Example sentences of "[noun] that it be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I gather from Noakes that it was crouching in a gateway . ’ |
| 2 | Because there are worries that it 's going to er , effect the outcome of this mad ref , referendum , you know they the farmers are sort of desperate and they think they need government help and they think they would n't get it because of the black government so |
| 3 | SunSoft is planning on releasing details of the programme that it 's putting together at its developers ' conference later this month . |
| 4 | Racal proved this conclusively when it announced last spring that it was planning to sell off part of the Vodafone mobile telecoms operation . |
| 5 | They call it an attempt to emphasise that Macedonia is an historically and culturally Greek region just when the ex-Yugoslav Macedonia , invented and so-named after World War II by Tito , is seeking international support for its own claim to independence , so far without much success : in part because of the problem of its name , in part because of fear that it is looking with greedy eyes at Greek Macedonia . |
| 6 | One of the features that worry people about modern society is the fear that it is becoming more violent . |
| 7 | IBM Corp says its Personal Computer Co shipped 30% to 35% more personal computers in the first quarter than it did during the year-ago period , and vice-chairman Jack Kuehler expects it to be ‘ reasonably profitable ’ in 1993 — but the personal computer business is now so volatile that making forecasts more than a quarter ahead is a mug 's game : following Conner Peripherals Inc 's warning on Friday that it is seeing oversupply and soft demand for disk drives ( CI No 2,142 ) , observers are saying that grey market prices for 80486s are now weak ; Finis Conner said on Friday that Conner would have to slash production and payrolls in the months ahead to remain competitive — ‘ The market is in total disarray , ’ he said ; ‘ the pricing that has occurred in the last four to five days has been something I 've never seen believes the booming personal computer industry is showing signs of slowing after being fuelled for over two years by the price war . |
| 8 | Nannies were inevitable and , within their social set , also very much the norm ; but the choice of Barbara Barnes to look after William was an indication that it was going to be a relaxed regime : she had no formal training , never wore a uniform and liked children to call her by her Christian name . |
| 9 | To represent a happening as unforeseeable , however — and herein lies the explanation for the use of the infinitive with to — one must necessarily evoke a position before its occurrence : the stretch of time leading up to it must be evoked as containing no prior indication that it was going to occur . |
| 10 | In elections held in May 1990 the NLD had won an overwhelming victory , but during the following months the ruling military junta ( the State Law and Order Restoration Council — SLORC ) had shown little indication that it was planning a transfer of power to civilian rule . |
| 11 | Mozart wrote to Constanze that it was attracting full houses , and several numbers — ‘ Mann und Weib ’ , Papageno 's glockenspiel in the Act One finale , and the trio of the three boys from Act II ( ‘ Sied uns zum zweiten Mal willkommen ’ ) had to be repeated . |
| 12 | Now remember that a helicopter , unlike a conventional aircraft , does not necessarily have to be pointing in the direction that it is moving and that the pilot must tell the tail where to go at all times . |
| 13 | Thirdly , you should hook the opponent 's foot in the direction that it is pointing because this is the line of least resistance . |
| 14 | A particular research project that I and two colleagues , Keith Baker and Erin Sloman , have a grant from the Science Research Council for is to look first of all at the problems of getting such as system with , well at the moment three but possibly up to twelve computers , working on a given existing artificial intelligence problem to see how to take this big program — it 's called Popeye — it 's a research project to study various areas of visual perception , as you say — to see how to break this down and have it running simultaneously on a number of much smaller computers , rather than on the single big computer that it 's running on at the moment . |
| 15 | A charity stunt team which drives volunteers through a tunnel of fire has been warned by experts that it 's dicing with death . |
| 16 | What is clear is that the Prison Service had failed to persuade these prisoners that it was treating them fairly ’ ( para 9.25 ) . |
| 17 | Anil Gadre , Sun Microsystems Computer Corp 's vice president of systems product marketing , told Unigram last week that it has a 64-bit part that it is playing with , but there is no operating system or applications up and running on it , yet . |
| 18 | The theory remains a controversial one but Dr Kinlen told The Scotsman that it is becoming harder to dismiss the findings as no more than chance . |
| 19 | Hilary Frome had made no decisions yet about his future , beyond the one crucial decision that it was going to be a distinguished one . |
| 20 | And though the industry is young , there are signs that it is moving tentatively towards the notion of performance league tables for venture capital fund managers . |
| 21 | The signs that it is doing so are around you in ways which were unimaginable before prices were ‘ liberalised ’ two years ago . |
| 22 | I was filled with a dry sadness , a mixture of remembering and knowing ; remembering what was and what might have been and knowing it was all past ; at the same time knowing , or beginning to know , that other things were happily past — at least some of my illusions about myself , and then the syphilis , for there were no signs that it was going to come back . |
| 23 | Perhaps the hon. Member for Cardiff , North agrees with me that , although one knows what the problem is and the damage that it is causing , it is very difficult to get anything done about it . |
| 24 | contribution , the havoc that it is causing in terms of non-collection rates and the administrative difficulties that it is causing in magistrates courts ? |
| 25 | In a move towards enticing buyers into the lower end of the market , Sotheby 's announced on 28 February that it was introducing ‘ Arcade sales ’ in a new pillared gallery bridging their main galleries and the St George Street and Conduit Street galleries . |
| 26 | The Government announced on 19 February that it was abandoning its plan to abolish legal aid in asylum cases . |
| 27 | The government let it be known in late May that it was planning to close the three Saharan detention camps of Reggane , Ain Salah and Ain M'guel , releasing many of those detained for their radical Islamic sympathies , and moving the others further north . |
| 28 | It 's a challenging objective and there is general recognition among the senior administrators that it is going to take a tremendous effort , one that is both concerted and coordinated , for Canada to qualify for the 1995 quarter-finals . |
| 29 | But for the support of these societies the Cizek school could never have carried out the work that it is doing . |
| 30 | The fact that the numbers of trainees have been maintained at present levels , despite the difficult times that the industry is experiencing , is a tribute to the continuing commitment in the industry to such levels of training , assisted by the board and the work that it is doing . |