Example sentences of "that [be] [v-ing] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coun Arthur Collinge condemned the ‘ competitive status seeking ’ of colleges that are seeking to gild the lily with new names . |
| 2 | contribution rule remains , along with all the damage that it does — especially to local authorities that are struggling to collect the poll tax . |
| 3 | ‘ Are you still giving away large chunks of your income to ill-treated animals , orphaned children and projects that are going to save the environment ? ’ asked Julius , in a dry tone . |
| 4 | I do ask any of you that are wavering to support the amendment which leaves the tenants with the right to manage their holdings , how they like and not to interfere with those rights . |
| 5 | The chances are they are not going to be changed again in a hurry and to saddle ourselves with something that is going to allow the development and perpetuation of something which most of us hero would call bad and unacceptable practice in care of the elderly with dementia , would be a totally retrograde step . |
| 6 | Asked by an exit pollster which way he had cast his vote , he replied : ‘ I voted for the party that is going to run the country for the next five years . ’ |
| 7 | Though a diligent search of the green mist that is starting to hide the larch branches fails to find a listening hen , he presumably knows what he is doing . |
| 8 | Yeah but I want it for the men that 's going to alter the gas . |
| 9 | They do n't seem to be a vehicle that 's going to get the truth out . |
| 10 | Okay , Health Master , is that the plan that 's going to fit the bill . |
| 11 | Her hair , glowing like a brazier through the early-morning mist , her high boots and her cream-coloured quilted jacket with its exaggerated shoulders , had drawn his gaze as he sat impatiently in a line of cars while the pickets argued with the driver of an articulated wagon that was trying to enter the University . |
| 12 | The milk sprayed into the bucket in a few short spurts and Piladu pushed the animal forward , let two heavily pregnant ewes push past him and reached out to grasp the wool of a lamb that was trying to jump the rail where the Captain and the Brigadier were leaning . |
| 13 | That explanation depends on the presence of molecular oxygen in the gas cloud that was condensing to form the Sun , something the San Diego chemists think was likely , although they can not be certain . |
| 14 | The Moonies , for example , thought that the Unification Church was a godly institution that was going to save the world from its problems by restoring the Kingdom of Heaven on earth . |
| 15 | It was opposed , on the French side , by virtually the same principle which , for all the emotional resurgence of Jacobin principles that may have suffused France at the end of the war , had faded by comparison with the raw and remorseless nationalism that was waiting to engulf the French from one end of Vietnam to the other . |