Example sentences of "that [pers pn] be [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I place my chair to the left of the swim so that I am hidden behind the wall of rushes and have a good viewpoint of both rods . |
| 2 | What she wo n't want to hear is that I am cured of the madness which kept me from sleeping at night and the imagination which played havoc with my peace of mind during the day . |
| 3 | In 1945 Ottawa wrote to Ira Dilworth suggesting that I be transferred to the general production staff in Toronto and the strength of his opposition and mine resulted in the postponement of such a move . |
| 4 | Word had just come from Ottawa , he told me , confirming his suggestion that I be promoted to the post of Production Manager for the CBC , as from the end of the month . |
| 5 | And yet I find that I 'm disturbed at the thought of what the world would look like in the wake of an amateur home porn video-led fashion revolution . |
| 6 | I suppose that I was influenced by the exploits of the great test pilots of the day , people like Peter Twiss , Neville Duke and John Derry , who were at the time just coming to grips with high-speed flight and what was called the ‘ sound-barrier ’ . |
| 7 | Pangs of conscience , and ache of loneliness apart , I found that I was stimulated by the challenge of finding my way about this great and beautiful city , and by having to communicate — to try to speak French quickly enough to make actual conversation possible . |
| 8 | My father had told me years before that I was born under the starsign of the Dog because Sirius was overhead at the time . |
| 9 | Anyway , rather than attributing it to my childhood , I prefer to believe that I was born into the world with greater or lesser faculties than other people and that I can take full responsibility for them . |
| 10 | So that ruins your idea that I was hit with the bottle standing beside the bed . |
| 11 | I was afraid that I was lost in the snow . ’ |
| 12 | I was informed by a normally respectable member of the Gwili Board that I was wanted on the telephone in the shop . |
| 13 | Soon after , a message came that I was wanted in the cabin . |
| 14 | Now , after attending the opening of ‘ Die grosse Utopie : die Russische Avantgarde 1915–1932 ’ in Frankfurt-am-Main yesterday , at my own expense , I wish to state that I was dazzled by the beauty and breadth of the exhibition and that the pluses far outweigh the minuses . |
| 15 | The upshot was that I was summoned by the university authorities and told that I was to be allowed to continue my studies but only under certain stringent conditions . |
| 16 | I make this point after returning from a day 's walking near Ullswater when I was approached by a party of walkers who had followed me for some distance thinking that I was headed for the same destination . |
| 17 | It was during my second year as a news reporter that I was assigned to the Police Court beat . |
| 18 | I 've always felt that I was raised in the land of melody but I certainly was n't raised in the land of rhythm so I 'm always attracted to good dance music . |
| 19 | I had a dream at this time that I was caught by the Nazis . |
| 20 | ‘ It was over two months ago that I was approached about the job , terms were agreed and I was a part of Bill Fox 's presidential platform . |
| 21 | Realising that I was piqued by the recognition that I was not singular even in what I had considered an inadequacy , I convicted myself of lack of humility . |
| 22 | I thanked him for everything and left the orbit of his beaming smile knowing that I was included in the universality of stupid behaviour . |
| 23 | I trusted him to see that I was equipped for the new life I had chosen . |
| 24 | All the circumstances of the last charge brought against me point to the probability that I was arrested at the urgent instance of the Home Office . |
| 25 | One agent I met with admitted that I was known in the business as a ‘ bit of a cheap turn ’ . |
| 26 | When a female is ready to spawn she will leave her cave ( in which she will have previously have spent a lot of time ) and approach the male , who will display to her by quivering his body slightly and beating his tail in front of her , so that she is buffeted by the current created . |
| 27 | It means that she is freed from the ‘ tutelage ’ of her father and brothers . |
| 28 | We believe that she is a very fine ship and that she is needed by the Royal Navy and the Foreign Office . |
| 29 | The judge held that the child 's welfare required that she be adopted by the foster parents with whom she had lived for three of her five years , and that the parents were withholding agreement unreasonably . |
| 30 | China was now a nuclear power and , Nixon maintained , it was essential that she be brought into the " community of nations " . |