Example sentences of "be [verb] that the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had never been intended that the flimsy structure should support such a weighty assembly , so with a creaking and a cracking and much shouting and swearing down it went in a flurry of legs and arms and broken planks and red Australian dust . |
| 2 | IT has long been recognized that the electrical conductivity of the lower continental crust is anomalously high . |
| 3 | Over thousands of years it has been recognized that the human body has a non-physical component , and it is striking that through all the descriptions there is a strong energy theme . |
| 4 | It has also long been recognized that the same distinction occurs in attributive adjectives ( see , for instance , Jespersen , 1924 ) . |
| 5 | The most pessimistic observers are predicting growth rates of less than 1 per cent , and are suggesting that the Japanese economy is heading for a deep and prolonged recession . |
| 6 | I am suggesting that the British crime survey is very important . |
| 7 | For the period 1757–1822 it has been calculated that the aggregate drain was approximately £250 million , while it has been pointed out that for the period from the 1850s to the First World War surpluses from the Indian economy were crucial in allowing Britain to balance its deficits with Europe and the USA ( Bagchi , 1982 , pp. 81 , 88 ) . |
| 8 | We have been taught that the only solution for us is to take our sick body to a doctor who will make decisions about it , an all-powerful doctor who carries our life or death within his hands . |
| 9 | Equally important , Britons have been taught that the political system works . |
| 10 | Have you been suggesting that the dead girl might have been your father 's mistress ? ’ |
| 11 | The ‘ pro-Palestinian ’ faction has been suggesting that the National Front abandon the pretence of attempting to build a mass party . |
| 12 | If it might reasonably have been foreseen that the pregnant woman might be injured by his carelessness , it must follow that the possibility of injury on birth to the child she was carrying must equally be taken to have been reasonably foreseeable . … |
| 13 | Morocco had since July been demanding that the existing list of 73,487 names should be increased by a further 120,000 . |
| 14 | I refer in that context to the observations of Lord President Cooper in MacCormick v. The Lord Advocate in 1953 , when Lord Cooper , generally regarded as one of the foremost Scottish jurists of this century , said : ’ The principle of the unlimited sovereignty of Parliament is a distinctively English principle which has no counterpart in Scottish constitutional law Considering that the Union legislation extinguished the Parliaments of Scotland and England and replaced them by a new Parliament , I have difficulty in seeing why it should have been supposed that the new Parliament of Great Britain must inherit all the peculiar characteristics of the English Parliament but none of the Scottish Parliament , as if all that happened in 1707 was that Scottish representatives were admitted to the Parliament of England . |
| 15 | It has also been stressed that the overall range of individual building types can be a useful indicator of the level of settlement complexity ; in particular , attention has been focused on the relative presence or absence of the larger , more obviously romanized , building complexes and their planned or ad hoc location within the layout . |
| 16 | Those in the Member class wish to transfer to Fellowship are reminded that the next meeting of the Fellowship Committee will be held on 29 September 1993 . |
| 17 | On July 15 it had been reported that the new Cabinet had drafted 35 pieces of legislation for immediate consideration by the new Congress . |
| 18 | On May 1 it had been reported that the Colombian government was willing to talk with the guerrillas , after three representatives of the two groups within the CNGSB ( the FARC and the ELN — see p. 38001 ) had occupied the Venezuelan embassy in Bogotá seeking diplomatic asylum . |
| 19 | It has been considered that the simultaneous presence of ultradian and daily rhythms suggests that they are related in some way and possibly all come from the same body clock . |
| 20 | It has been claimed that the vivid pattern of black and white stripes creates a dazzle effect , rather like the Op Art paintings of Bridget Riley and that this disconcerts the attacking predator at close quarters . |
| 21 | It has been claimed that the confused clutter of furnishings and knick-knacks commonly associated with the Victorians became fashionable only after the 1870s ; but that impression , if only by contrast with the Regency , is certainly made upon novelists at an earlier date . |
| 22 | Although it has been claimed that the Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher had no carefully thought-through strategy to deal with the unions when it came into office , but rather proceeded pragmatically ( Roberts , 1989 ) , nevertheless ( Young , 1990 , p. 353 ) : |
| 23 | It has been decided that the introductory day on future courses should include a substantial session on confidentiality . |
| 24 | It had previously been decided that the first landing should be away on the metalled runway of Duxford or Cambridge . |
| 25 | It had been decided that the Champagne-producing area must be legally delimited in order to protect the quality of grapes being included in the cuvées and to safeguard the traditional areas able to grow them . |
| 26 | The 1980s have seen an increasing North-South regional polarisation , a de-industrialisation of the old heartlands of British industry so great that one can understand why it has been said that the working class have a nostalgia for industry , a decline in welfare provision for those most in need , a redistribution of taxation in favour of the well-off and — as distressingly revealed during the miners ' strike of 1984–5 — the growth of a national paramilitary form of policing acting on behalf of a government determined to weaken trade unionism while British capitalism restructures itself . |
| 27 | It has been said that the Imperial Court was more successful in mounting great set pieces than in its day-to-day running , and indeed so successful was it in this field that an impression was created that the whole of the period was one long spectacle — the so-called fête impériale — whose only aim was entertainment , prodigality and licence . |
| 28 | It has been said that the real question in the case is the degree of restriction that can be imposed upon a sovereign State in negotiating with another State in matters that affect the vital interests of third States . |
| 29 | It has been said that the Irish Sea and even the Bristol Channel ( just outside my window as I write ) are older than the Atlantic . |
| 30 | It has often been said that the decisive development since Darwin was a new synthesis , in the 1920s and 1930s , of Mendel on heredity and Darwin on selection . |