Example sentences of "[v-ing] that [vb base] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SS-1 supercomputer is nearly finished , but some parts still must be completed , the company told the Milwaukee Sentinel : ‘ In a very short period of time , we could be walking that machine out the door to a customer , ’ a spokesman told the Sentinel — ‘ It 's just a shame that IBM does n't have the vision they ought to have . ’ |
| 2 | The general practitioner can only act as a , necessary , mediator between layman and specialist by cultivating that trust to a degree which makes paternalism unavoidable . |
| 3 | Cussons is understood to have an active npd programme under way , with some sources suggesting that spend in the future across all its brands could go as high as £7m . |
| 4 | They were failing to recognize or were positively discounting the rights of those dissenting from their particular views of public order , and subjecting that dissent to the full coercion of the state . |
| 5 | The revenue has no answer to the anomalies which arise when the cost of providing a loss-making facility means that the average cost basis results in the taxpayer being treated as receiving a sum by way of benefit greater than the cost of buying that benefit on the open market . |
| 6 | Nobody knows I was buying that place except the owner ! ’ |
| 7 | It did not occur to us that ‘ working in their usual way ’ might prove to be so different from what we were expecting that work on the project would be brought virtually to a standstill . |
| 8 | Anyone who , like Shoreditch , did n't quite get round to placing that bet on the Tories , may like to know that the bookies are now quoting odds for the next election . |
| 9 | Chevenement is finding that finance from the treasury , the banks or from private industry still rules aux quais de Paris . |
| 10 | This ‘ fair shares ’ system ( which , with the proliferation of news channels , is surely nearing the end of its useful life ) encourages them to think not in terms of earning that place on the news , but rather in terms of keeping the broadcasters supplied with positive images . |
| 11 | The concept of cohesion is a semantic one ; it refers to the relations of meaning that exist within the text , and that define it as a text ; it occurs when the interpretation of some element in the discourse is dependent on that of another . |