Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It hardly needs to be said that Tories are capitalists , and therefore to a woman ( Tory women playing a significant role in this ) subscribe to the view that the dominance of heterosexuality , notably the White Heterosexual Family , is to be preserved come hell or high water . |
| 2 | It is n't quite wrong , Bill , for it to be said that Councils should be spending up to their capped level . |
| 3 | It has to be said that fox-hunters are not the least quarrelsome of Her Majesty 's subjects , but they are as mewling , puking , bairns when compared with church persons . |
| 4 | You need to be warned that seats on the Santa Specials are at a premium during the weekends of Christmas week when the railway is enterprisingly capitalising on the school holiday period as well as the season of celebrations . |
| 5 | It has to be recognised that LDCs face a difficult choice on how to spend educational funds — whether to erase illiteracy or train a small number of scientific and technical specialists . |
| 6 | It is accepted that not every ‘ foul ’ committed in breach of the rules amounts to a crime , and it seems to be assumed that players do , and may lawfully , consent to physical force over and above the minimum permitted by the rules . |
| 7 | IT HAS always tended to be assumed that governments , by and large , prefer things to go well . |
| 8 | It is to be accepted that tasks and programmes will have the character of ‘ experimental action ’ , and some of the experiment will fail , or end up with results different from those expected . |
| 9 | It seems to be accepted that peers are not expected to contact the Lord Chancellor 's department before they speak extrajudicially in public . |
| 10 | It is only to be hoped that dispersals of any kind are restricted on the most severe criteria , and that money for acquisitions , storage and , perhaps most important , staff for cataloguing is not stinted . |
| 11 | These management statistics are going to have an increasingly important rôle in determining university funding and spending in the coming years , and it is to be hoped that figures for all disciplines will be available in future . |
| 12 | It is to be hoped that teachers respond to the positive utterances of David Hargreaves and Keith Evans ( director of education for Clwyd ) and continue curriculum innovations within the confines of the national curriculum . |
| 13 | With the tightening of world oil demand which will come in the 1990s and the beginnings of a ‘ catching-up ’ programme of crude price increases , it is to be hoped that measures will be taken in good time to counteract what could be a politically unacceptable and potentially debilitating economic dependence on imported energy , for the US and for the rest of the Western world . |
| 14 | New legislation is ‘ on the stocks ’ and it is to be hoped that politicians will take note of the example of Gothenburg , Emissionsteknik 's home city , where all the buses have recently been equipped with exhaust catalysts . |
| 15 | It is to be hoped that pupils will acquire a sensitivity towards those who have differing beliefs and develop an understanding of those beliefs , while at the same time becoming more aware of their own value and place within society . |
| 16 | It is to be hoped that schools in the independent sector will recognise how vital these principles are if we are to promote true peace and co-operation in British society . |
| 17 | In other countries , such as France , where central government has more extensive authority over teachers , the opposite assumption tends to be made that teachers will conform to national policies and regulations in their practice . |
| 18 | The assumption tends to be made that principles of normalisation , the self-advocacy movement , and professional/client relationships will somehow remain in tune with each other . |
| 19 | On the other hand , there is a strong case to be made that Aquinas is not setting out to provide proofs of God 's existence . |
| 20 | Many take the view that there should be timetabling at the start of legislation to enable it to be seen that Members are dealing with all parts of legislation from the word go . |
| 21 | In Europe , it used to be believed that devils took up residence inside pigs by entering through a tiny hole in the forefoot . |
| 22 | Gilligan seems at times to be suggesting that women are naturally , rather than socially , inclined towards giving relationship-oriented moral judgements . |
| 23 | Some of them are rather like cave paintings are n't they and have they 've got this from my a sort of tedious association of the drawings and pictures and er Catherine 's it seems to be suggesting that animals were around , animals and other creatures were around a long time before human beings and that human beings are in some ways intruders therefore in their in their world . |
| 24 | I should be surprised if many Conservative Members opposed a review , although Opposition Members seem to be suggesting that reviews are a bad thing . |
| 25 | Consumers need choice in the market-place ; they need information , without which no sensible choice can be made ; they need to be assured that goods are safe ; and they need redress if things go wrong , with proper access to complaints mechanisms . |
| 26 | Fears soon began to be expressed that wines from the Midi too would again find their way back into Champagne cellars . |
| 27 | Apparently conflicting messages emerge from these two branches : the former branch seems to be saying that decision-makers do not appear to behave in accordance with the basic accepted paradigm ( Subjective Expected Utility Theory and Game Theory ) ; while the latter branch seems to suggest that market outcomes coincide with those which would be predicted by this accepted paradigm . |
| 28 | They also pointed out that in a competitive market for a homogeneous product it was to be expected that prices would be identical and follow each other closely . |
| 29 | Even the most cursory of examinations of the minutes of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party indicates the feverish activity which was occurring in the immediate post-war years and , in these early days , it was to be expected that mistakes would be made and that new directions would be sought . |
| 30 | In not believing such relations to be wrong , conservatives are going against the whole ethos of the modern world , in which it has increasingly come to be held that humans should be treated as equals . |