Example sentences of "[v-ing] that [adj] [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moore is not denying that such elucidation is sometimes needed and possible , but bringing home to us that this is never what is going on when all things with a certain complex property are said to be good . |
| 2 | We can surely think of pleasure and pain as referring to felt qualities of experience without denying that these qualities are of radically different kinds . |
| 3 | Now , there is no denying that past controversies were rooted in circumstances that were peculiar to the age in which they occurred . |
| 4 | However I managed to find Mr Jaggers ' office , noticing that other people were waiting for the great man too . |
| 5 | ‘ I get bored , ’ he continued , looking up , noticing that another man was approaching . |
| 6 | But to the extent that rationality continues to prevail , we have long since been submitting all codes to ‘ Be aware ’ , without noticing that this imperative is creative of values as well as destructive . |
| 7 | Lots of parents , and the odd nanny or two , provide back-up references for Santa explaining that little so-and-so is really a very good child . |
| 8 | ‘ Child care is brilliant , ’ she added , explaining that after-school care is a matter of course with 90 per cent of women needing to bring in a second wage to survive . |
| 9 | We remember the pain and suffering of millions who have died throughout the ‘ Third World ’ , fighting for the most basic of human rights , and we reflect shamefully on the fact that it is only when the US and their allies face the prospect of their own children dying that this war is truly acknowledged . |
| 10 | And there is no way of checking that bottled water is any cleaner than tap water . |
| 11 | One of the hypotheses which will be tested is that comprehension of the logical character of ‘ mental state verbs ’ is necessary for understanding that some sentences are true in virtue of their form alone ( eg ‘ The father is a man ’ ) . |
| 12 | 2.9 By transferring 1,000,000 new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow from NatWest Investment Bank to County NatWest Securities to account for a similar holding by Handelsbank NatWest and falsely representing that those shares were held by County atWest Securities Limited for the purposes of market making ; 2.10 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 66,600,000 shares in Blue Arrow held by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest in the records required for accounting purposes by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest ; 2.11 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities in the records required for accounting purposes by Phillips & Drew Securities ; 2.12 By falsely representing that County NatWest had become interested in 9.5 per cent of the issued capital of Blue Arrow on December 17,1987 and that the board of Blue Arrow had been informed of that interest ; 2.13 By concealing the true position in relation to the rights issue from the Bank of England , the International Stock Exchange , National Westminster Bank and/ or the board of directors of Blue Arrow ; 2.14 By falsely representing that the rights issue had been honestly and successfully completed by reason of their general skill , competence and diligence . |
| 13 | Envoys of Offa , however , had arrived at the court of Charlemagne affirming that this rumour was the work of men who were enemies of both Charlemagne and Offa , and had gone on their way to Rome , accompanied by Frankish envoys , to reiterate Offa 's denial of a plot against Hadrian before the pope himself . |
| 14 | At a meeting on March 11 Shamir again refused Labour demands to put the issue to a vote , maintaining that further discussion was needed . |
| 15 | Differentiation theory , on the other hand , while allowing that these associations are likely to be formed during training , gives them no special role in acquired distinctiveness . |
| 16 | AS SCIENCE gets nearer to proving that thermonuclear fusion is scientifically feasible , concern grows as to the best machine to build . |
| 17 | However , since joint production and ( more clearly ) joint marketing is much more likely to create the undesirable anticompetitive effects which cause concern than joint R&D is , it seems reasonable to insist that firms which propose extending joint activities beyond R&D must bear the burden of proving that such extensions are in the public interest . |
| 18 | This dual approach often works , proving that two heads are better than one . |
| 19 | Three of the principal shareholders were already producing films for release at the time of Dustin 's signing , and unfortunately proving that artistic liberty was not synonymous with artistic quality . |
| 20 | This served two purposes , firstly the importance of the problems was diminished when they were written down ( even the most depressed person could not resist a smile when they wrote down some of their worries — somehow they looked silly on paper ) and , secondly , it enabled them to delete items on the list when the problems were solved , thereby proving that most problems were capable of being solved . |
| 21 | This is Mike Jardine , one of Scotland 's leading extreme skiers , proving that naked apes are better off with one-piece skisuits . |
| 22 | Upon finding the wreck the FORI hope to be able to identify the serial plates on the engines of the aircraft , proving that this aircraft was the mount of Saint-Exupery , thereby laying to rest the many mysteries and rumours that have over the years surrounded his death . |
| 23 | The onus of proving that sufficient disclosure was made rests on the firm and it is not a defence to show that a legal or financial impediment on the part of the customer would have prevented him from proceeding with the relevant transaction , or that disclosure would not have affected the customer 's decision whether or not to proceed . |
| 24 | In contrast , fatty acid excretion is strongly increased by dietary calcium , suggesting that fatty acids are precipitated by calcium before the absorption site , the proximal small intestine , is reached . |
| 25 | Some studies , however , have shown no correlation between faecal fat excretion and faecal bile acid loss suggesting that additional factors are responsible for bile acid malabsorption in cystic fibrosis . |
| 26 | For both spot and futures returns , there was no significant autocorrelation , suggesting that stale prices were not a problem for the index . |
| 27 | However the decrease in ATF1 RNA is not as great as the reduction in protein levels , suggesting that other mechanisms are involved in regulating ATF1 protein levels during differentiation . |
| 28 | Such arguments were not simply suggesting that criminal statistics were ‘ biased ’ . |
| 29 | Nor am I suggesting that black children are somehow linguistically deficient or unable to separate English from Creole . |
| 30 | In the Pastoral Epistles the noun presbyters often appears in the plural , bishop in the singular , suggesting that one man was beginning to have a special position in both worship and charitable administration . |