Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was this inability to up the run rate that coach Jim Love blamed for the defeat , though it has to be said that Storie had done well to repair a bad start when the Scots lost both openers , Bruce Patterson and Iain Philip , on 17 . |
| 2 | There are growling bass reinforcements and the principal melody shouts its triumph at one point an octave higher than written , through it has to be said that Cortot had a way of making such licence irresistible . |
| 3 | It often used to be said that Britain had a two-party political system , meaning by this not merely that the electoral system favoured the two major parties , but , less contentiously , that these two parties between them nearly monopolized the votes cast . |
| 4 | In fairness it has to be said that Levin tries to isolate Debord from a purely formal Modernism , and from naive realism ( the politics of the signified ) . |
| 5 | It hardly needs to be said that Tories are capitalists , and therefore to a woman ( Tory women playing a significant role in this ) subscribe to the view that the dominance of heterosexuality , notably the White Heterosexual Family , is to be preserved come hell or high water . |
| 6 | The original product was WordStar Legacy , a licensing deal with NBI , and it has to be said that Legacy did not receive unanimous acclaim . |
| 7 | Ed 's comment : While I agree with your comments in principle , Mr Huyton , it has to be said that Audrey Reid 's article in PFK also recommended shop or scrap glass but suggested getting it professionally cut to size . |
| 8 | To conclude , it has to be said that balance is the most important factor in chest development . |
| 9 | It is n't quite wrong , Bill , for it to be said that Councils should be spending up to their capped level . |
| 10 | It has to be said that fox-hunters are not the least quarrelsome of Her Majesty 's subjects , but they are as mewling , puking , bairns when compared with church persons . |
| 11 | Despite all the shortcomings of British society in this period from a socialist point of view , and the alarming prospects raised by nuclear armament , it has to be said that capitalism was ‘ too successful ’ , in developing the productive forces and meeting popular aspirations , for political forces supporting a radical transformation of social relations to make much headway . |
| 12 | Schumacher has a sure-footedness to his moves in and out of the cockpit , but it has to be said that Schumacher 's Rug is not just a Nightmare , it 's a German Nightmare — efficient , expansionist , first to the sunbed . |
| 13 | But , once again , Scotland had done their homework , though it has to be said that Monsieur Dume was a little different from the referee of Cardiff , presumably because referees also watch videos and wince at their own sins , not least of omission . |
| 14 | By now , other men with microphones were moving among the audience , and so many people were shouting to be heard that George could no longer identify individual speakers as words overleaped one another and blended together into a great cry of confused and frightened protest . |
| 15 | You need to be warned that seats on the Santa Specials are at a premium during the weekends of Christmas week when the railway is enterprisingly capitalising on the school holiday period as well as the season of celebrations . |
| 16 | It is beginning to be recognised that proficiency in more than one language often carries with it the need to be what one might term ‘ crosslingual ’ , that is , able to generate connections across languages rather than only using them independently of each other . |
| 17 | It has to be recognised that LDCs face a difficult choice on how to spend educational funds — whether to erase illiteracy or train a small number of scientific and technical specialists . |
| 18 | So you know it 's all I 'm meant to be seeing that Heather one day this week but I have n't rung her . |
| 19 | It is accepted that not every ‘ foul ’ committed in breach of the rules amounts to a crime , and it seems to be assumed that players do , and may lawfully , consent to physical force over and above the minimum permitted by the rules . |
| 20 | IT HAS always tended to be assumed that governments , by and large , prefer things to go well . |
| 21 | The hat and coat had been delivered the previous evening by an officer of the Kha-Khan 's guard , and since the news of Jehana 's betrothal had been spread through the court hours earlier it had to be assumed that Artai had heard of it , and that either he was inclined to forgive the offence which might be supposed to exist , or else he was pretending that he was aware of none . |
| 22 | It is to be accepted that tasks and programmes will have the character of ‘ experimental action ’ , and some of the experiment will fail , or end up with results different from those expected . |
| 23 | It seems to be accepted that peers are not expected to contact the Lord Chancellor 's department before they speak extrajudicially in public . |
| 24 | It is only to be hoped that dispersals of any kind are restricted on the most severe criteria , and that money for acquisitions , storage and , perhaps most important , staff for cataloguing is not stinted . |
| 25 | These management statistics are going to have an increasingly important rôle in determining university funding and spending in the coming years , and it is to be hoped that figures for all disciplines will be available in future . |
| 26 | It is to be hoped that teachers respond to the positive utterances of David Hargreaves and Keith Evans ( director of education for Clwyd ) and continue curriculum innovations within the confines of the national curriculum . |
| 27 | It is … to be hoped that Oxford will tackle the job ( of a new edition of OED ) and that the result will include a printed version of an enlarged OED . ’ |
| 28 | It is to be hoped that Hermione Lee 's excellent new book will help to change that , for Cather is one of the most original and inventive of modern writers , a more powerful artist , for instance , than her contemporary Edith Wharton . |
| 29 | It is to be hoped that Essex and Kent will soon assist in further reduction ! . |
| 30 | On this occasion it was to be hoped that humiliation and hurt pride had been assuaged by a new pair of shoes and a many-stranded jet necklace — like early travellers taking presents to the natives , Sophia felt . |