Example sentences of "[v-ing] [that] [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fresh coffee and fruit were ordered and soon the sound of the big brass pestle pounding the cardamom and coffee beans in the brass mortar rang around the court , announcing that we had visitors , come and make them welcome . |
| 2 | And he had to spend a good part of the campaign explaining that it meant caution and not complacency . |
| 3 | BCAR Chairman Steve Challis welcomed delegates from museums and groups all over the UK to the meeting , explaining that he thought BCAR to be ‘ probably one of the smallest groups in the BAPC ’ . |
| 4 | On the other hand , there may obviously be cases where the plaintiff establishes a prima facie case by proving that he suffered damage from acts done in combination by the defendants the natural and probable outcome of which was damage to him . |
| 5 | I have a certificate here proving that you married Bertha Mason in the West Indies fifteen years ago . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm not suggesting that we chain Peter to Caliban for eighteen hours a day . |
| 7 | You can often get them back on track by suggesting that they take turns at riding the tricycle or that they make the Lego building a joint effort . |
| 8 | What I 'd like to do is to help them to see that they do n't need to give up on the computer , that they can actually be the master of it , although of course I do n't I 'm not suggesting that they become programmers — that would be to abdicate their function in another way — but certainly they can understand it , and I think of course it keeps coming back to this issue over and over again , an issue about education . |
| 9 | It is evident from the comments made by the nouveaux romanciers that they considered themselves to be developing and integrating the formal experiments of writers drawn from a carefully selected modernist canon , suggesting that they judged modernism to have been incomplete in the French novel before their arrival . |
| 10 | Charles Eaton , director of the pilot needle exchange programme and now a city health official , agrees : ‘ There is no evidence from any syringe exchange scheme anywhere in the world suggesting that they encourage people to inject . |
| 11 | Shamir would have preferred to have formed a broad coalition government with Labour , but this became impossible for him in view of statements made by Labour Ministers suggesting that they supported contacts with the PLO , and in view of pressure from hardline Likud members such as Ariel Sharon to form a right-wing government . |
| 12 | A man threatens your life and our happiness , so I am suggesting that you take steps to protect us . ’ |
| 13 | They are suggesting that you put country sports with child abuse and drink driving , to make it a criminal offence . |
| 14 | ‘ Are you seriously suggesting that he worked things out so carefully ? ’ |
| 15 | But far from accepting that they gave expression to some all-important class struggle , liberal historians regard the ideas of the revolutionary intelligentsia as the product of their own psychological needs . |
| 16 | Philip Urbach was encouraged by a German-sounding word ( ‘ Maybe English was n't so difficult after all ’ ) , without realising that it meant war over Poland . |
| 17 | Blue chips such as British Telecom are realising that it makes sense to ‘ take work to the people to overcome a permanent shortage of software engineers in the South East , says Malcolm Lees at BT 's software centre . |
| 18 | A participant orientation was developed in Britain ( citizens being oriented to the input as well as the output side of the political system , believing that they enjoyed access to it ) , but it was one adapted to an existing deference to the independent authority of government . |
| 19 | They oppose the proposed changes for political reasons , believing that they form part of the task the prime minister , Michel Rocard , has set himself to reform public sector industry — reforms that many to the left of Mr Rocard believe to be inherently unsocialist . |
| 20 | For a moment I felt an instinctive resentment , but remembering that it contained things ‘ for me ’ , I picked it up . |
| 21 | It introduced the concept of ‘ special educational needs ’ , recommending that it replace categorisation of children by the ten existing statutory categories of handicap . |
| 22 | Why , for example , would a politician with the wide-ranging interests of Lord Fife lay such pointed emphasis upon the placing of such a minor official as a tide waiter , writing that he wished William King to be appointed at Macduff Down Creek , as opposed to any other location in that district ? |
| 23 | ‘ Are you regretting making love to me , ’ he grated , ‘ or are you only regretting that you made love to me instead of saving yourself for André ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ A local housing authority may perform any duty under section 65 or 68 ( duties to persons found to be homeless ) to secure that accommodation becomes available for the occupation of a person — ( a ) by making available accommodation held by them under Part II ( provision of housing ) or under any other enactment , ( b ) by securing that he obtains accommodation from some other person , or ( c ) by giving him such advice and assistance as will secure that he obtains accommodation from some other person . |
| 25 | Earlier , East Germany had announced the solution as a ‘ humanitarian act ’ by the government , adding that it hoped Bonn in future would run its embassies ‘ in normal manner according to international usage ’ . |
| 26 | The proportion reporting that they thought people were healthier now than in their parents ' time decreased with age , from 78 per cent of those aged 65 — 74 years to 67 per cent of those aged 85 years and over ( Victor 1990a ) . |
| 27 | We assume that at some critical r-value , r* , there is a homoclinic orbit like that shown in Fig. 6.1a , and consider , for r-values close to r* , whether or not there are any trajectories which remain forever within the regions B U 5 U T. Providing that we choose B , 5 and T to be small enough , with r close enough to r* , and that we are only concerned with the topology of trajectories , it is permissible to regard the flow within B as linear , and to think of the map which takes points in the discs D and D " to points in the discs E and E " as a linear transformation . |
| 28 | We also need Government investment to back up the youth services , teachers and parents so that the next generation of youngsters does not include a minority whose self-discipline , self-esteem and respect for their own future are so lacking that they get kicks from racing stolen cars or lobbing bottles at the police . |
| 29 | REGARDING T. Clayton of Childwall 's letter stating that they have Blackpool lights on their doorsteps in Chelwood Avenue . |
| 30 | On the facts of Modupe the accused was guilty of inducing his creditors to wait for payment when he had obtained credit by stating that he owned property when he did not and by exaggerating his employment status . |