Example sentences of "the [noun sg] be [adv] [v-ing] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The district which was due to take over the funding is now claiming that some of the people who are now living in the special units attached to old people 's homes are not their responsibility They did not originally come from their districts and so they are refusing to pay some of the finance over . |
| 2 | The Board is simply saying that its own policies will also be explicitly only for companies . |
| 3 | er it was , basically the Kuomintang are just saying that the people who are actually leaving associations are riff-raff , you know |
| 4 | ‘ I would be delighted to design the flowers for your wedding … | ’ The daydream was so engrossing that she almost did n't see the man and the girl struggling on the pavement opposite . |
| 5 | The Guild is now advocating that further steps should be taken , namely , that women should be made eligible for seats on town councils . |
| 6 | The Council was clearly implying that ( as Newman saw ) Scripture itself works sacramentally , especially when it is made actual by effective reading and preaching in the liturgy . |
| 7 | By the middle of 1924 the Agitprop section of the Smolgubkom was openly declaring that both shefstvo and smychka were a farce in actuality because they had deteriorated into mass weekend outings to the countryside in search of illicit stills . |
| 8 | The group is also demanding that a strip of virgin forest along the Burmese border be included in the designation . |
| 9 | Indeed , the huge TV screen set up for the occasion is now predicting that the Tories will be shy of an overall majority by a mere eight seats : John Major will surely be back at Number 10 . |
| 10 | The person is implicitly saying that he or she subscribes to the network of rules of the discipline in question . |
| 11 | The protein products encoded by many of these genes have been characterised — some in considerable detail — and the evidence is now compelling that their abnormal expression is related to the development of human cancer . |
| 12 | We can also recognise , as we did , at an , on an earlier paper that it is national government policy and increasingly so , to encourage the development of capital schemes , borrowing , we noted that in relation to transport and the availability of S C A's I think it 's also right to say that the government does set down the level of borrowing which can be entered into in in any one year , that is the credit approvals are controlled by the government and they do make them available to the County Council and to district Councils , so in a sense , the government is both saying that we expect borrowing to be a feature of a budget and also that we want to control , and restrict the amount of money that can be borrowed through the amount of credit approvals . |
| 13 | But the government is now proposing that all schemes , including small ones , should not be allowed to invest more than 5 per cent of their money in their employer 's businesss . |
| 14 | The Government is now proposing that they shall er er that they shall be erm made from a list of persons compiled in accordance with an Order by the Secretary of State and it appears to be being claimed , at least in the press that this somehow is providing for appointments to be at arms length from the Home Secretary . |
| 15 | There is an item about this joint staffing watch at item ten , which suggests that the government are also finding that it 's got limited use , and are suggesting that these returns should be completed on a different basis , and rather than quarterly , annually . |
| 16 | The hospital is now insisting that hi-tec scans will be available in all urgent cases . |
| 17 | Th the motion 's basically saying that we want to continue er our demands for harmonization of conditions pe irrespective of what peop jobs people do er in terms of negotiating , negotiating agreements . |
| 18 | The Press were openly speculating that if his rival won , then the world championship would be wide open for the last two races on the calendar . |
| 19 | For many of these , memories of the country are so haunting that the real world has lost is charm . |
| 20 | Galbraith ( 1976 ) put forward the idea that in the technological world the technology is so demanding that a given new technology is handled in the same way anywhere in the world no matter what the local culture . |