Example sentences of "be [verb] that [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It had been recognized that Liberals had been more adept at handling the press because they were more ready to stoop to newspaper practices , as Sandars had reported in 1909 :
2 It has long been recognized that Pausanias gave a Herodotean dress and added some comments of his own to what must ultimately be a third-century B.C. account of the Celtic attack ( O. Regenbogen , P.-W. , s.v .
3 Item twenty as well as twenty six , you are suggesting that meals go up in day centres by fifteen percent , and then on twenty six , we introduce a two pound a week for daycare , for people with learning disabilities .
4 In short , although it is an oversimplification , I am suggesting that workers develop solidarity , or a bounded culture and protect their own boundaries as a group in order that their primitive fears can be allayed .
5 ‘ I in no way wish you to think that I am suggesting that delays and loss of documents should be treated lightly , but I would like to put forward the view that it was not within the power of my client to remedy the situation they took over from an authority since re-organised under Section 5c of the Reorganisation of Ancillary Services ( Domestic ) Act .
6 Still less could it have been foreseen that Palestinians and Israelis would find themselves facing one another across a Madrid conference table in the 1991 encounter which provided most of the disappointments predicted by numerous observers at the time , but which may still prove to contain the seeds of a more fruitful sequel in the future .
7 It 's only when the peak has been conquered that thoughts turn to the delicious things that used to be in the foil-covered dishes , and the question of how best to prepare the spam .
8 Japanese scientists , however , have been denying that drift-nets have had any significant effect on Dall 's porpoise .
9 THE Football Association are to request that players of all clubs competing in the third round of the FA Cup this weekend should wear black armbands in memory of former secretary Ted Croker , who died at the age of 68 on Christmas Day .
10 Under traditional contracts should the D/BO or the Architect realise after the Contract had been let that alterations would be necessary to meet the stated needs , a claims situation arose — and the builder never had to meet the cost .
11 You are reminded that members are limited to two minutes in asking their questions .
12 IT HAS BEEN reported that planners are recommending approval of four separate planning applications by the Downpatrick and Ardglass Railway to extend its operations .
13 It has been reported that patients taking NSAIDs experience more dyspepsia and have more chronic ulcers if they are colonised by Helicobacter pylori than if they are not .
14 It has also been reported that diabetics may have increased vascular sensitivity to angiotensin II ( Christlieb , 1976 ; Weidmann et al , 1979 ) .
15 It might have been expected that strategies aimed to change the stressful circumstances themselves would be an important feature of the coping responses they uncovered .
16 E. Coli was a hitherto unknown disease and also , apparently , it could not reasonably have been expected that pigs would become ill from eating mouldy pig nuts .
17 It has been claimed that adults can also ‘ pick up ’ spoken language in this way ( second language acquisition ) better than by the traditional classroom approach ( second language learning ) if the conditions are similar to those experienced by young children .
18 It has certainly been claimed that values associated with ascetic Protestantism provided new motivation for scientific inquiry , particularly in Holland and England during the seventeenth century .
19 It has also been claimed that towns were centres of consumption rather than production and that even local trade was insignificant in volume because of poor transport facilities , while long distance trade was with few exceptions restricted to luxuries because there was no mass-market .
20 It has been claimed that binoculars will show it , but again I must admit failure .
21 It 's been claimed that children whose fathers worked there were genetically damaged by radiation .
22 It has been claimed that criminals , sportsmen and senior government officials are the most conservative groups in every country .
23 Based on pioneer work by Fogel and Gray , the notion that symptomatic carbohydrate malabsorption is uncommon in patients with chronic pancreatitis has not been challenged until recently , when it has been noticed that patients with exocrine pancreatic insufficiency may malabsorb complex carbohydrate .
24 It has now been decided that meetings will take place of all Branch Representatives in the Pilot Branches in order to clarify the experiences of our members on the ground regarding these Pilot Branches .
25 Now it has been decided that men , with all their brow-mopping and weeping , are simply invading the seminal female experience , which should really be carried out in a darkened sweat lodge with only women as company .
26 The schools of Freud and Jung are now much closer together than they used to be : it 's been said that Jungians tend to be more ‘ spiritually ’ orientated .
27 It has often been said that heads are recruited largely on the basis of having been successful classroom teachers and are therefore appointed to a new task on the basis of their ability in a different job .
28 It has been said that Englishmen have a paranoid suspicion of Oriental cunning , but it was becoming more apparent with every passing day that Javed Miandad and his team were just as concerned about the probity of their hosts .
29 If it has been conceded that students should not pay the tax , the Government should accept the logic and exempt students altogether .
30 One of my main questions arose from the constant accusations that have been made that Moonies ( and other new religions ) actually brainwash their ‘ victims ’ — this being the only explanation that seemed plausible to many of the parents and friends who had observed the often radical changes in behaviour wrought in those who joined the movement .
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