Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] be [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The public reaction was generally that parents and doctors should decide . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend is right that we have the most generous system in the developed world for supporting students . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend is right that this country has the best regulatory system for reducing real phone charges . |
| 4 | My hon. Friend is right that the Labour party would be prepared to overrule parental ballots and to take grant-maintained schools back into the throes of LEA control , which is exactly what parents have voted to escape . |
| 5 | The hon. Gentleman is right that there was a change in 1979 , but for different reasons from those he advanced . |
| 6 | In anyone 's book that is failure of some magnitude , but the fact for English cricket was simply that there were very few players of real Test class around at the time ; after all , when Mike Gatting , one of the best of the county captains , got his chance he won only twice in twenty-two Tests . |
| 7 | Can I just ask you if your position on the Daily Mirror is still that you 're not at all interested in it , or is there a prospect that you may change your mind when you 've seen the figures from the Mirror ? |
| 8 | In fact , one of the reasons God is so concerned that we do not involve ourselves in premarital and extramarital relations is so that we will never feel we are competing against the skill and ability of another lover . |
| 9 | However , those who operate the law are well aware that it will only be respected to the extent that it conforms with public opinion : the reason why journalists and broadcasters are not prosecuted much more often for undoubted infringements of the letter of the laws of contempt and official secrecy is simply that the authorities are well aware that up-to-the-hilt enforcement of these vague laws would bring the law into further disrepute , and precipitate precisely the sort of clash between government and the press that it has been the British genius to avoid , whenever possible , by cosy arrangements . |
| 10 | Certainly suspect committee members had attempted to go abroad , but the real reason was probably that the committee had served its purpose by acting as a bait to attract foreign relief organizations ( the ARA drew up an agreement on 20 August ) . |
| 11 | The current official view is therefore that mergers are part and parcel of the competitive process , as opposed to restrictive practices which impede that process . |
| 12 | When women do confront sexism , the glib reply is often that it is a joke . |
| 13 | The corporate concern is therefore that the profit implications of a particular measure are widely understood , and that the legislators are not going to saddle companies struggling for survival with disproportionate costs — or at least , not without the public being made aware of the consequences . |
| 14 | The defence of a firm accused of predatory pricing is often that it is merely responding to competition : so evidence of its intentions may be quite important in deciding whether a firm 's conduct is predatory or not . |
| 15 | Renner ( 1917 ) argued that as ‘ capitalism is now passing from its industrial to its finance-capitalist stage ’ so the old principle of nationality ‘ the democratic , nay revolutionary principle of the unity , freedom , and self-determination of the nation , is over and done with ’ , and the dominant national idea is now that of ‘ national imperialism ’ , promoted by the ruling classes . |
| 16 | The most obvious diagnosis is simply that the initial belief that p , from which the true justified belief that q is inferred , is false . |
| 17 | but a white load 's there that I must put in and must get that put out this afternoon |
| 18 | In fact , one of the major tensions was precisely that between the residual kinship patterns and the new form of relationships that were being constructed in the course of the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | What empirical evidence is there that might persuade us to give credence to this sharp and absolute distinction ? |
| 20 | By the weekend , the legal advice was apparently that ministers could tell Parliament to go hang . |
| 21 | If convention is silent there is no law , and the force of that negative claim is exactly that judges should not then pretend that their decisions flow in some other way from what has already been decided . |
| 22 | Binding was the second most frequent reason for the non-availability of material , and — since the most frequent reason was simply that a requested item was already in use — it was the main reason which could be considered as in some measure attributable to the Library 's own procedures . |
| 23 | The difference between the monotonous beat of pop music and the rhythmical architecture of a great symphony is precisely that in classical music the primitive reaction is delayed and denied for a more varied satisfaction . |
| 24 | The major conclusions are therefore that the market economy is a remarkably efficient way of creating wealth largely because it succeeds in utilising more information than alternative economic systems ; that for a market economy to work , the society of which it is part needs to believe in certain kinds of values : it must lay great store by individual responsibility and also have a non-egalitarian view of what constitutes social justice ; that the so called ‘ crisis ’ of capitalism results from a prevailing set of cultural values , typified by Freudianism and Marxism , which are contrary to those needed for the market economy to prosper , that humanism as a philosophy can not guarantee to generate the appropriate values , and that Christianity can provide such values and has indeed done so during the period of industrialisation throughout much of the Western world , but in consequence the kind of market economy which is then championed is different from that currently defined by the libertarian philosophy of Professor Friedman and Professor Hayek . |
| 25 | Apart , then , from those for whom the virtue of representative democracy is precisely that it restricts and restrains popular power , and even , as in Britain , involves the vesting of sovereignty in the representative institutions rather than in the people themselves the chief argument in defence of representative democracy has been an essentially pragmatic one : that it is the best that can be devised in the context of large societies where the citizens are too many and too scattered to be gathered together in one place . |
| 26 | Quinn 's fundamental point is simply that it is foolish to try to produce a total group-wide analysis at a given time and then to go ahead rapidly implementing that , ignoring the changing external and internal environments . |
| 27 | The fundamental argument is again that human beings are still very ‘ basic ’ beings ; that is , they have evolved over millions of years and that what we call civilisation or culture represents only a fraction of human history . |
| 28 | Trace the outlines on to greaseproof or tracing paper , and fix a piece of waxed paper on top of this , securing firmly at the edges — this double layer is so that pencil marks do not attach themselves to the icing and discolour it . |
| 29 | Er I could do but then again would you under er so that you can understand er what the actual recommendations are , the important thing is again that we see you face to face . |
| 30 | This arises not only from potential changes of field ( where student preferences are not guaranteed — the contractual baseline is merely that students are enabled to complete the fields upon which they originally registered ) but more significantly from the changing pattern of extra-field choice . |