Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [that] they [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | wilko knows about tore but leeds has shown no interest in him other than saying that they know about this player . |
| 2 | Validation of the suffering individual , treating him or her with kindness , professional respect and dignity , being open and honest , separating the awareness of the disease from the understanding of the suffering human being , following the distorted reasoning and disturbed actions and accepting that they appeared to the sufferer to be most appropriate at the time they were committed . |
| 3 | Sometimes new uses for a well-established term are so strange and mystifying that they refuse to ‘ take ’ . |
| 4 | The Methodists were nonetheless going from strength to strength , and noting that they listened to ‘ hearty , racy , cutting and unctuous speeches which surely would never be forgotten . ’ |
| 5 | The purpose of this policy is twofold , first as a means of achieving a more effective link between education and employment so that school leavers are old enough to take up productive work when they leave school , secondly as a means of offering a basic education to a greater number of the nation 's children and ensuring that they stay at school to complete it . |
| 6 | The other causes lie in the readers alone : the habits of thought and feeling that they bring with them to the text , which distort or block their response to it . |