Example sentences of "be [adj] that a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authors are unconvinced that a reliance on business , left to its own devices or even pump-primed , is sufficient , without full-scale and direct attention to the needs of all residents , those in both the paid and the unpaid workforce , and their dependants . |
| 2 | It has always been clear that a councillor must be allowed to see any information he needs to carry out his duties , but it has been unclear how far that goes . |
| 3 | After this double success hope must have been high that a solution in the case of the general quintic would soon be forthcoming . |
| 4 | Many Greek Cypriots are fearful that a reduction of UN policing of the 110 mile ‘ green line ’ separating the Greek south from the Turkish northern third of the island could lead to renewed fighting . |
| 5 | Those who fail are convinced that a horde of Undead emerge from portals which magically open in the tapestries . |
| 6 | I have had discussions with the various groups and I am convinced that a solution could have been arrived at if the Minister had arranged for collective discussions to take place . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're aware that a month 's notice is required . |
| 8 | From the discussions that I have had with those groups and from some statements that I have received — I do not want to go into detail because they were confidential — I am confident that a solution could have been found which would have formed a reasoned consensus for those groups , for the interests that they represent and for the House . |
| 9 | To expand on that ; many girls would retain the values of civilisation and would want democracy and order and all that , as Ralph did , and eventually I am sure that a girl or girls would break away , causing a rift in the group , I think that the causes of the rift would be more trivial and the arguments more verbal and less brutally physical than the boys , but girls are capable of a great deal of spite and bitter unforgiveness and if more than one leader-figure emerges , they may later argue . |
| 10 | I was very relaxed , although I am sure that a lot of the journalists , cynics most of them , were still dubious about my time in Madrid . |
| 11 | I think Kenneth had a strong sexual imagination and I am sure that a lot went through his mind , but J do n't think it went further than that . ’ |
| 12 | We have all worked very hard to make sure that our district societies are representative of all members and I am sure that a breakdown of the composition of committees would prove this . |
| 13 | It has in the past been notorious that a pupil in an English school , having learned French for seven years , and having even passed at grade A at A level , may yet be unable to utter more than a few halting sentences , and be hardly able to follow a simple conversation with a native speaker . |
| 14 | British medical charities are concerned that a refusal by one foundation to provide grants for experiments involving animals may stimulate the anti-vivisectionist movement and increase the difficulties facing medical researchers who consider such experiments to be essential . |
| 15 | Ramblers are angry that a golf clubhouse is being built across the route of a long distance footpath . |
| 16 | MINERS at Point of Ayr colliery are angry that a £7.5m investment programme has been put on ice by British Coal . |
| 17 | Tory councillors here are angry that a member of Sinn Fein is being allowed a platform in the city — they say the move is highly offensive to everyone in Glasgow . |
| 18 | Once you are happy that a marketing price has been reached then you simply instruct us to sell . |
| 19 | It can not in our judgment be right that a judge can refuse to allow the prosecution to discontinue before their case is concluded if he believes the evidence already called raises a prima facie case . |
| 20 | ‘ It can not be right that a tenant in Middlesbrough , where housing is cheap , pays more than a tenant in Camden , where costs are very much higher , where well-paid jobs are much easier to come by , and there is such a concentration of commercial facilities . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Well , Watson , ’ Holmes said to me , ‘ I 'm afraid that a doctor from Devonshire wo n't bring us anything of real interest . |
| 22 | I 'm afraid that a lot of gardeners will have been put off coir by these spurious trials , and I really think Gardening from Which ? should publish a withdrawal . |
| 23 | It should be clear that a God who was simply ‘ outside ’ the world in the way that the President of France was ‘ outside ’ Britain could hardly at the same time be present in it . |
| 24 | Although the Sandinistas have repeatedly pledged democratic elections in February , Mr Arias was said to be fearful that a failure to disarm , relocate or disband the contras could provoke a Sandinista cross-border sweep against the rebels and cancellation of the polls . |
| 25 | Although the Sandinistas have repeatedly pledged democratic elections in February , Mr Arias was said to be fearful that a failure to disarm , relocate or disband the contras could provoke a Sandinista cross-border sweep against the rebels and cancellation of the polls . |
| 26 | But on any one day , although there will be subject assessors beavering away in places all over the country , their activity is not very visible unless you happen to teach in a department being visited ; the rest of the staff in your own college or school may be unaware that a subject assessor is there . |
| 27 | Initially it may not be obvious that a component , such as the gearbox cover , is required . |
| 28 | It should be obvious that a dissonance sounded by one instrument must be resolved by that instrument ( unless there is a complete break-off and a rest or pause separating the discord from what follows ) , but it is the writer 's experience that beginners do not always realize the musical necessity for this . |
| 29 | From this description it should be obvious that a pension fund can be confident of the source and scale of its contributions since these are a contractual obligation for employer and all employees . |
| 30 | In some circumstances it would not be reasonable that a disposition of property made by an individual before his bankruptcy , or by a company before being wound up , should be allowed to stand . |