Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [pers pn] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But fortunately most people who are asked to help in surveys are prepared to accept that they are appropriate people to answer questions on the survey for which they are approached , and particularly where people feel that they are being asked to give ‘ expert ’ information this can be seen as rather a compliment : ‘ If you want to know about how a housewife organizes her day I can tell you everything you need to know . ’ |
| 2 | The Spirit urged Jesus into the desert , where he resisted the temptations of the Devil , who did not seem to know that he was tempting God himself . |
| 3 | Since the agreements were contracts made under domestic law , it would be necessary to establish that they were internationalised contracts with international law as the proper law of the contract for their violation to amount to an international wrong . |
| 4 | We have all had our share of fruitless journeys to find our dream home , set amid magnificent rolling countryside , only to find that it is 200 yards from the noisy A12 , hemmed in by an ugly industrial building , with a pungent smell of pigs wafting across the garden . |
| 5 | We are therefore not surprised to find that it was this part of his work which most nineteenth-century readers chose to ignore , as any Victorian anthology will prove with its selection of passages relating to Nature . |
| 6 | Early in the war a postcard was issued at Crewe Station showing women railway workers holding out their hands to indicate that it was clean work . |
| 7 | When he started writing , it was the fashion to pretend that they were happy shepherds and shepherdesses , who were always dancing , or anyhow had hearts of gold . |
| 8 | When you look more closely at this apparently innocent use of words , it is easy to see that it is all part of a very carefully engineered process . |
| 9 | Abolitionists successfully used the convention drastically to reduce the freedom of parliamentary action and to claim that it was more representative of national opinion than the legislature . |
| 10 | That is , we initially categorise them as this or that type of person and interpret or distort subsequent information to confirm that s/he is this type of person . |
| 11 | It is important to remember that we are mere men , talking about God . |
| 12 | It would seem reasonable to suggest that it was this waking preoccupation of his that Qused his subconscious to produce the relevant dream . |
| 13 | I found I was the only woman in the upstairs room of the Albert in Kings Cross , listening to a man in a leather jacket giving an introductory talk which seemed to assume that we were all men . |
| 14 | Although haggling is common in countries such as India , it is a mistake to assume that it is standard practice throughout the world . |
| 15 | The duke and his close associates saw this small office as ‘ some mean to treat those folks who Club together and are disposed to believe that I 'm incompatible wt them ’ . |
| 16 | Suave and sophisticated at 60 , it 's hard to believe that it 's 23 years since he first wooed a generation with Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head . |
| 17 | Cynthia Cockburn is probably quite right when she refers to this as a way of getting women to recognize that they were inferior beings . |
| 18 | As they grow up , children begin to understand that they are separate individuals and see that others have a viewpoint too . |
| 19 | I can offer an account of what the minimum level to be attained at 16 by 80%-90% of pupils would entail in a few areas of the curriculum … ; in English , pupils would need to demonstrate that they are attentive listeners and confident speakers when dealing with everyday matters of which they have experience , that they can read straightforward written information and pass it on — orally and in written form — without loss of meaning and that they can say clearly what their own views are ; in Mathematics , that they can apply the topics and skills in the foundation list proposed in the Cockcroft Report ; in Science , that they are willing and able to take a practical approach to problems , involving sensible observations and appropriate measurements and can communicate their findings effectively … ; in History , that they possess some historical knowledge and perspective , understand the concepts of cause and consequence , and can compare and extract information from historical evidence and be aware of its limitations ; and in CDT [ craft , design and technology ] , that they can design and make something , using a limited range of materials and calling on a restricted range of concepts and give an account of what they have done and the problems they encountered . |
| 20 | Every now and then I have to kick myself to realise that it is 10 Jan. & everything must be very bleak in Lancaster . |
| 21 | It is important to realise that it is these eggs deposited in the first half of the grazing season from April to June , which give rise to the potentially dangerous populations of L3 from July to October . |
| 22 | Certainly children are unlikely to challenge adult opinion , being more likely to decide that they are poor readers rather than that a ‘ classic ’ is a poor book . |
| 23 | In a few years more , he was to decide that it was German blood which ran most compellingly in his veins . |
| 24 | If , however , you simply have a designation which says , This is E two land this is in conformity with the structure plan which , incidentally , has n't been proved in my view in relation to development pressure nor landscape quality , nevertheless you just say this is E two land , then it seems to me that it 's very difficult to argue that it is open countryside . |
| 25 | The funds were designated for humanitarian rather than military aid , but given that such funds freed existing funds for arms purchase , it was not difficult for critics of the WCC to argue that it was supporting terrorism . |
| 26 | ‘ Your tone would seem to imply that I am some sort of Bluebeard who keeps her incarcerated . |
| 27 | Other than their having the same employer , what does it mean to say that they are each members of the same community ? |
| 28 | It would , however , be more advantageous for our purposes to be able to say that they were alternative manifestations of the same lexical unit obey . |
| 29 | I would just like to say that I am 44 years of age , so art has no barriers . |
| 30 | That is not to say that it was pure opportunism . |