Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , wings which could have lifted that huge body would have been far too cumbersome when diving . |
| 2 | Yet it was only by contrast with Fei Yen that these things were noticeable : as if in Fei Yen lay the very archetype of Han beauty , and all else , however fine in itself , was but a flawed copy of that perfection . |
| 3 | It transpired that each woman had packed up her own cake to bring to the fête . |
| 4 | By praying that many children from the local area will be drawn to the Holiday Club and the Church , with their families , and ultimately to faith in Jesus . |
| 5 | The beans have now reached the top of their 6ft canes and I 'm praying that any autumn gales will be delayed until the beans are all safely harvested . |
| 6 | Reverend Sawyer is praying that these measures will help fortify the congregation and the the church coffers . |
| 7 | She found herself praying that this batch would be more to his liking than the last . |
| 8 | Everyone is praying that this time it will be third time lucky . |
| 9 | And the Sharlott family is praying that this time he leaves the crosses alone . |
| 10 | A CHURCH is praying that local planners will have a change of heart . |
| 11 | There is no denying that hierarchical structure has been the source of a great deal of trouble and inefficiency . |
| 12 | There is no denying that many things have improved since the revolution . |
| 13 | Moore is not denying that such elucidation is sometimes needed and possible , but bringing home to us that this is never what is going on when all things with a certain complex property are said to be good . |
| 14 | Other sociologists have supported Lockwood and Goldthorpe in denying that clerical workers have become proletarian , but they have attacked the proletarianization thesis in a different way . |
| 15 | We can surely think of pleasure and pain as referring to felt qualities of experience without denying that these qualities are of radically different kinds . |
| 16 | The day after Myeni 's warning , Buthelezi distanced himself from it in a statement denying that any decision had been taken to deploy fighters . |
| 17 | He believed that the government had lost credibility , first by denying that any recession ever existed , then by claiming it was only minor , then by claiming that though perhaps it was severe the recovery was just around the corner . |
| 18 | He responded by denying that any concessions had been made . |
| 19 | This is a picture of policing which some constables in hard-line areas dispute as typical of Northern Ireland , with one policeman m West Belfast denying that any routine policing occurs in Northern Ireland , arguing that no area could be considered ‘ soft ’ because policemen and women are at risk everywhere ( FN 29/4/87 , p. 6 ) . |
| 20 | The men , one of whom was named as Ernest Joma , were quickly arrested , however , and two hours later the then Information , Ideological Guidance and Co-operative Development Minister , Simon Pierre , broadcast a message denying that any coup had taken place and calling for calm . |
| 21 | First of all one can deflect it by denying that some forms of species solidarity are mere bias . |
| 22 | At present , there 's no denying that sectional conferences need some guidelines , I mean you only need one experience like last year 's Apex conference to realize that . |
| 23 | A press statement was issued by Ron Gilbert on behalf of the council , emphatically denying that medical evidence of alleged child abuse had been ‘ leaked ’ to a Sunday newspaper . |
| 24 | In limiting the concept of social representations to these sons of phenomena , Moscovici is denying that social representations can be found in all societies , and suggesting that they only emerge under certain social conditions . |
| 25 | Now , there is no denying that past controversies were rooted in circumstances that were peculiar to the age in which they occurred . |
| 26 | Not only do we find Lord Sumner in this case denying that elected members ‘ are to be guided by their personal opinions on political , economic , or social questions in administering the funds which they derive from levying rates ’ but Lord Atkinson denounces the councillors for being guided ‘ by some eccentric principles of socialistic philanthropy , or by a femininist ambition to secure equality of the sexes in the world of wages ’ . |
| 27 | Austin took the equally heroic step of denying that constitutional law and international law were law properly so called . |
| 28 | The chairman who ventured that mild criticism was well-placed to do so . |
| 29 | It would not have mattered so much if the experiments described all held water , but when ( as we were encouraged to do ) I put up my hand and ventured that one experiment was not consistent , the lecturer acknowledged that this was so in the particular I questioned , but said that the results were usually found to be as would have been expected . |
| 30 | As the princess arrived back in London , amid new rumours of a marriage rift , it was disclosed that 11-month-old Louis Lonsdale , the only son of Laura and James Lonsdale , died on Tuesday in his cot . |