Example sentences of "that this be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the constable quoted above makes clear , it is not that all neighbourhood policemen defuse every situation by the display of patience , sympathy , tolerance , and understanding , it is more that this is their first choice and they use other recipes , by becoming ‘ heavy-handed ’ and resorting to arrests , only when this one fails . |
| 2 | But officials deny that this is their aim . |
| 3 | Just as young children will cry and remonstrate or say ‘ do n't leave me ’ , so the adult may use just the same words or convey by their behaviour that this is their worry . |
| 4 | As a congregation comes before God and gives time to him in praise , they are declaring their understanding that this is their highest purpose and pleasure in life : to know God . |
| 5 | There is a need to recognise and further consider the position of male carers , while not using this issue to deflect us from the more general issues which arise for women through entrenched assumptions that this is their ‘ natural ’ role . |
| 6 | She refers , in particular , to radical feminists who turn on its head the criticism that women are more emotional than men , and claim that not only are women more emotional , but that this is their strength , and that in comparison , men are enfeebled , deadened and impoverished creatures . |
| 7 | Let us hope then that England produce a performance of such mind-bending awfulness in order to succumb to this dodgy outfit , who probably ca n't believe that they are still in with a shout , and may thus fool themselves into believing that this is their year … at least until they hear the result from Turkey . |
| 8 | Young people in particular are getting to see that this is their country . |
| 9 | Local inspectors , on the other hand , can rightly argue that this is their great strength . |
| 10 | So if they can find a way at working with one another and realizing that this is their life ! |
| 11 | The parties declare that this is their intention ( see clause 15.2 ) and in clause 15.3 acknowledge that they consider the restrictions to be reasonable . |
| 12 | Most of the airmen and women fly home in January but some say they have been here so long that this is their home , they 'll be staying in England . |
| 13 | All progressive voices in Islamic countries know that this is their fight too , because look what happens if we fail . |
| 14 | I mean I do think that this is we have n't yet , I go back to the claim I made before that in the hundred days since he 's been Prime Minister his concentration has been taken up by the Gulf war , obviously . |
| 15 | There can be no claim that this is what Roth really thinks : the affidavit that might have been contained in The Facts has been withheld . |
| 16 | ’ Theists argue that this is what they are drawn to say about the whole of reality . |
| 17 | We have already seen that this is what happened to ‘ citizenship ’ in 1988 : each of the major parties emphasised those features of the concept which , from their own ideological standpoint , they considered most important . |
| 18 | In a way , I imagine that this is what I myself am trying to do . |
| 19 | And those of you who see this as some bureaucratic nightmare or the real face of 1984 — that is , State imposition of values and goals — it is perhaps helpful to recall that this is what happens now in an unsystematic , and therefore inefficient , way ; and , of course , it is the route accepted by that arch-priestess of free choice , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 20 | It is a tremendous tribute to Patsy and her husband that this is what they have become . |
| 21 | It is easy to imagine how the early inhabitants of the Middle Fast , and in particular the ancient Egyptians , could have converted this African race into a domestic partner and there is little doubt that this is what occurred , with the more northerly European form being left out of the story altogether in the initial stages . |
| 22 | Obviously if you did a course in engineering or modern languages and you are going for a job where these skills are required it should not be difficult to explain that this is what positively interests you and you chose the subject because you wanted to go on to employment in the same field . |
| 23 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 24 | It is not just evident in the theme parks , but in the design of back offices , too , where they are giving a message to employees that this is what the company is about . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ They have said that this is what they wanted . |
| 26 | Thousands of years of experience have proved that this is what the wild elephants do — usually — though there is always a chance that it may be fatally different . |
| 27 | The main man-child 's self-adoring ennui sticks in the craw once you realise that this is what he 's going to be doing on his death bed . ’ |
| 28 | However , there is no evidence that this is what happens . |
| 29 | Much as it is ‘ obvious ’ to us from the diagram ( though not from a verbal or mathematical description of the same sate-of-affairs ) that B will hit D , that D will then tilt with its left half moving downwards , and that B will end up touching both A and D but not the ground , so it is easily discoverable by the program that this is what will happen . |
| 30 | Another problem with a textbook description of research methods is that the textbook gives the impression that this is what really goes on . |