Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looks annoyed , but then on seeing that the victim has the only chair , he curbs his irritation . |
| 2 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
| 3 | Even if there was a booking in a Girl 's home town , John 's regime was so demanding that a husband would no doubt have objected to his wife giving priority to her work . |
| 4 | He claimed to have been at the Munich Olympics in 1972 while serving with the US Army , and seemed particularly proud of a photograph of himself in officer 's uniform ( without apparently realising that the insignia were incorrect ) . |
| 5 | Only a year ago the pundits were shaking their heads and gloomily prophesying that the Democrats would never again provide a President . |
| 6 | The painting of the giant could become a picture which is going to be used to show a sceptical researcher ( the teacher in role ? ) how big the giant really is — necessarily demanding that the child thinks about the concept of scale . |
| 7 | I also have a personal interest in seeing that the development goes ahead in a way that will only enhance the town . ’ |
| 8 | Quite apart from the facts , however , his Lordship found the greatest difficulty in seeing that the claim was made out in law . |
| 9 | He tried to bolster his courage by reciting the reasons for what he was doing : go per cent of them boiled down to a pressing need for money , so pressing that the bank was threatening to foreclose on his mortgage ; the other lo per cent was divided between the desire to do Lorton a good turn and the feeling that the Newleys deserved whatever fate could throw at them . |
| 10 | During the early part of the day in Prague , East Germans waited quietly , apparently believing that the crowd outside the embassy was in fact a queue . |
| 11 | It 's perhaps fitting that the Services and Communication Department should bring up the rear in this group of presentations , because one of its key priorities is to provide a coherent professional support service to the organisation as a whole . |
| 12 | Role ‘ It is only fitting that the standard of his office should reflect his role . |
| 13 | It is surprising to find that some practices , perhaps believing that the world will always grant them a living , manage their affairs without the elementary assistance of time recording . |
| 14 | The House of Lords accepted that the definitions of the two offences are the same , merely adding that the prosecutor should charge manslaughter when the maximum penalty for the offence of causing death by reckless driving ( five years ) might be insufficient . |
| 15 | After the horses were released from the machine and the ditch , we walked leisurely to the inn , only regretting that the clouds hung so heavily over Loch Maree that it was completely obscured . |
| 16 | This chance can be reduced by arranging the line of the ropes to avoid sharp flakes and vice-like cracks , ensuring the anchor slings are long enough to prevent jamming against the rock , and finally by the first person down testing that the ropes are running freely through the anchors before the others abseil . |
| 17 | Then , apparently deciding that the idyll was over , he wandered away , his limp much less apparent now that his wound was healing well . |
| 18 | Ludendorff , rightly expecting that the Allies would attack again in the Somme region , began to withdraw his forces eastward from the bulge in the German line between Arras and Rheims to the heavily defended Siegfried Line , known to the Allies as the Hindenburg Line . |
| 19 | Lord Morris said that a consideration of the facts and documents led him to the view that the solus agreement , the loan agreement and the mortgage could be linked together as an instance of one transaction and that the intention was that in providing that the mortgage should be irredeemable for the period of the tie it should become a support for the solus agreement . |
| 20 | The success of the laser battle can be judged by the fact that the branch manager ultimately scored an incredible -25 , perhaps indicating that the service team can co-operate well in achieving a joint goal . |
| 21 | I do not wish to convey a sense of complacency ; I am merely saying that the Northern Ireland economy has done very much better in the latest recession — and would have done better still had it not been for the appalling IRA atrocities that make inward investment so difficult . |
| 22 | When Celia appeared to go from bad to worse , Brian had advertised for a housekeeper and two had come and gone in quick succession , the first merely saying that the post was not to her ‘ fancy ’ , the second giving a fuller more blatant explanation : that she did not want to work in a household where there was nervous trouble . |
| 23 | The General Manager in Riyadh , in an excess of loyalty , had tried to protect Laing 's career by only insisting that every riyal be returned to the Ministry 's account , something that had now been done . |
| 24 | The women were on the whole surprised at the question , apparently assuming that a dispersal of concentration is intrinsic to housework . |
| 25 | His voice was not loud , but so penetrating that every syllable was distinct . |
| 26 | When they heard it the sepoys threw back their heads and uttered a howl so piercing , so harrowing that every window in the Residency must have dissolved if they had not been already broken . |
| 27 | I am merely arguing that the role in science attributed to observation statements by the inductivist is incorrect . |
| 28 | Henningsvær is so quiet , and the sun so warming that a beer is absolutely necessary in a rather super establishment . |
| 29 | While Rauschning emphasised reconciliation , understanding and harmony through balanced trade , Forster had been saying that reconciliation with the Poles was impossible and endlessly repeating that a return to the Reich was essential , but was prevented only by the intransigence of the vengeful Poles . |
| 30 | In fact , it is particularly important for any popular movement to avoid the all-too-tempting trap of merely asserting that the law is what we would like it to be . |