Example sentences of "[noun pl] that it be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sleepers had been taken up and the flat , stony top of the ridge was so overgrown with blackberries and wild rose and hazelnut bushes that it was like pushing through a forgotten forest in a fairy tale . |
| 2 | Signs like these were enough to convince educated contemporaries that it was worth trying to maintain the pressure on the authorities which they had already begun to generate . |
| 3 | Silicon Graphics Inc , Mountain View , is not commenting on a report in the New York Times that it is considering teaming up with Time Warner Inc to develop hardware for interactive television . |
| 4 | The electricity cable laying to give 'em a job so you could play for the Ipswich Electric Supply Team and we had a jolly good team , we won the cup for the first three years that it was in being but the finals used to be on Portman Road and course that was in those days a thing to be looked forward to . |
| 5 | Tacit collusion , on the other hand , would involve no explicit agreement but simply the unspoken acceptance by the two firms that it was in their best interests each to produce half the monopoly output on the understanding that failure to do so would provoke a price war . |
| 6 | It seemed at first sight to be a chaos of struggling men and horses , a wild mêlée ; but soon it became apparent to the newcomers that it was in fact more like a whirlpool of activity , with the ambushed English , above whom the royal standard wavered uncertainly , in the centre , whilst their more numerous attackers circled round them , smiting and thrusting but apparently making only moderate impact . |
| 7 | By now it is accepted among teachers that it is within the individual school that curriculum innovation and development , the implementation of whole school policies and the continuing development of professional skills must be initiated . |
| 8 | Six years ago , Sir Peter set up a memorial appeal fund , with instructions that it was to be launched immediately after his death . |
| 9 | Mr. Thornton submits that this passage supports his argument for the defendant in the instant case , but it seems to their Lordships that it is at best neutral . |
| 10 | It was accepted by the Highways and Planning departments that it was outside the scope of the methodology to progress the technical solutions to the point of implementation , which , in any event , could not have been undertaken by the FAOR team due to their disbandment after the final report had been rendered to the European Commission . |
| 11 | In theory this should sort out the wheat from the chaff but the definition of wheat in the intelligence world is so wide that even with the best filter the net volume of material is of such staggering proportions that it is beyond any useful human assessment . |
| 12 | The Evangelical Alliance is canny in hoping it.can win similar victories by persuading publishers that it is in their commercial interest to avoid offending decent consumers . |
| 13 | There are some indications that it was about this time that she began to fall in love with Richard Baxter . |
| 14 | In cultures where the two-parent family is not the major centre for the rearing of children that it is in Western , middle-class cultures , the Oedipus complex does not develop , for the intensity of the relationships is much less strong between parents and children than in Western society . |
| 15 | So if a foal exhibits characteristics or mannerisms that are not displayed by its mother , or other horses that it is with , but only by its father , such a characteristic would appear to be inherited . |
| 16 | Such a policy would be resisted in this country by some professional bodies and by some other groups on the grounds that it is against individual freedom . |
| 17 | London University is proposing to cut all funding to the Witt Photographic Library , part of the Courtauld Institute of Art , on the grounds that it is in excess of the Institute 's internal needs . |