Example sentences of "[modal v] [pron] be [vb pp] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor should it be assumed that siblings who have lived apart , sometimes married , for many years have broken these profound childhood links which shaped their attitudes to each other . |
| 2 | Will it be said that animals raised on close confinement systems , for example , do not fare well , all considered ? |
| 3 | Now can we be assured that Biffa are in fact going to do that same service , not turn up and say , you 're not allowed this , nothing to do with us . |
| 4 | The Department of Transport has made a serious error , can we be assured that police authorities will receive financial compensation for the work that their forces are now havin have are going to have to carry out and there is a further matter which I have erm drawn to the attention of the Secretary of State for Transport in er correspondence , namely the need to establish a new and representative police authority for the British Transport Police . |
| 5 | Not since the nineteenth century can it be said that Parliament has made policy directly . |
| 6 | Still less can it be said that Jesus had a feminist interpretation of social realities . |
| 7 | If , as we have been suggesting , the nature of data has much to do with the theoretical presuppositions which underlie their production , how can it be said that theories are tested by means of exposure to data ? |
| 8 | Nor can it be assumed that Eadwine found new allies among the eastern Angles in c . |