Example sentences of "[prep] be [adv] [vb pp] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After being endlessly reassured that , ‘ it 's not the tractor , it 's how long he stays out that field ploughing , ’ we give up craving a member that could be mistaken for the Eiffel Tower . |
| 2 | Hastings affirms his loyalty to ‘ my master 's heirs in true descent ’ , despite being explicitly told that Richard intends to be king ( III.ii.36–55 ) , and in the face of ominous dreams and omens ( III.ii.10ff. , III.iv.81ff . ) . |
| 3 | It does not seem to be widely realised that words have shape and colour and rhythm as well as meaning . |
| 4 | Even with interests , it ought not to be casually assumed that all interests are automatically legitimate , or that compromises can and should be made to accommodate them . |
| 5 | Parkers need to be clearly warned that they park their vehicles entirely at their own risk . |
| 6 | It has to be clearly understood that whether LMS or GMS there is inevitably going to be a change in the existing relationships at all levels ; this will have implications for where differing and changed levels of power will lie . |
| 7 | This close liaison with the NID was obviously liable to be misunderstood within the ranks of the BDDA so that is not surprising to find the BDDA 's annual report for 1925 explaining that : The executive committee wish it to be clearly understood that the NID is not antagonistic but rather complementary to our own Association . |
| 8 | I want it to be clearly understood that I do not in any way mean to suggest there is any question of prevarication when I say that as to the prospect for the future there is essentially a difference between what the plaintiff 's parents said in their statements made as recently as the twenty eighth of October of this year and what they said in their evidence about their attitude to future care . |
| 9 | This was sufficiently close to the sidereal orbital period of 87.97 days for it to be generally concluded that Mercury was in synchronous rotation around the Sun , and therefore that the sidereal axial period was also 87.97 days . |
| 10 | Not until the early sixties did it seem to be generally acknowledged that Britain was no longer a great power as previously understood . |
| 11 | Sadly , it appears to be generally accepted that this is the way people in service industries in Glasgow behave . |
| 12 | After some initial hesitation it now seems to be generally accepted that the value should be assessed at the date of the conversion ( though it should be noted that in other contexts the courts show some resistance to any universal rule that damages are to be assessed at the date of the wrong ) . |
| 13 | Give or take one or two opinions to the contrary , it seems to be generally accepted that their job is by no means sinecure . |
| 14 | It seems to be generally agreed that young mothers run a far higher risk of isolation and loneliness than their Victorian counterparts . |
| 15 | It seems to be generally agreed that this is in some way ‘ special ’ , and peculiar to English . |
| 16 | The time has come when the fact ought to be generally admitted that the amount of government … which is necessary to the welfare or even to the existence of a civilised community , can not permanently co-exist with the effective belief that deference to public opinion is in all cases the sole or the necessary basis of a democracy . |
| 17 | People know the evidence of their pockets and are unlikely to be easily persauded that Mrs Thatcher 's Britain has been , or has yet become , the economic disaster area which Mr Kinnock depicted . |
| 18 | It needs to be firmly said that these essentially non-instrumental disciplines do not constitute a dilettante add-on to higher education , unnoticed if lost . |
| 19 | To walk into a pub function room as I have often done during the ten years I was collecting fieldnotes and see two or three hundred detectives in their ‘ uniform ’ of modern suit and tie , neat haircut , and the fashionable moustache of the times , is to be visibly reminded that there is a narrow symbolic range of bodily correctness within which all policemen can properly operate . |
| 20 | If a government exercises some ‘ power without right , ’ it seems to be necessarily implied that the people have a corresponding right to resist . |
| 21 | It seems to be commonly supposed that it is description rather than theory as such which makes the most direct contribution to language teaching . |
| 22 | To be summarily told that he has now dropped in the county pecking-order , that he can not expect to graduate to the captaincy , came as a shock . |
| 23 | The dance has to be so arranged that the mistake must appear accidental . |
| 24 | The dish or pot should be filled to capacity without being so crammed that the fish comes higher than the rim of the pot . |
| 25 | The defendent appealed , argueing that he had been lead to make his statement by being promised bail , and had been mislead by being falsely told that his companion had confessed ; but the judgment of the court was against him . |