Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [to-vb] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I am prepared to confirm that in my evidence to the Select Committee I made it clear that the regional electricity companies were obliged to purchase the most economic electricity on the market . |
| 2 | I am delighted to report that despite the increase both of magpies and crows last year , I have observed over the winter feeding period the usual mixture of birds . |
| 3 | As a regular viewer of Casualty , I am delighted to see that at last television producers have acknowledged that nursing auxiliaries like myself ( and health care assistants ) do exist , as a health care assistant has now been introduced into the programme . |
| 4 | More sober advocates are content to imply that in Britain a Conservative constituency party would field a wet , a damp and a dry candidate , whilst Labour candidates would range from deep crimson to shell pink , and the Liberal Democrats would presumably run at least one ex-Liberal and one ex-SDP candidate . |
| 5 | The Committee may have been relieved to hear that in one case at another institution , the Inland Revenue had decided that officers who took round , for sale , firewood that had been chopped by the inmates , were exempt from the need for a hawker 's licence . |
| 6 | You , you , you 're right to say that on the whole there , the managerial farms were in , in the north , although there w there was clearly some in the south |
| 7 | To put it differently , if spatiotemporal relations are to be appealed to in support of the thesis that there can be numerically , not just qualitatively , distinguishable ontological existents , it is necessary , in the first place , to clarify the conditions under which such relations can be significantly claimed to reflect the structure of an objective world , and in trying to do so we are likely to find that in some form or other we need to assume what such relations are supposed to explain . |
| 8 | I am glad to report that in the past few months we have made real progress with the car manufacturers . |
| 9 | At the first , there was not much co-operation , but I am glad to say that in October the association announced a scheme similar to that which my hon. Friend suggested — to offer discounts to certain car owners who have security devices fitted when the car is being made in the factory . |
| 10 | I am glad to see that at last many parents now appear to be doing this . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , the book 's last essay , titled Black Women and Feminism , takes to task those African-American feminists who are reluctant to acknowledge that by ignoring sexism in the Black community they have left unaddressed the abuse and subjugation of Black women by Black men . |
| 12 | The queen mother 's religious views and those of the French advisers she gathered around her did little to allay the reformers ' fears ; nor would they have been happy to know that on Mary 's marriage in 1558 to the Dauphin , who the following year became King Francis II , she secretly signed an agreement that if she should die childless her kingdom of Scotland and her claim to the throne of England should become her husband 's . |
| 13 | From a fixture in my possession , I am able to record that through fares from Bishop 's Castle ( assume third class return ) were : — London 45s 8d ; Wolverhampton 8s 6d ; Liverpool 19s 9d ; Whitchurch 6s 10d ; Oxford 11s 3d . |
| 14 | But how sad that she had not been able to say that to the one person who really longed to hear it . |
| 15 | From our study we have been able to show that at least 5% ( 6/122 ) of patients will not have polyps at 30 years of age on sigmoidoscopy and , as only 36/ 123 in our series were shown to definitely have polyps under 30 years , the real figure may be somewhat higher . |
| 16 | Except for the two years after Martin drowned I 've always been able to believe that at the heart of the universe there is love . ’ |
| 17 | So far , I am happy to say that in the case of children — I was about to come to that exception — and in the case of rape victims , the balance that Parliament has chosen , in that it has granted exceptions in those cases , has proved to be an effective one . |
| 18 | And I see it as part of my problem in education is to erm , change the attitudes of the the boys who are , you know , at a very young , and I 'll be sorry to think that in ten years time they would still be having erm the rather arrogant attitudes that they have ! |
| 19 | Feminist cinema may be a ‘ global issue ’ , in Susan Hayward 's words , too large and bumpy and may be possible to argue that in theoretical and critical terms the truly global issues of a multi-racial international feminism are only just beginning to be addressed . |
| 20 | He has been working very long hours setting up in business here in er in this area er he gets home late at night and I 'm afraid to say that over the last few months he 's been nagged continuously by his girlfriend who wants him to try and sort out financial arrangements because the relationship between the two of them 's not been very good . |
| 21 | It would be wrong to pretend that in a booklet of this size , we can do any more than raise some of these issues and give an overview of the way in which the company tries to deal with them . |
| 22 | As the right hon. Gentleman is now keen to look at a longer period than just the last year , he will also be interested to know that between 1981 and 1991 the British economy grew faster than the German economy , the French economy , the Italian economy or the economy of any other country in Europe . |
| 23 | the wheel of the car , I mean I wonder , I wonder what you think of that , let me ask you this question , do erm , do men 's personalities change behind the wheel do you think ? , button one for yes , button two for no and vote now , and you 'll be interested to know that in this hundred eighty five of you think that personalities change , do they get better ? |
| 24 | You may be interested to know that in January 1993 , the total number of visitors to Winfrith Technology Centre was 1821 . |
| 25 | Indeed , we always try to give the benefit of the doubt , and the hon. Gentleman may be interested to know that in the last three years we have received 577 claims and have settled 372 of them . |
| 26 | Erm , it 's again recognized in the S S As that it is more social factors that impact on the need to spend on children 's services , and therefore things like single parent families , the level of family income and these tend to have a greater impact , but it would be foolish to assume that with a higher child population you are not going to get more demands on children 's services , and therefore we have provided a fifty thousand pounds ' provision within that to take care of problems . |
| 27 | At the same time , if by a failure to take a decisive stand Kirkton should be defeated , it would be easy to describe that as a defeat for the Montrose interest to which Kirkton had long been attached . |
| 28 | You 'll be glad to know that in line four and five , What to do ? |
| 29 | My hon. Friend will be glad to hear that in our draft guidance we have left considerable room for the discretion of the Local Government Commission . |
| 30 | I 'm glad to say that in the Navy such luxuries were not a part of our conditions of service , and when I was ordered back to Germany in 1949 I had no option but to return . |