Example sentences of "[prep] be [adj] that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From being surprised that a ball rolls away on a gentle slope , a child will purposely ride his scooter down the same slope for enjoyment , knowing that he then has to push it up again . |
| 2 | All these reforms may be necessary , but alas , so far from being sufficient that a reassessment of future conservation needs to be made . |
| 3 | According to the narrator , Patrick is ‘ so far from being anti-semitic that a couple of his best friends really were Jews ’ ( but who can these two best friends be — can Ormerod , unmentioned in the later novel , be one ? ) . |
| 4 | However , human rights groups were reported to be confident that the evidence supplied by the mass graves would prove that the Army had committed " crimes against humanity " which were not covered by the 1978 amnesty law which pardoned officers accused of human rights violations . |
| 5 | I do not think that that evidence second and third hand as it is , is really enough for me to be confident that the conversion will answer . |
| 6 | The return of these changes to LIFESPAN is a critical stage and the developer/integrator needs to be confident that the LIFESPAN database has been fully updated before seeking approval . |
| 7 | To be confident that the technology of evasion was not outstripping the technology of verification , better radiation monitoring and satellite inspection would be needed . |
| 8 | Milan … just another reason to be thankful that the war was finally over . |
| 9 | For psychologists to accept a behaviour as a form of teaching , they have to be convinced that the behaviour of the mother is intentionally designed to influence the youngsters ’ behaviour . |
| 10 | Other reasons , including greater efficiency , better services and improved local accountability will need to be advanced if local electorates are to be convinced that the scale of change is justified . |
| 11 | The answer to that argument is very simple : manipulation is impossible in a system that requires an adjudicating officer , a social security appeal tribunal or a commissioner to be convinced that the law has been complied with . |
| 12 | But there may be occasions when you want to be sure that every child has an appropriate role . |
| 13 | Berenson had found his vocation : ‘ to be sure that every Lotto is a Lotto , every Cariani a Cariani , every Santecroce a Santacroce ’ . |
| 14 | To be sure that a patient is truly regaining their health , it is of no value just to know that the symptoms of his complaint have been relieved , rather the focus of his disease has to be seen to be shifting into less important areas , that is , moving down the hierarchy . |
| 15 | Miranda said , ‘ Firstly , I 'd like to be sure that a nursing home is the best place for her , rather than a hospital . |
| 16 | He was out again early ; too early even for the car to have been ticketed yet , as he found when he got in and turned the engine over to be sure that the cold and damp of the early hours would n't leave him with any last-minute problems . |
| 17 | In the case of bank bills it has to be sure that the acceptor bank will be in a position to pay , thus the requirement of eligibility . |
| 18 | That is , they want to be sure that the scrutiny of takeovers in third countries moving into the EC is as thorough and as fair as in the Community . |
| 19 | Conscious of a ball not carrying through all the time to Jack Russell and while a slash or a drive will go very fast to them , have to be sure that the ball is going to carry . |
| 20 | To be sure that the locus of a given lesion is responsible for loss or impairment of a particular capacity , it is helpful to invoke the principle of doubled dissociation proposed by Teuber ( 1955 ) . |
| 21 | I should like to be sure that the child Barbara is carrying is my grandchild , not your bastard . ’ |
| 22 | You need to be sure that the structure you plan to practice is a genuine structure in the language . |
| 23 | ( a ) There is usually no real way to be sure that the piece of equipment devised is adequate for the purpose unless of course it is a straight copy of an existing commercial model . |
| 24 | They thus occupy a rather special place in the spectrum of infectious human disease , since , without being able to find the germ responsible , it is not only rather difficult to be sure that the disease is present in the first place , but , having given a treatment for which there can be no de finite evidence of efficacy , since no organism has been eliminated , it can be very difficult to tell whether the infection has resolved or even whether the patient is better . |
| 25 | There is one community that is chortling to itself over IBM Corp 's worldwide shredding of its mainframe price list , and that is the big leasing companies : while any prudent data processing manager has to call in Amdahl Corp , Hitachi Data Systems Ltd and Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH to be sure that the bid is n't a rip-off , there is still the nagging doubt that other people may be getting much better deals from IBM , and the only community that sees a wide variety of deals going down is the leasing fraternity , and the big ones say their people have n't been so busy in ages ; the effect of all this is to stretch out the buying process by weeks , to the likely detriment of the IBM first quarter figures . |
| 26 | It is very important to be sure that the wreckage of the whole aircraft is present in case the accident was caused by a piece breaking off in flight and falling possibly a mile or two away . |
| 27 | But to do that we need to be sure that the policy is appropriate , does reflect national policy . |
| 28 | He wanted to be sure that the room was still locked and the picture was still safe . |
| 29 | Planners need a thorough understanding of the subject field to be explored , and its structure in enquiry ; they need to know what materials , print-form or audio-visual , are available , and suitable , and what special problems they may reveal ; they need to have available at the right time suitable equipment , and places where the equipment may be used , and they need to be sure that the student is able to find and make use of all the resources he may need in the periods of the timetable allotted to the activity . |
| 30 | This was done to be sure that the constipation was and would be adequately treated . |