Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the absence of further information to the contrary , we are justified in assuming that money wages and the prices of non-labour inputs have also risen in proportion to the rise in price of final output . |
| 2 | Some fifty successful local wage claims apart , and despite Wilson 's optimism in his Presidential Address at the Annual Conference of the union in September 1916 , seamen might have been forgiven for concluding that patriotism had done very little for their cause . |
| 3 | The reason that has been given for saying that Halley 's attempt was serious , rather than merely placatory , is that he confessed in public that his efforts had not , after all , produced decisive results . |
| 4 | You could have been excused for believing that Maradonna had made a come back . |
| 5 | So you 're just going to compile a menu and you 're gon na hope that Joe public likes what you 've put on ? |
| 6 | We are sorry that Mr Blake is ill , and sorry , too , that he has been misled into thinking that experiments on mice can tell anyone anything about a human being . |
| 7 | Particular attention will be given to ensuring that schemes promoted under the Roads and Transport Capital Budget block allocations for Road Safety will be given priorities associated with their contribution to road safety . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't be lulled into believing that Wales are back on top . |
| 9 | Anyone viewing all this nonsense from another planet — as most men do — can be forgiven for assuming that women are a bunch of mixed up crazies who do n't know what they want , but do know that they want it all , both ways and with jam on the top , too . |
| 10 | You 'd be forgiven for thinking that Windows 3.1 is the biggest selling application of all time , with unit sales of around a million a month . |
| 11 | Given all of the above , you might be forgiven for thinking that tennis and fitness are somewhat secondary to the social aspects of the club . |
| 12 | You 'd be forgiven for thinking that Meany 's camera equipment probably went ‘ crunch ’ on this one . |
| 13 | YOU could be forgiven for thinking that pop star Yazz is off to study . |
| 14 | In fact you could be forgiven for thinking that SuperCalc was just like Lotus 1-2-3 , except that the backslash key menus run along the bottom of the screen instead of the top ! |
| 15 | From their historical perspective Marx and Engels could be forgiven for arguing that late-nineteenth-century Britain had a repressive capitalist state . |
| 16 | What these legislative reforms seem to be suggesting is that all is basically well with the traditional model where the directors of the company manage the company but are supervised in that task by the shareholders who , if given the requisite powers , can be relied upon to ensure that directors do not use their powers for their own purposes . |
| 17 | If these were the only considerations , merger policy might be confined to ensuring that companies formed accurate assessments of the costs and benefits of mergers . |
| 18 | To say that Socrates is mortal is true is not to say anything that can not be said by asserting that Socrates is mortal . |
| 19 | Treatment with one of the benzimidazoles or levamisole is effective and the condition may be prevented by ensuring that birds do not run on the same ground each year . |
| 20 | A further reason that may be advanced for insisting that police interference of whatever kind must be legally justified is that it is an understandable human reaction to respond with some indignation to an allegation or suspicion believed by its object to be unjustified . |
| 21 | Before introducing a new set of coordinates , it may be noted in passing that Feinstein and Ibañez ( 1989 ) have considered an alternative coordinate system and have expanded a general solution in a different way involving Bessel and Neumann functions of zero order . |
| 22 | But do n't be hoodwinked into thinking that gifts and other offerings are the way to bring lasting happiness . |
| 23 | Note that this claim would not be undermined by showing that infants ‘ mindlessly ’ master the communicative content of structured sentences before it dawns on them gradually that assertions express beliefs and that deceit is possible . |
| 24 | In a subsequent decision the Court of Appeal thought many factors needed to be weighed before concluding that individuals could possess no such rights . |
| 25 | A southerly slope could be simulated by ensuring that 50% of the random numbers generated by the computer were interpreted as ‘ flow south ’ while 20% could be allocated both to ‘ flow east ’ and ‘ flow west ’ with the remaining 10% being ‘ flow north ’ . |
| 26 | If investment in public education was a necessary political and humanitarian response to the problems of poverty and underprivilege , if it was an appropriate means of fostering and maintaining religious adherence , and if it was calculated to equip young people with the skills demanded by a changing industrial society , then a strategy had to be found for ensuring that value was obtained for the funds invested . |
| 27 | It can be taken for granted that Australia will be one side contesting the 1992 World Cup final and that Great Britain or New Zealand will be the other . |
| 28 | Rather , attention must be directed to ensuring that doctors who care for the dying understand and use the medicines and techniques now available . |
| 29 | Personal injury practitioners can only make any sort of profit at all if they achieve a realistic cash flow and this can only be obtained by ensuring that payment is made as soon as the case is settled . |
| 30 | erm in a very interested book called Darwin on Man recently by a psychologist called Gruber , Gruber has argued that Darwin had a conviction which could be expressed by saying that things which are natural are necessarily gradual , and things which are sudden are miraculous and not natural , that he had this equation in his mind erm long before he erm became and evolutionist , long before he abandoned his belief in religion which he largely did later , and Gruber traces it back , interestingly enough , to the arguments of a theologian , Sumner , who later became an Archbishop , who Darwin took notes on his ideas when he was a student at Cambridge erm which are still extent , and what Sumner had argued , among other things , was that a good argument for believing in the divinity of Christ , that Christ was divine rather than simply being a gifted teacher , was the suddenness with which the beliefs of the ancient world were transformed by Christ 's teaching . |