Example sentences of "be [verb] that a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How the latter will be achieved remains to be seen , but it has been mooted that a surcharge should be levied on tropical timber , to be paid by the market , which could be used to undertake research into ways of achieving and ensuring tropical forest survival . |
| 2 | The majority of their lordships rejected this argument and held that it had been intended that a customer who accepted the offer by buying four gallons would thereby become entitled in law to have a World Cup coin . |
| 3 | It has long been recognized that a variety of structural divisions have generated more or less distinct cultures and sub-cultures , whether based on class divisions , age , gender or religion . |
| 4 | It had been calculated that a uniformity of two-thousandths of an inch was an unheard-of standard of accuracy — except at Cadillac . |
| 5 | Teachers are reminded that a Rally takes place at East Grinstead on 23rd April . |
| 6 | PLEASE CONTINUE , those of you who have difficulty are reminded that a list of fundraising ideas was sent out with the last notes and we would hope that the areas would get together and hold rallies and/or cheese and wine evenings/coffee mornings etc . |
| 7 | It 's been revealed that a man who 's thought to have killed his wife and two young children , visited the town where his first wife was buried , before drowning himself . |
| 8 | It 's been revealed that a prostitute who was found murdered was responsible for an eight year old boy dying of a drugs overdose . |
| 9 | In biological writing it has often been said that a character is advantageous or detrimental to a species . |
| 10 | To take one example : it has frequently been said that a child 's attachment to his mother develops out of his physical dependence on her . |
| 11 | It has been said that a person is judged by the company he keeps . |
| 12 | It has been said that a devaluation would result in even higher interest rates . |
| 13 | He said he was not satisfied that a case had been made that a nuisance was being caused . |
| 14 | He said he was not satisfied that a case had been made that a nuisance was being caused . |
| 15 | Thus Dewey 's policy of integrity of numbers has found great favour : an undertaking has been made that a piece of notation will not be revised and given another meaning . |
| 16 | Landowners are warning that a plague of squirrels is threatening our forests . |
| 17 | Gloucestershire Police are warning that a spate of rave parties will put their budget in the red . |
| 18 | Gloucestershire Police are warning that a spate of rave parties will put their budget in the red . |
| 19 | BROADCASTERS are warning that a deal struck between the BBC , the Musicians ' Union and the actors ' union , Equity , on the sale of video-recordings of TV programme mean an end to the release of minority interest programmes , like science documentaries , on video-tape or disc . |
| 20 | It has been argued that a State may intervene , even forcibly , in the affairs of another State without violating Article 2 ( 4 ) of the United Nations Charter , or the norm of non-intervention where the intervention is justified on humanitarian grounds , for example to stop gross violations of human rights . |
| 21 | The officers , whether beneficiarii , stratores or regionarii , might have been in charge of , and therefore accommodated in , the mansio , if one existed , though it has been argued that a beneficiarius , usually only a legionary , was too junior in status to have charge of such an important building . |
| 22 | It has also been argued that a reliance on external inspection alone removes from teachers the responsibility to evaluate their own work . |
| 23 | Thus , it has been argued that a set of at least tacit beliefs that underlay aesthetic modernism also underlay the birth of classical sociological theory in the work of Weber , Simmel , and Durkheim . |
| 24 | It has also been argued that a lifting of the exemption could induce spiteful and malicious allegations by wives , particularly where divorce proceedings were involved . |
| 25 | So far it has been seen that a manager may help the advisers cope with pressure by encouraging social policy work in order to remove persistent client problems ; by training directed at problem management or interview management or by assigning a support role to a member of the team . |
| 26 | I am told that a modification is being worked on that will stop the engine rotating in the glide . |
| 27 | I am told that a baby is due to be born in September 1992 . |
| 28 | A jury has been told that a prisoner who threw hot oil at prison officers during a disturbance at a jail was serving a life sentence for killing a policeman . |
| 29 | Nottingham Crown Court 's been told that a taxi driver sexually assaulted a woman passenger after ignoring her instructions and driving her to a secluded area in Clumber Park . |
| 30 | Nottingham Crown Court 's been told that a taxi driver sexually assaulted a woman passenger after ignoring her This report from Chris Throup . |