Example sentences of "that [pers pn] be [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It 's for him that I am accepting this honour . |
2 | It is precisely because I care about the future of humanity that I am undertaking this work . ’ |
3 | It is for that very reason that I am moving this motion today as it gives us the opportunity to implement the rules of the union and at the same time would enable us to put into position , people who would be able to do all those things that are necessary to achieve what we require , recruitment , organization , paperwork , back-up service to full-time officials . |
4 | ( I should stress that I am using human size as an imaginary example : I do not know how many genetic loci and alleles are really at work in this case . ) |
5 | The logo will mark the guild 's 30th anniversary , and you will recall that I am offering another bottle of very passable claret to the designer of the winning entry . |
6 | You can see that I am representing any vector V as a superposition of two standard vectors 1 and 2 , with coefficients ( as we say ) given by the numbers unc and unc [ For the modern mathematician these numbers would make up the ordered pair ( |
7 | ‘ I 'm giving you fair warning , Claudia , that I 'm taking Roman Wyatt from you . |
8 | It 's in the case of how we police students that the question about where we draw the line and how far we become engaged are most problematic , I think , and it 's in that case really that I 'm proposing this distinction . |
9 | I 'm thinking of telling my mum what I done and telling her to go to the doctor and tell the doctor that I 'm doing stupid things and that , to get me put away . |
10 | After all , one of the reasons that I 'm doing this job is that I 'm plugged into what 's going on out there . |
11 | You ca n't possibly have got it into your head that I 'm having some kind of affair with Lexy , of all people . |
12 | Er well it 's just I 'm ha it 's not that I 'm having more difficulty with one thing than another , it 's just that I have n't , I did n't get round to doing them . |
13 | I sometimes felt that I was taking unfair advantage of the family 's need to talk through their problems with a sympathetic outsider . |
14 | People would occasionally point out that I was wearing odd shoes , but it really did n't seem to matter . |
15 | I am no less interested to observe that , for Eliot , who always seemed unhurried , ‘ there is plenty of time ’ could mean a period of not much more than three weeks for reading ( the Strachey book being pretty long ) , writing typing and dispatching : which , given the fact that Spender 's book had not arrived , that I was teaching all day and conducting some evening classes , I still consider a tight fit . |
16 | ‘ No , but I ca n't say that I was paying much attention . ’ |
17 | You knew before you shut your door in my face last night that I was having second thoughts ! ’ |
18 | Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop . |
19 | Oh yes you told me this that I was doing hard labour and he said I was building the building . |
20 | ‘ I knew that I was doing evil things , but I could not stop myself . |
21 | It must have been in the late 1960s or early 1970s that I was bemoaning this problem with my French colleague Michel Vigier who was also disturbed at the prospect of being snowed under with an indigestible amount of data from DFDRs . |
22 | Now , my theory that I was proposing last week about preferential parental investment in sexy sons or little boys who showed phallic behaviour , is a consequence of the Trivers Willard principle , because basically what it says is that little boys who advertised , as it were , in their childhood , evidence of their own adult reproductive success by precocious sexuality towards the women of the family and aggression towards the males , might be rewarded by preferential parental investment , a Trivers Willard effect in other words , and if , when they grew up , those oedipal sexy sons were in fact more reproductively successful , then the result would be a kind of self-perpetuating cycle of parental investment in oedipal sons who then grew up to be more reproductively successful than non-oedipal sons and , and so on . |
23 | She has often darkly alluded to some form of abuse in her own formative years , and there 's a strong sense that she 's singing these songs to someone in particular . |
24 | And Jean 's started to move the furniture around … a sign that she 's getting itchy feet : |
25 | Suppose a girl under 16 does not wish her parents to know that she is seeking contraceptive advice : the medical profession is divided between those who give priority to partial consent , and others who , in line with the General Medical Council , hold that the principle of professional confidentiality overrides that of parental consent . |
26 | There remains the possibility that the pregnant mother may catch the infection after her first antenatal examination , or that she was incubating early syphilis and therefore had negative blood-tests when first seen . |
27 | Indeed , his position as Town 's theatre critic meant that she was getting some evenings out free as well . |
28 | You do n't want to know that she was wearing odd socks and one of them was green , it 's |
29 | He had already recognised that she was wearing poor clothing , and it was also obvious that she was taking her work seriously enough to sacrifice her privileged lifestyle and live among those of whom she wrote . |
30 | As she gradually changed her beliefs , Cathy found that she was meeting different kinds of men . |