Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friends are right to emphasise that that status operates within the NHS . |
| 2 | We think that retributivists and denunciationists are right to insist that there is no justification for punishing someone who has not deliberately and wrongfully broken a just law and thereby exercised a freedom to which they are not entitled ( because to do so has diminished other people 's freedom or has threatened to do so ) . |
| 3 | That is why , on the costing basis , we are right to say that it represents another 10p in the pound on basic income tax . |
| 4 | Perhaps Upton people are right to say that because they have a tremendous history . |
| 5 | Professors Berry and Mott are right to stress that the support of the child and the family is of the utmost importance . |
| 6 | You are right to note that two of your photos were used in the last magazine . |
| 7 | But if anarchists are right to think that it can never be made , this is for contingent reasons and not because of any inconsistency in the notion of a rational justification for authority , nor in the notion of authority over moral agents . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | Betty would have been upset to know that they had been talking of the devil . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I think I am right to claim that I was the first to adopt this plan vs Rudi Douven at Charlton in 1983 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | Twenty-five years ago , during a period of full employment , employers may sometimes have been right to assume that those who were unemployed or redundant were less effective than those who held down a job . |
| 15 | And she had obviously been right to guess that her assistant possessed more initiative than her current employer gave her credit for . |
| 16 | Part of him would have been sorry to hear that she had been shot , or sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in the filth of an Austrian gaol . |
| 17 | How much easier and clearer it might have been if it had been possible to say that both parents and husband were equally concerned and that they might all talk together . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 20 | Using specially arranged cognitive tasks it has been possible to show that this inhibition is weaker than average in psychotic individuals , otherwise ignored information being relatively more available for conscious processing . |
| 21 | However , within the simple aggregate supply and demand framework that we have developed above it has always been possible to show that , if expectations of inflation are not rational , then Friedman 's x per cent growth rule for the quantity of money will be inferior to some other policy which links monetary growth to the current or past state of the economy . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It would have been tactless to reveal that Sybil was the author . |
| 24 | " I have been connected with different unions for this last twenty years " , he declared to the Royal Commission on Labour in 1892 , " but I am sorry to state that they have been formed for the benefit of one man , for he has generally cleared out with the funds " . |
| 25 | I am afraid it has met with a cool response from our colleagues , and in view of this , I am sorry to say that we will not be taking up your offer to publish . |
| 26 | I am sorry to say that I often broke the tenth commandment for I really coveted that model and expect many of my contemporaries were also guilty of that sin . |
| 27 | In fact I am sorry to say that many aspects of the book are disappointing . |
| 28 | I am sorry to say that some of them are dead now , and others have left the dale to live in Barnard Castle with their own families . |
| 29 | I am sorry to say that I never heard her at her best because of circumstances . |
| 30 | But I am sorry to say that , however alert Ivy 's attention was and no matter how much Herman admired Brenda Bruce , they seemed to miss the point . |