Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] that [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He finished the service by announcing tersely that some of the large number of people jailed during the night had been released . |
| 2 | If changes in conditions disrupt the precise replication of parental characters so as to yield hereditary variation , then , providing only that some of it happens to be adaptive , this will suffice in the long run for selection as a cause of adaptive species formations . |
| 3 | The strikers , protesting against the threat of compulsory redundancies , gave leaflets to customers looking at the Mondeo on its promotion day , pointing out that many of the skills which went into it were in danger of being wiped out . |
| 4 | I began this chapter by pointing out that much of the talk about the cultural function of higher education concentrates on the interconnections between higher education and society . |
| 5 | I ought to add , perhaps , that gay men do not regard this film with nothing but sad , solemn recognition — the characteristically gay male urge to mock and undercut what one genuinely and deeply feels , what Dyer brilliantly calls ‘ the knife edge between camp and hurt ’ , can be evidenced by pointing out that one of London 's most crowded and cruisy gay bars is called ‘ Brief Encounter ’ , though one is , alas , unlikely to meet anyone resembling Trevor Howard therein . |
| 6 | Those who did n't are responding by pointing out that some of those who did ought to have stood as candidates if they wanted a real revolt . |
| 7 | But Val 's message to the High Street stores that sell computers is still important — you have a duty to your customers to provide some guidance even if this means pointing out that some of the computers you sell are very limited ! |
| 8 | He did so by demonstrating conclusively that many of the most important diseases involved had virtually disappeared before the relevant medical innovations had occurred . |
| 9 | He finally dealt with that by saying briskly that one of his staff would come to her place of business . |
| 10 | Today we often ignore large areas of terraced housing and merely regard it as ‘ late nineteenth-century development ’ , forgetting perhaps that most of the population was then housed in them and indeed still is today . |