Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] that a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I am suggesting that an opportunity was lost to incorporate recent economic analysis to any substantial extent into the evaluation of the various industry studies , in particular to provide an element of comparison and consistency between them . |
| 2 | I am told that a modification is being worked on that will stop the engine rotating in the glide . |
| 3 | I am told that a baby is due to be born in September 1992 . |
| 4 | I am encouraged that a number of countries have promised political help . ’ |
| 5 | Not that I 'm suggesting that a partnership is an investment against the ills of old age , only that it can help smooth the way , comfort a little . |
| 6 | Now I 'm suggesting that an evaluator might , instead of just concentrating on one set of values , deliberately try and look at several , so they might , for example , identify that there were a group of people who felt that history should be taught in a certain particular way for a certain purpose . |
| 7 | I 'm giving that a lot of thought , ’ she said . |
| 8 | I was taught that a consultation in general practice can last many years . |
| 9 | Perhaps my slightly jaundiced view stems from the fact that I was expecting that a book based on a workshop on the physical and neuropsychological basis of music would contain some physics , or at the very least some reasonably quantitative science rather than somewhat vague speculations . |
| 10 | In those early days , its isolation on the distant north-west coast seemed to make it unattainable by anyone who had only feet to get him there and whose opportunities were restricted by a busy working life south of the Border , although later I was to discover that a MacBrayne 's bus made the forty-six-mile journey to and from Lairg every weekday . |
| 11 | A REGRETFUL telephone call from the bank on a September morning last year announced the end of Sparks an hour after I was told that a crane had fallen on to Wren 's St James , Garlickhythe ; it was a day of numbing disaster . |
| 12 | I was told that a band from Levenmouth would be waiting , with a further support from the same source in three hours . |
| 13 | I was informed that a group of young teachers at one college were planning a boycott on the day to protests against their poor living conditions and low pay . |
| 14 | So you 're saying that an assessment of the inspection results is quality control ? |
| 15 | She was told that a colleague from the bank would be around later to pick up her card and he even rang back later to check if he had been . |
| 16 | ‘ The president 's office is keeping a silence on this one , although we are assured that a statement is being prepared . |
| 17 | It seems clear , that is , that we are to understand that a way of being is something possessed by or entered into , say , by us , but not by sticks and stones . |
| 18 | Time and again we are told that a kingdom was divided equally . |
| 19 | It can be weekly , fortnightly , monthly , or just occasionally on request but quite often we are finding that a person who 's assessed as needing help weekly , but all that we have got is fortnightly , and all of the time there are clients waiting for us to up the amount of help that we 're giving to them and , very much , it needs to be when it benefits them , and when it fits in with their lives . |
| 20 | Finally we were told that a team had been formed but that it contained no skilful players , we remained sceptical ! |
| 21 | One day they were told that a police officer wished to see them in connection with the charges already preferred . |
| 22 | On the return train journey to Sunderland , they were told that a group of journalists were waiting at Sunderland station , forcing the two players to decamp at Durham and sneak home via the back door . |
| 23 | Miss Logan lost count of the times their luggage was detained , or they were told that a buyurulda or special permit would be necessary in addition to the tezkare they had already procured ; but Miss Fergusson , with assistance from a dragoman whose own brief display of independent thought had been snuffed out early on , harried , demanded and succeeded . |
| 24 | The United States began consultations with friendly powers in October letting it be understood that a UN temporary commission would be proposed , charged with supervising elections and reporting back to the UN Security Council and General Assembly at Lake Success . |
| 25 | Neither can it be assumed that a wife who is denied sexual autonomy will cease cohabitation . |
| 26 | If both these exclusions were accepted , the throne was Philip 's , if it were allowed that a woman could transmit a right but not exercise it , the throne was Edward 's . |
| 27 | In a case brought by the RSPCA , it 's alleged that a horse was repeatedly beaten with a whip after it became stuck on a high gate . |
| 28 | It 's thought that a comet colliding with the earth may have caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs . |
| 29 | But when it is discovered that a substance harms women 's reproductive health , women of childbearing age are usually kept from jobs that might expose them to it . |
| 30 | It is fitting that a hero so maladroit should be a Malaprop as well . |