Example sentences of "[adv] that [pron] be [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bridget 's hand in the small of her back reminded her gently that she was obstructing the entrance . |
| 2 | Sheila admits that food additives are a great worry — so much so that she is investigating the possibility of growing her own exotic vegetables in a hothouse . |
| 3 | Zora Neale Hurston was lucky enough to grow up in Eatonville , Florida , a black town run by blacks , so that she was spared the experience of racism in her formative years suffered by most black Americans . |
| 4 | They attempt to direct the ball ‘ close to the batsman ’ so that he is denied the room to swing the bat freely and hit the ball hard . |
| 5 | Duvall was jerked away from Jimmy , spinning on his heels so that he was facing the office door again . |
| 6 | Lamarr Dean stood with his side against the bar so that he was facing the first Apache . |
| 7 | So that you 're having the Gothic set-up in this story to be undermined by common sense . |
| 8 | By the time we get to the jarv tracks I am over it , putting it down to a poor night 's sleep and a wearing day that have combined so that I am feeling the cold more than I normally do . |
| 9 | If I 'm holding anything , so that I 'm holding the hand in one position for a long time |
| 10 | So with this this stone could be built in so that it 's facing the road could n't it ? |
| 11 | I am not suggesting that I was a ‘ truly creative intellect ’ — merely that I was denied the opportunity to find out whether I could achieve any such position , and this was an omission I felt very keenly . |
| 12 | I would understand it if the Minister were saying merely that he is reorganising the same amount of resources , but he has cut resources . |
| 13 | I could conclude only that he was finding the job too big for him , and was himself under stress , which he relieved by persecuting a subordinate who was particularly vulnerable . |
| 14 | I have a battle to win and would ask only that I am given the chance to do so without intrusion in my private life . |
| 15 | The implication has been all along that they 're using the same United States manufacturing source but in fact there are one or two discrepancies here , erm , because the value is so high , I 'm actually sort of going through and looking at everything pretty closely , and they 've changed the basis so wow , . |
| 16 | Instead , this is the evidence that God 's forgiveness possesses our lives so powerfully that we are given the strength to forgive others in turn . |
| 17 | Kemalpasazade sought the advice of Mueyyedzade who counselled him to feign acceptance of Hacihasanzade 's proposal ; and when , on the next day , the latter petitioned the sultan , Bayezid II , to appoint Kemalpasazade to a kadilik , Mueyyedzade intervened , speaking highly of Kemalpasazade 's abilities and asking that he not be wasted in a kadilik but rather that he be given the vacant Taslik medrese so that he might busy himself with the pursuit of learning . |
| 18 | It was to his girlfriend in Harare and he told her straight away that he was showing the French a thing or two , but it still was n't like the old days with the Rhodesian Light Infantry . |
| 19 | ‘ Said it was nothing to do with her professional integrity , just that she was pursuing the spying line a bit too vigorously . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's just that he was passing the house as I came in and he looked at me really strangely . |
| 21 | I had to go upstairs to tell the woman above that I was using the bathroom , because if she walked about above , the plaster fell off . |
| 22 | ( Not that we are denying the importance of making such efforts for uncertain gains . ) |
| 23 | erm And as I said , we 're trying to , not that I 'm giving the opposite view to Doctor Plumtree , as I said , we 're trying to fund the people on the front line , you know , the foresters in their back yard , as it were , we 're trying to preserve it , and we also feel we 're not being patronising , it 's not like we 're writing out a large cheque and saying ’ here you are ’ , we 're actually putting a lot of time and effort into this , I mean , it 's now become a full time job for me and certainly for Dave Kester , and all the other people working on it . |
| 24 | It 's not that I 'm denying the validity of acting , it 's just that it 's not as important to me . |
| 25 | With only ten days to go , this was a disaster ( not that I 'm blaming the Council — there was probably misunderstanding on both sides ; I had no idea they worked on such a miniscule budget , and they for their part probably expected expenditure in the hundreds , rather than the thousands . |
| 26 | across the board trouble is when you get these differential spend all the interpretation on them , not that you 're rewarding the good teachers but that some teachers are not worth rewarding . |
| 27 | PARIS — French customs officers along the entire length of the Pyrenees announced yesterday that they were joining the 19-week-old strike by the country 's tax collectors and would be closing the border to commercial traffic , writes Patrick Marnham . |
| 28 | The Northern Territory Attorney-General , Daryl Manzie , told the parliament in Darwin yesterday that he was denying the Chamberlains ' request for confidentiality because the claim for legal expenses was almost double the figure given in a submission last year . |
| 29 | Cap Gemini Sogeti SA said yesterday that it was making the offer for the remaining 28.8% of London W-based software and computer services company Hoskyns Group Plc as it promised when it bought its majority stake from GEC Siemens Plc . |
| 30 | THE United States said yesterday that it was studying the possibility of parachuting relief supplies to civilians in Bosnia , but it emphasised that such an operation might not be successful in the rugged country . |