Example sentences of "[v-ing] [that] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You also ca n't help noticing that attempts to drag the Royal Family into the 20th Century have failed as badly as attempts to do the same for this other great British anachronism . |
| 2 | The warming and cooling that takes place when the computer is turned on and off expands and contracts circuit boards and socketed integrated circuit chips . |
| 3 | It is this concern about what is happening that gets me out of my studio into the landscape carefully to scrutinise its every aspect for meanings . |
| 4 | It 's mainlining that leaves scars . ’ |
| 5 | The uncomposed art informel of Gillet and his friend Maurice Ronet ( who left art for the theatre ) has its moments , or rather its small passages , but this is not painting that makes one reconsider painting . |
| 6 | The Americans think they constructed the canal — and the lasting folk memory of that achievement in the United States provides much of the emotional underpinning that sustains the American anti-Noriega hysteria — but it was actually built by black workers from the Caribbean . |
| 7 | In this respect it contradicts the approach to education in general which is to enable children to acquire critical skills and achieve the kind of understanding that makes knowledge their own , not that of their parents or society . |
| 8 | They spoke little , for there was no need of speech between them , there was only the quick accord and understanding that exists between all wild creatures . |
| 9 | The coronation of Bel Shanaar marks the end of the war with Chaos and the start of the great period of rebuilding that sees the rise of Tiranoc to pre-eminence among the Elf realms . |
| 10 | They are disgusted with a decision which must kill off the all-important chance of exposing a form of cheating that has spread with alarming haste as bowlers find ways of getting the old ball to swing violently late . |
| 11 | staging that 's put in and cast away . |
| 12 | Gastroenterologists Virginia Alun Jones , John Hunter , and colleagues at Addenbrooke 's Hospital ( Lancet , 1982 , vol 2 , p 1115 ) , have shown that some patients improve when their diet is altered , suggesting that IBS is an aspect food intolerance . |
| 13 | However , the two normal cell type ( fibroblasts and endothelial cells ) mRNA lacked this band and this product was not observed when PCR was performed for up to 35 cycles , thus suggesting that repeats AD1 and 11 either singly or together were spliced out in these normal cells ( Fig. 4 ) . |
| 14 | And others have huge amounts of artificial snow facilities such as Selva in Italy or immaculate piste grooming that maintains the snow in good condition such as Meribel and Courchevel in France . |
| 15 | Officials are preparing new figures after accepting that estimates by their own consultants , Touche Ross , are inaccurate . |
| 16 | I wanted to show her why hospitals like Barts are crucial as providers not only of specialist care of the rare and the bizarre , but also superlative care of the plain and usual , with a quality of nursing that surpasses the ‘ barely adequate ’ striven for by the NHS executive . |
| 17 | This reflects the management 's recognition that the style of policing that occurs in areas like West Belfast heavily influences the public 's perception of the police . |
| 18 | But at the end of the day , there simply is no point in punishing criminals if you ca n't catch them , and I think it is absolutely critical that we should be devoting our attention er , to policing that catches criminals and prevents crime , and I entirely support the , the points just made about the er , initiatives within the community particularly in the schools , because I think it is absolutely critical that we er , promote a society where crime should not pay . |
| 19 | And what can there be about the arrangement of a few slices of sausage and a dozen black olives on a dish brought by the waitress in the seaside café to keep you occupied while your fish is cooking that makes you feel that this is the first time you have seen and tasted a black olive and a piece of sausage ? |
| 20 | Environmentalists are demanding that plans for Europe 's largest housing development are put on ice because of fears that nearby power lines could be a health hazard . |
| 21 | He became unwell and was found to have contracted a rare form of food poisoning that attacks the kidneys . |
| 22 | Swans suffer from lead poisoning that comes from anglers ' weights . |
| 23 | By the time they have reached their 40s , many former fatties have found a pattern of eating that suits them and keeps them slim . |
| 24 | So I headed back , realising that plans to combine Beinn an Dothaidh should be abandoned since the view would be remarkably similar from its summit , although it might not boast a ring pull . |
| 25 | Realising that means asking some fundamental questions about what we are actually after , with a lot on offer if we get it right , and disaster if we do not . |
| 26 | But at the moment he 's well he 's not come back to us with any answer from our offer at all so we 're we 're presuming that means no so we thought we 'd better start looking . |
| 27 | The things to avoid are principally a sort of subterranean trembling that begins in the body and communicates itself to your vocal chords and even , on occasion , to the chair in which you are sitting , and those long swallows , which you never seem to do at any other time but now occur unstoppably at the wrong point of emphasis in the sentence . |
| 28 | Duesenberry argues that consumers ( who have become accustomed to the income level of OY and the standard of living that goes with it ) will increase their apc in an attempt to maintain their level of consumption and will move down the consumption line SC . |
| 29 | As far as the social element is concerned , a government should recognise the need to promote social cohesion by securing that all citizens have a standard of living that enables them to participate in the life of the community ; governments must take care that reductions in the social element of citizenship which they may regard as necessary in the area of economic policy do not result in sections of the population being excluded from citizenship and membership of the national community . |
| 30 | Television erects major obstacles to that goal both by imposing its own definition of what a whole person is and by teaching us a way of living that accords with its own curriculum . |