Example sentences of "that [v-ing] [verb] the [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 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | We were unaware that having crossed the Webi we were now in Bale . |
| 5 | Glasgow South hopes that having proven the professionalism of Sales and Service operation all the blocks will be treated in early 1992 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Ed Wallis , of PowerGen , was the first to openly admit that having paid the piper , he would expect a choice of tune . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |