Example sentences of "that it [was/were] [v-ing] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a statement on Nov. 10 , however , the Iskandarov government said that it was resigning to save the country from destruction . |
| 2 | The Dorset TEC said that it was struggling to manage but that it might manage ’ with the provisos that the average length of stay on the scheme remains one year ’ . |
| 3 | The Security Council always tut-tutted when anybody suggested that it was trying to starve anybody to death , but if sanctions were going to be effective then people would die because they did not get enough to eat . |
| 4 | It was too far away to make photography worthwhile , but through binoculars we could see that it was trying to cover the remains of its meal by pawing snow over it , and that a group of glaucous and ivory gulls were standing around , no doubt waiting in the hope of leftovers . |
| 5 | In all of this Boy was trying very hard , so very hard that it was touching to watch . |
| 6 | The pro-government Republican Party , until June a member of the Russian Movement for Democratic Reforms , also announced that it was intending to put pressure on the government and President in support of reforms . |
| 7 | By the time the foal had tottered and swayed and nuzzled at Firelight in all the wrong places and eventually found the right spot to have a slurp of milk , Nails was surprised to see that it was beginning to go light . |
| 8 | The inclusion of half-a-dozen peers who held no significant office suggests that it was beginning to revert to the form of the 1520s , when the Council had included both office-holders and men whose political support was valuable to the Crown . |
| 9 | The FMLN denied government claims that it was refusing to withdraw its forces to appointed territories , that it had under-reported its arms and troop inventories , or that it was encouraging land occupations and was planning to establish agrarian settlements in a disputed border area with Honduras . |
| 10 | Hong Kong announced on May 3 that it was refusing to allow the ship into the colony . |
| 11 | Meanwhile the ANC dismissed as " absurd " the accusation that it was plotting to kill Chief Lucas Mangope of Bophuthatswana and to overthrow his government . |
| 12 | On Jan. 29 the Iranian government denied claims made in the UK press that it was seeking to recruit nuclear scientists from the former Soviet Union . |
| 13 | There was to be no self-dramatisation and nothing that would set Amnesty International apart from the very people that it was seeking to protect from the same potential threat . |
| 14 | Although a decision on the application was not expected until after the completion of the single internal market in December 1992 , the Maltese government announced that it was preparing to become an EC member within the next five years . |
| 15 | Racal proved this conclusively when it announced last spring that it was planning to sell off part of the Vodafone mobile telecoms operation . |
| 16 | The most this can mean is that the people who voted for the party did so knowing that it was planning to do certain things , and that therefore these voters can be assumed to have consented to those plans . |
| 17 | The government let it be known in late May that it was planning to close the three Saharan detention camps of Reggane , Ain Salah and Ain M'guel , releasing many of those detained for their radical Islamic sympathies , and moving the others further north . |
| 18 | Chester city councillor , Christine Russell , has slammed the Government after reports that it was planning to abandon laws governing safety in bedsits . |
| 19 | The government announced on Aug. 20 that it was planning to open up for exploration by foreign oil companies areas that had hitherto been reserved for Indian state-owned companies . |
| 20 | By 1985 Greenpeace was better organised and French intelligence had learned that it was planning to send out to Moruroa its larger 42-ton Rainbow Warrior , together with the Vega , and then to launch a number of small boats in which its members would try to elude the French Navy and penetrate the test area . |
| 21 | Now he could see that it was lying face down . |
| 22 | I could n't convince myself that it was going to happen anymore . ’ |
| 23 | There were even rumours that it was going to go straight through the middle of Henry s house , a thought that , somewhat to his surprise , filled him with savage pleasure . |
| 24 | It seemed to bow in the centre ; for one terrible second she thought that it was going to split . |
| 25 | She knew that it was going to seem like forever , waiting for her friends , because the time you spend waiting always seems longer than it really is . |
| 26 | It was not a very good day today , and he had a terrible feeling that it was going to get worse . |
| 27 | To represent a happening as unforeseeable , however — and herein lies the explanation for the use of the infinitive with to — one must necessarily evoke a position before its occurrence : the stretch of time leading up to it must be evoked as containing no prior indication that it was going to occur . |
| 28 | Now that it was going to cost fifteen million dollars , though , I was n't so sure . |
| 29 | This was sold to us , please , this was sold to us on the basis that it was going to bring in the baddies and sort out the baddies , and we 'd all live happily ever after . |
| 30 | But , we always thought then that it was going to bring about the end of all these things and result in a future where |