Example sentences of "[v-ing] that [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maura was praying that Terry was not about . |
| 2 | The Iranian Oil Ministry was reported in late October to have adopted an aggressive policy on crude oil production and prices after rejecting a 3,200,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) quota which the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) had sought to impose on Iran at its meeting in September [ see p. 39120 ] ; the Middle East Economic Digest on Oct. 30 quoted the Oil Minister , Gholamreza Agazadeh , as saying that Iranian output during October would average 3,800,000 bpd , but as denying that Iran was seeking to destabilize the international market . |
| 3 | In denying that bilinguals are special in this respect , I am arguing for an approach to the study of linguistic interactions which bridges the old barrier between " variationist " studies , which deal with social and stylistic variation in " monolingual " , socially stratified speech communities , and " ethnographic " studies of code switching and related phenomena which are normally confined to bilingual or diglossic bidialectal communities . |
| 4 | Here they take an intransigent line , denying that Wittgenstein was at all impressed by such questions . |
| 5 | Denying that conflict is an a priori structure actualized in historical struggle , we have seen that Sartre does explain , through the category of the ‘ practico-inert ’ ( determining material conditions which have themselves been created by previous praxis ) , how individuals or classes in conflict produce a historical movement to which they are then subject . |
| 6 | Arius had been excommunicated by his bishop , Alexander , for denying that Christ is on the divine side of the gulf between the Creator and his creation . |
| 7 | The President of the National Coal Association has rejected the latest government charges , denying that tampering is routine in large numbers of mines . |
| 8 | Then , noticing that Mark was still seated , gazing abstractedly at the screen , she sat down again . |
| 9 | Scott asked , noticing that Gregson was still gazing at Carol . |
| 10 | What is more , they have said that there is a good deal more to noticing that things are white , and calling them ‘ white ’ , than one would suppose . |
| 11 | Martha paused with her , noticing that Hyacinth was sweating heavily and her skin , normally plump and smooth , looked oddly withered and sunken around her eyes . |
| 12 | ‘ Outlawing the defence of following superior orders , for one , ’ said David , noticing that Julia was beginning to look tired . |
| 13 | But even as she said this , as Lewis , rather dramatically , told her , the Standard was on the streets announcing that police were treating the case as murder . |
| 14 | They 're always turning over , ’ he said , explaining that Ferrets are small armoured cars . |
| 15 | Constance had reassured them , or so she hoped : she had tried to alleviate their suspicions by explaining that Barbs was just like that . |
| 16 | He presented Chester with a severely edited version of the truth , making no mention of Estabrook 's murder plot , but explaining that Jude was ill and had requested his presence . |
| 17 | Philosophers of science have latterly been busy explaining that science is about correlating phenomena or acquiring the power to manipulate them . |
| 18 | Cleaning your tack properly once a week gives you the vital opportunity of checking that stitching is in good order and that the parts where metal rests on leather ( such as reins and stirrup leathers ) are not too worn . |
| 19 | In one argument it is pronouncing that huntsmen are having fun , while five sentences later it is saying they are cruel and wicked . |
| 20 | Modern excavations are revealing that Mallia was a substantial city , extending all the way to the shore ( Figure 24 ) . |
| 21 | He offers everyone a serious comparison of Keaton and Charlie Chaplin ( with Harold Lloyd and Fatty Arbuckle trivia thrown in for good measure ) , revealing that Keaton was , for him , the true genius on account of his invention and comic daring . |
| 22 | Posi obliged , revealing that Fraxilly was a small human planet , a member of SenFed for less than three hundred years , remote and poor and backward . |
| 23 | Understanding that God is sovereign , one may question , where was God when a child was molested ? |
| 24 | With such a carefully organised operation it 's puzzling that Langan 's should be so unwelcoming . |
| 25 | I find it puzzling that books are published which describe meetings that took place several years beforehand . |
| 26 | Still , I grant him many points , particularly his maintaining that Wagner is representative of a modern dilettantism that sucks up and swallows everything of any artistic interest ; but precisely from this standpoint , one can not be astonished enough at … a disposition that allies indestructible energy with many-sided artistic gifts … |
| 27 | First , Max Perutz ( MRC , Cambridge ) described the pioneering work of Oswald Avery , proving that genes are made from DNA . |
| 28 | She stretched her arms out in front of her like a cat , proving that Springsteen was still behind on points . |
| 29 | Even so , pyramid-shaped stone bases for medium-sized double-axes survive in the Labyrinth , proving that double-axes were scattered about the building , like crucifixes in a church . |
| 30 | In proving that c is a common divisor of a and b we in fact prove rather more , namely : if w ε S then c\w . |