Example sentences of "be [verb] that [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the prophecy of chapter 2 and the dark words of God of chapter 3 find fulfilment , our expectations are overturned , and the elders of Israel are taught that their God is beyond their manipulation . |
| 2 | City analysts are forecasting that its contribution could be as much as £80m for the full year . |
| 3 | ‘ It had been arranged that my mother should have me . |
| 4 | How can women who have been taught that their choice in sexual relations is passive , limited to being able to say yes or no when approached by a man , be expected to make a sudden leap into active love-making where their desire is acknowledged , and their pleasure is a definite goal ? |
| 5 | Some are demanding that their homes should be demolished and they should be compensated . |
| 6 | But as I run my bath , I am reminded that my self has a physical outline . |
| 7 | ‘ It has been claimed that their parents did not know the full extent of the dealings or what was on the films . ’ |
| 8 | She laughed him off , saying he was becoming obsessed with that MP and it had already been noticed that his column carried far too many stories about him . |
| 9 | My maternal grandmother was living with us at the time , it having been decided that her flat in Highgate should be closed down for the duration of the war , and she circulated between the homes of her son and three daughters so that she could be looked after . |
| 10 | It has often been said that his characters are " puppets " of his grand design , but his own vision necessarily makes them so . |
| 11 | It had also been said that his father had been employed there . |
| 12 | More recently , it has been argued that her revolt was politically motivated , that it reflected her resentment at being reduced to insignificance by Henry II 's own dominant personality . |
| 13 | the bottom line is , is , is , is it not , that erm , er you 're suggesting that your clients legal obligations to third party policy holders should be met by other names at , I mean that 's the bottom line is n't it ? |
| 14 | ‘ You 're suggesting that our son remains a bastard ? ’ |
| 15 | Children are n't that stupid if you 're implying that my son would do that . |
| 16 | they 're saying that their fixing figures by not putting people on the waiting list so the waiting lists are shorter , because they 're putting , not , they 're saying that to people we ca n't treat you for about two years so I 'm not going to put you on the list at the moment , so they 're , cooking the books , that 's what they reckon |
| 17 | You 're saying that your system works as of , M one and everything from N one forward you need to keep . |
| 18 | ‘ And you 're saying that our space is like that too ? ’ |
| 19 | and if we 're finding that their specialist is inaccurate . |
| 20 | Lucy cut in , ‘ You 're forgetting that her husband looked upon it as her home and that he saw fit to make sure she had the right to live in it . |
| 21 | In one of the biggest about turns in city politics , six thousand council house tenants have been told that their rents wo n't after all be going up by forty five per cent , and their homes wo n't be sold to a private landlord . |
| 22 | We go to London now and to , to erm , sorry I 'm j see what sex this honest we do n't know what sex it 's from M , could be Mr Mrs Ms. M of London has been told that their plum tomatoes have got T M V. |
| 23 | Over the past few months they have been told that their primary and community health care is awful ; now the government tells them that accident and emergency departments will shut , along with 2000-odd hospital beds , when their immediate evidence is that it is hard to get into hospital . |
| 24 | Rail workers who feared the loss of their pensions after privatisation have been told that their money is safe . |
| 25 | They see innumerable patients who have been told that their symptoms are psychosomatic or ‘ all in the mind ’ by one doctor or another . |
| 26 | They have been told that their claim may only amount to around £11,000 of their £15,000 as capital gains tax is likely to be deducted from the total . |
| 27 | The move comes on top of NCR UK 's December announcement that 8% , or 150 to 160 sales and marketing staff had been told that their jobs were in jeopardy . |
| 28 | Twenty-four have been told that their application was approved in principle , 69 applications turned down and will now either stay in their current jobs or be redeployed . |
| 29 | She was just like me , she had been told that her prognosis was good and yet here she was four years later . |
| 30 | Had Mary been told that her knowledge of the countryside was indeed ‘ knowledge ’ , she would have dismissed the tribute as , at best , a taunting flattery . |