Example sentences of "be [adj] [to-vb] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professors Berry and Mott are right to stress that the support of the child and the family is of the utmost importance . |
| 2 | Kobena Mercer and Isaac Julien are right to emphasize that the complexity which arises at the junction of race and sexuality is something which ‘ some people simply do n't want to talk about ’ . |
| 3 | Pilcher 's first trials with the Bat in the summer of 1895 showed that Lilienthal had been right to insist that a horizontal tail surface was essential , and after modifications Pilcher succeeded in making a number of short downhill glides , but the dihedral angle was still too great for lateral stability . |
| 4 | The justices in the court below had been right to conclude that the police had ‘ reasonable grounds for believing that , if they were not present at the meeting , there would be seditious speeches and other incitements to violence and breaches of the peace would occur ’ . |
| 5 | Since every coin bears a mint-name , and most hoards containing Charles 's coins are dateable to within a decade or so , it has been possible to show that the coins circulated rapidly , soon after they were issued . |
| 6 | I am sorry to say that the same human impulses acted with me , particularly in relation to my bank manager , and I wrote a letter of acceptance . |
| 7 | I am sorry to say that the hon. Gentleman did not just stoop to the gutter in terms of smearing my hon. Friend : he used a series of inaccurate figures . |
| 8 | As has already been suggested , so pervasive has the term ‘ permissiveness ’ become that there are few , if any , commentators who are prepared to argue that the term is one that mystifies rather than elucidates . |
| 9 | Now sadder but wiser , we are prepared to admit that the implementation of curriculum change is a complicated business . |
| 10 | Whether or not we are prepared to accept that the Neanderthals had an advanced but abstract civilization , we are left with a question : what sort of civilization did the Neanderthals have ? |
| 11 | Thus , we are prepared to find that the simplification pattern apparent in the findings of the doorstep survey may also apply to the outer-city neighbourhoods . |
| 12 | Many Western scholars have thus been prepared to speculate that the military programmes of the 1970s represented Brezhnev 's way of ‘ buying off ’ the Armed Forces establishment for supporting East — West detente . |
| 13 | Goodlad has been careful to see that the reactions of all participants — pupils , students and teachers — are recorded to measure the success of the scheme . |
| 14 | The grounds of appeal were , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the justices had exercised their discretion to award costs on the wrong principles as it had not been shown that the local authority had acted in bad faith or unreasonable in the performance of its statutory duties or had acted unreasonably in the conduct of the proceedings before the court ; ( 2 ) there were no circumstances which justified the making of the costs order ; ( 3 ) the justice should have found that there were good reasons for the local authority to be concerned about the father 's ability to care for the children , the local authority was not bound to adopt the view of the guardian ad litem and the local authority had communicated the decision not to oppose the father 's application within a reasonable time on receiving the report of the guardian ad litem ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to assume that the change in the view of the local authority amounted to an admission that the views of the local authority had been wrong all the time . |
| 15 | They had been staggered to learn that the disclaimer did not cover them . |
| 16 | No doubt the jury would have been interested to hear that the victim had convictions for offences of dishonesty , and conceivably even more impressed ( though in law they would be wrong to be ) to learn that she had in the past tried to stab a policeman . |
| 17 | An imaginary example can be so described that I am willing to say that the action it recounts is good . |
| 18 | I am willing to wager that the Government will not present proposals before the election about the salary of top civil servants . |
| 19 | I am interested to see that the hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) would not balk at the prospect of having to sort out those knotty problems . |
| 20 | I am interested to see that the Minister of State , Foreign and Commonwealth Office , with his deep knowledge of the Spanish people and countryside , seems to agree with me on that . |
| 21 | I am interested to learn that the hon. Gentleman believes that a conference will be the panacea to all the ills connected with Sunday trading . |
| 22 | Women politicians and government ministers are prone to remark that the family is the foundation-stone of society " and should be strengthened but at the same time realize , as Dra . |
| 23 | I am delighted to report that a recent patient satisfaction survey showed that , of 901 patients consulted , 96 per cent . |
| 24 | ‘ I am delighted to report that the Secretary of State recognises these fears and is committed to establishing a Staff Commission to safeguard the interests of council employees during the reorganisation process , ’ said Mr Richards . |
| 25 | ‘ I am delighted to record that the Group 's recovery has been sufficiently strong for us to undertake two acquisitions during the year , Sekers and Mercia Carpets ’ . |
| 26 | I am delighted to see that the Government are willing to introduce a timetable motion at the start of Second Reading . |
| 27 | I am delighted to repeat that the number of women in the top grades of the civil service is improving all the time and they , of course , will be the permanent secretaries of the future . |
| 28 | For instance , in our example , it would have been unscientific to propose that the troublesome motion of the planet Uranus was such because that was its natural motion . |
| 29 | We are delighted to report that the ensuing debate we helped stimulate has transformed this orthodoxy into a vision now worthy of positive support . |
| 30 | As well as securing the presence of the film 's director , Monsieur Grospierre , for the event , the festival committee are delighted to reveal that the Irish cast for the film will also be in attendance . |