Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has also been widely assumed that members do not want to involvement in the policy-making process and that they join the party primarily for personal or social reasons . |
| 2 | It had been widely expected that President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali , whose distaste for capital punishment for politically motivated crimes had been well publicized , would commute the death sentences . |
| 3 | Field men , however , are constantly reminded that industrialists and farmers work on a principle of equity : they can readily discover the standards which their competitors must observe and may complain if they are being handicapped . |
| 4 | Their immune systems are so damaged that colds and bugs which normally take a few days to clear can take weeks or months . |
| 5 | People 's needs are virtually ignored and conditions of work are so arranged that people can not interfere to any significant extent . |
| 6 | Funds , it seems , are so restricted that South Africa have only two official representatives in New Zealand this week for IRB business and the New Zealand RFU 's centenary celebrations , which include three matches against a 26-strong World squad . |
| 7 | ‘ There has been much talk that Rangers have the title sewn up but we still have 58 points to play for and that makes it ludicrously premature to suggest that the destination of the title is cut and dried , ’ said Brady . |
| 8 | I am not suggesting that Scotland has ‘ lost out ’ over the past 13 years from the fact that there was only one fund based in London . |
| 9 | Of course , I am not suggesting that women should give in to biology ( perish the thought ) , but that PMS is not quite the pathological state that a few health experts would appear to be suggesting . |
| 10 | Of course , the success of this lesson has to do with more than structure ( indeed , I am not suggesting that structure is all a teacher needs to know about ! ) . |
| 11 | The notion of difference of level between quite different programming languages can equally well be expressed within a single language : at a single level of language , say of the programming language LISP , one normally defines a function in terms of sub-functions , so that I might for example write a function WALK(x) ( where x ranges over walkers ) whose sub-functions ( to be executed in order ) might be some form of LIFT-RIGHT-LEG ; FLEX-RIGHT-FOOT ; and so on ( I am not suggesting that sequence would be even remotely plausible in fact ) . |
| 12 | I am not stating that Lord Armstrong was obeying government instructions over this much ridiculed staff restructuring : I am asking if he was . |
| 13 | I am not arguing that children do not suffer at the hands of adults ; clearly they do and again we have looked at the evidence concerning incidence and prevalence . |
| 14 | Although the Utting report , which was published in the summer , made it clear that training was not the central issue in such cases , I am not arguing that professionalism is not important . |
| 15 | I am not claiming that meat is indispensable for good health ; it is only necessary to show that a diet to which it contributes can be no less healthy than one from which it is excluded . |
| 16 | By emphasizing this convergence I am not saying that culture and identity are unimportant , but challenging the routine reduction of race to them alone which obscures the inherently political character of the term . |
| 17 | I am not saying that disturbances always have a single cause . |
| 18 | I am not saying that women religious have totally solved the problem . |
| 19 | I am not saying that Christians subscribe openly to such a view of doubt . |
| 20 | I am not saying that people who are directly subjected to racism are inevitably attracted to one-dimensional argument or that those who are not necessarily take a more sophisticated view . |
| 21 | ‘ I am not saying that Charles is incapable of love , it 's just that he has this unreal perception of women . |
| 22 | But I am not saying that Dr. Briant should necessarily be stopped from making his scientific searches , for his ability to do so is as God-given as that warning . |
| 23 | I am not saying that churches should not state their views about social evils , but it is quite another thing to imagine that clear statements are denting the Evil One 's power . |
| 24 | The TECs ' chairmen are already warning that budget cuts are forcing them to concentrate on alleviating the worst excesses of the training shortage , rather than on instigating innovative schemes . |
| 25 | But the graduates are already finding that publicity stunts are n't that easy , picking grapes in a gown and mortar board does have it 's problems . |
| 26 | If we say that dinosaurs grew large because they were in pursuit of the advantage of heat conservation , we are not implying that species engineered their own destiny , with the effect predetermining the cause . |
| 27 | Therefore , we are not implying that patients with classic Crohn 's disease are necessarily good candidates for reservoir surgery , nor does the recent experience of The Cleveland Clinic support such a view . |
| 28 | But although we are not arguing that women or feminists have privileged access to the truth about reality , we agree with Jaggar that the standpoint of women offers an opportunity to see what is wrong with current male-defined theories and to correct them . |
| 29 | Griffin 's readers are not told that Lewis was not , here , speaking about confession . |
| 30 | We are not claiming that women on their own ( or feminists on their own ) have the truth , but rather that men on their own do not . |