Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [that] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During their lives faithful Roman Catholics are taught that by certain sacraments a person becomes a Christian , obtains ongoing pardon for sins and is prepared for the life hereafter . |
| 2 | On the basis of an estimated 10 per cent of the Earth 's surface currently being part of a hot-spot swell it has been calculated that on average hot-spot epeirogeny should affect a particular area of crust about every 600 Ma . |
| 3 | It has been calculated that in general elections from 1922 to 1977 inclusive average " leakages " amounted to roughly one-fifth of Fianna Fail 's potential votes , a quarter of Fine Gael 's and one third of Labour 's . |
| 4 | Schooled children , on the other hand , may have been taught that in formal school situations such assumptions must be suspended , however strange that may appear to be . |
| 5 | It has been said that in recent years his allegiance shifted from Sisley to Monet ! ’ |
| 6 | But against this theory it has been argued that over large parts of the zebra 's range , insects are not a major problem , so without further analysis the idea is once again inconclusive . |
| 7 | Somewhat less obviously , it has been argued that in certain circumstances States can be treated as parties to the Court 's exercise of its advisory jurisdiction . |
| 8 | I am told that with good binoculars ( presumably × 12 or more ) it can be made out as an aura of soft light surrounding the cluster , but I have had no success myself . |
| 9 | Thus it has been shown that with professional pre-planning and management , exhibitions can be a powerful sales tool and not the expensive luxury that many companies regard them to be . |
| 10 | This is important since it has been shown that in inflammatory bowel disease , architectural disturbances in the mucosa , manifest especially in crypt distortion , are well established by the time of the first clinical episode . |
| 11 | It has been recognised that without sufficient processing capacity a potentially serious waste problem could arise . |
| 12 | In studies of small mammal decay , it has been found that in hot climates the soft parts decay and the carcase is reduced to bone and sinew within 6–8 days ( Korth , 1979 ) . |
| 13 | How far present-day societies are likely to proceed along this road is a matter of debate ( and I shall return to the question in Chapter 6 ) , but at the least it has to be recognized that in recent years the idea of political action has been very substantially broadened , so that there is already a quite widespread awareness of the variety of ways in which individuals and groups of individuals can assert their dissent from the policies of government at all levels ( for example , the revolt against the poll tax in Britain ) and bring into the arena of public debate alternative policies . |
| 14 | It should not be forgotten that in general , statistical tests of this kind are aids to interpretation . |
| 15 | ‘ However , in fairness to Price Waterhouse , it should also be stressed that on other occasions — for example , in April and October 1990 — when the firm had made its audit report to the directors of BCCI , it ensured that some information was passed on to the Bank of England . |
| 16 | It can be seen that by piecemeal legislation great strides have been made towards equality between the sexes as regards legal status , rights and liabilities . |
| 17 | In conclusion , it can be said that during accelerated intestinal transit , slow release preparations , except for Claversal 250 mg tablets , provide higher steady state mucosal concentrations than azo-bound drugs . |
| 18 | It could be said that in Western society religion has performed a considerable disservice by providing a more or less uniform system of social values — the Christian ethic . |
| 19 | On the other hand , it might be said that in criminal law a company can authorise transactions only for its own benefit . |
| 20 | It might also be argued that despite recent legislation ( some would say because of it ) parent-teacher relations are still too often fraught with fear , suspicion and misunderstanding ; that there is still too much teacher stereotyping of ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ homes and parents ; and that many parents still lack power in relation to their parental rights and responsibilities . |
| 21 | It may be argued that in parliamentary democracies the people can protest every five years or so by casting their votes in the election of a new government . |
| 22 | It can be shown that for large samples the statistic , called the likelihood ratio test statistic , is distributed as a chi-square variate with g degrees of freedom where , as before , g is the number of restrictions and ‘ log ’ stands for natural logarithm . |
| 23 | It should be noted that with low infection rates based on positive cultures ( 145 of 2907 urine samples ) in the antenatal clinics the false negative rate is bound to be low . |
| 24 | It should be noted that at low K coverages CO is known to bind preferentially to the promoted sites , so that the heat released at low CO coverages corresponds to adsorption at K-promoted sites , and at high CO coverages to adsorption onto Ni sites far removed from K. There is sufficient mobility to produce the most stable adlayer during the adsorption pulse . |
| 25 | It may be noted that in Criminal Law anyone who aids , counsels , or procures the commission of an offence is liable to be tried and punished in the same way as if he were a principal offender . |
| 26 | After some initial hesitation it now seems to be generally accepted that the value should be assessed at the date of the conversion ( though it should be noted that in other contexts the courts show some resistance to any universal rule that damages are to be assessed at the date of the wrong ) . |
| 27 | With regard to intraepithelial lymphocytes , it should not be noted that in absolute numbers there were fewer surface than crypt intraepithelial lymphocytes , but their densities — that is , intraepithelial lymphocytes per 100 epithelial cells — were higher in surface than in crypt epithelium . |
| 28 | It will be appreciated that before widespread industrialisation , the erection of highly specialised buildings was something of a rarity . |
| 29 | For those considering a career as either a food and beverage manager or a chef it must be remembered that at Carnival Cruise Lines we are involved in mass catering . |
| 30 | At the same time it should be remembered that in non-sociological cultural studies , as in much general writing , the question of effect is commonly raised but without much or any evidence and often by simple and even casual assertion . |