Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [pron] be [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of us mentioned it : it would have been intolerable for either of us to accept that he was losing his grip . |
| 2 | egalitarianism and that how that increased production was seen as the you know , priority , and so perhaps they would want to just I mean it might seem appear that they were changing their policy to a more moderate land reform but this was not an end in itself it was a means to an end in order to increase production which would benefit the population as a whole , so it 's , they still had the same goal |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not that I mind wasting my time , it 's just that I like to know that I 'm wasting my time . ’ |
| 4 | Dora was summoned ; her appearance , announcing that she was taking her protégée back to the auberge without delay , did nothing to help matters . |
| 5 | ‘ Please believe me , this is my obstinacy — you are behaving honourably , honourably — I realise that I am jeopardising my chance of great happiness — but we know — both of us — there are times when the greatest danger has to be faced , the greatest risk taken because that small persistent voice will not allow us to escape our duty to ourselves . |
| 6 | I suddenly found that I was losing my powers at a time when I needed them most . |
| 7 | He did not consider that he was misrepresenting his descent , since to acknowledge the family 's status would display vulgar class consciousness . |
| 8 | It was only when I swung to the left and broke free for a moment that I was able to observe that he was wearing my dad 's grey towelling dressing-gown . |
| 9 | He had no sense of telling a lie ; after all , Céline must surely have realised that she was forfeiting her title by fleeing to Scotland . |
| 10 | Does he think that he is helping our farmers in their genuine plight by highlighting such diseases in this debate ? |
| 11 | Soon she realised that he was singing her praises to his friends , because other similar garden owners rang her up and asked her if she could do a few hours for them too . |
| 12 | After a moment she realised that he was extolling her virtues as a personal assistant . |
| 13 | His jaw ached and he realised that he was grinding his teeth , so he released the muscles and tried to relax . |
| 14 | The cigarette turned out to be a dirty , slovenly , foul-mouthed creature and Lisa realised that she was projecting her own nasty bits on to it . |
| 15 | But er I his lieutenants were there and I 'm sure he looked to see that they were doing their job properly . |
| 16 | She found that deeply comforting and was mentally able to see that he was carrying her pain and helplessness . |
| 17 | The reason for the move is that Phil took redundancy from BP when they announced that they were closing their Glasgow office and has since found a job with a Swedish oil company in London . |
| 18 | On Jan. 29 President César Gaviria Trujillo made a fresh offer , extending an earlier decree to include crimes committed up to the time of surrender , and on Jan. 30 the Extraditables , maintaining that the police had in fact killed Diana Turbay , announced that they were reconsidering their latest declaration of war and would abstain from violent action for the moment . |
| 19 | Transforming at a stroke the state of its balance sheet , Philips Electronics NV on Friday announced that it is to sell its 35% stake in the Japan-based Matsushita Electronics Corp to its partner in the venture , Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd for a whopping $1,600m . |
| 20 | The substance of this report was that , almost 300 years after it had condemned Galileo for saying that the Earth revolved around the Sun , the Roman Catholic Church announced that it was to re-examine his case ‘ with full objectivity ’ . |
| 21 | When in August 1986 GM announced that it was merging its North American heavy truck operations with Volvo , under Volvo 's control , the future of Bedford looked bleak . |
| 22 | On Nov. 16 Germany announced that it was disbanding its branch of a clandestine anti-communist network . |
| 23 | On April 17 Germany announced that it was increasing its aid for Kurdish refugees to DM440,000,000 ( $262,600,000 ) . |
| 24 | After the vote , the government of Mr Yegor Gaidar , First Deputy Prime Minister , announced that it was withdrawing its threat to resign . |
| 25 | On Dec. 3 the South African government announced that it was withdrawing its diplomatic representatives from Angola . |
| 26 | On Sept. 19 the RJO announced that it was freezing his release because Israel had reneged on a pledge to release 80 Arab detainees in the earlier transfer — 20 more than the 51 prisoners and nine bodies which were handed over . |
| 27 | India announced that it was to increase its contribution to the third replenishment from $6,500,000 to $8,000,000 . |
| 28 | On Sept. 28 the United Kingdom announced that it was scrapping its short-range battlefield nuclear weapons but would continue with plans to arm the Navy with the multi-warhead Trident D-5 submarine-launched missile . |
| 29 | However , on Jan. 11 , 1990 , the United States announced that it was to cut its 1990 contribution to FAO from $70,000,000 to $18,000,000 and would consider withdrawing from the organization altogether . |
| 30 | On the following day Perot announced that he was abandoning his campaign . |