Example sentences of "[that] [v-ing] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The threat of greater competition brought about by the trend towards government curtailment of professional monopolies and relaxation of advertising rules means that refusing to contemplate the idea of incorporation could entail a heavy loss of business . |
| 2 | Afterwards , he becomes loquacious about the Stoics , ‘ men who took what came , because they knew that grumbling made no difference . ’ |
| 3 | There had obviously been a couple of heated arguments , probably to do with the artistic … you know , you get bored with something that you 've done before and you 're working on a new project , and I think he thought that having to wear a suit as opposed to his choice of stage gear can be very nerve-racking . |
| 4 | Paul tells the Ephesians that having heard the word of truth and having believed the good news of salvation , they are ‘ in Christ ’ and have been sealed with the Holy Spirit who was promised long ago ( 1:13 , cf. 2 Cor. 2:21 ) . |
| 5 | We have been mesmerised by Dean Acheson saying that having lost an empire , Britain has not yet found a role . |
| 6 | Er , I understand there was problem because of the computer breakdown which caused a certain record to be lost but then I discover that there is no copy of man manual copy of orders sent to the contractors for repairs kept so that having lost the computer record the council do not know what lights have been reported to contractor for repair and then find out the basic clients |
| 7 | It is significant that having conducted a review of the ‘ state of the art ’ in these areas , and drawn up a list of generalisations about the change process in education , Bolam cautions that generalisations ‘ should be regarded as working hypotheses and pointers for future study since their basis in research is weak ’ . |
| 8 | Mr McCausland said that having made a survey of the non-drinking areas implemented by other councils he was convinced that Belfast was being treated ‘ less sympathetically ’ than elsewhere in the province . |
| 9 | But if I tell her the truth and insist upon it , I shall be disobeying my husband and causing his mother unnecessary worry , she reflected , and was forced to accept that having made a cross for her back , she would have to bear it . |
| 10 | We were unaware that having crossed the Webi we were now in Bale . |
| 11 | Glasgow South hopes that having proven the professionalism of Sales and Service operation all the blocks will be treated in early 1992 . |
| 12 | Fanny Burney said to Johnson that Shakespeare ‘ could never have seen a Caliban ’ , and Johnson told her that having seen a man Shakespeare knew how to vary one ; ‘ A man who would draw a monstrous cow , must first know what a cow commonly is ; or how can he tell that to give her an ass 's head or an elephant 's tusk will make her monstrous ? ’ |
| 13 | Relaxing a little , she told herself that having discovered the identity of R , it was not so essential to grill him after all ; but on the other hand , there was still the matter of the concealed photograph to be explained . |
| 14 | Ed Wallis , of PowerGen , was the first to openly admit that having paid the piper , he would expect a choice of tune . |
| 15 | The investigator also plans to follow up a finding that having perfected the distinction between meaning and message , children may come to view reality in a new way : incoming information can be construed as offering clues about reality , whereas before it was assumed to be reality . |
| 16 | I was amused by J. Lipton 's letter in the November issue , in which he says that having driven a nail in the wood , if it splits , he knows he should have used a screw . |
| 17 | Several of the Covenanters , including some of the officers , told Morton that the order of the day had been ‘ No quarter — No prisoners ’ and threatened to kill the prisoner but the powerful blacksmith declared that having spared the man 's life he would defend it with his own . |
| 18 | Continuing our top-down approach to discourse , it is logical that having identified the sender and receiver , the discourse type and the parts within it , we should turn our attention to organization within parts of the discourse — however these may have been identified and defined . |
| 19 | The final point to make is that having weighed the relevance and reliability of information , we then judge whether the benefits of accounting and reporting outweigh the costs . |
| 20 | The Prime Minister also feels that having taken the flak for the longest recession since the war , Mr Lamont is entitled to receive the laurels when the predicted recovery begins . |
| 21 | Yes , one , one thing has occurred to me about this in trying to deal with forms , it seems to me that trying to put a date on a day on it , is absolutely hopeless . |
| 22 | The net result is that trying to create a region beneath the gate where there are no electrons ( a depletion layer ) becomes very hard work indeed . |
| 23 | I have great sympathy with the needs of village schools but at the end ofg the day we have to consider the needs of the children and I have no doubt in my mind that trying to open a school in Brockweir is simply not on for the children . |
| 24 | However , it is not unreasonable to argue that trying to meet the measurement standards of natural science is to inflict a crippling over-ambition on social research . |
| 25 | Economists have usually held that trying to tie a government 's hands to spend in line with revenue raised for particular purposes is impossible . |