Example sentences of "[be] [that] [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After all you 've done in the past for Rosemary and me , and are still doing , ’ he went on , ‘ I got to thinking yesterday that I could have been a sight more energetic in letting you know how delighted I am that you 're going to marry my cousin . |
| 2 | For example , in the educational dimension , the aims for a child aged 3–4 are that s/he is provided with opportunities for intellectual growth and pre-school learning and is well-prepared for starting school . |
| 3 | Their main disadvantages are that they are affected by jointing compound and that they may not fit through the loft hatch . |
| 4 | Drawbacks are that they are carburetted , requiring much wristwork from the driver on the hefty levers which control the warm air intakes . |
| 5 | But the signs are that they are going to get tough with clubs that offer idle excuses for not getting their cup-ties out of the way . |
| 6 | Latest reports are that they are breeding successfully . |
| 7 | what the counties are that we 're covering , |
| 8 | Further assumptions are that we are fragmented as a movement , and that unity , not a hollow unity which does not go beyond slogans , but an authentic unity established in a principled way , would enable us to have more of an impact in effecting change in our own communities and in turn worldwide . |
| 9 | All the signs are that we are going to have to put up with far from satisfactory liquid crystal diode displays if we want portability , and recognising that the things are far from ideal , Japanese manufacturers are pulling out all the stops to improve the things . |
| 10 | ‘ I have n't had the pathologist 's report but the indications are that he was strangled after being stunned by a blow to the head . ’ |
| 11 | However , the probabilities are that you are fooling yourself . |
| 12 | ‘ My orders , little friar , are that you are to accompany me into Cheapside to a tavern called the Bear and Ragged Staff . |
| 13 | Thank you all for coming , I know that it 's , it just shows how interested some of us are that you are coming in on such a nice day as this to hear Doreen Griffiths ’ The Cinderella Army ’ or the Land Army , and I must say just reading these bits up here now , I 've got lots of questions I want to ask her when she 's finished , so we 'll let her tell |
| 14 | Now if your house , like our office , has tanks stuck on every available surface , chances are that you 're taking a similar risk . |
| 15 | Yeah well this is what 's not , I mean we do n't know who who those accounts are that you 're dealing with where that 's the situation |
| 16 | Counterfeiting is a multi million pound industry and all the signs are that it 's growing at an alarming rate . |
| 17 | And are you confident when you give a weather forecast that the chances are that it 's going to be correct , or do you do it with a slight feeling of uneasiness ? |
| 18 | ‘ All signs are that it is making a real impact in reducing the spread of Aids , ’ Mr Roberts said . |
| 19 | ‘ Industrial drug research is facing a crisis ’ was the headline of a British Medical Journal editorial recently ; and all the indications in Cured to Death are that it is going to get worse . |
| 20 | There had been no second rescue attempt — the first vessel had been destroyed by a rigged explosion — and the conclusion the survivors had arrived at had been that they were assumed killed . |
| 21 | Only two people in this group said that the difficulty had been that they were refused credit . |
| 22 | Or it may simply have been that he was hiding : that his confused sexuality could at any time have brought him down . |
| 23 | During the first government of Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson , one of whose election slogans had been that he was going to introduce a white hot technological revolution , AEA was empowered by act of Parliament to undertaken R&D on non-nuclear topics . |
| 24 | Ward 's excuse for talking in Spanish had been that he was accustoming himself to using it freely . |
| 25 | In April , I did point out that if English Heritage ( the body responsible for the preservation of England 's built heritage ) were transferred to the new Department of National Heritage ( which is now the case ) , very careful consideration would need to be given to how planning is coped with , because one of the strengths of English Heritage had been that it was placed within the Department of the Environment where government planning takes place . |
| 26 | The two are entirely compatible if it is remembered that one of the popular theories of the nature of the state itself has always been that it was founded on a contract between the individual members of a society . |
| 27 | Is the product you know even a description of the product that we 're that they 're going into er will be suffice on the telephone , they do n't have to see these these these er items if they 're described in in er in enough detail . |
| 28 | Yet as we noted in our tenth report : ‘ The price that some children may pay for demanding little of the teacher may be that they are given work which demands little of them ’ ( Alexander et al . |
| 29 | Where objects are deliberately unique it may be that they are intended to signify some generic concept of uniqueness , such as in art ; the object is then both an individual form and an example of a larger category to which it must be related . |
| 30 | Could it be that they are discriminating unfairly against a gipsy family ? |