Example sentences of "that [pron] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we return to the point where this chapter began , it is surely evident that nothing approaching the executive hegemony found in the United Kingdom exists in the United States . |
| 2 | it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it |
| 3 | So it remains the case that everyone earning over the threshold has to pay contributions on every pound earned , up to the ceiling of £325 a week . |
| 4 | ‘ Instructor/supervisors are being trained to ensure that everyone using it is properly advised on how to gain the best from it without running the risk of strain or injury . |
| 5 | In a school where many support services are offered through contracts or franchises , it becomes especially important to preserve the corporate identity and to ensure , through effective communication and sensitive leadership , that everyone working in the school feels an important part of the whole . |
| 6 | will be coming to September QT day to teach QTs something that they can pass on to their classes so that everyone attending the Reunion can join in . |
| 7 | Please make sure that everyone coming has adequate directions and transport arranged and let Rita Quick know as soon as possible , how many you have been able to muster ( Please remind them to bring packed lunch ) . |
| 8 | It was really for myself at that time , in the same way that my buying the picture by Stubbs of ‘ Pumpkin with a Stable Lad ’ in 1936 was for myself . |
| 9 | It was fortuitous that my slackening off in actual programme production at CBC coincided with an increasing social activity , mainly with the Semmens family , whose house I had almost begun to regard as home . |
| 10 | The point is that I made a mistake — oh , I do have a feeling for him , that helped to confuse the issue , we do like one another — what I have come to see is that my falling for Lewis was not what I took it to be . ’ |
| 11 | I had no idea that my coming here would lead to anything of the sort . ’ |
| 12 | I do n't agree with the theory that my becoming emotionally charged up by the relay affair affected my running in the 100 metres . |
| 13 | Apart from other considerations , he — and specially Mother — believed that my becoming a doctor would be a step up the social ladder . |
| 14 | No but I 'm flattered that he 's , he seems to be implying that my doing so might help , but that is a matter that er er does n't lie with the Home Office and I really are n't able to intervene . |
| 15 | So for that reason I do not believe that I feeling strongly as I do should im impose my views on others . |
| 16 | I fear , my dear , that I going deaf … |
| 17 | Is it right that someone earning £200,000 a year should pay only 1 per cent . |
| 18 | I have it on good authority that someone living at Hempnall became very enamoured of a stray mink she found outside her house . |
| 19 | Do n't automatically assume that someone displaying one or more of them is misusing alcohol , but if the problem persists , you should certainly investigate whether alcohol is the cause . |
| 20 | At the simplest level this means deciding that someone wearing , say , a skirt in our society is female and acting on the basis of this decision , or deciding that someone shouting at the top of his or her voice is excited or angry and acting accordingly . |
| 21 | At the simplest level this means deciding that someone wearing , say , a skirt in our society is female and acting on the basis of this decision , or deciding that someone shouting at the top of his or her voice is excited or angry and acting accordingly . |
| 22 | The word ‘ acceptance ’ most emphatically does not mean that someone experiencing loss will get to the stage of saying , ‘ Ah , it 's all over , it does n't really matter any more . ’ |
| 23 | Mrs Bennett of West Yorkshire made a similar complaint about Lovejoy : the character ‘ warned an acquaintance that someone looking for him ‘ wants his balls on a fork' . ’ |
| 24 | It is likely that someone taking up a post direct from library school will have far less practical or quasi-practical experience of book selection than of the two preceding activities , and this may mean that the manager needs to introduce his staff to the basic elements of book provision work in addition to the special features of a particular system . |
| 25 | The absence of all but a handful of examples in the biographical sources of this method of obtaining mevleviyets leads to the inference that someone obtaining a mevleviyet by this route could not expect to get much further in the hierarchy ; and indeed the provision itself , while not prohibiting the practice , does remove one of the principal prerogatives of the holders of mevleviyets . |
| 26 | He distinguished the cultural sciences by the fact that their ‘ objects of study ’ are humanly made , that someone observing them is observing processes in which he himself necessarily participates , and that different methods of establishing evidence and interpretations are then inevitable . |
| 27 | Any other behaviour , such as suggesting a game of cards , would surprise and confuse us , as it would not conform to our notion of the appropriate role that someone occupying the status of doctor should perform . |
| 28 | The Scottish Association for Mental Health estimates that someone making a contribution of £89 currently will be forced to pay £300 from April . |
| 29 | He argues that : ‘ [ t ] o the small investor the idea that someone working in the City is using inside information to deal in what ought to be a uniformly informed market is quite repugnant . |
| 30 | Conversely , they often assume , as do others , that someone working on religion theoretically and empirically does so from the standpoint of a believer , with the underlying assumption , ‘ Why else would anyone be interested in such a traditional , out-dated , and unimportant institution ? ’ |