Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It transpired that each woman had packed up her own cake to bring to the fête . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Reverend Sawyer is praying that these measures will help fortify the congregation and the the church coffers . |
| 6 | She found herself praying that this batch would be more to his liking than the last . |
| 7 | Everyone is praying that this time it will be third time lucky . |
| 8 | And the Sharlott family is praying that this time he leaves the crosses alone . |
| 9 | There is no denying that many things have improved since the revolution . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The day after Myeni 's warning , Buthelezi distanced himself from it in a statement denying that any decision had been taken to deploy fighters . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He responded by denying that any concessions had been made . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | First of all one can deflect it by denying that some forms of species solidarity are mere bias . |
| 18 | Nevertheless his choreographic plan is so designed that each movement of every dancer , whether as an individual or part of the group , is co-ordinated with the others so that it fits correctly into the overall pattern and within the space allotted by stage , wings and backcloth which — in Symphonic Variations — delicately echoes the curving lines or the dance . |
| 19 | At the new Grand Central in New York there was a separate waiting-room for gangs of labourers and immigrants , with its own attendants , so designed that these groups need not encounter other passengers . |
| 20 | I caught the sense of victory in seeing the film of Henry V — just as I had supposed that all schools were like that of Goodbye Mr Chips , which I was taken to see in 1939 . |
| 21 | Given the terms of reference , those who signed the majority Report might well have supposed that that part of the argument had been decided . |
| 22 | Moreover , while ‘ ideology ’ retains , from the weight of linguistic usage , the sense of organized beliefs ( whether formal and conscious or pervasive and dissolved ) , it can often be supposed that such systems are the true origin of all cultural ( and indeed other social ) production . |
| 23 | It can not be supposed that this regulation meant that , in each case , the minister in person should direct his mind to the matter . |
| 24 | To be plain , I 'm a bit exhausted , secretly , about the intellectual advantages that are supposed ( by intellectuals ) to accrue from being physically underendowed or peculiar-looking , though it 's possible to keep up the front in public and many a gulled beloved has supposed that this joke of a frame is where my energy comes from . |
| 25 | Other awards were also won that same year , the most significant being a Design Council Award presented by the Duke of Edinburgh . |
| 26 | However it is clear that the three divisions prioritize different spheres of social relations and will have different effects … we suggest that each division exists within the context of the others … |
| 27 | So we 're going to do this exercise within this room and we 'll need to rearrange the tables , so I suggest that each group as having one table or two tables , put it in a square to work around . |
| 28 | Discussions at the firm during the past 12 months ( see page 98 ) suggest that many ICI staff already accept this . |
| 29 | The poll results suggest that many parents still fail to understand the grant-maintained system . |
| 30 | Enquiries at Enterprise Agencies suggest that many people wishing to set up businesses are doing so with redundancy money or for other reasons connected with the difficulty of finding employment and their first need is to find a suitable idea . |