 | Whilst the White Paper acknowledges that local policy objectives and resources must be a key context in planning and delivery services , the government appears to be clear that at the point of assessment , decisions must be needs-based and ‘ should not focus only on the user 's suitability for a particular existing scheme ’ ( DoH , 1989b , p. 18 ) . |
| 6 | You need to be clear that for both of you what is going on is OK and creative of mutual satisfaction . |
| 7 | It will be clear that for this approach an artefact which already embodies a categorization process is clearly distinguished from a natural object which does not . |
| 8 | It 's important to be clear that for the moment we are talking about the purchase of places in the private and voluntary sectors : in-house purchasing is not with us yet . |
| 9 | It should be clear that for total injections and total withdrawals to remain equal requires that a rising interest rate be accompanied by a falling level of income , and vice versa . |
| 10 | However it began to be clear that despite our good possession we were short on attacks . |
| 11 | It will be clear that on any particular occasion of meaning negotiation the more familiar the schematic content or mode of communication , the less reliance needs to be placed on systemic knowledge , and vice versa . |
| 12 | It will already be clear that in the contemporary convergence , with its deliberate extension and interlocking of hitherto separate ( if always related ) senses of culture , what is now often called ‘ cultural studies ’ is already a branch of general sociology . |
| 13 | It should be clear that in pluralist theory ‘ regionalism ’ is then rather a misnomer since the territorial location and conformation is utterly irrelevant . |
| 14 | Such relations occur in hierarchies , but for a proportional series all the structuring relations must be ‘ one-to-one ’ , that is to say , each relation must be such that for any element there is just one other element to which it can stand in that relation , and only the first element can stand in that relation to the second . |
| 15 | The relations between the elements must be such that from any three of the elements the fourth can be uniquely determined . |
| 16 | Once at the Committee , the President would not be unaware that by a strange chance only six of the 11 bondholders on the 17-strong Committee were present : the other five has sent genuine apologies . |
| 17 | Some officers seem to be unaware that in terms of the number of people who do it , cycling 's second only to walking . |
| 18 | By now it should be obvious that with interval harmony it is possible to obtain whatever harmonic results we please , through the manipulation of the consonant or dissonant intervals available to us , without resorting to tonal conventions . |
| 19 | It will be obvious that during these months a number of changes must occur in the mother 's body also . |
| 20 | " It should be obvious that in the crowded habitations of the poor , who live , cook , eat , and sleep in the same apartment and pay little regard to the washing of hands , the evacuations of cholera victims which are almost colourless and without odour can be passed from one person to another . |
| 21 | It should be obvious that in this type of problem ( i ) and ( ii ) are alternative possibilities , to be dealt with separately ; ( ii ) is not meant to follow upon and include the facts of ( i ) . |
| 22 | On the contrary it seems on the face of it to be likely that with some learners a conscious awareness of how language works and the subjection of their experience to analysis would suit their cognitive style , increase motivation by giving added point to their activities , and so enhance learning . |
| 23 | It must be likely that in due course a parent company in the UK will be legally responsible for the debts of at least its wholly owned subsidiaries unless , perhaps , it files some sort of public disclaimer . |
| 24 | They lie ahead , and since they can travel at twice our pace , we may be sure that for all the length of our march we shall be subject to ambush . |
| 25 | What 's the point of loading the reel with an unbranded twist that ‘ looked right ’ , when you can be sure that at some time or other the varying tensions on this material are going to produce lively snarls and inevitably weaken it , so that a line break happens just when you least want it . |
| 26 | Although it is repeatedly said that at common law a man must keep his fire ‘ at his peril , ’ research shows that we can not be sure that at any period in the history of the common law a man was absolutely liable for the escape of his fire . |
| 27 | Whatever mood you are in when you arrive at HCI 's Club Romantica … you can be sure that within a few minutes you 'll feel at home in this pretty village of chalet bungalows surrounded by trees and flowers . |
| 28 | Although the monastic reformers of the twelfth century frowned on the practice of placing children in monasteries , and the Cistercians forbade it , we may be sure that throughout the Middle Ages many nuns were dedicated to religion by the same procedure as they would have been dedicated to husbands — by parental fiat . |
| 29 | I do n't think that anyone would doubt that the treatment Dr Carrington received was extremely caring and humane ; but can we be sure that in other cases this will necessarily be so ? |
| 30 | Equally , if we conclude that other presuppositions are not true , we can be sure that in the long run they will not prove satisfactory either , and we should root them out . |