Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [that] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She then said she had somehow ‘ known ’ it would happen , that all her fears had been justified — instead of realising that her terror had pulled it into her life . |
| 2 | This leaves the manufacturer with the problem of proving that his employees were not negligent and that he was using a safe system . |
| 3 | But I was glad that I 'd finally had sex — it was a way of proving that my parents and Uncle Joe had n't destroyed my life . |
| 4 | Notching is a good way of checking that your stringer is doing a good job . |
| 5 | It is also certainly the case that the global capitalist system has brought to hundreds of millions of people a standard of living that their parents would never have believed possible . |
| 6 | Years of pretending that her love had turned to hate . |
| 7 | Her arguments were ridiculed by Tobias Smollett [ q.v. ] ( a former pupil of Smellie 's ) in an essay in the Critical Review ( 1760 ) , which nevertheless paid her the compliment of insinuating that her husband must have written the book . |
| 8 | Mr Lawson 's summoning of Tina may have been his subtle way of saying that her policy for combating inflation was no alternative to his . |
| 9 | If the standard of excellence is reasonably clear , the parties have no way of knowing that their claims may not fall before the higher social goal of maximizing perfection . |
| 10 | The satisfaction of knowing that their support is helping to sustain and develop Medau work . |
| 11 | They said look , if males can have greater reproductive success than females can , then parents who have some way of knowing that their offspring are gon na be particularly reproductively successful should invest in males , whereas if they have some way of knowing that their offspring are not gon na be particularly reproductively successful , they should invest in females . |
| 12 | They said look , if males can have greater reproductive success than females can , then parents who have some way of knowing that their offspring are gon na be particularly reproductively successful should invest in males , whereas if they have some way of knowing that their offspring are not gon na be particularly reproductively successful , they should invest in females . |
| 13 | And , most important of all , you will have the satisfaction of knowing that their membership — like yours — is helping save the world 's wildlife . |
| 14 | She had no way of knowing that her friend had been picked up by the Communist Maquis with whom she was now living . |
| 15 | She was in love with Piers , and , now that she had accepted the agony of knowing that her love was n't returned , maybe she could fight for him , could fight to win his heart , because it was silly to assume that he had some sort of woman in his life simply because the astrologer , a girl hardly older than herself , had implied as much . |
| 16 | Moreover she had the real comfort of knowing that her community appreciated what she was doing ; more , her life excited such admiration that after her death the interment had to be delayed for some days for fear of riots . |
| 17 | Worrell had achieved any captain 's dream of knowing that his players would give their last drop of sweat just for him . |
| 18 | She flung it at him over her shoulder in the hallway before walking into the lounge , choking on the bitterness of knowing that his belief had come too late . |
| 19 | Times was hard , and he had the advantage over the insurance company of knowing that his profits might be tapering off in the near future , and he thinks , ah , I 'll get , er , I 'll take out a Permanent Health Insurance , based on my present income to protect seventy-five , because I know in about three or four years time , my income would have gone down to about sixty per cent of what it is , so . |
| 20 | Making a will now means that you have the comfort of knowing that your wishes are recorded . |
| 21 | However , it does mean that if you develop a life-threatening condition , you will have the reassurance of knowing that your wishes are recorded in written form if you become unable to express them . |
| 22 | Adequate insurance cover gives you the peace of mind of knowing that your business 's ability to continue trading has been preserved , and that the personal assets of directors are not at risk . |
| 23 | Instead of assuming that their development progresses along a smooth and unproblematic path it is assumed that there have to be mechanisms and policies to overcome constantly recurring disequilibria and attempts to gain some sort of balance ( for example , between agriculture and industry ; between the amounts available for consumption and for investment in new capital ; between money and financial capital on one hand and production on the other ; and , especially , between capital and labour ) . |
| 24 | Horticulturists appear to have joined the legion of defectors from the practice of assuming that their customers or clients are all dedicated part-time classicists , with comprehensive dictionaries at their elbows . |
| 25 | And we 've quite a few bits and bobs of furnishing that your mother might find useful . |
| 26 | Delegates emphasised the importance of enuring that their managers understood the resource and time implications of the general SVQ , particularly the additional assessment . |
| 27 | Margaret of Carlisle , 47 , was widowed two years ago and knew at first hand the financial problems that can arise from the sudden death of a loved one and the trauma of finding that her partner was inadequately insured . |
| 28 | I tend to think it 's rather hard to over-read Shakespeare , simply because of the experience of finding that my reading fell short on many occasions . |
| 29 | I tend to think it 's rather hard to over-read Shakespeare , simply because of the experience of , of finding that my reading fell short on many occasions . |
| 30 | UNIT trust managers are fond of claiming that their charges are ‘ transparent ’ . |