Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [v-ing] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I am not suggesting that Scotland has ‘ lost out ’ over the past 13 years from the fact that there was only one fund based in London .
2 Of course , I am not suggesting that women should give in to biology ( perish the thought ) , but that PMS is not quite the pathological state that a few health experts would appear to be suggesting .
3 Of course , the success of this lesson has to do with more than structure ( indeed , I am not suggesting that structure is all a teacher needs to know about ! ) .
4 The notion of difference of level between quite different programming languages can equally well be expressed within a single language : at a single level of language , say of the programming language LISP , one normally defines a function in terms of sub-functions , so that I might for example write a function WALK(x) ( where x ranges over walkers ) whose sub-functions ( to be executed in order ) might be some form of LIFT-RIGHT-LEG ; FLEX-RIGHT-FOOT ; and so on ( I am not suggesting that sequence would be even remotely plausible in fact ) .
5 I am not stating that Lord Armstrong was obeying government instructions over this much ridiculed staff restructuring : I am asking if he was .
6 I am not arguing that children do not suffer at the hands of adults ; clearly they do and again we have looked at the evidence concerning incidence and prevalence .
7 Although the Utting report , which was published in the summer , made it clear that training was not the central issue in such cases , I am not arguing that professionalism is not important .
8 I am not claiming that meat is indispensable for good health ; it is only necessary to show that a diet to which it contributes can be no less healthy than one from which it is excluded .
9 By emphasizing this convergence I am not saying that culture and identity are unimportant , but challenging the routine reduction of race to them alone which obscures the inherently political character of the term .
10 I am not saying that disturbances always have a single cause .
11 I am not saying that women religious have totally solved the problem .
12 I am not saying that Christians subscribe openly to such a view of doubt .
13 I am not saying that people who are directly subjected to racism are inevitably attracted to one-dimensional argument or that those who are not necessarily take a more sophisticated view .
14 ‘ I am not saying that Charles is incapable of love , it 's just that he has this unreal perception of women .
15 But I am not saying that Dr. Briant should necessarily be stopped from making his scientific searches , for his ability to do so is as God-given as that warning .
16 I am not saying that churches should not state their views about social evils , but it is quite another thing to imagine that clear statements are denting the Evil One 's power .
17 The TECs ' chairmen are already warning that budget cuts are forcing them to concentrate on alleviating the worst excesses of the training shortage , rather than on instigating innovative schemes .
18 But the graduates are already finding that publicity stunts are n't that easy , picking grapes in a gown and mortar board does have it 's problems .
19 If we say that dinosaurs grew large because they were in pursuit of the advantage of heat conservation , we are not implying that species engineered their own destiny , with the effect predetermining the cause .
20 Therefore , we are not implying that patients with classic Crohn 's disease are necessarily good candidates for reservoir surgery , nor does the recent experience of The Cleveland Clinic support such a view .
21 But although we are not arguing that women or feminists have privileged access to the truth about reality , we agree with Jaggar that the standpoint of women offers an opportunity to see what is wrong with current male-defined theories and to correct them .
22 We are not claiming that women on their own ( or feminists on their own ) have the truth , but rather that men on their own do not .
23 To make it perfectly clear , I repeat that we are not saying that Britain should acquire a subsequent follow-on generation of weapons to replace the free-fall bombs that are nearing the end of their useful life .
24 We are not saying that taxpayers should not be able to claw back some of the costs at a later stage , but the carer 's position should be protected .
25 The third principle tells us that when we call God ‘ transcendent ’ we are not saying that God is ‘ above ’ , ‘ outside ’ or ‘ beyond ’ the universe .
26 The police have praised Parveen for her courage , but they 're not recommending that women who find themselves in similar situations react in the same way .
27 We 're not proposing that N two will look like this , are we ?
28 We 're not saying that people should n't have the opportunity to train to teach .
29 We 're always reading that prisons are far too overcrowded these days .
30 Recall that we are temporarily assuming that irreducibles and primes are one and the same thing in Z.
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