Example sentences of "[that] [prep] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember that after being dosed with the concoction — your mouth was dry for hours afterwards . |
| 2 | He claimed that after being taken for a walk in the evening the children had gone to their beds while the teachers remained in an annexe . |
| 3 | ‘ But I 'm sure that after being monopolised by me for so long you 'll be anxious to return to your boyfriend . ’ |
| 4 | Ryle points out that in being impressed by the certainty of the seen and the known , one is assuming that seeing and knowing are analogous with looking and thinking , so that it becomes a problem how they escape the fallibility of these operations ; he invites us to shift ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to the category of achievement verbs such as ‘ find ’ and ‘ cure ’ , which are related to ‘ seek ‘ and ‘ treat ’ as ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to ‘ look ’ and ‘ think ’ , but do not tempt us to suppose that there are infallible methods of discovering lost articles or restoring to health . |
| 5 | Thus to love or hate you , it may not be enough that your actions in your own interests make all the difference between success and failure for my highest hopes ; but it may be enough , even if nothing you do has any bearing on my projects , that in being drawn to or shrinking from your viewpoint I feel myself in touch with a personality of which the total pattern attracts or repels my own . |
| 6 | So she knew that before being coaxed into motor racing at the belated age of thirty Vitor had qualified as an architect and gained a Harvard business degree . |
| 7 | The judge found that to be convicted of this offence the Crown must establish that an accused posed a danger to the general public . |
| 8 | The inhabitants of Mauléon remained pro-English rather longer than most , for the good reason that they found that to be governed from England was the nearest one could then come to being autonomous . |
| 9 | But with the recognition that ‘ Be aware ’ prescribes responding from all relevant viewpoints , the judgement changes to condemnation of the massacres as objectively wrong on the grounds that to be moved against Hitler and on behalf of his victims would be the reaction of anyone , including Hitler himself , who responded impartially from the viewpoints of both . |
| 10 | On the other hand , it was clearly preferable to the assumption that to be deprived of a child was punishment for sin . |
| 11 | UI says that to be selected as a reference technology a company will now have to promise to provide snapshots for early access , follow established licensing and conformance guidelines which do not include pricing , and adhere to evolution requirements . |
| 12 | if the [ LEA ] does not itself decide the special educational provision that should be made for the child , but leaves that to be decided by the school , with remedial classes and other facilities as may be available in the school , the [ LEA ] is not itself determining the special educational provision for the child within the meaning in section 7(1) ; consequently , the [ LEA ] is not obliged to make and maintain a statement … . |
| 13 | His public pronouncements are unequivocal in this respect , and although it is clearly not possible to accept such public pronouncements as the definitive expression of a man 's innermost beliefs and convictions , and although it is also evidently the case that to be published in L'Humanite and Ce Soir inevitably necessitates obedience to the party line , nonetheless the consistency and vigour with which Nizan presented an entirely positive view of developments within the Soviet Union are an instructive antidote to those critics desperately searching for evidence of Nizan 's growing anti-Stalinism/anti-communism during this period . |
| 14 | I should have preferred that to be put in a more positive light than the hon. Member for Fife , Central was able to do . |
| 15 | They found no trace of the dogs except the body of the one you killed and the Lady Prioress has ordered that to be burnt in the forest . |
| 16 | They are aware that to be labelled as the mouthpiece of the Federal Government alone , or worse still , as that of the ruling party , the NPN , would greatly damage their credibility . |
| 17 | It means that to be considered in good faith and acquire title the purchaser of a valuable stolen work of art needs to demonstrate that she/he made a very serious , detailed and diligent investigation into the seller 's title . |
| 18 | Although there is some truth in this relative deprivation argument , it is equally important to note that the pains of imprisonment are mitigated by pleasant recollections : to be doing ‘ a lot of bird ’ without having lived well seems far more futile and absurd that to be paying for the rich fruits that crime has already brought . |
| 19 | The tradesman who put him there knew this , and hoped that by being removed to such unfamiliar and unpleasant surroundings his debtor would soon see the sense of agreeing to do what would immediately return him to the comparative comfort of his own home , namely to surrender , in settlement of his debt , the real estate which the law did not allow the trader to touch . |