Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] [that] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | We are told that such schools will be given funds with which to buy back LEA services — if they choose . |
| 62 | When this absolute test is not met we are told that significant benefit or risk remains . |
| 63 | What Bet and Alec thought of a packed house replete with Manc ravers is anyone 's guess but we are told that this event , which was a joint Most Excellent and A Bit Ginger promotion , had the Mancunian cognoscenti rocking over the most famous beermats in Britain . |
| 64 | Now we are told that universal capping is necessary because the Secretary of State and his colleagues are frightened of trusting local people to make local decisions under the new banded system . |
| 65 | On the first point about the making of local plans , we 're hearing that this policy has the great support , in fact was requested by all the districts in the county . |
| 66 | ‘ We 're hoping that these pings and pops will prove to be sexually attractive to this group of males . |
| 67 | Once we 're found that favourite shape , there is nothing more frustrating than discovering that fashion has made it obsolete . |
| 68 | is going to happen , it 's a question of whether we g go for three hours ' training we I think we 're agreeing that some sort of preliminary training is going to come forward but not necessary three hours . |
| 69 | Well no we 're not saying any such thing , we 're saying that this format is not very helpful and that Wendy is learning , is going to learn format that is better . |
| 70 | ‘ Also , we had introduced performance management and appraisal and have a policy here of developing staff to their full potential , ’ he said , ‘ yet we were finding that outside stress factors were preventing people from reaching that . ’ |
| 71 | But I was trained in an era when we were told that continental drift was all right for the unscientific geologists , but the " real " scientists — the physicists — said it was impossible . |
| 72 | We were told that this money was being collected for the families and we gave this money through the official trade union for that purpose . |
| 73 | They are demanding that richer countries cut back their carbon emissions to compensate . |
| 74 | Sometimes historians assume when they are writing that this context already exists in the mind of the reader ( e.g. that you are familiar with a particular person or idea ; that you have background knowledge of a topic ) . |
| 75 | They are saying that such information will only realise its value if it is available to the person , at the point , at the time where the strategic decision to act upon that information can best be made . |
| 76 | They are told that this sort of question or embellishment is inappropriate . |
| 77 | They 're warning that overloaded vehicles are dangerous and can cause serious accidents . |
| 78 | They were to discover that these country lads were the equals — perhaps the superiors — of their Indian counterparts in political sagacity . |
| 79 | There were no good rules and regulations , and hospitals and insurance companies felt that they ought not to sit down and make them because , once they made them , they were admitting that these things were taking place and that such decisions were being made and were subject not only to public scrutiny but a threat of medical malpractice suits . |
| 80 | Yeah , I mean that seems a plausible way of getting into the , er the job market , er what would Harrison Todaro erm say , you know , because they were saying that this migration , this migration was perfectly rational , despite there being high levels of unemployment . |
| 81 | Those admitted to Belgium were put on a train whose doors were locked and windows nailed shut ; they were told that such measures were necessary for their own protection . |
| 82 | The discussion about the service policeman 's job prospects might have been more sanguine had it been known that civil servants in Whitehall were reading a provocative paper on full employment policy . |
| 83 | Nor can it be concluded that this state of affairs is anything other than unfair to residential workers and the institutions they serve in order to help young people . |
| 84 | Nor could it be argued that private property ensured an efficient allocation of resources since the market no longer resembled the model of perfect competition . |
| 85 | Never let it be said that Practical PC ignores the viewpoint of the end user ! |
| 86 | Need it be emphasized that this exposition claims to be no more than schematic ? |
| 87 | Nor can it be assumed that all parts of the biosphere have the same 14 C concentration . |
| 88 | Nor can it be assumed that professional courses always tackle the social aspects : How much do accountants or pharmacists consider the professional client relationship ? |
| 89 | Only by engaging in extreme forms of economic casuistry can it be claimed that such things can be supplied satisfactorily without the agency of government at either national or local level . |
| 90 | Neither should it be thought that informal methods necessarily lead to untidy work presented in a poor hand . |