Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [v-ing] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Research is showing that many animals actually do possess a sixth sense but this is a natural " supersense " , rather than anything supernatural .
3 Research is showing that many animals respond to other weather cues .
4 We wake and sleep according to the sun 's cycle , and research is showing that celestial rhythms still control many other areas of our life .
5 But now Wiltshire County Council 's proposing that those buses should be scrapped to save money .
6 The council is hoping that local firms will help to fund tourism promotion in the future .
7 Reverend Sawyer is praying that these measures will help fortify the congregation and the the church coffers .
8 More and more , people are learning that these laws grant them rights and privileges unknown before the creation of the European Community .
9 The Museums and Galleries Commission is hoping that these considerations will lead the Charity Commissioners to reconsider their decision under the cy-pres ( i.e. next best thing ) provision of the 1960 Charities Act , which allows a charitable bequest or trust to be altered where the original stipulation is no longer relevant .
10 In effect , Bruno was arguing that divine attributes could be given physical meaning — as Newton was to do later when he reconstructed space in terms of God 's omnipresence .
11 Teachers are finding that many children are spending substantial amounts of time playing the games to the detriment of their school work .
12 A CHURCH is praying that local planners will have a change of heart .
13 Newton Aycliffe police are warning that forged notes are still circulating after a fake £20 note was handed to a Ferryhill newsagent .
14 7 days after Richard Miles 's death , the police are hoping that passing motorists can provide them with vital clues .
15 In limiting the concept of social representations to these sons of phenomena , Moscovici is denying that social representations can be found in all societies , and suggesting that they only emerge under certain social conditions .
16 But people who have rigged up a television in their bedroom or kitchen , to watch the much-advertised breakfast TV shows are finding that some programmes that are quietly transmitted on BBC2 every morning at the same time are often far more interesting .
17 What concerns me is that , in effect , the Minister is saying that all campaigns are condemned before they begin .
18 If the Minister is saying that hon. Members are not allowed to do that without running the risk of being accused of slurs , he is abusing parliamentary procedure .
19 The technical officer was verifying that all platforms within firing range were accepting the signal .
20 Some MPs are suggesting that local authorities should be given the power to compel farmers to protect hedges .
21 The DES was suggesting that 30,000 places could be used for diversification .
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