Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [that] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain alone , it has been calculated that about 200,000 people may be bitten by dogs each year . |
| 2 | We are praying that very ordinary people will be called to a very special task . |
| 3 | It has been suggsted that only soluble calcium ions precipitate fatty acids and bile acids , thus reducing their lytic activity . |
| 4 | It has often been claimed that especially in large , newer urban estates , residents have little ability to control their personal environment , the state of repair of their flat or its surroundings ( Power 1988 ) . |
| 5 | [ The norm in England and Wales is three years to honours , and in Northern Ireland there is a mixture of three- and four-year courses ; although it has recently been claimed that as many as 40 per cent of all British university undergraduates are on courses lasting four or more years , in modern languages , medicine , engineering , architecture and some business subjects ( Institute of Physics 1988 ) . ] |
| 6 | time sort of thing you know , so , said it 's been noticed that like |
| 7 | The sufferer from alcoholism is so frequently involved in traffic offences that it has been said that just two drink-driving offences are a strong indication of alcoholism . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , it has been said that virtually all the extinctions of the last million years or so can be blamed , with fair confidence , on the intelligence ( or lack of it ) of Homo sapiens . |
| 9 | It may have been that on his original appearance this condition would not have been satisfied , as it could not have been said that only a custodial sentence was adequate to protect the public from serious harm from him , if the alternative of a probation order requiring residence at a hostel specialising in sexual offenders was available . |
| 10 | Indeed , many trees that look as though they might be adapted to wind pollination are known to be pollinated by insects — like Mallotus oppositifolius ( Euphorbiaceae ) in West Africa , which has an attractive sweet scent — and it has been suspected that even forest grasses are animal pollinated . |
| 11 | The suggestion has therefore been made that either the right hemisphere can process concrete words and/or that such words survive , better than abstract words , transmission across the corpus callosum from the right to the left hemisphere ( Lambert and Beaumont , 1981 ) . |
| 12 | Similarly , when life sentences are reviewed , the trial judge makes a recommendation to the parole board but complaints have been made that too frequently junior Ministers in the Home Office depart from the recommendation , usually by increasing the length of the period of imprisonment . |
| 13 | The case at Water Newton is rather less certain , but it has been argued that either one of the two large buildings visible at the centre of the defended area served as an administrative centre for the Fens , or that this function was performed by the remarkable complex identified at Castor to the north-east of the town 's extramural suburbs . |
| 14 | It has been argued that very few electors usually read them and that many of the commitments made do not enjoy widespread support among voters , even among those voting for the parties that issued them . |
| 15 | What is more it had long been accepted that only the pope could perform this . |
| 16 | Goodness you 're eating that fast int you ? |
| 17 | Obviously , when there is some snow on the hills in the summer you ca n't do much , so they are very carefully made and some of them are connected to a computer , so if you have a very good coach with you he can say ‘ You 're going that right , no do it a bit more like this , or a bit more like that ’ . |
| 18 | As I understand it Chair , what you 're saying is , that there are , at three there is a , a request for an exclusion of press photographers , but the convenience of press photography we 're saying that instead of taking immediately so that we 'd have to call them back here for the even later , we 're asking you for it to be taken at the end with the rest of exclusion |
| 19 | seventy thousand last year , now you 're saying that even within any , I know it 's moderate inflation , but none the less it 's inflation , er , you are only making available , did you get through the seventy , I mean , were they applied for ? |
| 20 | So I can say that really what worries you is more the crime and the drugs much more than prostitution , as far as prostitution you 're saying that basically there 's a |
| 21 | So so you 're saying that basically it was outsiders who erm |
| 22 | ‘ It 's been disappointing that sometimes his emotional tension has dropped him down the placings . |
| 23 | I am told that even in London , at Sadler 's Wells and the Coliseum , they copy our Viennese style . ’ |
| 24 | I am told that certainly parts of this guidance were cited in argument to the justices and it is apparent from the report of the guardian ad litem that sections were quoted from it . |
| 25 | But at the same time we have been told that even the phial of Galadriel loses its virtue on Mount Doom , for there Frodo is at ‘ the heart of the realm of Sauron … all other powers were here subdued ’ . |
| 26 | If he had consulted a Green candidate , he would have been told that even the other parties ' policies are not tough enough in theory let alone practice . |
| 27 | WHEELCHAIR competitors in Sunday 's London Marathon have been told that instead of going for personal best times they must take at least one hour and 50 minutes to complete the course . |
| 28 | The jury has been told that both prosecution and defence will be calling expert witnesses to establish his state of mind at the time of the killing . |
| 29 | Junior accountants at Price Waterhouse , one of the big six firms , have been told that now is the time to take their once-in-a-lifetime world tour or perhaps a summer stint as a yacht deckhand and that applications for extended unpaid leave ‘ will be looked on favourably ’ . |
| 30 | Andrée said , ‘ Oh , yes , we 've been told that before , people seemed to find it surprising . |