Example sentences of "[v-ing] that [art] [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Education Secretary has been in the region lending his weight to the Conservative campaign , and denying that the Government was to blame for school underfunding . |
| 2 | Trade and industry minister Edward Leigh recently wrote to The Northern Echo firmly denying that the Government was responsible for any delay . |
| 3 | And of the Cobra , ‘ There can be no denying that the Cobra is an extremely exciting car to drive , or even passenger in . |
| 4 | Iraq is denying that the move is a bid to have sanctions lifted . |
| 5 | Few enough ; but the service offered to individuals seeking redress from their MPs could improve , and the executive in Whitehall might start noticing that the legislature was less quiescent and incompetent . |
| 6 | The nursemaid felt a withdrawal of affection and was hurt , not noticing that the child was shrinking back from all emotional expression ; the hugs and kisses once lavished on Marie had not been transferred to Pamela . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm looking for Carol Jackson , ’ he said , noticing that the woman was running appraising eyes over him . |
| 8 | The draft platform formed the basis of Gorbachev 's opening report to the plenum , but he began by announcing that the politburo was proposing to bring forward the 28th CPSU congress from October to late June or early July , to be preceded by a " report-and-election campaign " during which " overdue personnel issues will be resolved and new elected party bodies will be formed " . |
| 9 | I was less impressed by a news story in the Sunday Times announcing that the Pope is cracking down on sinners for Easter week : ‘ The Pope has ordered priests in the confessional box to clamp down on sin as churches prepare for the traditional Easter rush of sinners seeking forgiveness this week , ’ it announced knowingly . |
| 10 | A rectangle of cardboard hung on the door announcing that the shop was due to open at nine o'clock . |
| 11 | In response to the news , Anglo United pulled out of the bidding for the company , explaining that the operation was now too small to be of any interest . |
| 12 | The introduction outlines clearly his philosophy , explaining that the subject is not to be confused with either applied chemistry or chemical technology . |
| 13 | Explaining that the Ministry was looking for a ‘ suitable ’ home for the aircraft the spokesman underlined that the MoD ‘ must dispose of the aircraft in the best interests of the taxpayer . ’ |
| 14 | Mr Frohnmayer defended the agency 's $5,000 ‘ project-specific ’ grant , explaining that the NEA was erroneously credited with supporting one magazine , and that the lines of the poem from the other describing the brutal rape of a female jogger in Central Park were ‘ taken out of context and sensationalised ’ . |
| 15 | She amplifies this in a way that is helpful to the teacher by explaining that the term is used to describe the total group of children whose vision is affected by impairments in seeing , irrespective of the nature or extent of these . |
| 16 | Quickly she outlined the plan , explaining that the party was to be for local children who were handicapped or disadvantaged in some way . |
| 17 | The person appointed having the responsibility of keeping check on newsworthy events within the school and checking that the press are informed . |
| 18 | These included speaking more slowly , facing the client , and checking that the advice is being understood . |
| 19 | The usual technique for checking that the microphone is set to the correct level after the audience arrives is to call , ‘ Can you all hear me ? ’ |
| 20 | The lower classes — if we talk about upper and middle how can we not talk about lower ? — served tea , beer , gin and stodgy food , cut as often as not into hamfisted wedges , fit to fill the belly not the hand , and , understanding that the band was working for a living , treated it with respect and decorum . |
| 21 | He tried to bolster his courage by reciting the reasons for what he was doing : go per cent of them boiled down to a pressing need for money , so pressing that the bank was threatening to foreclose on his mortgage ; the other lo per cent was divided between the desire to do Lorton a good turn and the feeling that the Newleys deserved whatever fate could throw at them . |
| 22 | No one was able to give us at that time the valuable advice which I only picked up years later , namely that the great danger in cholera was dehydration , necessitating that the sufferer be given frequent drinks of cold water previously boiled . |
| 23 | More extreme Tories continued to attack the theory of co-ordination ( maintaining that the monarch was not one of the three estates , which instead comprised the Lords Spiritual , Lords Temporal and the Commons ) and to uphold the view that " our Kings and Queens are above the Law " . |
| 24 | Even allowing that the list is incomplete , East Anglia seems to have contributed individuals rather than a connection to the ducal retinue . |
| 25 | Even allowing that the list is incomplete , East Anglia seems to have contributed individuals rather than a connection to the ducal retinue . |
| 26 | Allowing that the countryside is the locus of virtue , Leapor makes sweeping though defensible observations on the attitudes of the rich and the power of money . |
| 27 | In the next three months , Keynes and his protege , Hubert Henderson , published a pamphlet in support ; Lloyd George addressed a series of great meetings up and down the country ; and the Government was provoked into issuing a special white paper , proving that the plan was unworkable . |
| 28 | This means that missile throwing , although technically perhaps falling within the ambit of this offence , would place on the prosecutor the burden of proving that the missile was directed at a human being rather than at property . |
| 29 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
| 30 | Journalists whose by-lines are on defamatory stories can exculpate themselves by proving that the defamation was added to their copy without their consent ( a common occurrence where the sting emanates from clumsy sub-editing ) . |