Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [noun] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sub-plot has the CIA agitating and funding strikes that eventually topple Allende . |
| 2 | A very detailed specification is drawn up , and a tight system of checking and auditing ensures that it is closely adhered to . |
| 3 | He was also weaving and Adam realized that he had been drinking . |
| 4 | Perhaps the fairest approach would be that taken by D N Wood , in suggesting that acceptance requires that the work should be worthy of publication . |
| 5 | Indeed in one practice I visited the patients held a Tupperware party to raise money to ‘ help ’ their practice — believing that fundholding meant that the practitioners had to raise their own funds . |
| 6 | Only one rib had needed replacing and Bonefish apologised that he had fashioned that new one from a piece of his own Madeira wood . |
| 7 | Dooling and Lachman argue that the better performance of the subjects who were told the title of the passage reflects their greater ability to organise the words in the passage in memory . |
| 8 | It went on wrinkling until Gabriel realized that he was laughing . |
| 9 | It is also worth noting that Lawton claims that the HMIs may be pushing a model of curriculum planning ( based upon statements of aims and objectives ) which is out of date an issue we return to later in the chapter , and in Chapter 8 . |
| 10 | Before looking at the idea that the overpricing of underwriting contracts as payment for other services it is worth noting that Marsh observed that ‘ bear ’ markets tended to lead to marginally higher excess returns to underwriters , while no large or small company effects could be discerned . |
| 11 | She swam and sunbathed , went sightseeing , worked on her designs , talked brightly on the phone with Lucy , or Dad or Charles whenever they rang her , forcing herself not to ask whether Guy had moved in on the firm yet , and then wincing when Lucy said that he 'd made his mark in a dramatic emergency board meeting , put up the backs of most of the board of directors when he announced sweeping measures to increase profitability , cut overheads … |
| 12 | Golding and Middleton argued that the " focusing of moral outrage on items like this does as much to create concern as to reflect it . " |
| 13 | There was division in UNTCOK whether it could accomplish anything in the circumstances ; some members felt it should report the impossibility of proceeding but others believed that it could make limited progress . |
| 14 | That 's the thing , the thing is like , and like er , he 's Billy 's been given a lot of scope though , erm , to just go out and do his own thing and he thinks like a , as a , I was speaking to like his er course tutor and it is erm Councillor and Katie was saying that Billy thinks that because he 's got , he 's got this , this wee job now that like , he 's er he 's the street cred you know , he 's cool . |
| 15 | The question , posed by the Tobacco Advisory Council , was asking if readers knew that if smokers did not pay £11.5 million a day in tax , the basic rate of income tax would rise by about 5p in the pound . |
| 16 | ‘ The evidence gathered from successive surveys of pupils ' attitudes to reading and writing suggests that the language experiences of many pupils is concentrated in a relatively narrow range of types of writing . ’ |
| 17 | Throughout the day , Mr Springer diligently took notes , nodding when members complained that the Communists had no economic programme to match Solidarity 's , and when others questioned the acceptance of privatisation . |
| 18 | Corporate life is changing as companies realize that they need more than young managers who demand high starting salaries , work a standard day , keep in line , and concern themselves about security . |
| 19 | So what if he did n't want to spend the day cooped up with her in the bedroom , only emerging when hunger demanded that their stomachs be fed ? |
| 20 | More generally , the fact that literary studies is sometimes thought of as a general training in thinking and writing means that you are expected to be able to control how you write — in particular , that you are able consistently to use a particular appropriate register . |
| 21 | This made the others laugh and yell ‘ townee ’ , but they carried on digging and Willie realized that there was no malice in their laughter . |