Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SunSoft is planning on releasing details of the programme that it 's putting together at its developers ' conference later this month . |
| 2 | Racal proved this conclusively when it announced last spring that it was planning to sell off part of the Vodafone mobile telecoms operation . |
| 3 | They call it an attempt to emphasise that Macedonia is an historically and culturally Greek region just when the ex-Yugoslav Macedonia , invented and so-named after World War II by Tito , is seeking international support for its own claim to independence , so far without much success : in part because of the problem of its name , in part because of fear that it is looking with greedy eyes at Greek Macedonia . |
| 4 | One of the features that worry people about modern society is the fear that it is becoming more violent . |
| 5 | A foreigner , and housed on the second floor of the hospital block in the cell that it was said had held the pilot Gary Powers and the businessman Greville Wynne . |
| 6 | In spite of high interest rates , price inflation at the factory gate has varied from 4.8-5.2 per cent during the past seven months with little indication that it is set to slip below the range . |
| 7 | The platform may have been left , although there is no indication that it was used until Stretford Bridge began to appear in the timetable as a request stop in 1890 . |
| 8 | It was ordered that this memorandum should be entered in the minutes , but there is no indication that it was considered or discussed . |
| 9 | Nannies were inevitable and , within their social set , also very much the norm ; but the choice of Barbara Barnes to look after William was an indication that it was going to be a relaxed regime : she had no formal training , never wore a uniform and liked children to call her by her Christian name . |
| 10 | To represent a happening as unforeseeable , however — and herein lies the explanation for the use of the infinitive with to — one must necessarily evoke a position before its occurrence : the stretch of time leading up to it must be evoked as containing no prior indication that it was going to occur . |
| 11 | In elections held in May 1990 the NLD had won an overwhelming victory , but during the following months the ruling military junta ( the State Law and Order Restoration Council — SLORC ) had shown little indication that it was planning a transfer of power to civilian rule . |
| 12 | Even the RP ‘ broad ’ [ a ] ( as in path , dance ) seems to have acquired its high evaluation only recently : Mugglestone ( 1989 ) cites evidence from the nineteenth century to the effect that it was stigmatized as a vulgarism by some commentators : it looks as though it may have been ‘ borrowed ’ from a low-status dialect ( such as ‘ Cockney ’ ) . |
| 13 | For his contempt in abetting such an action his temporalities were distrained until he did prefer the royal clerk — such a humiliation that it was said to have occasioned his death . |
| 14 | My feelings about the book were positive rather than the reverse , but I complained in my review that it was studded with references to fashionable French gurus that were purely cosmetic , adding nothing to the author 's argument . |
| 15 | Pyridinoline ( also known as hydroxylysyl pyridinoline ) and deoxypyrolidine ( also known as lysyl-proline ) are not further metabolised , thus providing a better index of resorption than hydroxyproline , which also has the disadvantage that it is found in skin as well as bone . |
| 16 | On Oct. 8 the German Bundestag approved at a first reading the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty on condition that it be given the final say over the introduction of a single European currency in the final stage of European monetary union ( EMU ) . |
| 17 | The Brache Estate sports ground occupies land sold by the late Lady Zia Wernher to the car company on condition that it be used for sport . |
| 18 | It is not the case that the legitimate power of authorities is generally limited by the condition that it is defeated by significant mistakes which are not clear . |
| 19 | Aid , given on condition that it is spent on genuine development , can till the soil for home-grown growth . |
| 20 | Her partners agreed to this unorthodox therapy on condition that it was done in her spare time and she produced an audit after a year . |
| 21 | The calf was in such bad condition that it was decided that its only chance of survival was to transfer it to Colombo Zoo for treatment . |
| 22 | Mozart wrote to Constanze that it was attracting full houses , and several numbers — ‘ Mann und Weib ’ , Papageno 's glockenspiel in the Act One finale , and the trio of the three boys from Act II ( ‘ Sied uns zum zweiten Mal willkommen ’ ) had to be repeated . |
| 23 | This week UK , Cambridge-based IXI Ltd is going to confirm our months-old story that it 's signed HaL Computer Systems to license and bundle IXI 's Motif-compliant desktop manager X.desktop on its anticipated 64-bit Sparc machines ( UX No 388 ) . |
| 24 | An argument against such flexibility is that the House of Lords itself , in respect of any case that it is seised of , lacks authority to remit the case to the court below directing it to re-open and re-hear the case . |
| 25 | Now remember that a helicopter , unlike a conventional aircraft , does not necessarily have to be pointing in the direction that it is moving and that the pilot must tell the tail where to go at all times . |
| 26 | Thirdly , you should hook the opponent 's foot in the direction that it is pointing because this is the line of least resistance . |
| 27 | Many objections were voiced against the proposed deal which caused such a storm that it was dropped within days of the news breaking . |
| 28 | It is plain from the design of the building that it was planned very much with Sunday School work in mind . |
| 29 | A particular research project that I and two colleagues , Keith Baker and Erin Sloman , have a grant from the Science Research Council for is to look first of all at the problems of getting such as system with , well at the moment three but possibly up to twelve computers , working on a given existing artificial intelligence problem to see how to take this big program — it 's called Popeye — it 's a research project to study various areas of visual perception , as you say — to see how to break this down and have it running simultaneously on a number of much smaller computers , rather than on the single big computer that it 's running on at the moment . |
| 30 | Anil Gadre , Sun Microsystems Computer Corp 's vice president of systems product marketing , told Unigram last week that it has a 64-bit part that it is playing with , but there is no operating system or applications up and running on it , yet . |