Example sentences of "be [verb] [that] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally she chose a plump boiling fowl , in deference to that great Gascon King of France , Henri Quatre , whose ambition it had been to see that all his subjects were well fed enough to have a chicken in their pot each week , and had made La Poule Au Pot a loved and traditional name for restaurants . |
| 2 | In each case , if I am to claim that this revelation or experience is of ‘ God ’ , and is not simply an expression of some form of mental delusion which should be referred to a psychoanalyst , then I am forced to debate the interpretation that I am giving . |
| 3 | To explain these associations it has been hypothesised that dietary fat increases the colonic concentrations of soluble free fatty acids and secondary bile acids . |
| 4 | It has been hypothesised that this characteristic is due to extra chromosomal material in the X chromosome as compared with the Y chromosome . |
| 5 | On the other hand , it has been recognized that such concessions can , if applied fairly and without discrimination , aid the efficient administration of the tax system . |
| 6 | It was standard procedure for such conglomerates to collect contemporary art , now that it had been recognized that such art was plentiful , reasonably affordable , and able to yield substantial returns . |
| 7 | It has long been recognized that five factors control the nature of soil development : climate , parent material , topoy , organic activity and time . |
| 8 | It had long been recognized that many species are protected from predators by colouring that provides camouflage . |
| 9 | Offenders who are mentally disordered suffer the stigma of being labelled as both ‘ mad ’ and ‘ bad ’ , although for centuries it has been recognized that some people have diminished responsibility for their actions as a result of mental abnormality and that punishment and retribution , usually demanded by society of someone who has committed a crime , should be dispensed with in favour of providing humane care and treatment . |
| 10 | In most countries , governments have accepted an increasing role in regulating health , safety , and quality standards because it has been recognized that this is a potentially important area of market failure . |
| 11 | Recently , however , it has also been recognized that surface-water hydrology and climate variations can influence the evolution of individual silicic caldera-hosted geothermal systems , although it is difficult to judge the general importance of such effects in controlling the long-term behaviour of continental geothermal systems . |
| 12 | D'Indy may be excused for missing the point of Rameau 's ‘ tied ’ and slurred crotchets : only in our own time has it been realised that these denote the kind of tremolo recently studied by Stewart Carter . |
| 13 | Between six and ten years ago , there was a hundred and eighty pits in this country , yes a hundred and eighty pits , now we have a handful left and it has been leaked that all thirty one pits will still be closed within twelve months , done quietly and by the back door ignoring procedures and over the years this is what has been done . |
| 14 | Is it not perverse , therefore , that some people are suggesting that those hospital trusts should be wound up ? |
| 15 | There is an item about this joint staffing watch at item ten , which suggests that the government are also finding that it 's got limited use , and are suggesting that these returns should be completed on a different basis , and rather than quarterly , annually . |
| 16 | Some MPs are suggesting that local authorities should be given the power to compel farmers to protect hedges . |
| 17 | Furthermore I am suggesting that each team should be no larger than 16 staff . |
| 18 | I am suggesting that this relationship is also to be found in games , in the arts and in life . |
| 19 | So I mean I I I am suggesting that this appears to be a ready made useful document that that forms part of a at the right time , we put this out to back up the the rest of the er the document . |
| 20 | ‘ But I understood that it had been arranged that one of us was to go into each room . ’ |
| 21 | It has been calculated that Allied 's breakup value is about 1,000p a share . |
| 22 | It has been calculated that some 37% of families would be better off , and 37% worse off , as a result of the change from Community Charge to the Council tax . |
| 23 | As it was , he did n't understand that he had to stand still , because he had n't been taught that this was required . |
| 24 | Advice has been received that such work would not be more than 5% of the adviser 's time . |
| 25 | Commercial banks everywhere are realising that profitable banks may become big , but not the other way round . |
| 26 | While manufacturers were perceived as the traditional users of sales promotion , now retailers and financial institutions are realising that these techniques can help build business . |
| 27 | Farmers and local residents say the hippies are destructive , noisy and dangerous , and are demanding that harsher action be taken against them . |
| 28 | They are demanding that richer countries cut back their carbon emissions to compensate . |
| 29 | The educational background and training of chartered librarians in Britain has not been well understood by teachers , and in particular it has been noticeable how reluctant spokesmen of the School Library Association have been to acknowledge that some librarians have received a special training in work with children of school age , with materials for children of school age , and involving more than an acquaintance with the study of educational systems and methods and of child development . |
| 30 | In a sense that has long been the case , since it has generally been supposed that turbulent flows are contained within a deterministic set of equations — the Navier-Stokes and continuity equations . |