Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] that [pron] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or even that he is conducting a stealthy operation to ensure the BBC 's survival that depends on elaborate deception . |
| 2 | The announcement only fuelled speculation that he is earmarked for greater things in the Shandwick organisation , of which PRCS is now a part , or even that he was preparing the way for something completely different when his five-year golden handcuffs are released next year . |
| 3 | It was several weeks before she realised that now that he was working he would not be free to walk about the neighbourhood . |
| 4 | He , he , he said that at one point this chap had used the phrase that well that they were going for controlled destabilization from the Health Service . |
| 5 | Can I just say to you that that 's already been developed and worked out we 're intending in the next cycle to bring you proposals for a housing strategy , er on social housing , and within that we 're intending to run a series of short seminars for members to give members , all members , not just members of this committee but members of all area committees until everybody has that information background information on things like , social housing , partnerships , housing association grant so that everybody 's in a position to actually er , see and make a decision on what this council wants out of social housing , but all of that will take place in the next cycle Chair . |
| 6 | And before that you were having er horrendous irregular periods ? |
| 7 | Well I 've lived in quite a few places , I 've , I say , before I came here , I was at mother and baby Home , and before that I was living with friends in Liverpool , and before that I was in Nottingham at a bed and breakfast place , lodgings , and er |
| 8 | Mrs Strange used to be at the piano when Seven Towers sang and now that she is stepping up to the rostrum , Kathryn , daughter of bass singer and choir secretary Jack Clarke , is replacing her . |
| 9 | We 've hardly had time to do anything , and now that you 're looking so wonderful … . ’ |
| 10 | The man is a rogue , he stole from his own firm and now that he is serving time in Swansea Prison , I could never allow him near you , let alone marry you . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Bowe has always said that I am the man he wants more than anybody and now that I am giving him the perfect opportunity , he is shying away from it . |
| 12 | NCT has given me such a lot as I have moved twice when each of my children was 6 months , and as I attended really brilliant ante-natal classes before I had … and now that I am starting out on my ante-natal teacher training which will cost the branch £250 ( This is actually the cheapest training offered by any charity e.g. a Relate counsellor costs £600 to train ! ) , |
| 13 | I promised myself there and then that I was going to master that hill if it killed me , and every day afterwards I went there and drove up it , holding the car on the clutch , until I was successful . |
| 14 | I have repeatedly made it clear in the House and beyond that I am working to seek an agreement at Maastricht that will be acceptable to the House and this country . |
| 15 | ‘ But since that they are asking us what has happened them because they have not seen them around . |
| 16 | Abbess Aelfflaed 's question to Cuthbert , bishop of Lindisfarne , as to who would succeed the childless Ecgfrith need not imply that she had otherwise forgotten about Aldfrith 's existence , but rather that she was testing Cuthbert to ascertain that his loyalties lay in the right place . |
| 17 | " I would say " , said Mr Brett , its secretary , " that shipowners are doing well just now , but not that they are making a lot of money . |
| 18 | But not that I was looking or anything like that ! |
| 19 | Morse was conscious that his mind was drifting off into an interesting avenue of thought , but also that he was drifting off to sleep , as well . |
| 20 | Chicherin believed not only that serfdom was immoral but also that it was acting as a brake on the economy , that it could not be justified as a bastion against pauperism , and finally — a somewhat unusual argument — that it entailed the improper transference to the gentry of responsibilities which ought to be exercised by the state . |
| 21 | But now that we 're getting or going to get presumably more involved in union matters it might be advantageous if we could have a minute taker . |
| 22 | But now that you are reaching voting age and puberty , and will inevitably soon experience the same condition , I must tell you that my penis is fluorescent green and that I have five foreskins . |
| 23 | If ‘ it is raining ’ expresses the belief that it is raining , but says not that I , the speaker , have that belief , but simply that it is raining , it would appear that it differs in meaning from ‘ I believe that it is raining ’ . |
| 24 | Erm he , he 's saying , he 's saying here that basically Chiang Kai-Shek erm and all the people of have s have talked about the fact that erm , you know , they wa they want to arouse the masses of the people but then that they 're gon na be scared to death when the masses do rise . |