Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [v-ing] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Might the Mr Chairman I was just wondering if it 's worth just mentioning that the , since the Redhill Airport proposal which does include a privately funded motorway link erm point erm has gone to and has been called in to the determination I believe by the Minister , but er we are sort of pending er holding our horses until that er er is nearer the time is that not perhaps |
| 2 | In fact , it is particularly important for any popular movement to avoid the all-too-tempting trap of merely asserting that the law is what we would like it to be . |
| 3 | So it 's really a case of just ensuring that the T G I manual does cover all a , it , it needs to state where it takes over from the procedure and then it needs to ensure that it covers everything from there on about T G I , because erm , just from thinking through some of the other procedures , I mean , it does n't , T G I does n't come into the costing , or at least it 's got it 's own costings . |
| 4 | And from that moment on there would be absolutely no way of ever proving that the whole thing had been faked . |
| 5 | State 4 to State 3 — usually if the approximate number of blocks for an item was estimated too low , resulting in Offline believing that the item is full even though there is physically more space available |
| 6 | He claimed to have been at the Munich Olympics in 1972 while serving with the US Army , and seemed particularly proud of a photograph of himself in officer 's uniform ( without apparently realising that the insignia were incorrect ) . |
| 7 | But it is sobering to reflect that Bowes could devote so much time and energy to assembling his huge collections , a task that preoccupied him for many years , without apparently caring that a main source of his wealth , coal , was blighting lives and blighting the countryside . |
| 8 | He missed them and paced around and made another booking at the Air-India counter , stalling grandly about actually buying the ticket without even noticing that the people on duty were the ones who had humored him before . |
| 9 | The dismissal of the Foreign Minister Argaña in July for publicly stating that the ruling Colorado Party would never give up power [ see p. 37651 ] did not dispel fears that the government 's undertaking to hold free elections in 1993 would be broken by his " stronista " ( Stroessnorist ) wing of the Colorado Party . |
| 10 | The General Manager in Riyadh , in an excess of loyalty , had tried to protect Laing 's career by only insisting that every riyal be returned to the Ministry 's account , something that had now been done . |
| 11 | He proved the point again this time , first by personally ensuring that the Alliance ( of three pretty diverse parties ) was formed at all , then by drawing huge crowds on his six election stomps through East Germany . |
| 12 | Theorists have constantly and explicitly used antitheses such as active/passive , reason/emotion , form/matter , mind body , autonomy/dependence as weapons in this supposed war , recommending their own ideals by directly claiming that the contrary ones were typical of women . |
| 13 | By now denying that the arm's-length principle applies to national museums Lord Armstrong makes me wonder how he interpreted his new role when he moved from being Mrs Thatcher 's Cabinet Secretary to being her choice as Chairman of the V & A. If he saw himself as dutifully executing government policy over the V & A 's restructuring it is understandable that he did not subsequently feel constrained to resign , nor to dismiss his director , when it had become clear to the museum 's staff that the essence of the restructuring separation of research from ‘ object-management ’ had been abandoned as unworkable . |
| 14 | By tacitly demonstrating that the claim of denazification is no more legitimate than the commercial propaganda of television publicity , it levels them semantically and reveals the similarity of the linguistic techniques they use . |
| 15 | 2.9 By transferring 1,000,000 new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow from NatWest Investment Bank to County NatWest Securities to account for a similar holding by Handelsbank NatWest and falsely representing that those shares were held by County atWest Securities Limited for the purposes of market making ; 2.10 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 66,600,000 shares in Blue Arrow held by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest in the records required for accounting purposes by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest ; 2.11 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities in the records required for accounting purposes by Phillips & Drew Securities ; 2.12 By falsely representing that County NatWest had become interested in 9.5 per cent of the issued capital of Blue Arrow on December 17,1987 and that the board of Blue Arrow had been informed of that interest ; 2.13 By concealing the true position in relation to the rights issue from the Bank of England , the International Stock Exchange , National Westminster Bank and/ or the board of directors of Blue Arrow ; 2.14 By falsely representing that the rights issue had been honestly and successfully completed by reason of their general skill , competence and diligence . |
| 16 | Mr Mandela 's hand was discernible in the ANC negotiating proposal put out in August ; in the successful campaign of mass protest before the 6 September white election ; and in a silent scheme by some of the leaders of the black ‘ homelands ’ to flat-foot Mr de Klerk by publicly declaring that the country can not be partitioned along racial and tribal lines . |