Example sentences of "be [verb] [that] [det] [n mass] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Offenders who are mentally disordered suffer the stigma of being labelled as both ‘ mad ’ and ‘ bad ’ , although for centuries it has been recognized that some people have diminished responsibility for their actions as a result of mental abnormality and that punishment and retribution , usually demanded by society of someone who has committed a crime , should be dispensed with in favour of providing humane care and treatment . |
| 2 | It used to be said that any salmon running up the Dee made a one-way journey . |
| 3 | At best , it could be agreed that some people defined the national interest one way and some defined it another way , and each side was equally well-meaning ; only some had pushed their patriotism beyond the law , so keen were they , while others had stopped and thought . |
| 4 | It must be remembered that these statistics refer to legitimate births and omit the 26 per cent ( in 1988 ) of births which are illegitimate . |
| 5 | It has been observed that some people switching from using a typewriter to a personal computer can gain up to half a stone a year because they no longer have to get up to consult filing cabinets ; and the same effects can be observed when people use remote-control television , extension phones , lifts and dishwashers . |
| 6 | Hence , I am arguing that ALL staff accept similar responsibility for disruptive pupils . |
| 7 | It was no wonder that in the late Seventies , when Americans were beginning to query whether they were carrying out too many coronary by-passes , Britain 's health correspondents were reporting that many people did not even know such life savers existed . |
| 8 | The idea that people can be sensitive to natural gas is a contentious one , but it is claimed that some people have made dramatic recoveries after removing the gas supply from their house . |
| 9 | When a patient seems to be developing a pattern of chronic repeats , it is recommended that all staff engaged in his or her care meet to reconstruct each attempt in order to determine whether there appears to be a motive common to each act . |
| 10 | Their lenses are much thicker and it is thought that these species lived where there was little light and needed thick lenses to collect and concentrate what light there was . |
| 11 | The funds are , of course , still open and it is appreciated that many people have already sent donations direct to the Royal Homeopathic Hospital . |
| 12 | But be warned that some species react badly to a change of water chemistry , and a ‘ home quarantine tank in which the fish may be further conditioned and observed before releasing them into an established aquarium , is an asset . |
| 13 | And just to cap all this mythological irrelevance , the island of Vulcano is now linked by a small spit of land to another small volcano , Vulcanello , which used to be a separate island , and it has been suggested that this pair comprised the ‘ Scylla and Charybdis ’ , beloved of Homer and modern politicians , but then so have several other island pairs in the Mediterranean . |
| 14 | Although they had been told to counter this objection with the fact that this was a single instance or two of older machines and new machines could be serviced almost immediately , this did not altogether convince a potential customer and it was felt that many sales had been lost . |
| 15 | For example : it was found that many staff had made no provision for their phones to be answered when they were absent from their desks . |