Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] that " in BNC.

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1 That Germany had also provided a comprehensive state insurance for sickness , accident , disability and unemployment for its people from an early date was thought by some to be implicated in that country 's economic success .
2 In reality , the unhappy experiences of United Motors at its Dublin plant had effectively ensured that no major future expansion would be undertaken in that enigmatic country for many years .
3 Gentleman sees the working papers he will discover that no hospital will be able to ask for trust status unless it agrees to carry out the whole range of services that must be undertaken in that area .
4 ‘ The distribution of the lividity can only be explained in that way .
5 Thus it is often argued that statutes punishing cruelty to animals can only be explained in that way .
6 If a reductive programme of this kind is possible , we may be tempted to provide a rational reconstruction of our knowledge which shows how the credibility of derived claims can be traced to that of the foundation .
7 Some of the ideas which I discuss are currently rated ‘ improbable ’ , but should not be dismissed for that reason alone : their supporters may be in a minority , but that minority is often a very distinguished one .
8 It had all happened so long ago , and she had found a successful career for herself in radio anyway , despite Luke 's having caused her to be dismissed from that first job back in South Africa and the subsequent need to abandon her Communications course , and as he himself had pointed out — oh , as she herself had always known deep down , hence her long-ago guilt — she had chosen to leave Johannesburg when her father was dying .
9 We 've worked hard for too many years to be dismissed like that . ’
10 We 've worked hard for too many years to be dismissed like that . ’
11 What gives a name as a name its special status is that it represents the transcendence " of the object relative to any particular description that might be given of that object .
12 Proceeds will be given to that charity .
13 The first is that the retention by the state of taxes unlawfully exacted is particularly obnoxious , because it is one of the most fundamental principles of our law — enshrined in a famous constitutional document , the Bill of Rights 1688 — that taxes should not be levied without the authority of Parliament ; and full effect can only be given to that principle if the return of taxes exacted under an unlawful demand can be enforced as a matter of right .
14 If in a subsequent Act Parliament chooses to make it plain that the earlier statute is being to some extent repealed , effect must be given to that intention just because it is the will of the Legislature .
15 We are talking about a terminus in the heart of a great city and some proper consideration should be given to that .
16 If the clause contains language which expressly exempts the person in whose favour it is made ( " the proferens " ) from the consequences of the negligence of his own servants , effect must be given to that provision .
17 One of the functions of the non-executive members will be find ways of giving professors a meaningful voice in the trust , and early consideration will be given to that . ’
18 Scott 's reply last month did not reassure : ‘ The highest priority for independent living must be given to that group of people for whom the usual pattern is to live and work in the community .
19 If the income has already borne tax at the basic rate relief will be given for that charge .
20 However , it should be realised in that event that the discretionary trust ceases to be one of these golden trusts and on the death of the life tenant inheritance tax may be payable .
21 If the person or institution is not willing , the clause may be ineffective , because the contract will not be binding on that person or institution and the court will not make the appointment : see 10.3.1 .
22 Since Rae was a partner in Ferguson & Forster his knowledge must also be imputed to that firm and to Forster as a partner in it ;
23 But Dr. Blain-Thomson will be seeing to that . "
24 And do not think such an object can be disguised for that is manifest nonsense as you have only to try to discover .
25 Collective decision making , the sharing of responsibility , and solidarity in a common task had been Citrine 's way of life in the Labour movement ; and the new organisation should , he felt , be formed in that image .
26 This involved making a ‘ negative ’ version of the recording , with ridges instead of grooves , so the copies could be formed from that .
27 At the pace the zeks worked , the hole would not be filled by that evening .
28 of the vessel 's crew , irrespective of their nationality , to reside ashore in the member state in question was irrelevant to the aim of the quota system and could not therefore be justified by that aim .
29 The injured dogs ' behaviour can not be differentiated from that of their uninjured pack mates .
30 Too much of a coincidence for Sir Thomas to feel ill and then to be poisoned after that .
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