Example sentences of "[verb] that [pers pn] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of people , including many members of the press , thought that Allan was going to win , were almost praying that he was going to win . |
| 2 | because you did n't have to worry that you were gon na have another child ! |
| 3 | This social sanction will be , in the first place , some kind of social ostracism or discomfort ; it may or may not be wished that it be associated with a legal penalty . |
| 4 | If all the cases that attract attention , because they are argued in important appellate courts before public scrutiny , are occasions on which judges are scrupulous in denying that they are serving the goal of protected expectations through their decisions , this can hardly do much to reinforce the public 's faith in that ideal . |
| 5 | Giles recalls one remark when Montini was criticizing the De Gasperi Christian Democratic government for inaction while denying that he was doing anything of the kind ( a typical Montini ploy ) : ‘ In political questions the Church has to be general , just as in religious matters she can not afford not to be particular ’ ( ibid. , p. 109 ) . |
| 6 | Gray said : ‘ There 's no denying that it 's going to be a tough fight now . |
| 7 | On April 29 , Reuter reported that UNITA had ordered its forces to drive government troops out of the area , while denying that it was launching a general offensive . |
| 8 | In the Netherlands on Nov. 14 reports quoted Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers as having admitted to the existence of a secret organization in the Netherlands but denying that it was supervised by NATO . |
| 9 | I suggest that we are becoming inexorably more impatient , intolerant and indolent in the race from A to B , and that there is an all-pervasive belief that the world owes each person an ever more easy and wealthy life . |
| 10 | And even if not , the lessons from the end of the Ice Age suggest that we are going to need much more than Thames Barriers in the absence of an effective international policy response to the greenhouse effect . |
| 11 | The location and age of these massive outpourings of basalt — Cretaceous to Eocene in India and Early Jurassic in South America — suggest that they were associated with the break-up of Gondwana ( see Section 4.5.2 ) . |
| 12 | Both lists are in this respect artificial , and the errors on Æthelnoth and Hakon suggest that they were copied from exemplars . |
| 13 | Suggest that you be allowed to search some parts of your local parks from the end of September to the end of April once or twice per month ; this should sound reasonable enough to your councillor and , hopefully , your council . |
| 14 | The common use of the prepositions in and out in connection with the mind suggest that it is conceptualised as a container . ) |
| 15 | " Well , the River Police suggest that it was to weight the body enough to keep it under water , but not to sink it . |
| 16 | The deferential tone , and the fact that it 's couched as a letter rather than as a minute , suggest that it was directed to someone outside the Civil Service . |
| 17 | The direct and indirect statutory controls over the rules of the SIB and SROs and , in particular , the role of the Secretary of State suggest that it was contemplated that rules which survived their scrutiny would adequately protect investors . |
| 18 | Or I might suspect too much vehemence in his insistence that he loves gibbons , and suggest that he is deceiving himself , that visiting the animals has become a habit without much joy in it . |
| 19 | Schein 's Diletti pastorali are more frankly madrigalian and they suggest that he was acquainted with Monteverdi 's Seventh Book of 1619 . |
| 20 | Unabashed by this thought , she adds that she is thinking seriously about it , and is prepared to meet party officials to discuss it . |
| 21 | Their decision was prompted by fears that the protector might usurp the throne , although Mancini adds that it was supported by the queen 's family , who wanted to prevent power passing to Gloucester . |
| 22 | Their decision was prompted by fears that the protector might usurp the throne , although Mancini adds that it was supported by the queen 's family , who wanted to prevent power passing to Gloucester . |
| 23 | Sir Terence adds that he is enclosing for Christopher Patten a copy of the rules which the Cabinet Office has issued for the guidance of officials ‘ on such exercises ’ . |
| 24 | He seems later to have returned ; possibly an attempt on the throne was being planned when he died , for the C text 's statement that Cnut afterwards had him killed is followed by Florence , who adds that he was betrayed by those he held dearest . |
| 25 | Although many officials and newspapers proposed that they be paid a modest salary , only the chief headmen received official remuneration . |
| 26 | Indeed , it proposed that they be retained and further , than in addition to this unpopular tax there should be a new unpopular tax local income tax — a prospect of little attraction to most politicians . |
| 27 | Russia proposed that it be regarded as the successor state of the Soviet Union in respect of the START treaty , but this was finally rejected by the others in April [ see p. 38890 ] . |
| 28 | In his will Captain Sykes left the School £1,000 , and his son proposed that it be used to build an extra classroom . |
| 29 | The first move will be to alert all my known contacts , to request that I be held incommunicado if I approach any of them … ’ |
| 30 | So , no you wo n't know that we 're trying to get the two pilots out of er |