Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [pron] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | because you did n't have to worry that you were gon na have another child ! |
| 2 | And you know if we were able to commit ourselves to two public , two meetings , three meetings of some sort in a year where we 're actually gon na do something and present some sort of front Par part of presenting some sort of front is to try to sell a few bits of pieces if we 're prepared to accept that we 're going to lose money . |
| 3 | It is difficult to pinpoint frailties amongst the forwards at the moment , because they have played so well , but to accept that they are peaking now would be folly . |
| 4 | For the older 40-plus age groups , often high-flying career woman who have remained childless and perhaps unmarried , the principal sources of despair and anxiety are very often an inability to accept that they are nearing the end of their reproductive years , coupled with the fear of growing old and being lonely . |
| 5 | And you see now what the Government have said that they are going to accept that there are going to be two key authorities in some counties . |
| 6 | Neither of us mentioned it : it would have been intolerable for either of us to accept that he was losing his grip . |
| 7 | You have to accept that you are going into an alien environment . |
| 8 | The situation is defined as one where ‘ you ca n't tell a teacher what you 're going to do , ’ the child who resists must face up to the consequence that ‘ you 've got to accept that you 're going to get into more and more trouble . ’ |
| 9 | It helps our children to know that they 're doing something for those children . |
| 10 | The farmers want to know that we are fighting the proposals . |
| 11 | I am sure you will be interested to know that we are working with a consortium of other organisations , including the National Trust , to develop an alternative , less environmentally damaging scheme for this section , together with a future strategy for the A5 as a whole . |
| 12 | The writer in us has to know that we are making it a priority , that we are prepared to let other obligations go in order to play with it , nourish it , accord it a central place in our lives . |
| 13 | Much as she loved Nora , she was sufficiently realistic about her cousin to know that whatever was beginning to develop in her niece would be much more likely to come to something if Constance remained with her in Surrey than if she returned to the north . |
| 14 | ‘ It helps to know that someone is looking after it , that someone cares . |
| 15 | that is , that is what , that is what exists to do , or one of the things that exists to do as the U K sales company our business is to give the projections for a particular piece of business , and if we see any other similar bits of business around it that 's fine , that 's , that needs to be added to it , but to give our vision of that particular piece of business , feed that into the marketing people in , and say , look , this is the situation if we go this way , this is what we think is going to happen , if we do this , this is going to happen , if we do n't do this , this is what 's going to happen , so that that can be fed into an overall picture , and they will come back , I presume , and say , right , we now have enough information to know that it 's going to be worth =vesting , investing in production of sixteen double O fours in er Peter . |
| 16 | Suppose a girl under 16 does not wish her parents to know that she is seeking contraceptive advice : the medical profession is divided between those who give priority to partial consent , and others who , in line with the General Medical Council , hold that the principle of professional confidentiality overrides that of parental consent . |
| 17 | You do n't want to know that she was wearing odd socks and one of them was green , it 's |
| 18 | She did n't even want people to know that she was living there . |
| 19 | He was perceptive enough to know that she was suffering from some sort of emotional wound that had nothing to do with him . |
| 20 | He was too intelligent not to know that she was reassuring him . |
| 21 | ‘ But , more than that , she seemed to want everyone to know that she was sitting with somebody other than her husband . |
| 22 | Suppose that you claim to know that you are sitting reading a book . |
| 23 | With the conditional theory of knowledge , and the above explication of clauses 3 and 4 , you can be said to know that you are sitting reading because ( 3 ) in the nearest worlds in which you are not sitting reading you do not believe that you are , and ( 4 ) in the nearest worlds in which you are sitting reading you do believe that you are . |
| 24 | ‘ And to know that you are doing something so useful Making cotton thread to be woven into lovely dresses ! ’ |
| 25 | Parent Ali Smith says it 's reassuring to know that you 're leaving the children with someone who knows what to do in a crisis . |
| 26 | It 's nice to know that you 're giving me the benefit of the doubt . ’ |
| 27 | erm but you 're also going to know that you 're contributing to the society erm and that even if some people in the newspapers and some politicians are dismissing unemployed people and saying that they 're scroungers , that that is n't the case for you , that you are erm making a positive input into society , probably a much more positive input than a lot of those people that are critical of erm unemployed people . |
| 28 | But when you 're self employed it 's very important to know that you 're going to get |
| 29 | ‘ It 's quite enough for me just to know that you 're going . ’ |
| 30 | Erm I was n't , I did n't know what you were trying to get at when you were bringing up the miles per annum that he was doing , I can understand the flying side of it but driving in the car , yes you need to know that he 's doing a lot of miles and that there 's , you know , the there 's the potential danger and everything there but I did n't understand why you need his specific miles per annum . |