Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] it be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He must tell the judiciary that it was this accountant Morris who abused the trust the firm showed in him . ’ |
| 2 | At first she had thought with a shock of fear that it was old age , that old age was like silicon , water-soluble , it flowed into you and as you dried out , it hardened , recasting you in blurred shapes and muted tones . |
| 3 | If they had realised when they answered the advertisement in the Evening Citizen that it was bare metal , they would have gone elsewhere . |
| 4 | The Labour benches had several new members and , dare I suggest , green Councillor , with no memory of the disastrous economic policies of the last Labour Government , or the ensuing distress that it 's huge army of unemployed . |
| 5 | But the scorecards overwhelmingly supported my assessment that it was one-sided tedium . |
| 6 | Three other LEDs are used to set up the operating status , arranged in a horizontal ‘ traffic light ’ formation : red indicates that the input signal is below the Threshold level , yellow that it has reached Threshold , and the green that it is above Threshold . |
| 7 | The first contends that the word ‘ appropriate ’ has built into it a connotation that it is some action inconsistent with the owner 's rights , something hostile to the interests of the owner or contrary to his wishes and intention or without his authority . |
| 8 | The matter had been taken up with the Bank of Ireland and he would be recommending to the incoming Executive Committee that it should be referred to the Labour Court , on the basis that it is gross discrimination . |
| 9 | Hyndman drew the pessimistic conclusion that it was British power , rather than any kind of pacifism , which held the key to peace . |
| 10 | There were so few possessions or comforts in the room that it was clear Mr Sikes had met hard times . |
| 11 | Opinion was mobilised around the paradoxical notion that it was Black people who represented a threat to the rule of law in Britain . |
| 12 | His father dismissed the notion that it was any necessity and called for his son by clearing his throat , like Henry Irving demanded a prompt . |
| 13 | The other officer was Gerhard Junack of the Bismarck 's engineering staff , who helped dispel a myth which had gained some credence in the Royal Navy that it was British torpedoes and shells exclusively that had sent the allegedly unsinkable Bismarck to the bottom . |
| 14 | Studies to detect the exact mutation or deletion in the APC gene are needed in this and other atypical families before conclusive evidence that it is this locus and not another locus close by such as the MCC gene that is affected . |
| 15 | The four soldiers , who are now all stationed in Germany but were then in Bordon , each said in evidence that it was this incident which had persuaded them to leave the pub . |
| 16 | It 's sensual , yes , and passionate but did not deserve the criticism that it was soft porn . |
| 17 | The most damaging effect of the Education Reform Act would be if it snuffed out teachers ' belief that it is worthwhile thinking and talking about what they are doing . |
| 18 | Mr Powell , of course , has not been notably shy about declaring his belief that it is black people who are at the root of the decline and fall of the ‘ British way of life ’ . |
| 19 | This underlines the argument that it is poor children whose rearing is most likely to appear to agencies to be unsatisfactory . [ … ] |
| 20 | The Tory back-benchers could take some comfort from the argument that it was operational control rather than manufacture of the weapons that mattered . |
| 21 | I had a feeling that it 's six weeks |
| 22 | In Cranleigh Precision Engineering Ltd v Bryant Roskill J held that the defendant who had , whilst a director of the plaintiff company , been made aware of a patent held by a third party which affected the plaintiff 's products , could not justify his failure to disclose the existence of the patent to the plaintiffs and his subsequent acquisition of the patent for himself on the ground that it was public knowledge , for what he had misused was his confidential knowledge of the relationship of the information in the patent to the plaintiff 's products . |
| 23 | We can also recognise , as we did , at an , on an earlier paper that it is national government policy and increasingly so , to encourage the development of capital schemes , borrowing , we noted that in relation to transport and the availability of S C A's I think it 's also right to say that the government does set down the level of borrowing which can be entered into in in any one year , that is the credit approvals are controlled by the government and they do make them available to the County Council and to district Councils , so in a sense , the government is both saying that we expect borrowing to be a feature of a budget and also that we want to control , and restrict the amount of money that can be borrowed through the amount of credit approvals . |
| 24 | Keith subscribes to the theory that it 's more luck than judgement . |
| 25 | before before the meeting proper may I refer you to first of all the voice amplification system is currently working but er there are some difficulties with it and it may during the day deteriorate to a state that it is more trouble than it 's worth . |
| 26 | Then there is toughened glass , which is homogeneous in the sense that it is all glass , but the outside , which is susceptible to cracks , is put into compression at the expense of a tension in the protected middle . |
| 27 | Communism is the left foot of socialism , and Fascism is the right foot , using socialism in the sense that it is total regimentation and control by the state . |
| 28 | This decision upheld an earlier ruling that it was unfair labour practice to exclude skilled black miners , purely on the basis of race , from the pension scheme . |
| 29 | Such was the emotion caused by the attack that it was some time before any of the defenders recalled that the Collector had not been feeling well and wondered what had become of him . |
| 30 | Before 1981 the authorities concentrated on a whole range of liquid assets and on broad measures of money supply , like M3 : the argument being that it is broad liquidity that determines credit creation and broad measures of money that influence aggregate demand . |