Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [v-ing] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the studies will involve volunteer trainee GPs who will try out a variety of mutually agreed upon strategies designed to increase the frequency of signs indicating that patients are making active checks on their understanding and acceptance of suggestions made by the doctor . |
| 2 | This weekend there are plenty of voices implying that Mr Major must be a good Prime Minister because he won the election . |
| 3 | Armed with a screwdriver in one hand and a bag of chips in the other , the staff of the Computer Co-ordination Section can be seen floating in and out of offices ensuring that Lothian Highways ' computers and peripherals operate efficiently . |
| 4 | During the last few years there have been a number of discoveries suggesting that conodonts may be vertebrates . |
| 5 | The Court of Appeal has decided in Roberts v Johnstone [ 1988 ] 3 WLR 1247 , that where a plaintiff requires care and attendance as a result of his injuries , the cost of persons providing that care up to the date of trial is special damage , even if no one is in fact employed , and that interest is payable on the notional cost at the rate appropriate to special damages ( see para 1.67 ) . |
| 6 | Music to the ears of teachers , parents and school governors , who 've mounted a series of demonstrations fearing that education would bear the full force of any cutbacks . |
| 7 | Sally Greengross , Director of Age Concern England , has written to the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators urging that awards made by arbitrators should enable investors to escape their debt completely , ie to pay off the whole of their outstanding loan , which will otherwise ‘ roll up ’ on a daily basis , in some cases leading to repossession . |
| 8 | Applicants deluged the NME with calls claiming that promises of replacement tickets for Morrissey 's December 19 shows at The Alexandra Palace had not been met by the organisers . |
| 9 | Teachers in GIST schools were also slightly more likely to agree with statements suggesting that girls ‘ lose out ’ in classroom interactions and receive less encouragement in science than boys . |
| 10 | Jaguar retreated 32p to 653p with stories flowing that Ford had given up its pursuit and planned to buy 50 per cent of the Swedish Saab group . |
| 11 | He is accused of conspiring with Mohammed Haque , a BCCI manager , to mislead the bank 's auditor Price Waterhouse in 1984–85 with documents alleging that companies connected to him owed the bank £2.2m . |
| 12 | But this requirement could be circumvented with documents showing that shares to that value had been issued . |
| 13 | The cooperation between the factors binding to the 80 bp fragment and these general transcription factors is demonstrated in experiments showing that point mutations in the afore mentioned elements resulted in a strong impairment of transcription ( B.S. , B.B. and A.A. , in press ) . |
| 14 | Wittek writes that among the basic causes of concern were Bayezid 's policy of using Christian soldiers against the Muslim gazi emirates in Anatolia and the " latinization " of the Ottoman court , the introduction into it of the practices of the Christian Balkan princes , this criticism being reflected in anecdotes relating that Bayezid 's Serbian wife Despina instructed him in the delights of wine . |
| 15 | Rather , the involvement of bacteria has been inferred from studies showing that pretreatment with broad spectrum antibiotics may prevent small intestinal ulceration caused by indomethacin and that germ free animals do not seem to develop the lesions . |
| 16 | ( 4 ) In defending the ‘ flocculus hypothesis ’ , Ito fails to cite a study done in rabbits showing that motor learning in the VOR can be acquired without vestibular stimulation . |
| 17 | Another one has taken a quick look and walked away : Motorola Inc chairman George Fisher said the chief executive position at IBM Corp did not interest him : he wrote to employees saying that speculation about the post had been building in the news media and that his name had been mentioned — ‘ though IBM is a fine company , I am not interested in the position ; I plan to stay at Motorola where my work is challenging , exciting and rewarding . ’ |
| 18 | Saudi Arabia and Iran , the two largest OPEC exporters , were reported to be among countries demanding that Kuwait make sacrifices to achieve higher oil prices . |
| 19 | Back at the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool , Nigel Lawson 's carefully worded oratory did little to satisfy those wanting Britain to become full members of the European Monetary System sooner rather than later , nor did it provide comfort for others claiming that interest rates had reached their zenith . |
| 20 | This was followed at the weekend by reports alleging that Mrs Mandela was implicated in the death of Dr Abu-Baker Asvat , who was murdered in his Soweto surgery in 1989 . |