Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [v-ing] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clauses concerning casual workers were largely ineffective , employers having no interest in decasualization and workers fearing that the alternative was lack of work . |
| 2 | So people have rung in on this direct line to find out what 's going on and things appertaining that could be useful to them . |
| 3 | A retired postman who claimed to have been present at the Battle of Studley Constable was interviewed on television , and I still receive the occasional letter from Germans and Americans claiming that fathers or uncles had been at the ‘ battle ’ . |
| 4 | So for our purpose we will refer to all the frame components collectively as spars , and define their applications by calling them as follows : spine , cross-spar , leading edge ( I.e ) , and stand-offs assuming that such terms will be self explanatory . |
| 5 | However , the construction of a new sewage-treatment plant in 1983–84 resulted , in subsequent years , in a marked improvement of both water quality and biota illustrating that problems such as this are not irreversible but avoidable . |
| 6 | Letters followed from various retired judges and lawyers agreeing that juries performed better when they were ‘ middle aged , middle class and male ’ . |
| 7 | Furthermore , the levels of other biliary electrolytes did not differ among patients with gall stones and controls suggesting that contamination had not occurred . |
| 8 | Mrs Travers and Mrs Patel had shown flair for public relations from the beginning ; and the beginning for them had been shortly after the famed conversation in Sainsbury 's , when they organised a summer procession in honour of family values in a South London borough particularly hard hit by both government spending cuts and feminists insisting that ‘ family values ’ were a euphemism for women doing the housework . |
| 9 | THE oft fickle world of fashion has a lot to answer for with its shapes and sizes demanding that women change themselves to fit the latest trend or quirk . |
| 10 | At the moment there is vigorous theoretical argument among people who study animal signals , with some taking the extreme position that signals carry no accurate information about the state of the signaller and others arguing that the signals are extremely reliable . |
| 11 | Hypomethylation of DNA , chromosome 5q deletion , and mutations in the newly identified MCC and APC genes have been identified in both adenomas and carinomas suggesting that these are early events in the adenoma-carcinoma sequence . |