Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [v-ing] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the initial shock and disbelief of hearing that you have HIV , you may be left with a mixture of emotions . |
| 2 | Sir Gregory had no intention of admitting that he had given way to his wife 's insistence that Jennifer must go , so he refrained from giving Harry any sort of answer . |
| 3 | You could achieve an effect just as good as that of the real thing , and have the pleasure of knowing that you 'd done it all yourself ! |
| 4 | There is of course no logical reason why things should be different this time , wrote Harsnet , why this too should not be an illusion , the illusion of imagining that I know not only what step to take first but also what step to take second and even what step to take third . |
| 5 | It is a condition of booking that you take out travel insurance covering emergency repatriation and holiday cancellation . |
| 6 | It 's a condition of booking that you have medical insurance valid for our watersports activities , including a 24 hour call service for repatriation to UK if necessary ; local hospital care is primitive . |
| 7 | It 's a condition of booking that you have medical insurance valid for our watersports activities , including a 24 hour call service for repatriation to UK if necessary ; local hospital care is primitive . |
| 8 | ( Of course , no utterances are safe from the post-Freudian trick of claiming that they mean the opposite of what they say , but in the interpretation of literary texts we must be given additional , fairly unequivocal evidence of a discrepancy between speech and meaning , as we are given for Iago , but not for Othello . ) |
| 9 | That was the part of shoemaking that she loved . |
| 10 | Testing is a crucial part of ensuring that we know what quality of education our young people are achieving , so that if a satisfactory level is not reached , appropriate action can be taken . |
| 11 | The kind of teaching that they enjoy , value , and entered the teaching profession to do may no longer be appropriate for many of the classes that they have to take . |
| 12 | The kind of reasoning that we have discussed , which takes us from a finite list of singular statements to the justification of a universal statement , which takes us from some to all , is called inductive reasoning and the process is called induction . |
| 13 | The kind of imprinting that we have been considering so far is called ‘ filial ’ imprinting . |
| 14 | Only when he trawled his memory of leaving the room earlier , and found there a distinct recollection of checking that he had locked the door behind him , did irritation turn to anxiety . |
| 15 | Nor that the reason she had sent Maggie to an all-girls ' school was not to protect her from evil-minded youths , but to protect her from the sort of teaching that she seemed to be getting . |
| 16 | To think of it another way , if you were asked to mend a broken chair you would not use every tool you had just for the sake of showing that you had them . |
| 17 | And also I think , which is very strong and I think it does come out in , in the Chinese Communist Party , is the lust of power which can be even more dangerous when you convince yourself I 'll do all you lot good but I can make you all members of the Communist Party , whether you want to be or not does n't really matter , you know , it 's gon na be for the good of the country so you fall in with this trap of assuming that you want is for their good so it 's sort of a , a dangerous thing . |
| 18 | What if the official welcomer had stuck to his preconceptions to the point of concluding that I had not arrived ? |
| 19 | Some authorities made a point of saying that they did not have a training programme because they depended on courses that presented themselves , e.g. : ‘ We always hope to send staff on courses as they are advertised ’ . |
| 20 | This last provision looks so sweeping that there is a danger of supposing that it has swept away all difference between legal and equitable rights . |
| 21 | Beneath the heaven of feeling that he needed her were the remnants of pain caused by the memory of how he had looked at her the morning after they had made love . |
| 22 | ‘ The Occupational therapy department are looking for things to put on the wall , whereas for the elderly patients themselves , it is just the process of working that they find enjoyable . |
| 23 | As under the 1953 Act , the onus of proving that we have good reason , lawful authority , or one of the other defences , rests squarely with us . |
| 24 | They put up spinning-rods , and clutching a can of worms each , set off round the bank , in spite of admitting that they had no authority to do so . |
| 25 | Okay , they 're poor paid , but at least they would have the pride of saying that they 've got a job whereas the elderly are having to just sit at home and turning down their fires and turning down their central heating in case they ca n't afford their bills ! |
| 26 | It was when he became aware of the dominance of some technique which emptied the art of meaning that he began to express scepticism over the art of the last decades . |
| 27 | We have acquired the habit of assuming that they do n't know what they want , do n't want to decide anything about their own lives and have nothing to contribute . |
| 28 | This was no credit to her own piety — but what was the use of pretending that she had any piety left ? |
| 29 | It was all there , the passion and the glory and inflamed rush of feeling that she knew she would always have for him . |
| 30 | Let us pay Lord Taylor the courtesy of assuming that he does not believe the social circle of the average judge to be a complete guide to right thinking . |