Example sentences of "[pron] that [adj] [noun pl] be " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the new Act the positive role of relatives and friends is also recognised , but it must be obvious to everyone that some children are just so difficult , often having been very badly abused , and with severe behaviour problems , that they can not be contained in a family and these children are placed in residential homes . |
| 2 | What 's more , after years of growing awareness about the state of the Earth , it seems to me that most governments are still blind to the readiness of their people to accept radical changes in the interests of their children and grandchildren . |
| 3 | For example , it was pointed out to me that some teachers were making lesson notes for the first time in years ! |
| 4 | I was impressed by a deluge of letters from the Masons which assured me that both men were entirely innocent of importing cannabis as the police alleged . |
| 5 | It does n't occur to me that these wants are impossible . |
| 6 | It seems to me that these dreams were not only manifestations of hunger , but that they also evinced a desire to be normal and part of the natural world . |
| 7 | Only a few girls told me that these matters were ever discussed within their families . |
| 8 | This is n't the first Selecta Fiat , the concept has been used on Unos for some years and Fiat assures me that these automatics are dramatically improved from the older designs still used by other manufacturers . |
| 9 | The two young men , Guglielmo and Ferrando , are teased by Don Alfonso , who tells them that all women are the same — fundamentally faithless by nature . |
| 10 | So you go in a tell them that six windows are gon na cost them four and a half thousand and they go |
| 11 | He told himself that all men were cowards when it came to a showdown with a woman . |
| 12 | He did not worry too much in those early years of his married life , telling himself that some women were slow to conceive , but after twelve years and his wife still childless , he had to accept the painful fact that she never would have any . |
| 13 | And they tell you that two AS-levels are equal to an A-level when it comes to applying for university places . ’ |
| 14 | Let me show you that all men are n't as cruel and immature as your retarded merchant banker . |
| 15 | Further to the query by Mr P. Ridgley of Oldham regarding copal varnish ( WW/June 91/p.557 ) , we would inform you that copal varnishes were manufactured from fossilised resins , mainly obtained from the Congo . |
| 16 | The brainchild of Reuben Mattus , whose family had been making ice-cream in the Bronx since the 1920s Haagen-Dazs was planned to be everything that standard ice-creams were not . |
| 17 | He 's watched football in every league ground in England , all 92 , and he 's been to America , to watch West Bromwich playing in America , he 's been to the last two or three world cup tournaments , and he goes to all the matches away , you know , European cup matches and everything that English teams are playing in , he 's all over the world watching it , you see , This year , he 's watched 22 games , which is about fifty per cent of his normal , and even he 's getting browned off … |
| 18 | Time management is the key here , something that most women are very good at — by necessity . |
| 19 | Rank 's argument that he needed the studios , the cinemas and the distribution network if he was to ensure that his films performed in foreign markets was , therefore , one that relevant officials were predisposed to accept . |
| 20 | It need not surprise anybody that Victorian cities were unhealthy places . |
| 21 | Mr Charkin 's research — difficult because of the very large number of publishers in the business , most unquoted — has shown him that average profits are usually less than 5% of turnover . |
| 22 | Leopold wrote resignedly , telling him that such things were inevitable for every artist of outstanding talent . |
| 23 | Louise told him that young children were n't allowed in the front of cars . |
| 24 | The defendants had previously sent the shop manager a letter instructing him that these shoes were not to leave the shop without the label first being removed . |
| 25 | The provisional government 's relief and rehabilitation commissioner Yilma Kasaye told her that 7,000,000 Ethiopians were affected by drought and famine . |
| 26 | Why is it that these molecules were n't discovered earlier ? |
| 27 | to , to , I mean when I first had the er plaster off , which was for ten days it was , I could not believe it that these fingers were not going but I 'm told that that 's quite usual . |
| 28 | Maori tradition has it that these words were spoken by chief Ngatoroirangi when he first arrived in New Zealand from Polynesia in the great Arawa canoe : I arrive where unknown earth is under my feet ; I arrive where a new sky is above me . |
| 29 | In a measured reconsideration of Blincoe 's account , after a modern historian seeking to defend the early cotton masters sought to discredit it , Professor Musson concluded : There is no doubt whatever that many children were exploited and ill treated in the early textile mills , that they were used as cheap factory labour , that their hours of work were far too long , that accident , ill-health and deformities were common , and that cruel punishments were often inflicted . |
| 30 | Donovan had taken a fairly low-key approach , refusing to accept the view ( promulgated by the CBI ) that legal restrictions on unofficial strikes would achieve the desired industrial peace , but Wilson and Barbara Castle convinced themselves that penal sanctions were necessary and justified , and in accordance with public opinion . |