Example sentences of "that [pron] be [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It 's for him that I am accepting this honour .
2 It is precisely because I care about the future of humanity that I am undertaking this work . ’
3 It is for that very reason that I am moving this motion today as it gives us the opportunity to implement the rules of the union and at the same time would enable us to put into position , people who would be able to do all those things that are necessary to achieve what we require , recruitment , organization , paperwork , back-up service to full-time officials .
4 ( I should stress that I am using human size as an imaginary example : I do not know how many genetic loci and alleles are really at work in this case . )
5 Maybe it is for myself I mind , rather than for him ! 'T IS not so much that Richard is bound for sanctuary — as that I am denied such privilege .
6 Your new orders will also confirm that I am to assume overall charge of the investigation .
7 The logo will mark the guild 's 30th anniversary , and you will recall that I am offering another bottle of very passable claret to the designer of the winning entry .
8 You can see that I am representing any vector V as a superposition of two standard vectors 1 and 2 , with coefficients ( as we say ) given by the numbers unc and unc [ For the modern mathematician these numbers would make up the ordered pair (
9 It 's in the case of how we police students that the question about where we draw the line and how far we become engaged are most problematic , I think , and it 's in that case really that I 'm proposing this distinction .
10 After all , one of the reasons that I 'm doing this job is that I 'm plugged into what 's going on out there .
11 You ca n't possibly have got it into your head that I 'm having some kind of affair with Lexy , of all people .
12 Er well it 's just I 'm ha it 's not that I 'm having more difficulty with one thing than another , it 's just that I have n't , I did n't get round to doing them .
13 The Monday evening they phone me up and said that I was to attend another meeting on Tuesday which I believe were the twenty second to which they said , We 've thought about it and we 've decided not to continue your employment .
14 I sometimes felt that I was taking unfair advantage of the family 's need to talk through their problems with a sympathetic outsider .
15 I am no less interested to observe that , for Eliot , who always seemed unhurried , ‘ there is plenty of time ’ could mean a period of not much more than three weeks for reading ( the Strachey book being pretty long ) , writing typing and dispatching : which , given the fact that Spender 's book had not arrived , that I was teaching all day and conducting some evening classes , I still consider a tight fit .
16 ‘ No , but I ca n't say that I was paying much attention . ’
17 Oh yes you told me this that I was doing hard labour and he said I was building the building .
18 It must have been in the late 1960s or early 1970s that I was bemoaning this problem with my French colleague Michel Vigier who was also disturbed at the prospect of being snowed under with an indigestible amount of data from DFDRs .
19 Now , my theory that I was proposing last week about preferential parental investment in sexy sons or little boys who showed phallic behaviour , is a consequence of the Trivers Willard principle , because basically what it says is that little boys who advertised , as it were , in their childhood , evidence of their own adult reproductive success by precocious sexuality towards the women of the family and aggression towards the males , might be rewarded by preferential parental investment , a Trivers Willard effect in other words , and if , when they grew up , those oedipal sexy sons were in fact more reproductively successful , then the result would be a kind of self-perpetuating cycle of parental investment in oedipal sons who then grew up to be more reproductively successful than non-oedipal sons and , and so on .
20 He glanced around , satisfied that nobody was taking any notice of his suspicious behaviour , then opened the door fractionally and peered inside .
21 Excuse me I have to say Princess Diana yesterday stunned the world announcing that she is to quit public life .
22 Suppose a girl under 16 does not wish her parents to know that she is seeking contraceptive advice : the medical profession is divided between those who give priority to partial consent , and others who , in line with the General Medical Council , hold that the principle of professional confidentiality overrides that of parental consent .
23 There remains the possibility that the pregnant mother may catch the infection after her first antenatal examination , or that she was incubating early syphilis and therefore had negative blood-tests when first seen .
24 So good were her father 's hints and tips that she was appointed official yearbook photographer at high school and from there she went on to study applied photography at college .
25 So good were her father 's hints and tips that she was appointed official yearbook photographer at high school and from there she went on to study applied photography at college .
26 He had already recognised that she was wearing poor clothing , and it was also obvious that she was taking her work seriously enough to sacrifice her privileged lifestyle and live among those of whom she wrote .
27 She was more than a little astounded , however , that , as Naylor stood facing her in the hall of her home , she should suddenly feel breathless and find that she was extending that courtesy even further .
28 And I would like to think that you 're getting good quality of training , and reasonable accommodation during the training , which you will get .
29 It 's only because you 're a Yorkshireman yourself that you 're taking that position .
30 If you choose to abandon formality ( 'Why do n't we discuss this over a drink ? ' ) then you are playing high status in that you 're taking this decision , and allowing the other person perhaps to rise above their station .
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