Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] that [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are expected to show that four-fifths of councils in England have achieved more than 95 per cent registration , compared with the official population figures for their area . |
| 2 | We are persuaded to think that some of these qualities must also have been shared by a wider spectrum of staff . |
| 3 | We are beginning to understand that two of the most important resources worth conserving are energy and raw materials . |
| 4 | ‘ You will be vexed to hear that some of the birds said to be in your last package from Sydney were missing : by what I can gather from your list they formed the whole of one of the smaller packages . |
| 5 | In each of the above questions the pupil must order decimals correctly to obtain the right answer ; the decimals are of differing lengths and care has been taken to ensure that both of the two common errors in decimals produce incorrect orderings . |
| 6 | Engineers were reported to suspect that one of the telescope 's two mirrors had been manufactured to slightly incorrect specifications , resulting in a distortion of images in the visible spectrum . |
| 7 | But I mean , were led to believe that some of the people that you see sitting on the streets of Edinburgh begging are actually making a good living out of it ! |
| 8 | The basic grounding that all new management recruits underwent on joining Cadbury 's helped to ensure that each of them obtained this innate understanding . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the system worked remarkably well , in large part because it was designed to ensure that each of its members had the information he needed to do his job . |
| 10 | I was heartened to see that one of the slogans on London East TEC 's letterhead is : ’ Our vision is that by the year 2000 , the East side of London should be as prosperous as the West side ’ — that seems to be an excellent vision for London East TEC . |
| 11 | But in 1987 the party , at all levels , was forced to accept that many of Labour 's traditional policies — not merely its recently acquired ones — were electorally unsaleable . |