Example sentences of "[be] [verb] that [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How far present-day societies are likely to proceed along this road is a matter of debate ( and I shall return to the question in Chapter 6 ) , but at the least it has to be recognized that in recent years the idea of political action has been very substantially broadened , so that there is already a quite widespread awareness of the variety of ways in which individuals and groups of individuals can assert their dissent from the policies of government at all levels ( for example , the revolt against the poll tax in Britain ) and bring into the arena of public debate alternative policies . |
| 2 | It also needs to be recognized that in some authorities — particularly small district councils where there are fewer personnel , resources and programmes — much co-ordinating work occurs informally and the elaborate corporate structures advocated by Bains are perhaps less appropriate . |
| 3 | And Archie McLaren had told me that the house would probably have to be sold , so it was to be supposed that at any time now people might be coming to look at it . |
| 4 | It is salutary to be reminded that in many situations and many respects society is not simply divisible into two parts , the majority and the minority , but is in fact a conglomeration of minorities , none of which can have a democratic claim to dominate , and which must therefore learn to live with each other . |
| 5 | Moreover , it should not be forgotten that in 1823 Moët & Chandon purchased the Abbey of Hautvillers , along with its vineyards , and they certainly ( to their credit ) can not be accused of allowing the legend of Dom Pérignon to die . |
| 6 | ‘ However , in fairness to Price Waterhouse , it should also be stressed that on other occasions — for example , in April and October 1990 — when the firm had made its audit report to the directors of BCCI , it ensured that some information was passed on to the Bank of England . |
| 7 | Thus when estimating the model ( 6.25 ) using data from two countries , the restriction must be imposed that in each case the estimate of must be the same . |
| 8 | Whilst no-one would wish to deny landowners the ability to make a living , it must be accepted that in many circumstances , such as Glenbrittle , more appropriate ( or even no ) development should take place . |
| 9 | The site that was identified or potentially identified by by the house builders in York was a site which both the County Council and the District Council considered performed a number of greenbelt functions , I think that it would be accepted that in any development plan land should only be allocated if there were some degree of certainty that it would come forward for development within the plan period , the site that was identified , there had been no objections made to the Southern Ryedale local plan so therefore there were no indications that it would have come forward for development within that plan period anyway , had it been identified , had it been allocated . |
| 10 | It will be seen that in each country this economically active group is about half the total population . |
| 11 | This context having been provided , it will be possible to reassess the significance of electoral behaviour , and although it can be seen that in some areas and in certain types of constituency manipulation and deference were key factors , on the whole the electorate could not be easily controlled from above . |
| 12 | It may possibly be seen that in some cases the application of the united front from below is the only possible tactic , but it can never be the case that the application of the united front from above is the only possible tactic . |
| 13 | It can be seen that by piecemeal legislation great strides have been made towards equality between the sexes as regards legal status , rights and liabilities . |
| 14 | However , at the outset it may be said that to some extent the political objective of requiring the Community legislative institutions to bear those considerations in mind would appear already to be being observed ; for example , Council Decision 92/421 on tourism policy expressly refers in its recitals to ‘ the need to comply with the subsidiarity principle ’ . |
| 15 | It could be said that in Western society religion has performed a considerable disservice by providing a more or less uniform system of social values — the Christian ethic . |
| 16 | On the other hand , it might be said that in criminal law a company can authorise transactions only for its own benefit . |
| 17 | It may be said that in some cases , at least , such a tendency will show up in that species merely as itself — that is to say , as a merely biological character of that species . |
| 18 | But it must be said that in some cases the DCSL who had overseen the ordering was uncertain as to where in the school the books had ended up , let alone their frequency of use . |
| 19 | If the case had been one of estoppel , it might be said that in any event the estoppel would cease when the conditions to which the representation applied came to an end , or it also might be said that it would only come to an end on notice . |
| 20 | On the other hand , could it also be argued that without this form of population control there might be an over-population of some wild species and that nature would have to find some other way of correcting it ? |
| 21 | It might also be argued that despite recent legislation ( some would say because of it ) parent-teacher relations are still too often fraught with fear , suspicion and misunderstanding ; that there is still too much teacher stereotyping of ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ homes and parents ; and that many parents still lack power in relation to their parental rights and responsibilities . |
| 22 | Yet although the hardening of lines seems ominous in retrospect and the thin tie of Reinsurance could hardly have linked Russia and Germany for long , it could be argued that in 1888 Bismarck 's system was still successful . |
| 23 | It could be argued that in such instances an unlearnt program could still be detected at work behind the scenes since the general category of food , and its effectiveness as a reward , was in some sense built in . |
| 24 | It might be argued that in such situations it is the only course of action open to a man and that he would be at fault if he acted differently . |
| 25 | It may be argued that in parliamentary democracies the people can protest every five years or so by casting their votes in the election of a new government . |
| 26 | Conversely , whilst there may in a few cases be valid reasons for a high quality paper not being submitted to such journals , it could be argued that in some cases publication outside the core represents a negative value judgement on the quality of that research . |
| 27 | Conversely , whilst there may in a few cases be valid reasons for a high quality paper not being submitted to such journals , it could be argued that in some cases publication outside the core represents a negative value judgement on the quality of that research . |
| 28 | But it should not be thought that at this time the Minister relied solely on the advice of his civil servants for the formation of policy . |
| 29 | It may be thought that without some measures of the quality of services provided , either by the yardstick ( if such exists ) of agreed views of what constitutes good practice , and/or through more refined measures of client outcome , the study would still fall short of the kind of conclusions about relative effectiveness that would be sought . |
| 30 | It can be shown that for large samples the statistic , called the likelihood ratio test statistic , is distributed as a chi-square variate with g degrees of freedom where , as before , g is the number of restrictions and ‘ log ’ stands for natural logarithm . |