Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] that [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clerk argued that it was not a " competent application " . |
| 2 | The story goes that it was a very merry party — maybe they were celebrating being able to get in the hay after a bad spell — and they stepped on the bridge to enjoy some music , a very Tallentire thing to do . |
| 3 | The story goes that he 's fallen out with his friends in the Provos , and he 's either on the run , or they murdered him and dumped the body . |
| 4 | The story goes that he was watching at home with his wife but after the pile-up occurred , he could stand it no more and went out into the garden for the rest of the race . |
| 5 | He wrote in the Times : ‘ Last night in Sheffield , image throttled intellect and a quiet voice in every reporter present whispered that there was something disgusting about the occasion . |
| 6 | undermine your opponent 's credibility by : questioning his experience suggesting that he is losing control negotiating to the point of his mental exhaustion |
| 7 | ‘ The police and ambulance arrived on the scene very rapidly and the other driver admitted that it was her fault . |
| 8 | Although the user thinks that they are deleting the material they are only really removing them from the current display list — all the text and graphics are still being held in the file . |
| 9 | When it was opened , British Rail argued that it was important because it would not be necessary to improve the lines around London . |
| 10 | Three in the numerator denotes that we are making three restrictions to be restricting our parameters of three parameters in this particular model , constant , coefficient on , log of prices and log of you are restricting those er at a zero when we estimate over the entire , over the ent the entire sample okay and yeah |
| 11 | There will always , however , be a few cases in which the clinician thinks that it is inappropriate to ask for organs . |
| 12 | Then followed a speech in her presence hinting that it was time Australia went it alone . |
| 13 | The 5½ million inhabitants of England and Wales in 1700 had swelled to nearly 7 million in 1760 ; in 1801 the first census revealed that there were over 9 million people ; by 1811 there were 10½ million . |
| 14 | She had forgotten that her papa was supposed to be dead , and had spoken of him in the present tense , a fact not wasted on Dr Neil , who made no comment , but asked politely , ‘ And does all this stockmarket bargaining mean that you are going to make me a cup of tea , or not ? |
| 15 | Will he take this opportunity to confirm that it is the three strands that will form the basis of any future talks , and that against that background there will always be the Anglo-Irish Agreement , until the two Governments feel that they have something that transcends it ? |
| 16 | It is highly effective , highly professional and highly regarded and in no way would its organisational change mean that it was any less committed to or capable of working on the types of renewable energy mentioned by the hon. Gentleman from tidal to wave power . |
| 17 | On Jan. 31 , 1990 , Thatcher admitted that she had been misled about the extent of the subversion campaign , while on Feb. 7 the House of Commons select committee on defence announced that it was to hold an inquiry into the MOD 's handling of the affair . |
| 18 | A more detailed age profile of all students in relation to overall progress revealed that there was relatively little difference between the age groups although those aged between 18 and 19 years were most likely to graduate while those under 18 and over 40 years of age were least successful . |
| 19 | On March 15 the Interior Ministry announced that it was to drop the charges pending against about 6,000 people for illegal political activities during the regime of Gen. Hossain Mohammad Ershad . |
| 20 | Separately , Digital Equipment Corp announced that it was moving back into South Africa with a wholly-owned subsidiary , Digital Sales and Services South Africa ( Pty ) Ltd , which begins operation on July 1 . |
| 21 | Apple Computer Inc says it is still on target for mid-1994 launch of its first RISC-based Macintosh after IBM Corp announced that it was now shipping the first PowerPC chips to Apple . |
| 22 | Regarding the possible capital value of quota , Mr Mitchell commented : ‘ All the banks and the Department of Agriculture say that there is no capital value attached to quota but the message of today is that they are wrong . ’ |
| 23 | However , some theories of visual word-recognition propose that there are horizontal excitatory links at the letter detection level , since these could potentially serve to speed the identification of words . |
| 24 | She had given him no opportunity to indicate that there was an old friend with him — not that there was , at that point , but there might have been , and if there had been , it was hardly his fault if Alexandra had chosen to come knocking on the door without giving him a chance to explain — and then getting stroppy when she found someone had got there before her . |
| 25 | ‘ You only had to look at the faces sitting around the table at base camp to know that they were physically and mentally finished . ’ |
| 26 | British Rail say that it 's getting there , but in which direction , I wonder ? |
| 27 | Its rather strange style finds its nearest parallels in the third quarter of the century , and primitive elements in the technique suggest that it is an early piece of its kind . |
| 28 | At the time of their first agency contact , the majority reported that they were using between two ‘ bags ’ ( about 10 ) and a gram of heroin ( 60 ) per day , the typical daily quantity reported being 0.25–0.5 gram ( between 20 and 35 ) . |
| 29 | Clinical trials using calcipotriol suggest that it is a safe and effective topical treatment for psoriasis vulgaris . |
| 30 | When Panna was just twenty days old , the village midwife disclosed that she was neither male nor female , that she was a hijra . |