Example sentences of "[v-ing] that [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The author recalls an able Treasury minister who , after resignation , became a convinced and cogent parliamentary reformer , explaining that as a minister he had had no time to work out this aspect of policy and therefore , since the Treasury was opposed to more specialist committees of the House of Commons , he used the brief they provided and he had been a formidable opponent of these reforms at the Cabinet Committee level . |
| 2 | Mr Leigh also highlighted the tensions in Government by revealing that as a minister he had organised other meetings of junior ministers in opposition to the Maastricht Bill paving the way for closer European ties . |
| 3 | Veblen took pleasure in representing that in a society as dedicated to practical efficiency as the United States emulation should have been directed to the pursuit of objectives as conspicuously useless and therefore wasteful as gold or precious stones . |
| 4 | In contrast , BMP-2 inhibits limb growth , suggesting that as a result the AER may serve a hitherto unrecognized inhibitory function . |
| 5 | For smaller cities tight inner ring roads were advocated , Tripp suggesting that in a city of 100,000 population the radius of the inner ring road would probably be a quarter to half a mile , while in a city of a million , the radius would be a mile or more . |
| 6 | We shall not be mistaken in seeing that as a reference to God the Holy Spirit . |
| 7 | It 's the classic chicken and the egg problem , that if you try and identify something starting one area , and using that as a sort of causal factor for another area of behaviour , I 'm not sure whether , in the majority of cases , you can satisfactorily identify one as being the cause and the other being the result of that causal factor . |
| 8 | Although evidence is accumulating that in a number of birds females prefer long-tailed mates , the role of natural selection in tail elaboration has been largely ignored . |
| 9 | Many clinicians have seized the opportunities implicit within the clinical directorate structure believing that in a cash limited system the most positive response to any threat to clinical freedom is to become involved in the discussions stemming from the financial restriction . |
| 10 | Therefore it seemed fitting that as a tribute to him and his comrades I produce a sculpture with this tool . |
| 11 | I would n't fancy lugging that round a golf course . ’ |
| 12 | And what you might need to start thinking about as well is how could you illustrate some of these , already around you in the room , going up , work from year nine where they have started writing that as a complaint to god , moaning about Hurricane Andrew , about earthquakes and floods and so on and they 've decided that they 're going to illustrate the work they 're doing with these paper cuttings of disasters and problems in the world , there 's one up here about a gorilla that 's been taken from the wild and is in captivity in London Zoo and they said that they think it 's wrong . |
| 13 | The managers may also be successful in obtaining from the investors a clause in the agreement or a side letter , confirming that as a result of their investigations they are not aware of a breach of the warranties at completion . |
| 14 | The court granted the order , holding that as a result of the retraction by P. of his statement , and his being an alleged accomplice , there was insufficient evidence against the applicant for the purposes of paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 1 to the Extradition Act 1989 In the circumstances the court did not find it necessary to deal with arguments that no evidence had been adduced that the applicant had , at the time of the offences , been ‘ within the territory of the requesting party ’ as required by article 1 of the Extradition Treaty between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of Sweden contained in Schedule 1 to the Sweden ( Extradition ) Order 1966 and that the magistrate had failed to consider whether the Swedish court had power to try the applicant for participation in offences in Sweden committed from outside its territory . |
| 15 | On appeal by the defendants , the Court of Appeal allowed the appeal and discharged the injunction , holding that as a matter of domestic law there was no justification for extending to local authorities bringing proceedings under section 222 of the Act of 1972 to enforce the criminal law the privilege enjoyed by the Crown alone of being granted an interlocutory injunction without giving a cross-undertaking as to damages ; and that since it had not been established that the defendants had no defence under article 30 of the E.E.C . |
| 16 | That must be extremely dubious , considering that for a number of years the payments were made under protest . |
| 17 | ‘ What ? ’ she gasped , so shocked at what he was saying that for a moment she could n't do anything other than stare at him with her mouth open . |
| 18 | David explained all over again , saying that as a member of the executive council of the Forest of Arden Conservative Association , he had been conscripted by the chairman , Mrs Angela Cartwright , to take his wife 's place on the constituency delegation . |
| 19 | Taskopruzade and Mecdi assign this event to the reign of Bayezid I ( 1389–1402 ) , saying that as a result of a quarrel between Molla Fenari and that sultan , the former abandoned his posts and went off to Karaman where the emir gave him a salary of 1,000 akce a day and each of his pupils 500 akce a day . |
| 20 | On Nov. 20 , Ghana Broadcasting Corporation reported that the parliamentary elections had been postponed until Dec. 22 ; the report quoted Mr Justice Ofori-Boateng as saying that as a result of the withdrawal of the four parties , 38 constituencies had been left with only one candidate each . |
| 21 | Just imagine him saying that to a reporter trying to dig up more dirt … trying to stir it up a bit . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're saying that in a building — a skyscraper , say — on the top floor , the clocks go faster than those on the ground floor ! ’ |
| 23 | However , a year or more later I got a note from Colonel Leslie Glass saying that in a report received from an officer dropped behind the Japanese lines there occurred the statement , ‘ ’ I think I ought to add that I owe my life to a little booklet entitled Rubbing Along in Burmese . ’ |
| 24 | he 's just saying that in a group if we look at the historical background of the language , it helps to see you know how What the strong points are of the linguistic and what we need to be bolstered on . |
| 25 | If you play professional tennis , then it is even more important to have good technique because I am always saying that in a draw of 64 or 128 people , they are all watching how you play and of course they will find out what is happening with your game . |
| 26 | So you think we could get away with treating that as a crossroads and have people |
| 27 | The English court will not investigate the likely relevance of the evidence sought to issues raised in the foreign proceedings , regarding that as a matter for the foreign court ( which will not have made its request without due consideration ) 520 . |
| 28 | The thought of Montaine was so arresting that for a moment he could not speak . |
| 29 | Income tax was minimal ; Marie Webster had an old demand showing that of a total of $604 only $3.90 was payable . |
| 30 | When the Junto leader , the Earl of Sunderland , suggested that some be settled in Canterbury , the mayor refused point blank , arguing that as a result of the recession in the silk-weaving and wool-carding trades , there was not enough work to employ the poor families already living in the city . |