Example sentences of "that [pron] be [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless entry into partnership between firms is actually intended , steps should be taken to ensure that nothing is done which would create such relationship . |
| 2 | Check that the bridge fits snugly back into place and that nothing is preventing it from seating properly ; small gaps at either end of the bridge are common , but the glue will fill these . |
| 3 | The fact that everyone is writing us off does n't bother us . |
| 4 | We get people on the programme singing and dancing so badly it 's painful , but they come back the next week and tell us that everyone 's stopping them in the streets to congratulate them , not slag them off . ’ |
| 5 | Having told me that everyone was advising him to record it , I told him to go ahead and do it , but not with me . |
| 6 | Clamping her mouth shut , she stormed after him , suddenly furious that everyone was treating her like a child . |
| 7 | You should , therefore , make every attempt to be in the first row , going fast as the gun goes and , ideally , with a space to leeward so that no-one is making you pinch . |
| 8 | At least it was the same for all traffic and Adam was soon convinced that no-one was following him . |
| 9 | It may be they know that I am meeting somebody they are trying to affect through his hierarchy ; or it may be they need to find out something which they think I am in a better position to find out than they are . |
| 10 | ‘ The main reason that I am contacting you is that I thought you might be interested to know that John ( stage name Joan Rawson ) was awarded the Eric Rowley Trophy for the artist who has done the most for charity over the last 12 months . |
| 11 | If I was setting an exam paper for summer it would be something I would think about putting in not that I am setting it in case you think I had n't . |
| 12 | ‘ I can not believe that I am hearing you aright , my darling . |
| 13 | This is to let you know that I am leaving you . |
| 14 | I am already aware that I am beginning myself to use the acceptable university jargon that saturates the material that is presented within these diploma courses . |
| 15 | I will tell my steward that I am taking you on to the staff as — ’ he paused for thought for a moment' — as a tax consultant . |
| 16 | ‘ The point is that I am teaching them a difference , ’ Diana told a friend . |
| 17 | The fact that I am conning myself , and know it , does not , strange to say , seem to render the technique ineffective . |
| 18 | I happen to have half a dozen , and there is one , just one , that I am allowing you the privilege of riding , because I think you are capable of coping with it . |
| 19 | ‘ It may be , sir , that I am thinking what you are , if you follow me . ’ |
| 20 | Not that I am encouraging you , mind . |
| 21 | I am sorry if the Minister finds it difficult to understand that , when I say ’ personally ’ in this respect , I mean that I am expressing my view and the view of my party . |
| 22 | And if her husband comes back , as he is apparently hinting he might , or if she moves , or gets a job , as she is always threatening to do if he does n't , or if my colleagues in the DSS find out that I am paying her , then even this hopeless arrangement will come to an end and I shall be back to the agencies and the advertisements , back to the interviews and the references , back to strangers in the house . |
| 23 | It pleases me that she called me my darling and not my little prodigy as she once did ; this is the best sign yet that I am winning her back . |
| 24 | I quote from my account of it in a letter to Elizabeth , ten years later : it will be seen that I am answering her questions . |
| 25 | ‘ For myself , I can scarce believe it is true — that I am to accompany you on so grand a venture . ’ |
| 26 | He thinks that I am selling her for the night . |
| 27 | However , I do n't see myself as a jack of all trades ; instead I believe that I am broadening my range of expertise while remaining a commercial lawyer . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Bowe has always said that I am the man he wants more than anybody and now that I am giving him the perfect opportunity , he is shying away from it . |
| 29 | In the needs that I am proposing there is no claim to their universality over time and place , only that they are broadly applicable to most contemporary Western societies ( more or less ) . |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't start that again , Ruth , or I 'll manually wrench your other ankle after I 've spanked your backside for suggesting that I am keeping you from your work . |