Example sentences of "that [v-ing] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've found that gluing a strip of sandpaper , or better sill , wet ‘ n ’ dry , to the base of the box/block gives a much better hold . |
| 2 | For example , theory shows that financing a service by an annually-negotiated budget will result in a higher level of provision of the service than would be socially optimal , and higher than would be provided by financing through charges to the user . |
| 3 | Furthermore , I do not see that fastening a label from ancient philosophy upon Wordsworth — in this case to call him a ‘ Pantheist ’ — is particularly helpful ; we are simply consigning him to a museum of dead ideas . |
| 4 | The main aim of all the above would be to ensure that using a microcomputer as a tool becomes as natural as using a telephone or a typewriter . |
| 5 | This means that using a program like WINFAX , you can combine document and data from a variety of Windows applications — a letter from word processing , a graphic from your paint program , a design from DTP , a graph from the spreadsheet etc and send them off in one FAX . |
| 6 | Housmans considers that building a property in Portugal is in many cases cheaper than buying one . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , we soon found that producing a publication of the required length , and assembling a representative group of writers , was no easy task . |
| 8 | Max Friedlander , an outstanding scholar of Northern European art , took the view that accepting a work into an artist 's oeuvre was like recognising a friend , not a matter of measurement or detailed scrutiny . |
| 9 | She knew that Constance dealt in other , ill-gotten , commodities on these trips but concurred in the popular , criminal view that nicking a lorryload of underwear was in a different class from stealing wedding rings from old ladies . |
| 10 | An AXA executive confirms that the French insurer wants to invest in UNI , pointing out that gaining a foothold in Scandinavia would be in line with AXA 's strategic aim of becoming a global insurer . |
| 11 | ‘ When a gospel is presented that explicitly or implicitly teaches that becoming a citizen of the Kingdom of God requires a denial of peoplehood , its authenticity must be called into question ’ ( Wagner 1978 ) . |
| 12 | The first has emerged largely from the traditional study of public administration and argues that transposing a model of management developed in the private sector will fail because public sector management is distinctive ( see for example Elcock 1991 ; Pollitt 1991 ; Stewart and Ranson 1988 ; Flynn 1990 ) . |
| 13 | It has been held that keeping a motor-car in a garage with petrol in the tank , and a motor-coach in a parking ground after the tank has been emptied is a non-natural use of land , but the decisions have been criticised . |
| 14 | They think that gearing a campaign towards maximum effective coverage is demeaning . |
| 15 | John Stuart Mill notices this ( he quotes the sentence in question , italicising ‘ and of individual qualities ’ ) , and proceeds ( 1 ) to ask what is meant by an ‘ individual quality ’ ; ( 2 ) as if he knows the answer to this question ( namely , the individual qualities of an object are ‘ the individual and instantaneous impressions which it produces in us ’ ) , to deny that predicating a quality of an object is predicating of it one of its individual qualities ; and ( 3 ) to say what it is to predicate a quality of an object ( namely , ‘ to assert that the object affects us in a manner similar to that in which we are affected by a known class of objects ’ ) . |
| 16 | It claims that operating a reactor at higher temperature , but lower pressure , would strengthen the welds . |
| 17 | FIRST-TIME travellers to America should be aware that ordering a meal in the Land of the Free is an art form in itself , given the copious choice . |
| 18 | Why do people think that inserting a candle into something they have no further use for renders it an indispensable household utensil instead of litter they should be taking home in their rucksacks ? |
| 19 | He could have bought a return ticket because he knew that inserting a scintilla of doubt would spare the feelings of those close to him . |
| 20 | Ranganathan asserts that releasing a book without an index should be an indictable offence . |
| 21 | ‘ I told Philip Schofield that shagging a sheep on the edge of a cliff was better because they push back . |
| 22 | British Telecom says that selling a service in which the equipment is in the company 's own offices stands a better chance of success . |
| 23 | The European Court of Human rights held that extraditing a person to a State ‘ where substantial grounds have been shown for believing that the person concerned , … faces a real risk of being subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in the requesting country ’ engages the responsibility of the sending State . |
| 24 | The short answer is that turning a PC into a network-ready machine is simple . |
| 25 | My third point is to remind you that fixing a criterion for non-intervention amounts to setting the moral agenda for the treatment of VLBW babies . |
| 26 | Holes in the ground for preserving ice were known in Italy in 1580 , and Sir Francis Bacon died from a chill in 1626 after testing his theory that stuffing a chicken with ice would preserve it . |
| 27 | It is fair to say that in the last instance , it will not actually produce a design with the colours separated out into their appropriate rows , but will make a card design showing the colours so that punching a card from this is made easier . |
| 28 | When he arrived at Manly beach with a board he had carved out of sugar pine , many were those who said that riding a wave on a board was pure myth , a legend of the South Seas brought back by drunken sailors . |
| 29 | The ESS of hawks alone is an example of a ‘ pure ’ ESS and that containing a proportion of each is an example of a ‘ mixed ’ ESS . |
| 30 | You will gather I mean it caught me unawares , and in fact it disturbed me that having a bit of a wobbly on something as simple as this did not bode well for the Devil 's Ridge , which The Munros book described as a section where ‘ some may welcome the security of a rope ’ . |