Example sentences of "[verb] be [adj] that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are hopes that help may be forthcoming later , once the SAC has been convinced that the orchestra 's recent problems have been resolved . |
| 2 | Lord Lane personally rejected the second appeal of the Birmingham Six in January 1988 saying , in words which returned to haunt him : ‘ As with many cases referred by the Home Secretary to the Court of Appeal , the longer the case has gone on , the more this court has been convinced that the jury was correct . ’ |
| 3 | In a small number of cases the JMU 's evidence has been such that the committee has decided the firm should not be registered , or that registration should be granted , but with restrictive conditions ( where , for example , a partner may be precluded from acting as a ‘ responsible individual ’ ) . |
| 4 | In recent years , however , Brolly , once Paul McCartney 's manager , has been keen that the group should diversify further into book publishing and recording , and the failure of a bid to buy an ( unnamed ) major publishing house hastened his departure . |
| 5 | Apparently the Class Teacher has been unaware that the Welfare Assistant asked the Deputy Head for help . |
| 6 | For several months it has been obvious that the oil market is , as Joseph Stanislaw of Cambridge Energy Research Associates puts it , long on crude . |
| 7 | Since its report on the problem in July 1989 , the commission has been concerned that the gene pool and ecosystem may be irrevocably changed should man-made mutants escape into the environment . |
| 8 | ‘ Applying that test , and bearing in mind that there are persons on the fringes of subversion that may make it difficult to draw the line ’ , the Commissioner has been satisfied that the Home Secretaries ' warrants have always been justified . |
| 9 | The two further major reservations that must be made are first that the service is moulded chiefly by the doctrine of ministerial responsibility with all that flows from it — anonymity , one collective viewpoint , secrecy and a degree of isolation from the rest of the community . |
| 10 | On the other hand , when the amount produced is such that the demand price is less than the supply price , sellers receive less than is sufficient to make it worth their while to bring goods to market on that scale ; so that those who were just on the margin of doubt as to whether to go on producing are decided not to do so , and there is an active force at work tending to diminish the amount brought forward for sale . |
| 11 | The accuracy with which the pulses can be timed is such that the phase ( Fig. 8.7(b) ) can be carried across gaps in the data with an accuracy to better than 20 µs ; that is to better than . |
| 12 | The taxing code works without difficulty and the trustees would be assessed jointly — Lord Keith in Dawson v IRC referred to the fact that if all the trustees " had been resident in the United Kingdom application of the enactment would have been such that the income would have been treated as arising or accruing to all three , and all three would have been jointly assessable to tax " . |
| 13 | If the medical treatment was given negligently , i.e. if the doctor should have been aware that the plaintiff was allergic , then it is likely that the court would treat the medical negligence as a novus actus interveniens which broke the chain of causation . |
| 14 | After this double success hope must have been high that a solution in the case of the general quintic would soon be forthcoming . |
| 15 | She can hardly have been surprised that the spotlight stayed on her marriage — her husband is , after all , the man who will be our next king . |
| 16 | So what they 're saying is this that the square on that side |
| 17 | Those who fail are convinced that a horde of Undead emerge from portals which magically open in the tapestries . |
| 18 | Self , worn down by the struggle , seems eventually to have been convinced that the measurement of divisional performance by budgetary control and other yardsticks was not possible . |
| 19 | Dalton seems to have been worried that the Party rank and file would be bewildered by the turn around . |
| 20 | State department officials seem to have been concerned that the conference would deflect attention from their own campaign to expose the alleged use of mycotoxins by Vietnam in Laos and Kampuchea . |
| 21 | The speed at which the loop is formed is such that the bobbin is suspended , so eliminating any need for lubrication despite the continuous rotation of the bobbin carrier . |
| 22 | She was highly delighted , especially when she learned that she had been the only woman called for interview ; she had been certain that the job would go to one of the male applicants . |
| 23 | They had been pleased that the health authority 's chairman , Grahame Hulse , had taken a sympathetic view . |
| 24 | Until he got Jackson 's note he had been convinced that the man was suffering from some sort of regular illness . |
| 25 | Ross had been adamant that no wife of his was going to work . |
| 26 | Wilson , who was not due to face a gubernatorial election until 1994 , but whose position as a possible future Republican presidential candidate was already damaged by his decision to raise taxes in 1991 , had been adamant that the deficit should be rectified through public expenditure cuts rather than by further tax increases . |
| 27 | I saw it , ’ and Chapman backed his players ' view : ‘ I could not see clearly from my position , but Arsenal , almost to a man , stopped playing and I do not think they would have done that unless they had been satisfied that the ball had been out of play , ’ he told the Sunday Express . |
| 28 | The point is , in both these cases the Alkali Inspectorate had been satisfied that the pollution control by these corporations was ‘ practicably reasonable ’ . |
| 29 | Philpott had been furious that the Secretary-General had failed to consult him and after several meetings with Graham overruled the decision , accepting Graham on to the team on a probationary basis , on the understanding that he would be subjected to periodic re-evaluation . |
| 30 | Federation officials had been concerned that the scheme , part of the proposed £1 million Citywatch crime prevention campaign for the city , would cut across traditional police duties and set a precedent for a privatised police force . |