Example sentences of "[v-ing] that [noun pl] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More female patients had rheumatoid arthritis , but in the remaining three conditions , the proportion of men was greater , reaffirming that men appear to be more likely than women to have ischaemic ulcers . |
| 2 | We must correct this tendency which is almost a cultural problem , ’ Louis Gallois , a leading civil servant told a conference last month , so revealing that planners have at last caught a whiff of their inbuilt handicap . |
| 3 | For all but two of the 60 mutual funds , this strategy increased returns over the three-year period , suggesting that prices deviated from the no-arbitrage condition . |
| 4 | In both conditions the usual asymmetry emerged suggesting that factors associated with verbal output do not determine the advantage for the right ear . |
| 5 | Ironically , at the same time as Babes was killing himself in protest against Ceauşescu 's tyranny , the BBC ran a holiday programme detailing the pleasures of skiing around Braşov and suggesting that viewers go to Romania for a glimpse of glasnost . |
| 6 | The latter has no interest in sorting material beyond seeing that items addressed to you arrive at their right destination . |
| 7 | The reasons for demanding that expressions output on one channel , or assigned to the same variable , be uniformly ordered have already been explained . |
| 8 | Now the council is demanding that preachers apply for prior permission to use council property and they can only spread the ‘ good news ’ at specified times and one at a time . |
| 9 | Ideas have to begin somewhere , a point which tends to be overlooked by those who seize on leaked internal government memoranda floating a proposal at a formative stage of the idea and criticize both the content of the proposal and the secrecy which surrounds it , without reflecting that ideas have to be shaped by discussion and given preliminary approval as worthy of examination before they can go out under the imprimatur of the organizing body . |
| 10 | I have always suffered from nightmares , and at first I thought to press one of them into service , believing that dreams speak from some inner truth , and that in their very unlikelihood lies something more plausible to our inner beings than the most prosaic diurnal life . |
| 11 | Remembering that impulses arriving at a synapse can be either stimulatory or inhibitory , it is easy to imagine wiring diagrams that would have this effect . |
| 12 | Sally Greengross , Director of Age Concern England , has written to the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators urging that awards made by arbitrators should enable investors to escape their debt completely , ie to pay off the whole of their outstanding loan , which will otherwise ‘ roll up ’ on a daily basis , in some cases leading to repossession . |
| 13 | The principle of jus cogens gives an objective basis for the assessment of the validity of treaties concluded between other States by providing that treaties conflicting with a norm of jus cogens are void . |
| 14 | Pre-tax profits fell 20pc to £152.7m from £190.2m , a strong result considering that provisions soared to £105m from £44m last year . |
| 15 | As to the application of legal procedures deriving from Napoleonic law , it is perhaps worth considering that arrangements formulated in the days of the horse and cart may not be appropriate to a supersonic age . |
| 16 | On July 10 China expressed " reservations " over the arms communiqué , saying that passages relating to arms transfers and disarmament were " not well balanced " . |
| 17 | Others call for a reassertion of ‘ traditional ’ Japanese values , saying that changes provoked by Western contact have gone too far , and that ‘ traditional , Japanese values should be reasserted . |
| 18 | A representative of the Corporation was present on this occasion and objected strongly , saying that cars waiting in this narrow street would cause obstruction . |
| 19 | He is cagey about what his services cost , saying that fees vary with the size of the job . |
| 20 | More radical socialists have been prepared to go even further : either insisting that markets operate within a framework of planning , or even proposing that markets themselves be ‘ socialized ’ , by inserting into them new institutions and procedures which will rob them of their tendencies to inequality and producer dominance . |
| 21 | He is accused of conspiring with Mohammed Haque , a BCCI manager , to mislead the bank 's auditor Price Waterhouse in 1984–85 with documents alleging that companies connected to him owed the bank £2.2m . |
| 22 | When he sensed that the politicians were afraid enough of the army to come to terms with him ( as they seemed to be after learning that troops based in Algeria had seized control of the island of Corsica on 24 – 25 May ) , he flashed a red light to Algiers and moved on the political front in Paris . |
| 23 | Critics of Balling 's work have suggested that , rather than showing that deserts account for some of the world temperature rise , the results may simply be demonstrating the fact that different types of land — notably desert — respond varyingly to the greenhouse effect . |
| 24 | He also pointed out that evidence showing that PCBs act as immunodepressants is inconclusive . |
| 25 | On September 21 , 1945 , he wrote to the defendants saying that rent must be paid at the full rate and claiming that arrears amounting to £7,916 were due . |
| 26 | Worthy and Markle cite basketball , finding that whites excelled in free throws from a static position and blacks at field goals on the move . |
| 27 | Even before these improvements take effect , though , we are finding that claims have in recent years increased faster than premiums . |
| 28 | Althusser therefore criticizes the Annales historians for merely arguing that periodizations differ for different times , and that each time has its own rhythms . |
| 29 | On company cars , he continued the policy of his predecessor , Mr Nigel Lawson , in recognising that perks provided by employers are just as much part of employees ' remuneration as salaries are , and should therefore be just as taxable . |
| 30 | The Law Society , recognising that savings have to be found , has put together a package of proposals which would give the looked-for savings but would not have the damaging effects of the Government 's plans . |