Example sentences of "be [verb] [that] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , thank you Chairman just new development on the question of transport that 's been considered that people might be using the train more travelling to Europe than they had done previously I du n no if that has been considered Channel Tunnel , but perhaps it 's something that erm . |
| 2 | Increasingly , it has been claimed that people who work in government , industry , the social services , etc. , ought to have some sort of specialist knowledge of society on the grounds that they will be better equipped to meet the demands of their work . |
| 3 | In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern . |
| 4 | In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern . |
| 5 | In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern . |
| 6 | It has long been accepted that people make jokes about what frightens them and that groups who feel oppressed use humour as a way of releasing negative feelings to those in power . |
| 7 | So the thing you 're saying you 're saying that people |
| 8 | A worrying thing at the moment is as I said we 're in close contact with is that the Malaysian Government is sending representatives over to visit the European Community Ministers in May , to try and say that there 's absolutely nothing wrong with what 's going on in their country with the logging , and they 're saying that people like Friends of the Earth are calling for a ban on timber , not because they care about sustained yield , but because we want to be able to sell our own wood , and this is to depress their trade . |
| 9 | And charity does seem to be relevant , when we 're hearing that people now , in our own time are really in a an awful state in parts of the world . |
| 10 | ‘ We 're finding that people who 've specialised in a certain field such as financial services or entertainment are much more marketable than people who are more generalist in their work experience , ’ says Ms Ogden . |
| 11 | You will have been told that 93% — or whatever — of British women are on a diet at any one time , but that , as a nation , we are still getting fatter . |
| 12 | An inquest has been told that staff failed to realise the scale of the injuries and later found the woman dead in her bed . |
| 13 | Architect Max Hutchinson , a past president of RIBA , said : ‘ We are told that people like the houses that volume housebuilders supply , but I do n't believe it . |
| 14 | In the present study , it has been shown that 50% of the patients with chronic pancreatitis or pancreatic cancer had evidence of polysaccharide malabsorption ( increase in H 2 20 ppm ) and malabsorbed 10%-30% of the ingested complex carbohydrate . |
| 15 | It has been thought that aircraft maintenance problems i.e. planning/scheduling activities , aircraft system/equipment failure diagnosis , etc. , are too large and complex to be tackled successfully with computers . |
| 16 | It has long been known that people who eat a high-vegetable diet have lower rates of stomach cancer , and this is particularly striking in regions of Italy and China which have a very high garlic intake . |
| 17 | It has generally been found that people can only absorb around seven key ideas in any verbal presentation , no matter how well conveyed . |
| 18 | Furthermore , it must be recognized that Duck was psychologically fragile and might have collapsed even in ideal circumstances . |
| 19 | It is perhaps disappointing to note that over a quarter of the total sample fell into this latter category , and it may be emphasized that staff in libraries of all sizes have training needs . |
| 20 | There were no significant differences in the present study between the never and the previously married although it might be expected that people with children might be less likely to go into a home than those without any and the widowed , divorced , or separated are much more likely to have children than the single : 75 per cent compared with 6 per cent . |
| 21 | It 's of course only to be expected that people should moan about the tax they 've got to pay and people always complain that it seems to go up every year . |
| 22 | On the contrary , it is to be expected that sales to and purchases from customers will leave individual market makers holding more or less of particular stocks than they would choose . |
| 23 | It can be seen that data were collected at referral for all those who agreed initially to take part in the project . |
| 24 | It can be said that works of this kind — and there are many other possible examples begin more evidently from the actual art and culture in question , and can thus be assigned to history or criticism . |
| 25 | It should also be said that people of influence , who have n't put it in writing , also openly agreed with the placing of a bolt . |
| 26 | In all fairness it must of course also be said that people who are familiar with Christian orders of service find this same collection of words extremely comforting and helpful precisely because they are familiar and mean a great deal to them . |
| 27 | It could be argued that people in our region have actually lost confidence in their water , they 've suffered from cryptospyridia , blue-green algae , we 're now in a drought period , how would you reassure the public ? |
| 28 | However , in light of what has been said earlier , it should not be thought that data materials , to call them that , are always restricted to one study , or that the study which originally produced them is their only home . |
| 29 | How awful , after all , to be wishing that people who only wanted to help would go away and leave her alone . |
| 30 | It should be noted that data on the ethnic origin of babies who died of the sudden infant death syndrome are collected only in certain areas , and the definitions used are inconsistent , being based either on mother 's country of birth or her own report of her ethnicity . |