Example sentences of "be [verb] that [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , however , it should be recognized that not all parties retain their vitality , or even survive at all , that new parties emerge , and may quickly become powerful , as happened with the socialist parties in Europe , and that parties may change their character and their policies without necessarily changing their names . |
| 2 | It should be stressed that not all organisations pay for such ‘ look-see ’ trips and a number rely on providing a thorough briefing in the home country . |
| 3 | It could be objected that too much onus is being placed on the contribution of the adult . |
| 4 | Since the type of all-out attack involved in the ‘ assured destruction ’ scenario would clearly be indiscriminate and inhumane , and therefore illegal even in self-defence , it can be argued that even this type of deployment entails an illegal threat of force . |
| 5 | Then it can be argued that too much power is being concentrated in the hands of the minister . |
| 6 | It will be argued that basically these sentences are semantically deviant ; however , it must also be recognised that it is not possible to disentangle semantics from grammar completely . |
| 7 | It is to be regretted that so few people in the county are aware of its existence . |
| 8 | It needs to be recognised that sometimes all parties ( both dead and alive ) may gain by avoiding the issue of whether the attack had the ingredient of a sexual assault . |
| 9 | It should be acknowledged that not all theories of Pavlovian learning are entirely happy with the suggestion that an associatively activated representation can form an excitatory link with the ( directly activated ) representation of some other event . |
| 10 | It will also be recollected that so many qualifications have been placed upon the decision in The Wagon Mound ( No. 1 ) that the concept of foreseeability is now applied in a very broad and liberal manner and there is unlikely to be much practical difference between an inquiry whether a consequence is foreseeable or natural . |