Example sentences of "in [v-ing] that [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not necessarily an accurate description of the demands of the job , and the skill label may result more from the strength of the trade union or occupational group in maintaining that its members should continue to hold that position , than from a dispassionate assessment of the skill content of the job . |
| 2 | Although both sides in the Civil War were to make propaganda capital out of the international relationships of the other , neither was justified in suggesting that its enemy 's pre-war foreign contacts had significant bearing upon the events of the Second Republic or the actual coming of the war . |
| 3 | In explaining that my hon. Friend the Minister of State is not present to answer questions because he is doing duty in the Province , I give the right hon. Gentleman an absolute assurance of the commitment of the intelligence services and of their relevance in Northern Ireland today . |
| 4 | Carrying through life a heavy sense that early separation from Ottery had left him no better than an orphan , Coleridge took comfort in believing that his own grandfather had been an orphan before him , a nameless , parentless child , discovered beneath a Devon sky . |
| 5 | I have had help from the right hon. Members for Blaenau Gwent ( Mr. Foot ) and for Tweeddale , Ettrick and Lauderdale ( Sir D. Steel ) in advocating that my right hon. and learned Friend should tackle the problem of dyslexia . |
| 6 | In In re A Debtor ( No. 1 of 1987 ) the Court of Appeal refused to follow that approach and held that a statutory demand , which on the face of it contained a number of puzzling and perplexing statements , was nonetheless valid because the debtor knew precisely what he owed and there was no injustice in holding that his failure to pay the debt gave rise to a presumption that he was unable to pay . |
| 7 | The saddlers were largely justified in 1777 in stating that their 12 to 15s ( 60 to 75p ) a week was somewhat below the going rate for a skilled trade with a substantial entry premium . |
| 8 | I judged our Swiss hosts to be sincere in saying that their latest equipment would be offered on a preferential basis to NATO and other friendly countries , and that it would not find its way to Argentina . |
| 9 | In saying that our senses restrict us to appearances and that therefore we know nothing , they would mistakenly be supposing that knowledge is exclusively knowledge of necessary causes and inner natures . |
| 10 | Djwa is precise in saying that his ‘ dominant theme ’ is ‘ the relationship between experience and art , ’ though it avoids the nature of the experience — ‘ art for art 's sake ’ or art for truth 's sake : the reality behind the mythology — whatever it is . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , he felt a certain satisfaction in hearing that his fears were not groundless , although he had every sympathy for poor Jane Cartwright 's mishap . |
| 12 | We prefer this because we believe that this is the way in which we can learn from our mistakes ; and that in finding that our conjecture was false we shall have learnt much about the truth , and shall have got nearer to the truth . |
| 13 | Outside critics , of which the most devastating was the Oxford economist Ian Little , had no difficulty in showing that their arguments ‘ fail to wriggle out of the obvious ’ , which was that much of the domestic thermal load was being sold below cost and was thereby winning heating markets which could be more efficiently supplied by alternative fuels at lower overall national cost . |
| 14 | Editor , — Helen Zeitlin is wrong in claiming that my article about her reinstatement was unjust and incorrect . |
| 15 | Perhaps she was being silly in thinking that her job was the stumbling-block between them ; it was a pebble in the path certainly , but Maria Luisa was the actual stumbling-block . |
| 16 | Feelings of guilt are really about a sense of unentitlement ; in thinking that your desires and feelings are wrong or ‘ silly ’ you are also saying that you feel you are wrong or silly , and not entitled to be taken seriously , or helped . |
| 17 | Would I be wrong in thinking that your two visitors decided to leave their message in a more visible form ? ’ |
| 18 | But he has little hesitation in declaring that his successor as chairman of Esso has done a better job than he was able to achieve . |
| 19 | But , once established , the service class is extremely effective in ensuring that its offspring also joins this elite . |
| 20 | While it is clear what the publishers stand to gain by investing both money and effort in ensuring that their key titles are on the shelves at all times , there might be more reluctance on the part of the booksellers to accept this encroachment onto their territory . |
| 21 | On the other hand , supervisors with poor performance are described as spending more time in ensuring that their staff were busily employed in fulfilling specified stages of work . |
| 22 | " The touchstone for the party 's ability to defend the interests of the working people will be its success in ensuring that their living standards do not fall … in the course of transition to the market economy . " |
| 23 | Employers must also real realize their responsibilities in ensuring that their employees do not work in fear of attack . |