Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] that [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been widely expected that President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali , whose distaste for capital punishment for politically motivated crimes had been well publicized , would commute the death sentences . |
| 2 | Funds , it seems , are so restricted that South Africa have only two official representatives in New Zealand this week for IRB business and the New Zealand RFU 's centenary celebrations , which include three matches against a 26-strong World squad . |
| 3 | As her mother 's name was the same as her own , it has been mistakenly assumed that Mrs Coade , the mother , ran the factory until her death in 1796 , but ‘ Mrs ’ was a courtesy title for any unmarried woman in business at that time , and bills show that Miss Coade was in charge from 1771 . |
| 4 | Some Tory MPs are also hoping that Chancellor Kenneth Clarke will decide to limit the VAT levy to just 8pc and ditch the second stage rise to 17.5pc . |
| 5 | However , we are also reminded that Pinnacle has n't been taped out yet so it 's still only hopes and dreams time over at Cypress . |
| 6 | For example , how should policy makers react if , having been persuaded that the larger part of observed unemployment is Keynesian , they are also persuaded that NAIRU lies well within the range BC in Figure 8.8 ? |
| 7 | They are now asking that Rome recognises — or at least does not condemn — the love that dare not speak its name . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Not until the early sixties did it seem to be generally acknowledged that Britain was no longer a great power as previously understood . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Because if you do n't , ’ said Owen , ‘ I shall let it be generally known that Andrus has been giving money to the Moslems for them to use against Copts . ’ |
| 12 | The evidence in this extract is conclusive , and it can therefore be definitively stated that Agatha Christie 's source for the character of Hercule Poirot was Speke , Parot . |
| 13 | It should be clearly stated that Barbarossa was pious ; his entire life and style of rule was guided by his religious beliefs . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm simply saying that Sarella disclaimed all rights to Uncle 's bequest before becoming engaged to me . |
| 15 | The need for further study of this confused period is clearly indicated , but the statements of Ibn Hajar ( and al-Makrizi ) and of the earliest chronological list and the document indicating Molla Fenari 's presence in Karaman in Jumada II 819/August 1416 provide at the least a consistent basis for explaining the reason for , and establishing the date of , Molla Fenari 's return ; and it may therefore be tentatively concluded that Molla Fenari returned to the Ottoman lands some time in , or shortly alter , Sha'ban 820/September-October 1417 . |
| 16 | He would never be officially informed that Rich had applied for a warrant and to expect a bailiff at his door next week . |
| 17 | I am simply denying that God ( whatever we may mean by God ) could be of such a kind that God could intervene in human history , or be revealed through particular events in history , or through a particular person , in a way in which God is not potentially present to us in and through all acts and persons . |
| 18 | I am simply arguing that Brooke-Rose 's analyses point toward her later use of what she herself describes as ‘ metaphor ’ at the level of discourse . |
| 19 | I am reliably assured that King 's College Chapel in Cambridge , which has stood as steady as a rock for the past 450 years , could never be built today because the design would never be accepted under the safety limits of the building regulations ! |
| 20 | But we are reliably informed that Angus will be back on his feet and more importantly that seat tomorrow . |
| 21 | The arrival of ‘ Alcibiades ’ with his partying revellers is a bit of an anticlimax — a touch jaded rhythmically , almost as if Boughton and his crew were rather wishing that Bernstein 's Greeks had been philosophers first and swingers second . |
| 22 | We were soon to discover that Masha might be in no condition to set us on any track . |
| 23 | Some men were already saying that Artai 's election was ill-starred . |
| 24 | In the course of an item on The Late Show , viewers were confidently told that Sean 's Show is ‘ the first postmodernist sitcom ’ , that it goes out on Thursdays , and that it 's a Channel 4 programme . |
| 25 | As many of their domestic loans were backed by property , the banks were also betting that Japan 's land bubble would not burst . |
| 26 | The selectors have long refused to hear a strident case for Carlisle Best , and locals were also miffed that Desmond Haynes was overlooked for the West Indies captaincy . |
| 27 | However , the companies were reportedly assured that UI 's 1993 programme would continue , along with its input on requirements , early access , licensing and conformance and its work in promoting and marketing Unix . |
| 28 | Labour 's suspicions were immediately aroused that Asquith 's speech at the National Liberal Club was part of an ‘ Establishment ’ plot to deny Labour fair play , and that a Labour government defeated in the Commons would be denied the right which other governments had enjoyed , of an immediate dissolution . |
| 29 | The Chinese whispers the next day were even claiming that Paul Smith stormed out of the awards in disgust . |
| 30 | By the end of the 1970S the additions to the housing stock had been so considerable that arguments were increasingly heard that Britain had enough houses . |