Example sentences of "be [vb pp] that [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain alone , it has been calculated that about 200,000 people may be bitten by dogs each year . |
| 2 | It has been suggsted that only soluble calcium ions precipitate fatty acids and bile acids , thus reducing their lytic activity . |
| 3 | [ The norm in England and Wales is three years to honours , and in Northern Ireland there is a mixture of three- and four-year courses ; although it has recently been claimed that as many as 40 per cent of all British university undergraduates are on courses lasting four or more years , in modern languages , medicine , engineering , architecture and some business subjects ( Institute of Physics 1988 ) . ] |
| 4 | The sufferer from alcoholism is so frequently involved in traffic offences that it has been said that just two drink-driving offences are a strong indication of alcoholism . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , it has been said that virtually all the extinctions of the last million years or so can be blamed , with fair confidence , on the intelligence ( or lack of it ) of Homo sapiens . |
| 6 | The case at Water Newton is rather less certain , but it has been argued that either one of the two large buildings visible at the centre of the defended area served as an administrative centre for the Fens , or that this function was performed by the remarkable complex identified at Castor to the north-east of the town 's extramural suburbs . |
| 7 | It has been argued that very few electors usually read them and that many of the commitments made do not enjoy widespread support among voters , even among those voting for the parties that issued them . |
| 8 | Mark you , we are told that only two of their winning squad on Saturday actually play any XVs ! |
| 9 | It has been shown that only physiological concentrations of insulin c. 30–40 μ U/ml are required for such an effect ( De Fronzo , 1981 ) . |
| 10 | However , for these proteins it has been shown that only one ( or a few ) copies are functional genes and the remaining copies are processed pseudogenes ( 6 ) . |
| 11 | It has been shown that about 100 of the 600 members elected to Parliament become involved in specific government jobs . |
| 12 | Rarely , though , has it been demonstrated that only one species is associated with dispersal , in contrast to several examples known of one-to-one pollinator-pollinated relationships . |
| 13 | With industry agreements there is a wider separation of the centres of decision-making as well as more overlap in the determination of pay since it has traditionally been understood that nationally negotiated terms in some industries were minima which could be improved upon at enterprise level . |
| 14 | It has been found that as little as 0.5 mg/1. will produce appreciable shade differences . |
| 15 | However , it should be realised that double glazed windows are not completely immune to the formation of condensation — this is especially true in steamy bathrooms . |
| 16 | It will be recalled that only secondary teachers had been involved in the survey in Solihull . |
| 17 | It may interest you to be reminded that around 1911 a rather similar crisis was facing the newly emerging car industry . |
| 18 | It could be objected that too much onus is being placed on the contribution of the adult . |
| 19 | By the mid-1950s , moreover , with technical progress and economies of scale expected to reduce the capital cost of future generating plant below typical early 1950s levels ( see pp. 111–22 , below ) , a respectable case could be made that eventually historic average costs would come into line with replacement costs . |
| 20 | For these features have only to be noticed for it to be seen that very considerable scope exists for denying or undermining the exercise of the right . |
| 21 | From this it can readily be seen that only 56 institutions are of the size advocated in ‘ Better Schools ’ and yet this 19% caters for nearly half the student population whilst 148 sixth forms ( 52% of the total ) each with less than . |
| 22 | From Table 4.1 it can be seen that almost one-third of IT postgraduates would be unemployed and looking for work at the end of their course . |
| 23 | It can hardly have been on account of the unanimous beliefs of the many Home Secretaries who passed through the department during the period — though it has to be said that only one , Roy Jenkins , showed any real interest in the issue and he did what he could to achieve action . |
| 24 | It has to be said that so much is there of interest within the new ‘ Denon Savoy ’ titles and — until stocks run out — in the largely parallel ‘ Vogue Savoy ’ catalogue , that at this time there is little point making too much of which is ‘ better ’ or ‘ worse ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm disturbed that so many of these infants appear to be illiterate . |
| 26 | The first three and the last have obvious economic implications , the other priorities have long-term political value — though it could be argued that even these will provide indirect economic benefits . |
| 27 | Since the type of all-out attack involved in the ‘ assured destruction ’ scenario would clearly be indiscriminate and inhumane , and therefore illegal even in self-defence , it can be argued that even this type of deployment entails an illegal threat of force . |
| 28 | Then it can be argued that too much power is being concentrated in the hands of the minister . |
| 29 | In fact , it could be argued that too little has been made of the naturalness of depression — that to a large extent it develops as an understandable reaction to life circumstances . |
| 30 | It will be argued that basically these sentences are semantically deviant ; however , it must also be recognised that it is not possible to disentangle semantics from grammar completely . |