Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] that [pron] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not suggesting that he arrives at the meaning of Truth as the result of philosophical or metaphysical speculation in a vacuum . |
| 2 | The academic who describes himself at cocktail parties with the words ‘ I am a physicist ’ or ‘ I am a historian ’ is saying something about his self-perception ( essentially a researcher , not a teacher ) ; but is also saying that he subscribes to the disciplinary code imposed on its practitioners . |
| 3 | For a start , it is not the hardiest of perennials ; not surprisingly considering that it hails from Uruguay . |
| 4 | One may deal briefly with Molla Arab 's supposed first period of office as Mufti , simply saying that there appears to be no more evidence for it than for the rest of Katib Celebi 's construction of the facts concerning the history of the office in the early years , which is not , however , to say that the statement ( or the construction , for that matter ) may be dismissed entirely ( cf. below , n. 166 , for example ) . |
| 5 | That last phrase , presenting the savage mind as ‘ vanished ’ , yet suggesting that it continues in our own , is in line with Eliot 's refusal when discussing Lévy-Bruhl , to pin down just how the savage mind is related to the modern . |
| 6 | If the growth of administrative adjudication could not be prohibited , it was argued that it must be regularized by integrating it into the ordinary law of the land , thereby ensuring that it develops in harmony with traditional common law principles . |