Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] that [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 I am not stating that Lord Armstrong was obeying government instructions over this much ridiculed staff restructuring : I am asking if he was .
5 ‘ I am not saying that Charles is incapable of love , it 's just that he has this unreal perception of women .
6 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 .
7 Griffin 's readers are not told that Lewis was not , here , speaking about confession .
8 To make it perfectly clear , I repeat that we are not saying that Britain should acquire a subsequent follow-on generation of weapons to replace the free-fall bombs that are nearing the end of their useful life .
9 The third principle tells us that when we call God ‘ transcendent ’ we are not saying that God is ‘ above ’ , ‘ outside ’ or ‘ beyond ’ the universe .
10 As her mother 's name was the same as her own , it has been mistakenly assumed that Mrs Coade , the mother , ran the factory until her death in 1796 , but ‘ Mrs ’ was a courtesy title for any unmarried woman in business at that time , and bills show that Miss Coade was in charge from 1771 .
11 Some Tory MPs are also hoping that Chancellor Kenneth Clarke will decide to limit the VAT levy to just 8pc and ditch the second stage rise to 17.5pc .
12 However , we are also reminded that Pinnacle has n't been taped out yet so it 's still only hopes and dreams time over at Cypress .
13 For example , how should policy makers react if , having been persuaded that the larger part of observed unemployment is Keynesian , they are also persuaded that NAIRU lies well within the range BC in Figure 8.8 ?
14 They are now asking that Rome recognises — or at least does not condemn — the love that dare not speak its name .
15 I 'm not suggesting that Paul Rideout , Tony Cottee , Maurice Johnston and Stuart Barlow are all bad players , but they do not give Everton that extra option someone like - dare I say it again - Graeme Sharp would offer .
16 ‘ I wo n't ask any more questions , and I 'm not hurt that Sarah knows , honestly . ’
17 People know the evidence of their pockets and are unlikely to be easily persauded that Mrs Thatcher 's Britain has been , or has yet become , the economic disaster area which Mr Kinnock depicted .
18 Not until the early sixties did it seem to be generally acknowledged that Britain was no longer a great power as previously understood .
19 This was sufficiently close to the sidereal orbital period of 87.97 days for it to be generally concluded that Mercury was in synchronous rotation around the Sun , and therefore that the sidereal axial period was also 87.97 days .
20 ‘ Because if you do n't , ’ said Owen , ‘ I shall let it be generally known that Andrus has been giving money to the Moslems for them to use against Copts . ’
21 The evidence in this extract is conclusive , and it can therefore be definitively stated that Agatha Christie 's source for the character of Hercule Poirot was Speke , Parot .
22 It should be clearly stated that Barbarossa was pious ; his entire life and style of rule was guided by his religious beliefs .
23 ‘ I 'm simply saying that Sarella disclaimed all rights to Uncle 's bequest before becoming engaged to me .
24 The need for further study of this confused period is clearly indicated , but the statements of Ibn Hajar ( and al-Makrizi ) and of the earliest chronological list and the document indicating Molla Fenari 's presence in Karaman in Jumada II 819/August 1416 provide at the least a consistent basis for explaining the reason for , and establishing the date of , Molla Fenari 's return ; and it may therefore be tentatively concluded that Molla Fenari returned to the Ottoman lands some time in , or shortly alter , Sha'ban 820/September-October 1417 .
25 He would never be officially informed that Rich had applied for a warrant and to expect a bailiff at his door next week .
26 I am simply denying that God ( whatever we may mean by God ) could be of such a kind that God could intervene in human history , or be revealed through particular events in history , or through a particular person , in a way in which God is not potentially present to us in and through all acts and persons .
27 I am simply arguing that Brooke-Rose 's analyses point toward her later use of what she herself describes as ‘ metaphor ’ at the level of discourse .
28 I am reliably assured that King 's College Chapel in Cambridge , which has stood as steady as a rock for the past 450 years , could never be built today because the design would never be accepted under the safety limits of the building regulations !
29 But we are reliably informed that Angus will be back on his feet and more importantly that seat tomorrow .
30 The arrival of ‘ Alcibiades ’ with his partying revellers is a bit of an anticlimax — a touch jaded rhythmically , almost as if Boughton and his crew were rather wishing that Bernstein 's Greeks had been philosophers first and swingers second .
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