Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [that] [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 No more scrabbling for notepads or realising that you 've left your diary on your secretary 's desk .
2 This will mean the vendors bear the financial risk of not being able to locate fellow vendors or finding that they have inadequate funds .
3 For any sort of forward prospecting , or monitoring that you do , the backs of the calendar cards are absolutely invaluable .
4 As a result of quality assurance , we have procedures in place on subjects such as management of technical information or ensuring that we understand clients ’ brief first time .
5 In 1904 he wrote to the poet and critic Arthur Symons : ‘ I have , however , of late years , lapsed so deeply into my early weakness for verse , & have found the condensed expression that it affords so much more consonant to my natural way of thinking & feeling that I have almost forgotten the prose effusions for the time . ’
6 wilko knows about tore but leeds has shown no interest in him other than saying that they know about this player .
7 seems far more interesting than knowing that they 've rehearsed for hours on end .
8 The verdicts are implicitly defining what is appropriate behaviour for women and suggesting that they do not have much of a safeguard if they stray into areas regarded as ‘ male territory ’ whether it be a barracks room or a street late at night .
9 Mention the word ‘ contented ’ to many people , and they will think of a lazy diner , relaxing after a satisfying meal and announcing that they feel ‘ contented ’ ; others will recall the advertisements for evaporated milk , which ‘ came from contented cows ’ .
10 Squaring her shoulders and remembering that what lay ahead was , after all , a job interview , she followed Dr Russell up the long flight of steps at the front of the house and through a wooden latticework door on to a cool veranda where outdoor furniture splashed with warm tropical colours was invitingly arranged .
11 Then , assuming " phantom " chains , the change in free energy per chain as the end-to-end vector R changes to is Averaging over all chains and remembering that we have For a network of n chains per unit volume the change in free energy will be n times this .
12 She remained serious about reading all her life , taking pains with her five children 's education and recommending that they read good books , " not some of the trash she had seen at Morrison & Gibb " .
13 Sometimes new uses for a well-established term are so strange and mystifying that they refuse to ‘ take ’ .
14 I think also , the people of Wiltshire will be glad that it us here setting the budget , and therefore the precept and their council tax next year , and something that people will be looking at is their council tax bills , and noting that they go up by six point three percent , or are proposed to , with the provisional assets aim which is set by the government .
15 Given that we can adequately define who to include as belonging to the category " the population of the United Kingdom " , and providing that we have convenient lists which do not seriously under-represent significant subgroups , then reasonable estimations of population values can be made from the sample .
16 To suppose that we have to choose between mentalism and behaviourism is like saying that we have to choose between saying that the words ‘ trump ’ and ‘ revoke ’ designate feelings of triumph and embarrassment , and saying that they designate triumphant and embarrassed behaviour .
17 Now , when you find management — the representatives of enterprise and risk capital — standing up in public and saying that they have a responsibility to keep prices stable , or lower them , that individual prices ought to be reported on by a commission , and that profits ought to attract special tax penalties if they exceed a certain level , then it is a sign that either the millennium has arrived or else something is going very seriously wrong indeed .
18 Now if you like you can sign all it says is erm it just it 's just telling you what it is and saying that you do n't mind them typing up the words form this .
19 In fact , I would argue that not only does it do this , but that it goes much further , indicting all men in complicity for rape and insisting that they share the guilt .
20 The old lady would have walked back to her villa , but Miguel stopped her by closing the door , and insisting that she wait for a golf cart .
21 Once you come to the end of the page — or some other sensible stopping point — and assuming that you have understood what you have been reading , write on your pad a heading and a list of the key words contained in the piece .
22 They will be sent to you during the dormant season , and assuming that you have bought some in this way , we will now turn our attention to our preparations to welcome them .
23 So is n't it good for us rather than quibbling , rather than criticizing , and recognizing that we 've all got different abilities and perhaps if you had n't got one of those abilities there , the , the body that it speaks about , you see every part plays a part does n't it on our physical body and so we are in accommodation , we all have a part to play , and that 's the way we , we grow you see and we mature and we become better , able , equipped to go out and tell others , gives us confidence as well if we know what we 're talking about , that way we can learn , so never quibble about assignments and arrangements , never criticize brothers and sisters in the congregation .
24 It 's nice when you pick up a guitar , knowing it to be a company 's idea of what a first electric should be like , and finding that they 've got it just about right .
25 There seems to be no doubt that an increasing number of people are using homoeopathic remedies to treat their animals and finding that they produce good result .
26 Yes , the hindquarter double-muscled trait is important and is the breed 's main attribute , but we 've been looking too for stock with good overall conformation , with loin and fleshing that we feel is vital to any successful terminal sire breed .
27 We 've also approached Nottingham Evening Post who 've expressed an interest in taking it on , but again we still have n't got a meeting , so I intend ringing them both this week , and stressing that we need to get a move on because really we need an issue out by March .
28 And discovering that they have been told lies all their lives .
29 There are few joys in life to compare with that of stepping on the scales and discovering that you weigh measurably less this week than you did last .
30 Yes , it 's marketing , prospecting , approaching and planning that you earn two hundred and eighty pounds a sale for .
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