Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What she appears to be asserting is that this person is coming home from Canada . |
| 2 | The first thing to be said is that the ‘ circumstantial variables ’ of a president 's incumbency may give him important advantages . |
| 3 | And the first thing to be said is that , on their own , beliefs do n't cause actions . |
| 4 | I mean the question that has to be faced is that when you talk about cutting the costs in local government you also have to talk about the services which councils deliver , and you ca n't get something for nothing . |
| 5 | The principle to be applied is that any departure from the target represents a loss or gain to be shared on an agreed basis between the two parties . |
| 6 | The second and very obvious point that needs to be stated is that if the justices , having fulfilled their duty to make independent investigation of the terms proposed by consent , reach the initial conclusion that those terms are in some respect deficient then before imposing other terms on the parties they must indicate the nature of their departure and give all the parties a fair opportunity to make submissions on their tentative conclusion . |
| 7 | There used to be er a fish shop and er that used to be called 's that fish shop did . |
| 8 | One of the most systematic surveys to be undertaken was that by the Policy Studies Institute ( Brown , 1982 ) . |
| 9 | Under the new Extra Statutory Concession , the conditions for a blanket election to be accepted are that the firm must have at least 50 partners ( or fewer if at least 20 partners are not resident in the UK ) , and new partners must add their names to the election . |
| 10 | The basic view to be explored is that the nature of education management is undergoing major change as a result of the Education Reform Acts of 1986 and 1988 — and particularly by the local management of schools and open enrolment elements of the latter . |
| 11 | Moreover , in an appeal to the High Court relating to such an order , the principle to be adopted is that set out by Lord Lane C.J. in Reg. v. Tottenham Justices , Ex parte Dwarkados Joshi [ 1982 ] 1 W.L.R. 631 . |
| 12 | The fundamental point to be grasped is that the inhabitants of a curved space can determine its curvature from intrinsic measurements , i.e. from measurements confined to the space itself . |
| 13 | The final point to be made is that in Re G ( a minor ) 1988 ( A11 FR p. 7(15) the House of Lords upheld the argument that adoption orders can be made with access but that these should only be made in exceptional circumstances although a distinction may be drawn between the position of birth parents and other relatives . |
| 14 | The final point to be made is that the local researcher should trust his instinct , and if something ‘ feels ’ wrong it may well actually be wrong , and with diligence can be so proved . |
| 15 | The final point to be made is that the whole reading experience takes place within a particular cultural setting , and this will affect reception . |
| 16 | Perhaps the first point that needs to be made is that the relationship between use and learning differs in respect to first and second language situations . |
| 17 | One preliminary point that may still need to be made is that the switches between the two media are not arbitrary , but motivated according to a series of conventions practised by other Elizabethan dramatists . |
| 18 | The point 's that I think is trying to be made is that there are a lot of people here tonight who do wish to express an opinion and that opinion is not necessarily formulated in question form . |
| 19 | The impartial observation able to be made is that , in both cases , it is a question of where the clubs go from here and too early to jump to any conclusions . |
| 20 | The only sense in which the legislature can be properly said to have authorised these things to be done is that it has enabled the Poor Law Board to order , and the managers to do them , if , and when , and where , they can obtain by free bargain and contract the means of doing so . |
| 21 | Problems of a somewhat similar kind occur up to the death of Stephen on 25 October 1154 , and even after that date there are various kinds of complication ; the first to be noted is that the reign of a monarch did not automatically start , or be deemed to start , on the day his or her predecessor died , or vacated the throne , as has been the custom since the death of William III on 8 March 1722 . |
| 22 | The third feature of English discovery to be noted is that it is limited to the discovery of documents . |
| 23 | The first point to be noted is that the Court may make the award on the application of the injured person . |
| 24 | The points to be noted are that : |
| 25 | ‘ What is yet to be demonstrated is that there is any substantial number of contemporary American artists who are themselves living in reduced circumstances while their work is simultaneously commanding high prices on the secondary market ’ , argued Stephen Weil , deputy director of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C. and a respected authority on art law . |
| 26 | The hypothesis to be tested is that α = 0 and β 1 = β 2 = 1 . |
| 27 | The hypothesis to be tested is that the method works by making explicit the connections between the strategy of reading by remembering what a word looks like and the strategy of reading by analysing the sounds in words . |
| 28 | In my view the one disadvantage still to be overcome is that the receiver is not as waterproof as it really needs to be . |
| 29 | What these legislative reforms seem to be suggesting is that all is basically well with the traditional model where the directors of the company manage the company but are supervised in that task by the shareholders who , if given the requisite powers , can be relied upon to ensure that directors do not use their powers for their own purposes . |
| 30 | After all , what he seemed to be suggesting was that a woman with her not inconsiderable sex drive might have been expected , long ago , to have found a man to satisfy it . |