Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reference may be made to the National Code of Local Government Conduct , para. 3 ( Appendix D , post , p. 105 ) although it has to be said that that paragraph is not , in the author 's view , well drafted since it fails to indicate with sufficient clarity the difference between disclosing personal pecuniary interests ( failure to comply being a serious criminal offence ) and disclosing other interests ( which is simply a matter of prudence , but involves no breach of law ) . |
| 2 | Whilst owing his debt to Lorca , it has to be said that this volume is markedly conservative . |
| 3 | It has , however , to be recognised that improved safety and greater mobility and accessibility can be conflicting goals ( see opposite ) . |
| 4 | It is to be hoped that all steam enthusiasts will perhaps make an effort to support this railway at some time during the present season to help to ensure that it remains in being into the future . |
| 5 | It was to be hoped that capitalist progress would eventually bring the labourers nearer to this maximum , and regrettable ( though not inconvenient for keeping wages down ) that so many were still so far below it . |
| 6 | This has seriously weakened the therapeutic and remedial potential of supervision orders and it is to be hoped that greater priority will be given to this area in the next few years . |
| 7 | It is to be hoped that future research into the nature of language processing will continue to relate findings about the performance of both skilled and impaired language users on the wide range of tasks which go together to make up out ability to acquire and use language — for it is only by attempting to do so that it will ultimately be possible for psychologists to develop a comprehensive model of language processing . |
| 8 | It is always to be hoped that this charism will be active in popes and bishops , but it is not , nor can it be , reduced solely to their authority . |
| 9 | It is to be hoped that some day this fruitful field will be explored and the results given to us in English . |
| 10 | It is to be hoped that some day this fruitful field will be explored and the results given to us in English . |
| 11 | It is greatly to be hoped that some version of the censorship hypothesis holds because close to naked singularities it may be possible to travel into the past . |
| 12 | The runs have captured the imagination of the enthusiasts and it is to be hoped that British Rail will allow these trains to run in 1992 . |
| 13 | This word universal is never the name of anything existent in nature , nor of any idea or phantasm found in the mind [ my italics ] , but always the name of some word or name ; so that when a living creature , a stone , a spirit , or any other thing , is said to be universal , it is not to be understood that any man , stone etc. , ever was or can be universal , but only that the words , living creature , stone , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things ; and the conceptions answering them in the mind are the images and phantasms of several living creatures or other things . |
| 14 | It is to be noted that that footnote has been rephrased in the current edition of Stone 's Justices ' Manual , 123rd ed. ( 1991 ) , vol. 1 , p. 139 , para. 1–1566 . |
| 15 | It is to be noted that this proposition appears to have been doubted by the Court of Appeal subsequently in Francome v. Mirror Group Newspapers Ltd , where Sir Robert 's remarks were distinguished as relating to a case involving the detection of crime . |
| 16 | It is to be noted that this sentiment comes from a great prose writer . |
| 17 | It remains to be demonstrated that this theory can overcome such difficulties . |
| 18 | While it needs to be emphasised that old age does not automatically mean ill health and dependency , nonetheless there are clear associations between advancing years and increasing ill health and disability . |
| 19 | It 's only when women refuse to tow the line , when we renounce the rewards of good behaviour and resist all attempts to be incorporated that true rebellion comes into its own . |
| 20 | 2.1 It has to be acknowledged that physical restraint implies the use of force , albeit in a non aggressive way . |
| 21 | But , it will be objected , these theorists actually regard the status of moral patients as akin to that of slaves , and we would expect also to be reminded that contemporary opinion in the civilised world , despite pockets of resistance , is still largely in agreement with this view . |
| 22 | Without this " attraction " it was hardly to be expected that rural labour markets could clear themselves through falling wages , since they were already so close to the level of subsistence that a further lowering would have reduced the productivity of labour via its depressing effect on the calorific value of workers ' diets which would no longer have sustained the same work effort . |
| 23 | It is not to be expected that each sentence written will obey grammar rules . |
| 24 | So it was to be expected that this sight should arouse some curiosity , and after putting their heads together the women put down their bowls and kettles and went over to ask the painter who was coming to live there . |
| 25 | If it were to be held that judicial review for error of law lay against the visitor I fear that , as in the present case , finality would be lost not only in cases raising pure questions of law but also in cases where it would be urged in accordance with the Wednesbury principle ( Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd. v. Wednesbury Corporation [ 1948 ] 1 K.B . |
| 26 | It has to be stressed that this method of connection is only acceptable if the mains transformer is a type which has accurately matched secondary windings which are intended for use in this way . |
| 27 | It needs to be stressed that British planning legislation does not assume that existing non-conforming uses must disappear if planning policy is to be made effective . |
| 28 | As the Court of Appeal put it : ‘ Somebody was not telling the truth and it could not be said that it was not a relevant matter for the jury to be told that one man had been dishonest in the past . ’ |
| 29 | But to be told that he could not make it was to be told that this gift could disappear as unpredictably as it had arrived . |
| 30 | It needs to be admitted that linguistic science does not begin on a tabula rasa . |