Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] that [noun] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All three features are designed to convey that Henry is not just looking at the roots but reflecting on them and struggling to think what it is they bring to mind . |
| 2 | Raised beds make attractive garden features , and if you are beginning to find that bending is difficult , they can also make gardening a more practical and pleasurable hobby in the years ahead . |
| 3 | In the absence of a memorable quotation from a famous person startled by this contrast , we are compelled to suggest that Wirral is , in many respects , a microcosm of a ‘ two nations ’ contemporary England . |
| 4 | Again , the profession has been brought to recognise that dishonesty is not just sole practitioner problem and that measures to combat default must relate to all sizes of practice . |
| 5 | However , it is difficult to see how such criteria can be formulated to ensure that treatment is received by those individuals that the home authority would have chosen . |
| 6 | This could be interpreted to mean that rent is an integral part of a lease . |
| 7 | However a number of simple tests must be performed to ensure that POINTER is indicating the correct delay value : ( a ) If the end of the acceleration table has been reached the motor continues at constant velocity with a step interval dictated by the final acceleration delay value , stored in location ACCEND . |
| 8 | ‘ the fruits of the investigation which are in its possession are not the property of the Crown for use in securing a conviction but the property of the public to be used to ensure that justice is done . |
| 9 | They should be helped to recognise that racism is a reality in society and that , although they can not protect the child from it , they can prepare him or her to deal with it when it is encountered . |
| 10 | This can be understood to mean that Vietnam is not prepared to renounce or imperil her close ties with the Soviet Union . |
| 11 | Children on waiting lists should be reassessed to ensure that intervention is still required . |
| 12 | Care should be taken to ensure that cover is in force as sickness is not covered under all PA policies . |
| 13 | We may be meant to think that time is simultaneous , in a way that may owe something to the simultaneity propounded , ‘ perhaps ’ , in Eliot 's Four Quartets , where ‘ History is now and England ’ ; or that it is cyclical , a turning wheel , with human depravity paling into insignificance as the wheel turns into modern times . |
| 14 | A trial run along both lines is recommended to ensure that planning is correct . |
| 15 | Mr Bland said last night : ‘ Our scheme is designed to ensure that LWT is in a position to make and broadcast programmes at the weekend from 1993 onwards . ’ |
| 16 | So it is reassuring to recognise that London is not alone . |
| 17 | He declared by this determination , Ulster is going to see that Protestantism is neither dead nor buried but is on the march . |
| 18 | No-one is born knowing that Michelangelo is wonderful ; you have to be exposed to it , and this is the job that has to be done . |
| 19 | Or that one is to continue to believe in the biblical God despite all experiences to the contrary , that is to say believe that God is bound up with a religion and a community in which women are counted inferior ( in which case one is attempting to believe in an evil God ) ? |
| 20 | One is tempted to say that consent is valid if one has a right that the normative consequences will not occur without one 's consent . |
| 21 | Despite the evidence in front of our eyes , we are required to accept that Michael is a writer of real stature so that Harwood can conduct a somewhat stodgy debate about the way art feeds off real life , and transforms reality in the process . |
| 22 | For detective work carried out before the series was made showed that David is a favourite with male viewers while women are hooked on crime dramas like Morse , Miss Marple and Taggart . |