Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [adj] that a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the discussion of manufacturing output in Chapter 2 , it should be apparent that a growth in employment is not the same as a growth in output . |
| 2 | It should be clear that a God who was simply ‘ outside ’ the world in the way that the President of France was ‘ outside ’ Britain could hardly at the same time be present in it . |
| 3 | It should be obvious that a dissonance sounded by one instrument must be resolved by that instrument ( unless there is a complete break-off and a rest or pause separating the discord from what follows ) , but it is the writer 's experience that beginners do not always realize the musical necessity for this . |
| 4 | From this description it should be obvious that a pension fund can be confident of the source and scale of its contributions since these are a contractual obligation for employer and all employees . |
| 5 | In constructivism we view the organism-environment dyad from the outside and ask how it might be possible that an organism which has input systems and which is active could ever come to know that the environment exists . |
| 6 | It might be obvious that an object had a religious purpose , but often even this is debatable : a small , crudely carved wooden figure might be the cult statue of a god , but it could equally well be a child 's toy . |
| 7 | If you look at Algol and find that it is no brighter than Epsilon or Zeta , you may be sure that an eclipse is in progress . |
| 8 | But although we may be confident that a gradient exists , and influences subsequent development , we usually have no idea what it is a gradient of , and rather little idea of how genes are actually switched on and off . |
| 9 | But on any one day , although there will be subject assessors beavering away in places all over the country , their activity is not very visible unless you happen to teach in a department being visited ; the rest of the staff in your own college or school may be unaware that a subject assessor is there . |
| 10 | There is a famous passage in which he invites us to acknowledge that it would be better that a world of which no one would ever be conscious should contain beautiful objects than that it should contain ugly objects . |
| 11 | And although he signed a lucrative four-year contract with Wednesday last season , he would be aware that a move to United now would make him one of the game 's highest earners . |
| 12 | In this context of the numbers of men , the use of weapons and the multiple attacks , it would be unlikely that a conviction would not have occurred , even without the racial theme . |
| 13 | In some circumstances , the course of the trial will be such that a witness whose affidavit has been received will after all be required to attend for cross-examination ; this applies no less to witnesses abroad as to those within the jurisdiction . |
| 14 | Again the problem will arise that it will be unlikely that a company will satisfy the text to qualify as a family company . |
| 15 | Interested readers will be aware that a couple of years ago , two new recordings of the 1915 version of El Amor brujo were released , one from Virgin with Aquarius ( which I 've not heard ) , the other from Nuova Era with the Carmé Ensemble . |
| 16 | This is not to say , however , that in certain applications , the use of ‘ normal ’ in-rack sprinkler systems is not perfectly satisfactory where the arrangement of sprinklers can be such that a number of them can be brought in early against the fire , or where the nature of the goods stored is such that flames are unlikely to damage them within the first few moments of fire development . |
| 17 | You can be sure that a woman must have big and thick labia if she has a big mouth and thick lips . |
| 18 | Gods and goddesses could appear in the form of boulders , trees , birds , snakes , or pillars , but we can be sure that an appearance in human form had the greatest emotional impact . |