Example sentences of "[vb pp] [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 | Thus , it has come to be that the disability ‘ professionals ’ and us , their ‘ clients ’ , live within the carefully crafted , mechanical embrace of ‘ care ’ . |
| 3 | What ‘ sociological punch ’ had amounted to was that actors could still make films work . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One thing that can be said about is that he he 's never drab . |
| 6 | Another reason for Yugoslavia 's large exports to the Soviet Union is said to be that in this way the Soviet Union can obtain Western products which would not otherwise be so easily available to it . |
| 7 | A principal justification for the change was said to be that it unduly restricted the proper development of the law ( Practice Statement , ( Judicial Precedent ) , [ 1966 ] 1 WLR 1234 ) . |
| 8 | The advantages of matrix structures are said to be that : |
| 9 | The other procedural advantage is said to be that it is open to a prosecutor to include a series of incidents in the one charge , rather than as a series of assaults . |
| 10 | The general rule with regard to these provisions might be said to be that the settlor will not avoid tax on the income which arises from the capital which he has settled unless he and his wife are excluded from all possible benefit . |
| 11 | In the following example , the question-tag is ‘ are n't they ’ ; when it has a falling tone , as in ( a ) , the implication is said to be that the speaker is comparatively certain that the information is correct , and simply expects the listener to provide confirmation , while the rising tone in ( b ) is said to indicate a lesser degree of certainty , so that the question-tag functions more like a request for information . |
| 12 | There was a problem during the er evidence to the various committees that were looking at the coal crisis and the problems in relation to coal , in that very often people were translating it into tonnage and the number of pits etcetera , whereas the argument needed to be that the rules of the game had been rigged in the first place at the privatization of electricity and the rules of the game need to be changed if we 're gon na succeed . |
| 13 | I I think the aspiration has obviously got to be that the E C can grow . |
| 14 | What is being called for is that graduates should have gained the beginnings of the ability to stand back from their studies and to take a view of it . |
| 15 | All Mr Landor and the other lodgers cared about was that their rooms should be kept clean and their food brought on time , and she was expert at both . |
| 16 | The result is bound to be that it will be far harder to acquire convictions in these cases than it is at the moment . |
| 17 | All that the legislation provided for was that any loss incurred by the local authorities , as a result of carrying out the regulations , would fall as a charge upon the Exchequer . |
| 18 | Yet another reason for the theoretical importance of considering how non-words are dealt with is that , according to some authors ( e.g. , Marcel , 1980 ; Shallice , 1981b ) , the visual recognition of letter strings uses the same recognition system regardless of whether the letter string is a word or non-word . |
| 19 | So riddled with complexities has this question proved to be that one is tempted to follow the example of the legendary definition of folk song — ‘ all songs are folk songs ; I never heard horses sing 'em ’ — and suggest that all music is popular music : popular with someone . |
| 20 | One of the grounds relied on was that the company was insolvent . |
| 21 | The inevitable conclusion which will be jumped to is that he is going because there is about to be some momentous U-turn over Maastricht now that Britain 's presidency of the EC is over . |
| 22 | I think the that the first thing to say is that one of the reason why this option this paper was asked for was that we , so we could actually begin to look to see whether or not trickle transfer made sense in Cambridge . |
| 23 | Actually you know that 's the historical record of Shakespeare , and the theory put about is that er he once played one of the ghosts , Hamlet 's father . |
| 24 | Controlling and reproducing the cell was , it seemed , all about controlling and reproducing information ; and what distinguished the molecules that embodied this new idea , proteins , DNA and RNA , from the much more boring small molecules that until then biochemists had worked with was that these giant molecules seemed to embody information ; they were , it appeared , informational macromolecules . |
| 25 | In the former , to a first approximation , the initial amount of radiocarbon in an organic sample is taken to be that in the atmosphere now , but many adjustments are made to this assumption as will be seen below . |
| 26 | In this book the essential difference is taken to be that an objective must be quantitative in terms of results and time , while a goal may be less rigorously specified . |
| 27 | An additional payoff not to be sneezed at is that lecturers , forced to integrate , begin to rethink their subject ! |
| 28 | What we had n't bargained for was that she might not want to be the next Franz Klammer . |
| 29 | What he had not bargained for was that the ‘ fusion ’ cell would be deemed a radioactive hazard and so be prevented from getting the urgent clearance for transport across international borders . |
| 30 | The justification for this was expressed to be that it would thus be open to a court at a later date to review the matter of sex determination Ormrod J. 's decision , much cited and approved of in the House of Commons debate , evidently will remain the law . |