Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she and the twins had visited the hospital this morning Laura had been upset to note that Liz had seemed to be deeply depressed . |
| 2 | By looking at differences in gas yield for the same coal type at different levels of thermal maturation , it has been possible to demonstrate that gas generation from coals occurs at lower maturities than previously reported . |
| 3 | It would have been tactless to reveal that Sybil was the author . |
| 4 | Further to Neil 's Memo to you of the 24th June , I am sorry to say that Newport Borough Council came back to us saying that they could not meet with us on Friday 24th July after all . |
| 5 | As I emphasized at the beginning , the issue is not just one of zoological taxonomy , it is a problem of ethics , and unless you are prepared to argue that Koko the gorilla might become a Christian , ethics concern rules which apply to human beings but not to non-human beings . |
| 6 | Darwin and Spencer had been wrong to argue that women were in a state of arrested development . |
| 7 | Almost all individualists are willing to concede that actions have some causal antecedents , since they allow that people are shaped and constrained by environmental factors which form their personalities and affect what they do . |
| 8 | The rationale , however , for that is clear : while insurers are willing to concede that accidents will happen , events developing over a long period of time because of a lack of concern for the potential hazards should not be allowed to . |
| 9 | I am prepared to argue that doing business involves , even at the lower levels in an organization but especially at the higher levels of management , semantic problem-solving ; for example , agreeing on boundaries , identifying individuals , establishing and maintaining classifications , conjecturing ways of doing things that belong in no existing formal schema . |
| 10 | Bryson House director Peter McLachlan said : ‘ I am delighted to say that Belfast City Council has approved the initial planning stage for the watersports centre . |
| 11 | I am delighted to report that Paul and his colleagues are going to the barricades to fight the council 's decision . |
| 12 | Julian Le Bas Landscapes Bede Gallery , Springwell Park , Jarrow , until March 20 I AM delighted to discover that Newcastle Polytechnic 's long-time art historian Alf Corlett is alive and well and living in well-earned retirement in East Sussex , where he has been on the look-out as a talent spotter for the Bede Gallery . |
| 13 | I am delighted to hear that St Nicholas ' Church , long known for its association with sailors and the sea , is launching an appeal to create a special maritime chapel , something the city has lacked for a very long time . |
| 14 | We are delighted to report that Ann McMillan has made a very good recovery from her operation . |
| 15 | On a happier note , we are delighted to note that Mrs. Maud Quine celebrated her 90th birthday in September and wish her many more happy years . |
| 16 | We are delighted to announce that Tavernier , who will just have finished shooting his latest film will be in Birmingham on October 5th to talk about his work with The Guardian film critic Derek Malcolm . |
| 17 | If the body exercising the power has been established especially for that purpose , the courts are likely to conclude that Parliament intended the body to act personally . |
| 18 | However , Northern men are likely to agree that men do n't do enough to look after their children , and they support the idea of women with young children going out to work . |
| 19 | Couples who wish to adopt a child are likely to find that conditions of acceptance are strict , and preliminary preparation and training sessions prolonged and stringent . |
| 20 | As with the determination of the carrier 's capacity , bank customers are likely to demand that banks ascertain the capacity of the issuer of the description by examining certifications issued by trusted third parties . |
| 21 | They are supposed to ensure that constituencies are as equal as possible in size of their electorates . |
| 22 | It would , therefore , have been natural to suppose that genes were made of DNA . |
| 23 | I 'd look better blonde and I assumed that I could wash the colour out before my parents saw : I must have been naive to think that bleach would affect my hair differently from anything else . |
| 24 | I am glad to report that Guinness PLC is in good shape . |
| 25 | I am glad to report that A.agassizii is not one of these species — some years ago I had a male live for four years in hard alkaline water , and a lifespan of three years is quite normal . |
| 26 | I am glad to say that Girobank have agreed to refund the 10 because , said a spokeswoman , ‘ Mr Kimbrey has never been overdrawn before , is a good customer , and it is a very small amount . ’ |
| 27 | On the hon. Gentleman 's last point , I am glad to say that work is being done on such devices so that we can trace cars more effectively . |
| 28 | At one point it would have been reasonable to assume that Durham SC were staging a convention for knee and ankle supports as nearly 80 combatants rolled up for battle . |
| 29 | The ability to give or lend money to relatives obviously is related to one 's own economic resources in some way — although we are unlikely to find that people who have more straightforwardly give more . |
| 30 | It is as if the company in some very deep way has been unable to acknowledge that customers even have choices . |