Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can it be , that when Gandhi refers to morality without religion as being similar to a house built on sand he is simply expressing in a different way his belief in the convertibility of these terms rather than suggesting that morality has to be related to a particular religion ? |
| 2 | ‘ Is that any more barmy than believing that Muhammad went up a mountain and God spoke to him ? |
| 3 | Hitherto its spokesmen have insisted that the affair was essentially one for East Germany to settle , albeit urging that West Germany must operate its embassies abroad ‘ in conformity with standard international practice ’ . |
| 4 | Moreover , although the Rules sprang from this conflict , they did not in terms go further than saying that persons in custody should not be questioned without first being cautioned . |
| 5 | Rather than saying that £100 invested today at an annual rate of 10 per cent will yield £110 in 12 months ' time , we say that £1 10 due in 12 months ' time has a present value of £100 today . |
| 6 | So why not say , then , that in development perception ‘ teaches ’ action , that as the information delivered up by the input systems becomes progressively ‘ richer ’ the infant becomes better able to direct his own movements , rather than saying that cognisance develops out of action ? |
| 7 | In visiting a Catholic school , O'Neill might have thought he was doing no more than acknowledging that Catholics formed a sizeable part of the population of Northern Ireland and that Catholic schools were largely supported from public funds which his government administered . |
| 8 | Information processing models are essentially of the ‘ black box ’ type ; that is to say , although assuming that processes like filtering do have physiological correlates , the models themselves are formulated in purely psychological terms . |
| 9 | Critics of Balling 's work have suggested that , rather than showing that deserts account for some of the world temperature rise , the results may simply be demonstrating the fact that different types of land — notably desert — respond varyingly to the greenhouse effect . |
| 10 | Rather than arguing that lineage solidarity demanded their contribution , or that he had decided and his decision bound them , the shaikh pooh-poohed their claim of poverty , and disputed the invalid 's alleged wealth . |
| 11 | 'Really ? ’ observed Ivy ; ‘ one can not imagine anyone doing anything in the afternoon between 2 and 4 , except hoping that tea would be at 4 rather than at 5 . ’ |
| 12 | Once we 're found that favourite shape , there is nothing more frustrating than discovering that fashion has made it obsolete . |
| 13 | Although recognising that AEA needed to be proactive in approaching possible privatisation many thought ‘ Why change now , whilst announcing that the BZW report had yet to be considered by DTI . ’ |
| 14 | Not only are biblical accounts of supernatural visitations during dreams and dreams foretelling the future repeated without comment , even where ambiguity exists , the authors writing for children insert more accounts of dreams rather than asserting that visitations happened to people who were awake . |
| 15 | Joan 's face paled and she gazed wide-eyed at the duchess , as if suspecting that lady had taken leave of her senses . |
| 16 | Henry gave him a quick nod , as if acknowledging that Dougal was at liberty to use his intuition too . |
| 17 | Mervyn lowered his voice , as if hoping that Ianthe might say something derogatory . |
| 18 | I went to sit by her , I do n't know why , because seeing that baby was twisting the knife tighter , but I did , and she put her arm around me while I told her . ’ |
| 19 | While accepting that officers must adapt to political reality — by , for example , being prepared when invited to attend party groups subject to certain safeguards — it rejected any move towards a ‘ spoils system ’ in local government , and recommended that principal officers should be prohibited from engaging in political activity , including standing for council office . |
| 20 | While noting that Parolles is given some kind of dignity in verse , we should also observe that Shakespeare seldom ends a scene with a soliloquy in prose — Thersites and Falstaff are the only characters who do so more than once . |
| 21 | Michael L. Ainslie , president and chief executive officer , pointed to a modest increase in sales to $1.132 billion from $1.104 billion as a positive sign , while noting that income from principal activities decreased significantly due to a decrease in sales from Acquavella Modern Art . |
| 22 | While emphasizing that commodities will continue to be vital to the overall business and that there will be no diminution in efforts to market them , his aim is to make the split nearer 50.50 . |
| 23 | On Feb. 6 the World Bank for the first time made major loans to Poland for structural adjustment purposes , totalling $360,000,000 , while indicating that loans in the pipeline could total five times that amount in 1990 . |
| 24 | While acknowledging that Sarah seemed to be infatuated with George , her sister was so many years her junior that she still thought of her as a child and dismissed her obvious affection for George as innocent admiration . |
| 25 | The use of B avoids the problem of estimating the normal level of government expenditure which , ADD argue , Barro handles inconsistently since he assumes that agents form their expectations about normal government expenditure using an adaptive expectations mechanism , while assuming that agents form their expectations rationally elsewhere in the system . |
| 26 | While recognizing that opinion was divided on the issue , the Council firmly came out against the re-introduction of any form of corporal punishment as a judicial penalty for any criminal offence . |
| 27 | Against a background of thinking that a series should : a ) find a balance between the too general and the too specific ( in their Arnold series he would say that MacLoughlin was about right , Tarone too specific ) , and b ) be for the most part single-author monographs and only rarely , if ever , be edited collections of papers ( while recognizing that CUP has produced the occasionally successful collection ) , he suggested the following topics/authors : — universal grammar/Kevin Gregg , Japan ? — input and interaction in SLA/Jackie Schachter/Teresa Pica , Pennsylvania ? ( could be two separate volumes ) — cognitive processing and SLA/ ? — ‘ instructed ’ SLA/Patsy Lightbown ? — social factors and situations in SLA/Roger Andersen , UCLA ? — age and neurolinguistic factors/Mike Long ? ( who has apparently said he would not want to publish in his own series ) |
| 28 | For instance , while admitting that Goebbels resembled an ‘ evil gnome ’ , he adds : ‘ At least he stood by his leader to the end . |
| 29 | While asserting that procedure was wholly within the control of the forum court even when persons abroad were affected , the court adopted a similar stance in terms of policy . |
| 30 | Subsequent Foreign Ministry reaction was , however , more cautious , with officials expressing " satisfaction " while stressing that Iran would continue to press for the complete acceptance of Resolution 598 including provisions relating to international help with post-war reconstruction , and condemnation of the guilty party in starting the Gulf war , followed by war reparations . |