Example sentences of "that [noun] be [v-ing] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Digital Equipment Corp was the most obvious absentee from the Common Open Software Environment jamboree last week ( CI No 2,130 ) : was it , as some have said , that DEC was steering clear of anything that might damage Microsoft 's Windows NT ? — apparently not — DEC says it was simply that no one invited to join until the day before the launch . |
| 2 | Thus far there 's very little evidence that employers are taking this on board . |
| 3 | She would worry that Kelly was becoming involved in the sleazy aftermath of her father 's death . |
| 4 | At 1334 hours , the GCA final controller noted that aircraft was going low in the glide path at 7 miles . |
| 5 | There is no sign that silver was running short by 864 , as it should have done had tribute-payments made huge inroads into the total supply . |
| 6 | We find that parents are going hungry in order to leave food for their children . |
| 7 | The fact that Carlo was sitting next to her , overhearing the conversation , indolently gazing round the table or raising his glass to sip the delights of the Princesse 's cellar , only made things worse . |
| 8 | You demonstrate to me your awareness of the fact that water is boiling hot by pouring it over tea-leaves , your sensuous awareness of the heat of the bathwater by preferring to linger long after you are clean but get out when it turns cold . |
| 9 | Minter , had he but known it , was right as well as wrong : right that Harry was running short of cash , wrong if he believed that currently mattered to him a jot . |
| 10 | I think , Bill , Pauline 's expressing the frustration that we feel , that as David was saying earlier , as Christians we feel particularly that we are called to serve people like this in great trouble , and yet sometimes you think , you know , however many times I try erm there seems to be many people for whom erm all my effort gets nowhere , and I feel that things are getting worse in society and one feels more and more helpless and hopeless , and therefore there 's a kind of frustration erm that builds up here erm |
| 11 | ‘ Now I can see that things are growing difficult for you , Hilary , with people dying in foreign countries . |
| 12 | For these reasons it seems that it is not so much that people are making more of a fuss about bereavement these days but rather that the traditional ways of coping with it are not readily available , so that alternative ways of supporting people have to be found . |
| 13 | Was he human , semi-human , immaculately conceived or was he just a human being who recognised that evil was becoming widespread in the world , and that mankind was in danger of becoming dominated by those who had much to lose if it were suppressed ? |
| 14 | If one presumes that girls are innately as capable as boys of learning mathematics , then these figures suggest that girls are underachieving relative to boys , for whatever reason ( or that boys are overachieving ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , I told them that , ’ Francis Morgan said irritably and his wife and daughter caught each other 's eye in silent agreement that he had n't told them that Angela was refusing point-black to be married from home and was insisting on the full London set-out , reception at the House of Commons , replying unanswerably when he had objected on grounds of expense that she could well afford to pay for it herself . |
| 16 | Could n't she see that Silas was feeling disgusted with her lack of feeling towards an older woman who was now in a most awkward and painful situation ? |
| 17 | The most fundamental reason was evidently that Hitler was proving incapable of bringing about the fervently desired end to the war , either victoriously or even through a creditable compromise peace . |