Example sentences of "that [noun] be [be] " in BNC.

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1 The Welsh-medium schools provide a first-class education and I am happy to tell my hon. Friend that Welsh is being taught in eight out of 10 primary schools in Wales and in nine out of 10 secondary schools .
2 I 've heard from people who have visited Brussels that meetings were being cancelled because the British Delegation were not even members of the trade union , but looking at the structure of the works councils in the U K this is no wonder .
3 With both visual estimation and point counting techniques it must be remembered that values are being computed from the two dimensions of the thin section into the three dimensions of a sediment for modal composition .
4 Tell him to leave it three or four days , then to notify his cousin that Steiner is being moved to St Mary 's Priory . ’
5 Complaining that Czechoslovakia was being called upon to " underwrite German reunification " , Stracar announced that from Aug. 9 the crown was to be revalued against the convertible rouble for trade with East Germany .
6 This is the basis of our earlier argument that states are being drawn , willy-nilly , into a new game with more complex rules and far greater demands on the skills of public servants .
7 The Test Manager should regularly check that progress is being made toward resolving the problems that are under his control .
8 As the Governor observed , it takes more time to change attitudes , but he thought that progress was being made here too and that the new recruitment would accelerate the process .
9 In a meeting on April 24 , Li Peng and Gorbachev noted that progress was being made in troop reductions on the border , and on the settlement of border issues .
10 He added that attempts were being made to snare them by hanging nets between trees .
11 One EC official said yesterday that the problem of fraud involving the Vatican had been understood for several years , and that attempts were being made to stamp it out .
12 Diplomatic relations with the USA had been broken off after World War II , following Albanian suspicions that attempts were being made to subvert the communist regime of Enver Hoxha , who had taken power in 1944 ; relations with the Soviet Union were severed in 1961 following ideological disputes .
13 Mr Bartell said : ‘ The average taxpayer will be outraged to hear that prisoners are being afforded private medical care .
14 Communist regimes , by pointing at high growth rates , could once justify this squeeze on the consumer as an investment for the future , but with low rates of growth it becomes obvious to a work force that gratification is being denied rather than simply deferred .
15 Reports published in Beirut newspapers on Aug. 28 and quoting a senior source in the Shia Amal movement claimed that Arad was being held by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Iran , having been captured by Amal in Lebanon in 1986 after bailing out of his aircraft , and then sold by Amal to the Revolutionary Guard for $500,000 .
16 Some reports in early December alleged that Arad was being held in Syria , having been handed over to the Syrian government by Hezbollah , although Hezbollah officially denied any knowledge of Arad .
17 Which is to say that defences are being erected to protect the integrity of Western culture , of the Western idea .
18 In particular , it was held that the law will imply a duty of care when a party seeking information from a party possessed of a special skill trusts that party to exercise due care , and that party knew or ought to have known that reliance was being placed on their skill and judgment .
19 This , together with house price rises since 1980 , indicated that houses were being sold to buyers on incomes substantially higher than the average in Allegheny West .
20 An inquiry into the killing of over 50 striking workers in Gdansk in December 1970 led in December 1990 to the arrest of three generals and five colonels , and in the same month it was announced that investigations were being held into the introduction of martial law in 1981 .
21 Attacks on asylum hostels and cemeteries , the majority in western Germany , continued during November , while on Nov. 11 the German Defence Ministry disclosed that investigations were being made into 24 cases of alleged involvement of soldiers in extreme right-wing violence — including three cases of manslaughter .
22 A fifth mistaken approach is the facile assertion that opponents are being inconsistent .
23 A report on June 27 stated that signatures were being collected insisting on the cancellation of its registration , but on the following day the Council of Ministers announced that the charges against the MRF were groundless .
24 Bouterse , who had claimed that Brunswijk was being held on drugs charges , complied with a government written order , and released the Jungle Commando leader on March 28 .
25 It is unhelpful for the health secretary to spout spurious statistics about increasing throughput and efficiency in the manner , and with the same hollow ring , of a beetroot producer or tractor manufacturer in the former Soviet Union reassuring commissars that norms were being exceeded .
26 ‘ Mostly , we find that Packman is being bought by larger , more safety-conscious farmers , especially where there is pressure from operators who have been on COSHH and FEPA courses . ’
27 ‘ Now you ca n't say that talent is being suffocated any more .
28 • Police say that cars are being stolen to be resold in car-starved east European countries .
29 The Problem Administrator ( a member of the Computer Group ) will monitor the progress of each problem to ensure that action is being taken .
30 The Problem Administrator should access all outstanding computer based problem reports regularly , i.e. those reports that have not been closed , to ensure that action is being taken to resolve the problem and to ensure that appropriate notes have been added to the descriptions of the problem reports to reflect the current status of the problem and the action being taken .
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