Example sentences of "[pron] that [pers pn] be [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , you had to go through the humiliating procedure of explaining to everyone that it was indeed a public school . |
| 2 | Big Irish Tom had pulled down his shorts and grabbed his willy to show everyone that he was truly a boy and not some soppy little girl who fainted at the sight of turkey innards . |
| 3 | It seems to me that it is then a matter for the local plan to erm promote or decide erm a more de probably more detailed list of lo c locational criteria , and then the local planning authority considers erm the alternative locations following public consultations and possibly invite erm schemes at that stage . |
| 4 | And I , maybe I 'm , I may be wrong on this , but it does seem to me that it is potentially a step down the road , in the longer term to the development of regional members . |
| 5 | It flashed on me that it was also the smile that Conchis sometimes wore ; as if he sat before the head and practised it . |
| 6 | So I rang , I rang him last night and , they 're not away and they 've erm he was able to tell me that it was exactly a hundred pounds . |
| 7 | The woman who was selling the magnificent object told me that it was only a month old and her old man , who had been killed by the Huns , had paid three quid for it : she was n't going to let it go for anything less . |
| 8 | And so , from 1958 onwards , these characters became my dolls , and their way , of life and the houses they inhabited became so real to me that it was quite a shock when I occasionally returned to the place which had started it all , Wood Green , near Witney . |
| 9 | Several Veterans ' of the Winter of discontent' told me that it was mainly the younger students who got together with their teachers to protest . |
| 10 | It seems to me that I am exactly the sort of person that you need , that you should cultivate me , prime me , pay me , even . |
| 11 | And he bou he bought me this top and he bought me a , a polo neck and bought me a C D and then we went out to supper and then we went to a pub and everything and erm , you know , had a really decent conversation with him and just talking to him makes me think , you know , and it dawns on me that he 's just a big he 's just a big child and he 's not , he 's never grown , he 's not , you 're not gon na grow up . |
| 12 | The Commission reported that their visits to the inner and outer areas of the main conurbations convinced them that it is now the large housing estates in the inner ring , or on the fringes of the city , that present the most pressing urban problems in the mid-1980s . |
| 13 | But basically you 're telling them that it 's almost an accomplished fact and erm they probably do n't have too much room for manoeuvre . |
| 14 | ( I never cease to marvel at the continued confusion in the public mind between nuclear power and weapons : too many people stare at me as if I were some unnaturally hybrid creature when I mention to them that I am both a member of CND and a strident advocate of nuclear power stations to produce electricity . |
| 15 | And facing the fear of the bees helped prove to himself that he was still a man . |
| 16 | ‘ You may recall my telling you that he was probably an agent for the High Police . |
| 17 | Sometimes you can be exhilarated , believing that the painting is a masterpiece or , alternatively , a look in the mirror may tell you that it is just a jumble and the eye does n't focus anywhere . |
| 18 | Switching the GR-1 on , the first thing you see is the LED telling you that it is indeed a Roland Guitar Synth . |
| 19 | One that it is rather a myth . |
| 20 | Last night — and in every waking moment since — she had tried to convince herself that hers was just a chemical reaction , the response of a healthy female body to that of an unusually attractive male . |
| 21 | It was gratifying to have people shake her hand who once would n't have given her the time of day , and when she walked through the dreary rooms where evidence of the late Adelaide Morey still abounded she had trouble convincing herself that she was now the mistress here . |
| 22 | She had to get a grip on her ridiculous emotions , had to keep reminding herself that it was only the club he wanted . |
| 23 | Recalled Kenny : ‘ Before a previous Scotland-England game , one of our coaches , Jim Telfer , stepped in with a reminder to everybody that it was just a game of rugby we were going out to play and that we all had responsibilities . |
| 24 | What convinced him that it was nonetheless a worthwhile project was , firstly , that it was to be an international collaborative effort between the Réunion des Musées Nationaux in Paris , the Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin and the FIAT group and , secondly , that there was scope to examine an unexplored area : the rediscovery of the Etruscans and their influence on recent European culture . |
| 25 | It is rightly said of him that he was always a pedagogue , but he is a pedagogue in the courtly nineteenth-century mode of Professor Agassiz , who sets up the controlled experiment and invites us to participate in it , not in the hectoring and charismatic mode of the star of the lecture-hall . |
| 26 | In the end I remember I said to him that I was just a spoilt Yank and my father sent me money so he need n't worry about a thing . |
| 27 | Doreen 's eyes continued to dart from one to the other ; then she made an attempt to put Lucy in her place by reminding her that she was merely a member of the staff . |
| 28 | They all assured her that he was probably a multi-millionaire . |
| 29 | And it struck her that he was indeed a son of this wild island , which she had glimpsed so far only briefly , yet which had struck her so vividly . |
| 30 | My self-esteem disappeared and I felt worthless , although I told myself that I was still an attractive woman , that there was no need to feel sexually inadequate . ’ |