Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [that] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | It can not in our judgment be right that a judge can refuse to allow the prosecution to discontinue before their case is concluded if he believes the evidence already called raises a prima facie case . |
2 | ‘ It can not be right that a tenant in Middlesbrough , where housing is cheap , pays more than a tenant in Camden , where costs are very much higher , where well-paid jobs are much easier to come by , and there is such a concentration of commercial facilities . ’ |
3 | It should be clear that a God who was simply ‘ outside ’ the world in the way that the President of France was ‘ outside ’ Britain could hardly at the same time be present in it . |
4 | Although the Sandinistas have repeatedly pledged democratic elections in February , Mr Arias was said to be fearful that a failure to disarm , relocate or disband the contras could provoke a Sandinista cross-border sweep against the rebels and cancellation of the polls . |
5 | Although the Sandinistas have repeatedly pledged democratic elections in February , Mr Arias was said to be fearful that a failure to disarm , relocate or disband the contras could provoke a Sandinista cross-border sweep against the rebels and cancellation of the polls . |
6 | In some circumstances , the course of the trial will be such that a witness whose affidavit has been received will after all be required to attend for cross-examination ; this applies no less to witnesses abroad as to those within the jurisdiction . |
7 | This is not to say , however , that in certain applications , the use of ‘ normal ’ in-rack sprinkler systems is not perfectly satisfactory where the arrangement of sprinklers can be such that a number of them can be brought in early against the fire , or where the nature of the goods stored is such that flames are unlikely to damage them within the first few moments of fire development . |
8 | But on any one day , although there will be subject assessors beavering away in places all over the country , their activity is not very visible unless you happen to teach in a department being visited ; the rest of the staff in your own college or school may be unaware that a subject assessor is there . |
9 | Initially it may not be obvious that a component , such as the gearbox cover , is required . |
10 | It should be obvious that a dissonance sounded by one instrument must be resolved by that instrument ( unless there is a complete break-off and a rest or pause separating the discord from what follows ) , but it is the writer 's experience that beginners do not always realize the musical necessity for this . |
11 | From this description it should be obvious that a pension fund can be confident of the source and scale of its contributions since these are a contractual obligation for employer and all employees . |
12 | In some circumstances it would not be reasonable that a disposition of property made by an individual before his bankruptcy , or by a company before being wound up , should be allowed to stand . |
13 | There is a famous passage in which he invites us to acknowledge that it would be better that a world of which no one would ever be conscious should contain beautiful objects than that it should contain ugly objects . |
14 | Nor , in an atmosphere of reluctance , can the initiator be confident that a participator 's initial dependence on other people 's ideas and energy will in due course be turned into well-informed independence . |
15 | But although we may be confident that a gradient exists , and influences subsequent development , we usually have no idea what it is a gradient of , and rather little idea of how genes are actually switched on and off . |
16 | To be sure that a patient is truly regaining their health , it is of no value just to know that the symptoms of his complaint have been relieved , rather the focus of his disease has to be seen to be shifting into less important areas , that is , moving down the hierarchy . |
17 | You can be sure that a woman must have big and thick labia if she has a big mouth and thick lips . |
18 | Miranda said , ‘ Firstly , I 'd like to be sure that a nursing home is the best place for her , rather than a hospital . |
19 | In this context of the numbers of men , the use of weapons and the multiple attacks , it would be unlikely that a conviction would not have occurred , even without the racial theme . |
20 | Again the problem will arise that it will be unlikely that a company will satisfy the text to qualify as a family company . |
21 | Do not be concerned that a part of your day is given up to relaxation and leisure . |
22 | From the discussion of manufacturing output in Chapter 2 , it should be apparent that a growth in employment is not the same as a growth in output . |
23 | … if ‘ god ’ is a metaphysical term , then it can not even be probable that a god exists . |
24 | Although the police do not need to be certain that a person has heard or seen what is going on before they can call for quiet under the Act ( since it is sufficient that they have reasonable cause to believe that an offence is being committed ) , they would afterwards have to conduct house to house enquiries before they could truthfully say that the conduct was actually heard or seen by a bystander . |
25 | However long a text you take , you can never be certain that a grammar you find by any algorithm is the one the text is generated by . |
26 | However , it will presumably be rare that a business can be held not to be acting in the course of business if it sells goods on its standard terms . |
27 | It will therefore be rare that a precedent will exactly satisfy those needs ; it may contain terms not needed by the client , or fail to deal with problems special to the client 's business . |
28 | The reader can thus be aware that a writer may have written round what happens to have been offered . |
29 | Interested readers will be aware that a couple of years ago , two new recordings of the 1915 version of El Amor brujo were released , one from Virgin with Aquarius ( which I 've not heard ) , the other from Nuova Era with the Carmé Ensemble . |
30 | As soon as it had been fired from the Simonova the pod would have started to broadcast a signal and , since the crew of the survey ship could not fail to be aware that a pod had been discharged , and that it was occupied , he supposed that his descent had been tracked and that someone at least knew where he was to be found . |