Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [pron] be [v-ing] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His trip here was a homecoming , and there were times when I could see in his eyes that he was reliving his first memories . |
| 2 | So , it 's three units that I 'm giving my siblings . |
| 3 | Cos next , well the week after the reading week we 've got , we do the first visit to our schools that we 're doing our T P in . |
| 4 | Dr Les Atkinson , vice-president of the chamber and chairman of BP Shipping , forecast : ‘ Any shipowner who disregards this guidance and causes a pollution incident is going to have an impossible task establishing in the courts that he was operating his vessels in a prudent and competent manner . ’ |
| 5 | But secretly he loved the idea , and it gave him a great kick to tell his friends and business acquaintances that he was supporting his son on the amateur golf circuit . |
| 6 | It would still have been very difficult to explain to the Indians that they were selling their land in perpetuity , and of course nobody could have had any idea of the immense flood of immigrants that was going to cross the Atlantic . |
| 7 | During most of the fourteen years that he was running his restaurant he found it necessary to supplement his earnings by articles , books — heaven knows how he found the time to write them — cookery classes , lectures and the television demonstrations which were the first of their kind . |
| 8 | IMRO , the City watchdog responsible for regulating fund managers , has revealed that it was already probing Dumenil 's administration following complaints from investors that they were receiving their income late . |
| 9 | And the Bank is pushing the options in such quantities that it is keeping their price lower than it should be . |
| 10 | Sun Alliance has given notice to National Home Loans that it is cancelling its payment protection scheme at the end of the month . |
| 11 | The C-in-C of the day utterly refused to believe the Air Ministry 's suggestions that we were wasting our effort and losing many crews to little purpose . |
| 12 | Hewlett-Packard Co has seen off one of those contemptible shareholder class-action lawsuits : it was filed last August and alleged securities laws violations after the company said that it did not expect to meet analysts ' fiscal third quarter estimates ; the judge dismissed the case after Hewlett persuaded the plaintiffs that they were wasting their time and that of the court . |
| 13 | He is so true to his roots that he is buying his first home in ‘ mean street , ’ Philadelphia , the tough district where his father and several friends were killed . |
| 14 | But so long as Mary of Guise 's position was upheld by her daughter , no amount of rhetoric could conceal the fact that in attacking the regent they were attacking the queen , and religious sincerity did not get them off the hook of treason ; thus , for example , when they seized the coining-irons of the mint in Edinburgh in July , it was an intelligent enough political and military act , but their efforts to justify it on the grounds that they were serving their country by stopping the regent 's debasement of the coinage rang all too hollow . |