Example sentences of "[v-ing] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helen will also be keeping an eye on the job market while she is away and praying that employers will see her experience in a positive light . |
| 2 | She cast a quick look towards the bar ; praying that Rune would soon return and save her from his mischievous lover . |
| 3 | ‘ We are praying that Peter pulls through . |
| 4 | Maura was praying that Terry was not about . |
| 5 | HOW Hearts must be praying that Airdrie do them a favour and finish in the bottom two of the Premier Division this season . |
| 6 | She sank down , hugging her sides , praying that Tom , Amos and Oseri would n't suddenly appear from behind a boulder or a fold in the hillside . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ We ask the public to join us in praying that God will bring comfort and strength to the Prince and Princess . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm praying that God will give me the strength to put up with this chap , spouting his everlasting Socialist claptrap . ’ |
| 9 | BLACKBURN fans , back on bread and water after a spectacular diet , are praying that Kenny Dalglish 's expertise and Jack Walker 's cheque-book will be adequate insurance against a prolonged recession . |
| 10 | Each knelt in her partitioned alcove , commending heart and soul to God and praying that Satan , who wandered around like a lion seeking his prey , did not harm their bodies or souls that night . |
| 11 | In justifying their policies , however , they sometimes stooped to making public statements that were palpable nonsense : denying that space heating was a peak load , and devoting efforts commensurate with those of the ostrich to shift discussion to more defensible territory . |
| 12 | In this he not only antagonised Calvinists by describing the doctrine of Predestination as cruel and unjust , but even appeared to his friends to be contradicting St Paul and St Augustine in denying that Adam 's original sin was transferred to his descendants . |
| 13 | No-one is denying that development should n't go on , as change is inevitable . |
| 14 | The Iranian Oil Ministry was reported in late October to have adopted an aggressive policy on crude oil production and prices after rejecting a 3,200,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) quota which the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) had sought to impose on Iran at its meeting in September [ see p. 39120 ] ; the Middle East Economic Digest on Oct. 30 quoted the Oil Minister , Gholamreza Agazadeh , as saying that Iranian output during October would average 3,800,000 bpd , but as denying that Iran was seeking to destabilize the international market . |
| 15 | In denying that bilinguals are special in this respect , I am arguing for an approach to the study of linguistic interactions which bridges the old barrier between " variationist " studies , which deal with social and stylistic variation in " monolingual " , socially stratified speech communities , and " ethnographic " studies of code switching and related phenomena which are normally confined to bilingual or diglossic bidialectal communities . |
| 16 | More generally , while there is no denying that leaders couch their statements in moral language , which seems to emphasize differences and minimize similarities , their actions often bear little resemblance to these moral pronouncements . |
| 17 | Here they take an intransigent line , denying that Wittgenstein was at all impressed by such questions . |
| 18 | Defence Secretary , Tom King , is denying that Britain 's Shackleton early warning planes have been grounded because of a technical fault . |
| 19 | Denying that conflict is an a priori structure actualized in historical struggle , we have seen that Sartre does explain , through the category of the ‘ practico-inert ’ ( determining material conditions which have themselves been created by previous praxis ) , how individuals or classes in conflict produce a historical movement to which they are then subject . |
| 20 | He is surely also right that philosophical reflection gives adequate ground for denying that colour and value can be there independently of the consciousness of them . |
| 21 | Denying that women clients required special handling , she added : ‘ A customer is a customer , I approach them in all the same way . |
| 22 | Denying that EMX would be fettered by its platform , Soft-Switch president , Michael Zisman , said that running the software on multiple platforms was ‘ too support intensive ’ . |
| 23 | A senior London police officer was attempting to attract black recruits into the police force , whilst denying that racism in the force might have deterred black people from joining in the past : ‘ Racism in the force is not the main reason for black people preferring not to apply . |
| 24 | Answer : nobody is denying that thoughts have qualitative content . |
| 25 | Whilst there is no denying that cartography in its more advanced forms was never seen as an integral part of geography , it is nevertheless true that as cartography adopted more advanced technology it became more remote from geography , possibly as a result of the relatively lower interest in technology among most geographers . |
| 26 | Arius had been excommunicated by his bishop , Alexander , for denying that Christ is on the divine side of the gulf between the Creator and his creation . |
| 27 | It is important to see , here , that Wittgenstein is not denying that people do have toothache ( that it really aches ! ) , or even that people sometimes reflect on their feelings and describe them , as in ( h ) . |
| 28 | Denying that people learned in precisely the same way as pigeons , Cartier insisted that the reason why a programme taught better than typical traditional methods was usually because of the latter 's inadequately prepared design : |
| 29 | Nobody is denying that Mr Steward has attempted to landscape and improve aspects of his farm . |
| 30 | Furthermore , although Ritchie argues that ‘ cruelty to animals is rightly supposed to be an offence against humanitarian feeling ’ ( 1976 : 183 ) , I see no reason for concluding that by so saying he is denying that animals can be wronged , particularly given the wide measure of protection he accords them . |