Example sentences of "[adv] [that] [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wavy black hair curled behind his ears so thickly that she was reminded of an Ingres portrait of a nobleman she had seen in one of Miss Hatherby 's books . |
| 2 | Better that it 's used to revamp the old chestnut about ‘ how many electricians does it take to change a lightbulb ? ’ in the form of ‘ how many reissues does it take to relaunch a band 's career ? ’ |
| 3 | At the funeral ( she had never been to a funeral before ) it had come to her quite suddenly that something was ending in herself , that she was being challenged to take hold of her life , to make decisions , and she had quarrelled with Terry because of it . |
| 4 | Audiences in South Wales liked her so much that she was invited to return there to sing time after time . |
| 5 | Erm however he 's saying that you know where , where there is erm you know , pe peasant erm associations basically that they are trying to , you know , get together , club together and make sure that say the surcharge of , of each of land erm is at least being re reduced or abolished . |
| 6 | Bridget 's hand in the small of her back reminded her gently that she was obstructing the entrance . |
| 7 | Well why would he want to tell him all his failures , especially that he 's viewing Nick as an opponent . |
| 8 | Especially that it 's headed by Mrs Grigorovich , Natalya Bessmertnova . |
| 9 | The railways railwaymen were demanding more , because they felt quite rightly that they were giving more to the railways . |
| 10 | ‘ Kelly would tell her friends quite naturally that she was dying , she did n't fear it , ’ says Mike . |
| 11 | It was bad enough that they were deceiving these innocent , kindly folk — did he have to do it so well ? |
| 12 | ‘ Serious enough that I 'm following up on it . |
| 13 | ’ John made it clear enough that he was thinking of the Roman curia : ‘ In our everyday ministry we often have to listen , greatly to our sorrow , to those … who do not have much discretion or balance ’ . |
| 14 | Suddenly , it was not enough that he was touching her face . |
| 15 | It is likely to be , even , that two mental events are not of the same type on two occasions when I give a more explicit description of my experience , perhaps that I was thinking that my daughter is a quick thinker . |
| 16 | So that one 's going to attack me . |
| 17 | Skin tones varied , and scars like scarlet ropes ran about the anatomy , so that one was reminded of a butcher 's diagram . |
| 18 | You should , therefore , make every attempt to be in the first row , going fast as the gun goes and , ideally , with a space to leeward so that no-one is making you pinch . |
| 19 | Will the Home Secretary expedite his consideration and either grant a posthumous pardon or at least instigate a public inquiry , so that what is regarded as the greatest injustice of our post-war criminal justice system left unremedied will be put right before the last member of the Bentley family dies without knowing the result ? |
| 20 | Dr. John Whitcomb , professor of Theology and Old Testament at Grace Theological Seminary in Winona Lake , Indiana , summed it up very well when on page 52 of his book ‘ The Early Earth ’ , he wrote , ‘ the testimony of an honest evolutionist could be expressed in terms of Hebrews 11:3 as follows , ‘ By faith , I , an evolutionist , understand that the worlds were not framed by the word of any god , so that what is seen has indeed been made out of previously existing and less complex visible things , by purely natural processes through billions of years ’ . ’ |
| 21 | In addition there is , as yet , no consensus of opinion among Keynes scholars over his treatment of the labour market so that what is presented here must be regarded as the personal view of the author . |
| 22 | It is also , very importantly , of two kinds : short term and long term ; so that what is recalled in the short term ( the classic example is a string of numbers ) may fade rapidly from the memory , while other elements of the communication , which are not so easy to recall immediately , stay in the mind long afterwards . |
| 23 | I want to question my belief , so that what is left after I have questioned it , will be even stronger . ’ |
| 24 | The question was : could the situation be resolved by improving the integration of the thought and design processes , so that what was built better achieved what was intended ? |
| 25 | A complete and intentional obliteration of a will or any part of it , so that what was written can no longer be seen , amounts to a revocation of what is obliterated ; but merely striking words through with a pen or altering them has no effect , unless the cancellation or alteration is signed by the testator and attested by two witnesses like a new will . |
| 26 | Whether offensive or defensive strategies are being reassessed , the Gulf War has brought home the fact that automation has become the cornerstone of virtually all new military systems — so much so that we are moving steadily towards a fully automated battlefield . |
| 27 | Andrew Holden , joint secretary of the Northern Examining Association , said : ‘ We will be looking at the position and seeing whether we think it is worthwhile to offer a similar scheme or whether we would prefer to cut the general level of fees so that we are competing on even terms . ’ |
| 28 | In her forty-four year life , Mary ruled for only six , so that we are faced with another thirty-eight years when she had virtually no role in her kingdom , being a minor and absentee ruler for the first nineteen , and a deposed queen for the second . |
| 29 | This request for information provides a direction for the conversational fragment , so that we are considering speech with some purpose and not just social chat used to pass the time . |
| 30 | This essentially rational nature of the human essence explains why thought — such thought as Spinoza tries to express in his work — can influence our behaviour , so that we are guided by conceptions of good and evil . |