Example sentences of "be [vb pp] that [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It has also long been recognized that the same distinction occurs in attributive adjectives ( see , for instance , Jespersen , 1924 ) .
2 A jury 's been told that the former manager and chairman of Swindon Town cheated the taxman in an effort to improve the club 's playing staff .
3 It could be argued that the same principle also applies to the misuse of inside information .
4 It may be thought that the same verdict applies to the third principle as well .
5 It is to be regretted that no such flexibility was exhibited on the current occasion .
6 However , to achieve effective co-ordination between the new publicly funded bodies and the long-established private sector organisations , such as the Scottish Council and others , it must be recognised that the latter group is not able to subsidise projects nor to encourage company participation with a formula of matching expenditure .
7 It should be noted that the same definition of " in the course of a business " would appear to be appropriate to the second limb of the definition , concerned with the status of the supplier ; the Court of Appeal in R&B relied on decisions concerned with the meaning of supplies " in the course of business " under the Trade Descriptions Acts ( see Davies v Sumner [ 1984 ] 3 All ER 831 ; Havering LBC v Stephenson [ 1970 ] 1 WLR 1375 ) .
8 When the Legislative Power is united with the Executive Power in the same person or body of magistrates , there is no liberty because it is to be feared that the same Monarch or the same Senate will make tyrannical laws in order to execute them tyrannically .
9 In the view of successive Secretaries of State it is essential in the interests of national security and of any other grounds for which a warrant may be issued that no such inference should ever be capable of being drawn .
10 Care should be taken that the same classification method is used for all samples plotted , particularly if data are obtained from other , workers , as different classifications can result in variation of the position of plotted points ( and hence composition ) ( Zuffa , 1985 ) .
11 If you are an experienced fixed-wing flyer , be warned that the latter course can be dangerous to you .
12 A variety of tempers were used as additives to clays ; whether the choice was conscious or not has yet to be studied , although it has already been observed that the same clay was used with different tempers in certain places .
13 We must build and restore and this is possible even now , if only it were understood that the former dependence of museums on the resources of a criminal state was an abomination which there would be no shame in abandoning .
14 Within Catholic thought these different positions of men and women tend to be thought ‘ natural ’ , and it is contended that the same gender arrangements are to be found in all known human societies .
15 On Oct. 5 it was reported that a former Minister of State , Ghulam Akbar Lasi , had been given a one-year prison sentence for overspending during the 1988 election campaign .
16 Further , it was seen that the same institution that was so damaging could be therapeutic if it was organized deliberately to foster social confidence and responsibility in the patients .
17 It was said that the few cabin passengers on board sailed under very different conditions .
18 And so it was envisaged that the former coaling and oiling stations of Gibraltar , Malta , Port Said , Suez , Aden , Bombay , Colombo , Penang , Singapore and Hong Kong would become air staging posts as well in the post-imperial era .
19 By paragraph 33 of the order it was provided that no such disclosure should be used as evidence in the prosecution of an offence alleged to have been committed by Mr. and Mrs. Tully .
20 It was believed that the latter group had agreed to support him in return for the promise of positions on congressional committees .
21 He could only get temporary relief from certain drugs and it was believed that the same drug contributed to the hardening of the liver which led to his death .
22 Years later , long after Tam was " deed " , I did some research at the Black Watch archives in Perth and was assured that no such thing could ever have happened .
23 Thus , where the draftsman used the phrase " adjoining premises " in one part of the lease and the phrase " adjoining or neighbouring premises " in another part of it , it was held that the former phrase only applied to property that came into physical contact with the demised property because the words " or neighbouring " must have added something to the word " adjoining " ( White v Harrow ( 1902 ) 86 LT 4 ) .
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