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

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1 It has been reported that in Canada and the USA literally thousands of lakes and rivers are no longer able to support fish or plants .
2 It has further been argued that in Britain one finds less variety of opinion among judges than in the United States .
3 It has been argued that in Britain , on every major social issue that has come before the courts during the last thirty years , the judges have supported ‘ the conventional , established and settled interest [ and ] have reacted strongly against challenges to those interests ’ ( Griffith , 1991 , p. 325 ) .
4 I feel I 'm just regarded as a neurotic woman I 've been told that by Mr I 've found that is was very yes I have do n't deny it .
5 I tell him that a friend who is even now in the Karakoram had been told that in Pakistan it was advisable to double the suggested dose of tablets and then to boil the water for twenty minutes .
6 Since fast reactors can breed from the depleted uranium in the spent fuel from thermal reactors , it can be calculated that in FBR terms British stocks of depleted uranium are comparable to the country 's coal reserves .
7 It must be said that in Britain the new public library authorities created in 1972 have in many cases failed to capitalize on the opportunities for better stock provision which the larger units were supposedly able to achieve .
8 There is a meeting of the Police Committee on Monday and there is an item on their budget for the provision of the camera and of the back up support for processing the offenders as part of their budget proposals and they will be considering that on Monday .
9 N.B. It should be noted that in Austria twin beds often consist of two separate mattresses attached to a single frame or headboard and they can not be separated .
10 If a payment in is made less than 21 days before the trial , and is not accepted , the court is entitled to take the fact and amount of the payment in into account in exercising its discretion as to costs ( King v Weston-Howell [ 1989 ] 2 All ER 375 ) , although it should be noted that in Bowen v Mills and Knight Ltd [ 1973 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 580 it was held that even one day less was not enough to protect the defendant in costs .
11 It may be remembered that in Healy v. Howlett no property passed in the mackerel put by the sellers onto the rail because the consignment was not allotted as to the various destinations .
12 But it will be remembered that in Anselm 's system only justice makes free , and in this case , justice meant giving Canterbury an archbishop .
13 It will be observed that in Lee v. Butler the goods were not to become the buyer 's property until he had paid all the money .
14 It should be emphasised that in India metaphysics , or that which is beyond the measurement , and therefore clarification of physics as a scientific discipline , is never merely abstract speculation but serves as a theoretical framework supporting a body of spiritual discipline .
15 It has been observed that in Berkshire , topographical names , particularly those referring to water are the most common Old English names in areas where early Anglo-Saxon settlement has been attested archaeologically .
16 In the present proceedings the joint administrators are alleging that in July 1989 the company had £1.3m. standing to the credit of its bank account in England .
17 And it has been estimated that in Tanzania one elephant family in three are orphans .
18 Magistrates were told that in February this year , while working in the Ashbury Lodge Nursing Home in Swindon , she lost her temper and hit 88-year-old Sarah Fribbens in the face .
19 The magistrates were told that from Febrary this year , until early September , he 'd been caught shoplifting , he 'd attacked police , kicked a police car , stolen a handbag from a 70 year old woman who was now afraid to go out , and caused criminal damage .
20 He was charged with " taking undue advantage of authority in favour of a third person " , it being alleged that in October 1989 he had authorized sending Zhivkov 's grandson Todor Slavkov to study in Switzerland for five years at the state 's expense .
21 Meanwhile Macmillan and Eden ( plus many ministers and much of the popular press ) were insisting that for Britain it was a matter both of survival and of honour , a lethal compound .
22 While people in Scotland are flattered that in Battersea they think of nothing else but the protection of the people of Scotland from excessive expenditure , I fancy that the people of Scotland are mature enough to elect or to refuse to re-elect Governments who do not conduct taxation affairs in the way in which they wish .
23 But what is really relevant is to state that against Ireland they played absolutely the right sort of game and they played it with utter conviction and quite brilliant execution .
24 It is said that after Waterloo , ‘ the fire seemed to vanish from his speeches ’ .
25 It is thought that in January the Bank sold pounds nine months forward when it was engaged in the task of restraining the pound 's advance .
26 For example , it is thought that in Zimbabwe there are probably tens of thousands of sites of rock art , but only a tiny fraction have ever been recorded ; and in Israel recent surveys have revealed thousands of previously unknown sites .
27 A possible reconciliation is to argue that in Collins the accused 's intent was to rape , if necessary , whereas in Jones & Smith there was no " if necessary " about the intent to steal .
28 It is concluded that like EGF , TGF α can stimulate pancreatic cancer growth in vivo , and this may in part explain the aggressive nature of these cancers in cliical practice .
29 It is striking that in London Caribbean families where there are several individuals each with their own characteristic style of talk ( for example , the S. family of Conversation A ) there seems to be little pressure to conform to a single " family norm " .
30 It has been mentioned that at Coniston most of the work by far was done under tutwork .
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