Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank you chairman , erm , I 've heard what Mr said then I think it is worth reminding ourselves that a significant number of members of this council are new to this council and it 's therefore quite right and proper that in the first year of the business of this council that there should be a significant number of seminars and briefings to enable members to fully acquaint themselves with the business of the council the working of the er , operations of this council so that we can in fact make informed decisions er in the future . |
| 2 | Prefaced by an ‘ urgent remonstrance ’ to the gentlemen of England , warning them that the young Queen Victoria 's announcement of her intention to marry Prince Albert may lead to great numbers of her female subjects taking a similar nuptial initiative owing to Leap Year of 1840 ( traditionally a woman could make a proposal of marriage only in a leap year ) . |
| 3 | She was so sure that time would change Lucy 's fear of loving her that every unanswered poem spurred her on to something finer . |
| 4 | Well , ter cut a long story short 'e ends up tellin' me that the last bloke was put off fer losin' too much time an' I might be a bad time-keeper as well , what wiv me injuries . |
| 5 | He brushed up my biochemistry , informing me that the long chain fences of fat molecules are antipodean in scale set beside the dry stone walls of mere proteins , and that he himself had it as an ambition to contrive that his entire body should be sheathed in one enormous fat molecule . |
| 6 | Your letter of 27 Feb. , informing me that the current account was overdrawn and charging the Club to rectify this , was the last straw . |
| 7 | I did n't get a reply before election day , so I voted Green ; it arrived two days after the election , reassuring me that the Labour Party was committed to improving gay rights . |
| 8 | On the second morning , Miss Honey received by registered post a letter from a firm of local solicitors informing her that the last will and testament of her late father , Dr Honey , had suddenly and mysteriously turned up . |
| 9 | Mr Osenat received a fax from the Ministry of Culture quoting a law of 1913 and informing him that no classified object belonging to a public establishment — the hospital — could be sold to a private buyer . |
| 10 | A government spokesman said Professor Guido de Marco , Foreign Minister , had received a letter from his Libyan counterpart informing him that the two bomb suspects had asked to be tried in Malta , and asking Malta to accede to this request . |
| 11 | Who is kidding whom that a middle-size country such as the United Kingdom is sovereign in the modern world ? |
| 12 | Over and above all this , John tells us of the internal testimony of the Holy Spirit with the spirit of the believer , assuring him that God 's testimony to his Son is reliable , assuring him that the Christian experience is real . |
| 13 | It was a great relief therefore to hear the sound of a passing car , its speed assuring her that the main road was in front of her . |
| 14 | In the foyer a gambling room operated , legend having it that the young Alessandro Manzoni was discovered there by Vincenzo Monti and beaten so hard by him that he never gambled again . |
| 15 | I tell the young people joining us that the great division in their lives , if they climb in the business , is the division between the company and their family . |
| 16 | For a child to feel free to respond to a make-believe situation , there must be sufficient signals in the environment reminding him that the real world continues to exist . |
| 17 | What do we have in mind in taking it that a causal circumstance makes an effect happen ? |
| 18 | Whichever of these two ( not very clear ) alternatives we adopt ( see 12. 2 — 3 ) , the point remains that whatever memory does provide is not a separable check on our taking it that the new sensation resembles the old . |
| 19 | Is he telling me that every young person in Devon who does not have a job has a YT place ? |
| 20 | Arnulf wrote a letter to the English bishops shortly before their meeting , telling them that the French king , the French bishops , and Henry himself were all agreed to support Alexander and that they were only postponing their announcement until the English bishops could vote to join them . |
| 21 | If this is not the first LSSTRT since system startup , you may also get a %DCL-I-SUPERSEDE message , telling you that the logical name LIFESPANCONFIGURATION has been reassigned . |
| 22 | The police would have to know about this visit , of course ; her conscience persistently reminded her that she should have informed Harris already but she silenced it by telling herself that a few hours would make no difference . |
| 23 | Then she heard , barely a distant whisper , but clearly , her mother 's voice telling her that the Great Wall of China is the only human-made object that can be identified from the surface of the moon . |
| 24 | I feel sorry for the little girl and I suggest to the writer that she consoles her daughter by telling her that the vile custom of killing wild animals for fun is on the way out , that almost all british people feel as she does , and are determined to end such cruelty , and that she can help to bring about its end by supporting the League Against Cruel Sports and talking about the work they do to her schoolfriends . |
| 25 | She remembered the Doctor telling her that the police-box exterior of the TARDIS was , in a sense , a mathematical expression . |
| 26 | This was duly done , and in 1072 Lanfranc wrote an account of the proceedings to the pope , telling him that the whole question of Canterbury 's primacy had been ventilated at two Councils , at Windsor and Winchester . |
| 27 | When Sir Eric was appointed Rector in 1985 everyone was congratulating themselves that the financial squeeze on the universities , which had lasted 15 years , was now at an end and that stable funding was just around the corner . |
| 28 | The half-time score was nil-nil — yet there was our Brian promising us that the second half would be better ! |
| 29 | Thus , the best way of proving anything that the other side will not agree to is to be prepared to call the witness to give evidence about it at trial . |
| 30 | What other libraries , museums and centres may help me ? reminding us that the maturer student will wish to venture further and work in his own time . |