Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] that [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She laughed him off , saying he was becoming obsessed with that MP and it had already been noticed that his column carried far too many stories about him . |
| 2 | If you have just been told that your child has HIV , and if this was unexpected news , the shock will be overwhelming at first . |
| 3 | The case caused much discussion especially as it could scarcely be said that his activity was directly connected with his duties as a judge . |
| 4 | It can hardly be said that his optimism was fully justified , though ironically enough the supply did become more than adequate in most seasons from the middle of the century onwards , when traffic dropped away . |
| 5 | [ I ] t can hardly be said that our constitution knows of such a thing as any specific right of public meeting … . |
| 6 | It had also been said that his father had been employed there . |
| 7 | The borough council has also been told that its measures designed to compensate property-owners for groundwater damage that might result from the barrage , were ‘ gravely inadequate ’ . |
| 8 | It should also be recognised that their progress with reading and writing is likely to be handicapped initially if they come to school with a restricted knowledge and experience of language . |
| 9 | It has often been said that his characters are " puppets " of his grand design , but his own vision necessarily makes them so . |
| 10 | Billy may well be the son of a famous footballer as it has often been rumoured that his mother slept with Plymouth Argyle in the early 1960s . |
| 11 | The last quality is interesting because it has sometimes been suggested that his music-making lacks humour , one of those generalizing statements that , typically , posits a judgement without bothering to examine the evidence . |
| 12 | The boy had never been told that his father was killed in battle in Flavonia , in an earlier attempt to seize the throne for the Vallens dynasty . |
| 13 | I says my god I says it 'll never be known that my brother said that you can be anything and that was first thing he ever gave me . |