Example sentences of "[v-ing] that [pers pn] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she was n't explaining that she and the libbers were on the same side really , Mrs Travers took pains to point out that FAMILY had no quarrel with the poor or socially inadequate ; it was just that she wanted to pay tribute to the unsung millions of women ( and men ) who lived normal lives , did not swap roles , get divorces or abortions , become homeless or batter their children ( or their wives ) ; people who faced misfortune with re-sourcefulness and courage and without recourse to public funds . |
| 2 | The one time City and England striker , now a millionaire businessman , put the pressure on chairman Peter Swales by revealing that he and two colleagues were prepared to put substantial funds into the club in return for a seat on the board . |
| 3 | Bryan even came to my home and scoffed at me for suggesting that he and the Duchess were lovers . |
| 4 | Siward said , ‘ I 'd be a fool if I did , seeing that you and Alfgar have been cultivating each other for thirty years . |
| 5 | Although hypothermia can happen accidentally , it is essentially an insidious condition that can happen over several hours , the victim becoming sleepier and sleepier in this time and not realising that he or she is freezing to death . |
| 6 | Your reader will then know that you are not presuming that she or he knows what the term means . |
| 7 | It is the child who refuses to abandon Dreams — who stubbornly persists in believing that he or she will explore the depths of the Amazon , or will become a film director — who becomes the adult who will achieve those ambitions . |
| 8 | The same survey found that the more a person smokes the less faith that person has in believing that he or she can stop . |
| 9 | I should be grateful if you would , in accordance with the confidentiality undertaking , now return the Information memorandum to me and at the same time confirm in writing that you and your advisers have destroyed any further copies of the documentation . |
| 10 | I am therefore requesting , in accordance with the confidentiality undertaking , that the Information memorandum is returned to me and that at the same time you confirm in writing that you and your advisers have destroyed any further copies of the documentation . |
| 11 | A cautious Mrs Gillian Shephard , the new Employment Secretary , said yesterday that too much should not be read into one set of figures before adding that they and a series of other favourable statistics may offer ‘ glimmers of hope ’ on the jobless front . |
| 12 | Champion McEnroe , 33 , practising with the Davis Cup team at Fort Worth , Texas , issued a statement this week confirming that he and Tatum , who won an Oscar as child star of Paper Moon , have seen lawyers about ending their six-year marriage . |
| 13 | Sohail and Ramiz made 16 untroubled , and that evening Akram expressed fresh concern that some were still complaining that he and Waqar must be ‘ doctoring ’ the ball . |
| 14 | Where the director or directors is or are not in sole control of the company , there is no difficulty in holding that he or they can appropriate from the company and the property belong to another . |
| 15 | The catapult is an Inside thing , requiring that you and it are one . |
| 16 | Right in saying that you and that the , the fact that , the fact |
| 17 | With the heir to the throne in her hands , she wrote to Edward saying that she and her son would not return to England until Edward had dismissed the Despensers from court . |
| 18 | Unfortunately David Fell replied saying that he and Julian Crozier were unable to come . |
| 19 | Reuters news agency cited him as saying that he and Klaus had agreed a timetable for moves towards the split and for preparing legislation at both federal and republic level to ensure a peaceful transition to two independent states . |
| 20 | Within my own practice , I have never met a white child who says he or she is not white ; neither have I met a black child growing up in a black family saying that he or she is not black . |
| 21 | The person is implicitly saying that he or she subscribes to the network of rules of the discipline in question . |
| 22 | The situation is not helped by the writers of " soap operas " who " explain " the behaviour of a murderer , child molester or other deviant by saying that he or she had epilepsy or a brain tumour . |
| 23 | This may simply involve a talk with the infected patient explaining the way in which the diseases are transmitted and asking that he or she make every effort to persuade the contacts to attend . |
| 24 | Uses behaviour that emphasises the interviewer 's powers to appraise and evaluate — sitting back in the chair , head tilting backwards , hand covering mouth , perhaps , looking doubtful and not registering any reaction to what is said , or indicating that he or she appreciates that their ‘ victim ’ has finished an answer . |
| 25 | Similarly , a director who is in charge of the company 's research and development programme would not be able to resist a negligence action by claiming that he or she lacked experience or qualifications in the area concerned . |
| 26 | We can not therefore , admitting that we or they did not know before , insist that we do know now , since that would be to make different claims in circumstances that show no relevant difference . |
| 27 | The police were looking for a Pat and Jim , said Nicky , and here was Pat admitting that he and his friend Jim were in the general area of the crime at roughly the time it was committed . |
| 28 | The Commerce Minister P. Chidambaram resigned on July 9 after admitting that he and his wife had invested Rs250,000 ( about US$8,700 ) in Fairgrowth Financial Services , one of the companies being investigated in the recent securities scandal [ see pp. 38913 ; 38967 ] . |
| 29 | The ‘ meaning ’ theist is capable of recognising that he or she considers the problem in a mutual dialogue with the ‘ meaning ’ atheist , that each is out to convince the other and that each may convert the other to his or her views . |
| 30 | Later comes a point of being unable to accept the loss , very often searching for the person who has gone and thinking that he or she is still there . |