Example sentences of "be [adj] that [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rumours are rife that several members of the Ministry entourage who toured on Lollapalooza II in the US bowed out , unable to come to terms with Journgensen 's appetite for Bushmills and worse . |
| 2 | I am sorry that some others have apparently taken leave of their senses . |
| 3 | And I am sorry that this day has come . |
| 4 | But I am afraid that this experience will be denied me . ’ |
| 5 | I am afraid that this war , which started for all the reasons I have mentioned , is turning gradually into a similar kind of war to the Lebanese . |
| 6 | I am afraid that some jobs will now be at risk as a result of this . ’ |
| 7 | I am unconvinced that these provisions , taken singly or cumulatively , show that there is a legislative intention to confine the status of an administrative receiver to a receiver appointed by debenture holders over property of a company formed and registered under the Companies Acts . |
| 8 | I am clear that this policy remains appropriate . |
| 9 | The College and its staff and graduates have made many significant contributions to the science and practice of veterinary medicine and I am delighted that this history has been written to coincide with its bi-centenary . |
| 10 | I welcome very much the opportunity to raise on the Adjournment the question of the working of the police national computer mark 2 and the need for effective safeguards , and I am delighted that this debate is starting at a relatively civilised hour . |
| 11 | Attitudes to school , the significance of the curriculum , perceptions of the nature of society … are learned early and impossible to reshape in classrooms which are run by teachers who are unaware that such tensions exist . |
| 12 | The impact of the restrictive practices legislation has been such that many agreements were abandoned as firms were unwilling to incur the costs of defending an agreement within the Court , and also as firms gradually came to recognise the difficulties of overturning the presumption that an agreement operated against the public interest . |
| 13 | Alternatively , the power of religious belief may have been such that each community gave as much as it could afford . |
| 14 | The incentives have been such that several farmers in the LFA in Snowdonia for instance made no secret of their view that they would not have contemplated the schemes in the absence of grants . |
| 15 | Obviously , we are convinced that most drinkers will choose Guinness ’ |
| 16 | We are convinced that those people you mention who depend on Unix ( and NetWare ) for their living will find this to be a very satisfying and profitable combination . |
| 17 | Older people are incensed that those companies are making huge profits and that their chief executives are receiving huge increases in their salaries to bring them up to the so-called market rate , while they are paying high standing charges . |
| 18 | I am convinced that many students often do not understand what is being said in teaching situations , though they become adept at pretending to , as they do not wish to lose face . |
| 19 | I am convinced that these men are innocent . |
| 20 | I am convinced that any steps that can be taken to explore methods of production which make better and more effective use of renewable resources are extremely important . |
| 21 | The toys they were using were called analogues , adjective check-lists and pseudo-clients with fake case histories … the rules are such that all discovery and exploration is blocked through the control and manipulation of the ‘ subject ’ and the relevant variables to obtain relevant data . |
| 22 | In the northern hemisphere , summer temperatures are such that many eggs become infective at a time when a population of susceptible foals is present . |
| 23 | If and so long as the terms of any settlement are such that any person has power to pay or apply income or capital to or for the benefit of the settlor or his spouse , all income arising under the settlement shall be treated for all the purposes of the Income Tax Acts as the income of the settlor for that year and not the income of any other person ( TA 1988 , s674 ; and see Blausten v IRC ( 1971 ) 47 TC 542 ( CA ) ) . |
| 24 | the arrangements for their management are such that those assets may consist of or include investments … |
| 25 | The commercial implications of the discovery are such that few details have been released . |
| 26 | The rules for calculating physical consequences from the mathematical formalism are such that several wavefunctions , provided they differ from each other only by trivial multiplicative factors , give the same results . |
| 27 | A sign : ‘ We 're sorry that this escalator has been out of use for so long … ’ |
| 28 | The er work which has preceded at er British Aerospace in the the cockpit , to bring together all the information , displays and controls erm has been tested on er a team of eighteen pilots from , drawn from the four nations , to see whether they believe they can cope with that sort of pilot work load in in simulated operations and they 're content that this kind of cockpit is ideally suited for the task and they can cope . |
| 29 | ‘ And you 're sure that this Bermuda company controlled by you will lend me the half-million pounds in cash to buy these shares , at no interest ? ’ |
| 30 | Linda Edwards of the National Osteoporosis Society says : ‘ We 're concerned that some GPs do n't know about the different types of HRT . |