Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [that] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has always been puzzling enough that the proportion of men in gynaecology is higher than in any virtually any other specialty , as if detachment were an advantage in this field . |
| 2 | In other words , we need to identify areas of schematic knowledge which the learners will accept as independently relevant and worth acquiring so that the learning of the language is seen as the necessary means to a desired end . |
| 3 | Having initially taken the position ‘ that all inhabitants that have not lost their birthright should have an equal voice in elections ’ , he then spoke about the origins of government and in favour of property as the basis of representation , while denying strongly that the franchise should be restricted to forty-shilling freeholders , calling for its extension to leaseholders . |
| 4 | I take it that you 're not disputing then that the change in the traffic flows that I 've indicated would actually what would be achieved ? |
| 5 | The old man was beside himself with excitement , his hand trembling so that the candlelight danced and spurted like shooting stars . |
| 6 | Believing still that the catastrophe had been caused by other people and the actions of other people , believing it as firmly as Kate believed that it had been caused by devils and Quentin that it was part of God 's mystery , Lavinia saw a spark in the gloom . |
| 7 | The question seemed to her to be doubly hostile , implying both that the Prince was too short and that she was too tall . |
| 8 | This is explored further in Chapter 7 , but we might note in passing here that the extent to which these contextual co-ordinates are encoded within grammar varies across languages : what is semantically signalled by grammatical means in one language is left for pragmatic inference in another . |
| 9 | The fear is unfounded and can be eased by remembering firstly that the existence of sums of US$ in NOSTRO accounts is only possible because there has been a transfer into them from the US money stock . |
| 10 | This can be done in two ways , either by giving a description of a world for which the principle fails and proving formally that the description is consistent , or informally by appeal to a counterexample . |
| 11 | To this I find no difficulty in replying briskly that the human 's consciousness does not have the consciousnesses of the homunculi as parts any more than two Siamese Twins that share digestive organs have the unity and separateness of their respective consciousnesses compromised . |
| 12 | This type of explanation may help us to understand the one-sided nature of exchange relationships with the Continent , noting also that the English probably had no direct access to a valuable and durable raw material without going to the extent of deep mining . |
| 13 | It is worth noting however that the Building Surveyors Division , with a younger age profile than other divisions and with the technical nature of their interests well suited to post-graduate updating events , has exhibited no marked conflict between ‘ CPDers ’ and ‘ non-CPDers ’ . |
| 14 | Laid across a map of Israel , these documents form a patchwork of disputed ownership , a matrix of lands from northern Galilee to Ashqelon for which there are now in existence two perfectly legal deeds : one , in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv or Beersheba , proving irrefutably that the land is now owned by an Israeli , the other — in Beirut or Amman — showing that the rightful owner is a Palestinian Arab . |
| 15 | ( PREVIEW ) Another printing enhancement worthy of mention is Print-to-Fit to select the point size for printing so that the range selected fits on a page . |
| 16 | Fran watched the raindrops running down the glass panes , wishing foolishly that the sun had been shining again as a sort of omen . |
| 17 | So definition of simple harmonic motion you find anything that 's moving so that the acceleration is always measured the opposite way |
| 18 | There are no flaps , cooling ducts or other complications to mess with , and the Aircoupe pivoted back into its parking spot vacated forty minutes before , requiring only that the ignition key and master switches be turned off before the aircraft could finally be exited . |
| 19 | Indeed recent reports on the Muslim-owned United Food Corporation , centred in County Mayo and one of the world 's largest meat suppliers , suggest that the Islamic ritual , which governs all its slaughter , can be interpreted as requiring only that the killing be performed by the appropriate Muslim using normal abattoir equipment ( Murdoch 1990 : 28 ) . |
| 20 | In 1950 a scientist by the name of Immanuel Velikovsky caused a considerable furore in the historical , religious and astronomical worlds by stating unequivocally that the flooding was caused by Venus which had been wrenched free from Jupiter and made an uncomfortably close encounter with earth . |
| 21 | In this regard criminal law shares a problem with contract law , which adopts the ambivalent posture of holding both that the devil himself can not know the mind of man and that the state of a man 's mind is as much a question of fact as is the state of his digestion . |
| 22 | Three days out at sea one passenger caused a stir by calling out that the ship was sinking and about 60 men on deck had to be assured by the captain there was no danger . |
| 23 | Parker brushes aside any doubts about the ability of mainframe operating systems to take advantage of parallel machines , pointing out that the company has been researching into the approach for a number of years . |
| 24 | Finally , it is worth pointing out that the voltage at pin-14 does not behave in quite the way in which you suggest . |
| 25 | It went on to make two historic recommendations : that the Institution should give more overt support to the Society of Surveying Technicians , formed in 1970 by the General Council of the RICS , pointing out that the notion that the profession needed persons with technical qualification to ‘ come in at the bottom ’ and stay there was insensitive to human aspirations and naïve in its recognition of the Society 's worth ; and that practitioners should henceforth be required to undertake structured Continuing Professional Development ( CPD ) — a courageous and necessary proposal ( see below ) . |
| 26 | The group is trying to avoid the cry of ‘ not another one ’ by pointing out that the scheme has one or two extras that we have not seen before . |
| 27 | It 's worth pointing out that the spell of good weather we enjoyed in the early summer ended with his return to South Africa . |
| 28 | However , first XI captain John Hiles certainly does n't believe it will be an easy task , pointing out that the standard of hockey has improved greatly . |
| 29 | ‘ It has been pretty hectic , anyhow ’ he explained before pointing out that the Chairman and Treasurer have both resigned , and he was left holding the fort . |
| 30 | The pragmatist could agree , pointing out that the scope notes for each term could be used for precisely this purpose , adding that , unless a scientific name has no more common alternative , it should remain non-preferred , with an alternative preferred term supplied . |