Example sentences of "or that [pron] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when you keep the big names supplied with a particular kind of amusement you can always depend on it that the police are found to be in the wrong , or that they are framing an innocent man , or that the children in question are his nieces . |
| 2 | The fact that nationalized industries make losses is not sufficient to prove that they are not minimizing costs or that they are producing the wrong output from society 's view-point . |
| 3 | It may be that they have developed new sensitivities to foods , or that they are becoming chemical-sensitive . |
| 4 | those that have n't , are less fortunate than that , there must be something either for them or that they were going to heaven was n't they ? |
| 5 | Many of these fearful criticisms of the working class centred on the feeling that they were getting above their station in life , or that they were encroaching upon previously reserved territories of the middle class . |
| 6 | The message conveyed to the brain from one such cell is a bit ambiguous : it is saying either that a stationary spot is going on or off in a particular region , or that something is moving upwards in that region . |
| 7 | Auxilliary nurse at BUPA Murrayfield Hospital Michael Douglas told the jury at Liverpool Crown Court : ‘ If he was talking about his marriage he would say they were breaking up or that she was leaving him . |
| 8 | There remains the possibility that the pregnant mother may catch the infection after her first antenatal examination , or that she was incubating early syphilis and therefore had negative blood-tests when first seen . |
| 9 | Lately she had begun to feel that things were changing , or that she was changing . |
| 10 | In social bird-watching it is very important that the people studied are not aware that they are being studied or that anyone is setting up a particular environment for them to behave in . |
| 11 | Instead it is copied to the plaintiff together with new Form N236 which asks him to confirm whether he wishes the case to proceed or that he is withdrawing the action ( Ord 9 , r 2(7) ) . |
| 12 | These points are similar to points 2 and 3 ante but vary slightly in the content of the call , e.g. for point 4 examples would include falsely telling a woman her husband was dead or that he is having an affair . |
| 13 | Some thought that he had been paid to attack the Visigoths by Gaiseric , king of the Vandals , who were now settled in North Africa ; others that he was making good a claim to be the husband of princess Honoria , daughter of Valentinian III , or that he was intervening in a dispute over the succession to the kingship of the Franks . |
| 14 | Or that I 'm going to say no we 're not paying |
| 15 | And I thought he was a nightmare or that I was going out of my mind . |
| 16 | It is embarrassing being young and wanting to be more liberated than you are , yet not being , and pretending to be more liberated than you are , or that you 're having a racier time . |
| 17 | It depends , if you need them they 're involvement then you may have to do it a slightly different way or maybe it 's the case that they have to accept this or that you 're gon na turn them over too . |
| 18 | Instead for many , many years there has been in Channel 4 a culture , which allowed you to expect these matters to be dealt with properly , without being made to feel that you were being perverse in raising the issue yet again or that you were making a point or a special case . |
| 19 | For instance , it is compatible with the results of all actual and possible measurements to hold either that the universe is of a fixed size or that it is expanding at a constant rate . |