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

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1 There comes a time in every project , he wrote , when it becomes clear that a head is no match for a wall .
2 It is clear that a waiver is of no effect unless it is unequivocal and only where the representee acts on it to his detriment .
3 While it is clear that a trespasser is a ‘ stranger ’ for this purpose , we can only conjecture who else is included in the term .
4 Uses and trusts the Common Law will not recognize ; wills of land , it has decided , are void ( unless established by local custom — it was not till 1540 that a statute was passed giving power to leave land by will ) .
5 The court may grant leave on the written request alone or direct that a date be fixed for hearing in which case notice must be given to the applicant and other persons as directed by the court ( FPCR , r3(2) ; FPR , r4.3(2) ) .
6 It had occurred neither to them nor to the British that a diplomat was involved . ’
7 Perhaps the target is so unrealistic that a short-fall is inevitable .
8 Bickford himself fell seriously ill before his fuse could be manufactured in any quantity , and it was only after his death in 1834 that a factory was established in Tuckingmill which continued to make various types of fuse , seldom departing very far from the original specifications , for almost 130 years .
9 The sense in which we can talk of the meaning of an individual sentence is not determinate enough to make it possible that a sentence be unrevisably true in virtue of that meaning .
10 Is it possible that a body was put in the basin early on Saturday morning and that it remained there until the next high tide without being seen ? ’
11 ‘ I find it strange that a report is being talked about when no-one was sent off , ’ he said .
12 ‘ Alan is a great player but I find it strange that a Scot is preferred to an Irishman and the more matches I win , the bigger the snub will be . ’
13 ‘ Alan is a great player but I find it strange that a Scot is preferred to an Irishman and the more matches I win , the bigger the snub will be . ’
14 Somehow I was relieved that a guard was with us because I thought that if there was an accident his friends might try to get him — and maybe us — out .
15 It is from the mechanical that a block is made for printing .
16 Thus , in R v P ( a Father ) [ 1991 ] 3 All ER 337 , HL a criminal case , the House of Lords held that a court was allowed to hear evidence of a father 's sexual abuse of one child to support an allegation of sexual abuse against another .
17 In the following years many proposals were made for the construction of a railway between Welshpool and Llanfair Caereinion but it was not until 1898 that a company was formed to build the present line and the then Earl of Powis became its Chairman , an office which he held until the grouping in 1922 .
18 Nevertheless , Tracey still seemed convinced that a charge was imminent .
19 Being aware of the strict alcohol regulations , I did not object to this , although I did think it rather unfair that a school-friend was obliged to dispose of his soft drink before he entered the ground .
20 It was not until 1946 that a psychiatrist was called in .
21 Only in a few cases is it unclear whether a crater is volcanic or from an impact , and in comparably few cases does it seem more likely that a crater is of volcanic origin .
22 Another but more legally complicated way of arriving at the same result under the subsection is to say that , when the police seek to intervene , it is likely that a belief is likely to arise in the mind of the first victims , that violence towards the police is a likely outcome of the defendant 's conduct .
23 If it is obvious that a word is a loan word , keep it , but make a note that it is a loan .
24 Now , it 's obviously very good that a position is going to be replaced by a technician , for which a , which at the moment is elsewhere in the department .
25 Stewart Mason , the new Chairman of the NCDAD , was — as we have seen — convinced by the early 1970s that a merger was both inevitable and desirable .
26 To be sure that a patient is truly regaining their health , it is of no value just to know that the symptoms of his complaint have been relieved , rather the focus of his disease has to be seen to be shifting into less important areas , that is , moving down the hierarchy .
27 But the fact is no lender can ever be absolutely sure that a guarantor is not being subject to pressure from the principal debtor , and to require him to do more than properly and fairly point out to the guarantor the desirability of obtaining independent advice , and to require the documents to be executed in the presence of a solicitor , is to put upon commercial lenders a burden which would severely handicap the carrying out of what is , after all , an extremely common transaction of everyday occurrence for banks and other commercial lenders .
28 Make sure that a transfer is the correct solution to the problem .
29 He was sure that a bishop was not stopped by his bishoping from going on with some scholarly work .
30 I 'm sure that a picture is worth a thousand words , and so the screenshots can probably tell you much more than I have space for .
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