Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [pers pn] be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accurate information about epilepsy is essential to avoid the perception that it is something to be ashamed of or feared . |
| 2 | According to Dunsire ( 1982 , p. 15 ) , ‘ quango-hunting ’ has since 1979 ‘ become a Conservative blood-sport , under the illusion that they are nothing but wasteful ‘ empire-building ’ ' . |
| 3 | But Lennie seems to have made up his mind that it 's his midfield which needs strengthening . |
| 4 | It flashed through my mind that it was someone who was allowed out in the grounds of Bourani and down at Moutsa only on pain of keeping herself concealed . |
| 5 | There was no doubt in Harriet 's mind that he was someone called Freddie Nash . |
| 6 | But , at this particular time there is no indication that she was one . |
| 7 | Er that 's the sort of figure that we 're we need to be looking at . |
| 8 | Well , erm , what kinds of changes can be performed on me and still it would be the case that it 's me ? |
| 9 | The oil sheikhs at least have the excuse that it is their countries ' natural wealth that they are frittering away , not the fruits of the toil of their peoples . |
| 10 | ‘ I explained to the prince that you were my companion and he said — all the while gazing at you across the hall — ‘ But a relative none the less , I 'll warrant ! |
| 11 | It begins to sound from this description that it 's I twelve which is a bit of a dinosaur , a a dodo , that this is a county trying to carry on a thing which has probably passed its sell by date , that er it is n't fair to say that I five is primarily for industry , erm that is n't what the law says it is . |
| 12 | You know , once when I was in Wembley like , another thing that I 've noticed that changed in our place at Wembley , like every time I used to go in there , all , well , when I used to be in there , like , all the lads would be in the office with her like talking to her , and laughing and smiling and and she used to be at the desk smiling and everything and now , when I walk in there now it 's only me like on a Saturday , and it 's only her like nobody else is in there with her , she 's al , she always she 's got , I think what 's happened is she got too deep into her work that she 's she just seems to take all her work now and that . |
| 13 | The truth is that there is an embarrassment of riches in Joyce 's work that it was what to leave out which posed the problem , not what to include . |
| 14 | " It took us a couple of years to persuade the council that it was their fault not ours . |
| 15 | One former employee at Church House recalls occasions when he has intervened in staffing decisions more properly the sphere of General Synod on the basis that it is he who writes the cheques . |
| 16 | Zenaida the sorceress jumped on her from behind , one hand at her throat , the other yanking at her hair ; she screeched , and the bird flapping over her head screeched with her , but Carmellina could tell from the look in its pale green eye that it was her true love under a spell from the wicked enchantress , and she fell to her knees and clutched the skirts of Zenaida ( what was she underneath ? |
| 17 | The insight that we are what we keep secret about ourselves works out here to mean that we are our guilty secrets . |
| 18 | He needed no reminder that it was his own union which had prospered in many British ports while Tillett 's Tea Operatives ' Union established in July 1887 at about the same time as his own had failed even to develop any wider organization in the Port of London itself . |
| 19 | Responding to the charge that he is one , he wrote : ‘ Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied . |
| 20 | It leads either to problems about the relation between God and the world ( for example , to a denial that it is His creation ) or , as in the case of ‘ Epicureans , Hobbists , and the like ’ , to the attempt to reduce everything to matter . |
| 21 | Good lad that he is he gave them £20 . |
| 22 | This leads to the notion that we are nothing more than chemical and mechanical devices , albeit extremely complex and wonderfully integrated ones . |
| 23 | What I like about them and where I think their strengths are is that they do put science , the physical sciences , in that bracket of activity which is fun , excitement and leisure and enjoyment and that it moves away from the notion that it 's something you do on a wet Friday afternoon at school . |
| 24 | What I like about them and where I think their strengths are is that they do put science , the physical sciences , in that bracket of activity which is fun , excitement and leisure and enjoyment and that it moves away from the notion that it 's something you do on a wet Friday afternoon at school . |
| 25 | Shinwell believed to his dying day that it was he who had been the intended target of French 's bullet . |
| 26 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 27 | I take it that I do n't like modern art and yet I can imagine that while being the same person that I am I might have liked modern art . |
| 28 | But sleep came unawares , for he was woken by Luib in the dark and told by the peppery old Myrcan that it was his watch , and that Corrary was on after him . |
| 29 | Yanto and Billy heard the blonde tell the landlord that it was her birthday as she ordered the drinks . |
| 30 | And it appears from what the county council has said that they are they 're not necessarily opposed to this sort of development that we 're we 're looking at here but that er the case would have to be proven as an exception to normal planning policy . |