Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [verb] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the volume and speed of the electronic transactions , bank customers are also likely to demand that banks ascertain the trustworthiness of the signers or authenticators . |
| 2 | Seniors are often unwilling to admit that subordinates have developed to the extent that they could perform some of the manager 's duties . |
| 3 | Microsoft 's Jack Fogg claimed it would be more accurate to say that Windows NT is ‘ a better Unix than Unix ’ than ‘ a better Windows than Windows ’ , which is probably good news for Unix as well . |
| 4 | This will be relatively small to ensure that lexicographers return entries to the database promptly , and do not work on several entries at the same time . |
| 5 | First , interferon gene deletions have previously been associated with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and it would , therefore , not be too surprising to find that abnormalities of interferon regulation or of the interferon signalling pathway were tumorigenic . |
| 6 | Contra Marxists , exponents of the autonomous state model are particularly keen to stress that capitalists have continually faced a governing apparatus at least partly structured against them : by feudal forces in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , by socialist labour movements in the twentieth century , and by the military requirements and foreign policy aims of governing elites at all times ( Finer , 1975 ) . |
| 7 | ( Teachers used to living in subject blinkers are sometimes startled to find that films chosen as " starters " for topic work in their subject may already have been shown by another teacher in a different context . |
| 8 | Libraries with no training officers were more likely to say that decisions were made by chief executives , and to specifically note that local authority approval was needed . |
| 9 | The judges were also keen to stress that charities still need to balance readers ' requirements . |
| 10 | We were indeed able to confirm that pairs of dunnocks were often joined by a third bird in breeding , but this provided a mere foretaste of what was to come . |
| 11 | Conservative administrations of the 1980s were certainly right to maintain that governments must not get involved in ‘ picking winners ’ and directing companies ' strategies . |
| 12 | Although some remarkably conservation-conscious agents exist , it is generally true to say that land-agents have played , and continue to play , a significant role in hastening the destruction of the English landscape by intensive agriculture . |
| 13 | Woman-centred psychology , too , is generally happy to assume that men 's ‘ cultural and biological experiences are mostly different from those of women ’ ( Aitkenhead 1987 : 299 ) , and to adopt conventional ideas of what these different experiences entail . |
| 14 | The unusual nature of these counter-examples indicates that they are indeed the exceptions which prove the rule , and it is normally reasonable to assume that coins made from the same die were produced at the same time and place . |
| 15 | They go on to say that large firms ‘ are constrained in some way [ in making these decisions ] by the requirement to make profits and serve consumers ’ , but it is nevertheless appropriate to stress that companies will usually have options about how to manage the impact of changed market conditions or technology : the company is not merely a passive instrument of the market . |
| 16 | Maybe so , though it is still nice to see that principles still count for something , particularly when it comes to refusing to buy something you already own or turning that hand-out of shares over to a deserving charity at the expense of an easy-come , easy-go profit . |
| 17 | It has more frequently been suggested that dilute sources will promote visits to many nowers and thus out-crossing , though it is difficult to see how such a mechanism could arise , and perhaps it is more satisfactory to surmise that visits by a pollen-dusted vector to several flowers on one plant are promoted , leading to cross fertilization of more . |
| 18 | In terms of that aspect of the Fleet Street Casuals case which relates sufficient interest to the facts and merits of the applicant 's case , it is probably correct to say that ratepayers challenging decisions of local authorities , competitors challenging decisions affecting their business activities , and neighbours challenging planning decisions would be held to have a sufficient interest unless other facts of the case provided very strong grounds for denying the existence of such an interest . |
| 19 | However , it is probably fair to say that systems theory is closer to a positivist approach than the views which will now be considered . |
| 20 | But , given the Judaic character of the Celtic Church , it is reasonably safe to suppose that attitudes towards Jesus were , at very least , extremely questionable in Roman eyes . |
| 21 | He is also right to say that regulations improve the quality of service . |
| 22 | It is also important to ensure that programs for new techniques , once developed , are made available widely to others . |
| 23 | It is also interesting to note that endorphins are released when acupuncture is practised and perhaps make a significant contribution to the therapeutic effects which may be achieved . |
| 24 | But it is also true to say that fashions in philanthropy change . |
| 25 | It is perfectly possible to imagine that memories are coded for negatively , by reducing the level of some substance or process , although in practice nearly all research seems to be devoted to trying to identify increases . |
| 26 | The faculty is particularly keen to ensure that candidates who have not made the ‘ going rate ’ because of disadvantaged or deprived circumstances but who are of good academic potential are given every chance of entry . |
| 27 | It is particularly important to check that findings are not generalized beyond the group studied . |
| 28 | It is particularly important to note that redundancies may , therefore , be deemed to be unfair dismissals , thereby increasing considerably the question of compensation payable . |
| 29 | It is indeed pleasing to see that developments and experiments are taking place in cities such as Nottingham and Cambridge . |
| 30 | Representative standing , it might be said , is an important feature of any system of public law which is chiefly concerned to ensure that governments act lawfully . |