Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] [vb pp] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just do n't like being told that boys and men are bad . |
| 2 | Still less could it have been foreseen that Palestinians and Israelis would find themselves facing one another across a Madrid conference table in the 1991 encounter which provided most of the disappointments predicted by numerous observers at the time , but which may still prove to contain the seeds of a more fruitful sequel in the future . |
| 3 | It might have been expected that strategies aimed to change the stressful circumstances themselves would be an important feature of the coping responses they uncovered . |
| 4 | E. Coli was a hitherto unknown disease and also , apparently , it could not reasonably have been expected that pigs would become ill from eating mouldy pig nuts . |
| 5 | Relations between Lang and Salmond are not good at the best of times but , given that the SNP had been in the same lobby as the Government the night before , it might have been expected that Lang would have been at least polite . |
| 6 | You will have been told that 93% — or whatever — of British women are on a diet at any one time , but that , as a nation , we are still getting fatter . |