Example sentences of "that [noun pl] [verb] [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Western reports said that troops had been massing in the region since December 1990 . |
| 2 | It is clear that this is partly due to the fact that incomes have been rising in real terms , so that people feel able to take on an increased burden of debt . |
| 3 | Palmer had noticed that something was wrong with the water , even before taking the sample , and volunteered the opinion ( subsequently confirmed ) that cattle had been drinking in it upstream . |
| 4 | EVERYONE must be wondering what is happening on the Mid-Hants Railway , the ‘ Watercress Line ’ , having received the startling news from the pages of a contemporary magazine that volunteers have been resigning from the work force in substantial numbers . |
| 5 | Thus , at least one of the systems that children have been learning over the centuries in the ancestral forms of BV must have incorporated a three-way distinction of meet/meat/mate . |
| 6 | The fact that a woman , Margaret Thatcher , smashed the biggest glass ceiling of all in 1979 and that women have been storming into business and Government with ever more determination and success than before , should point the way for the hospitality industry . |
| 7 | Let us assume that agents have been flirting for a while with the use of the adaptive expectations mechanism but that , in the light of the persistent , systematic errors which this mechanism entails , they quickly abandon it . |