Example sentences of "[v-ing] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scots , in particular , should rejoice over the disbandment of a regiment , praying that at last their sons ' names need not be added to the memorials which stand in every town , village and glen across the country as mute testament to the suffering and sorrow of the past . |
| 2 | The earlier of the two identifies the poet with his poetry , praying that after his death he should be forgotten : Sonnet 74 draws a different line , separating the Poet from his work : The point to be stressed at this juncture — forgive the interruption ! — is the turning of the other into the self and of the self into poetry , which is at the same time the turning of life into art and of transience into immortality : This marvellous poem can be linked , no doubt , to the series attacking time and proclaiming the certainty of the poet 's survival . |
| 3 | We are not denying that in the case of an alien culture one has less right to criticize than in one 's own , out of lack of experience of what it can be like to live in it . |
| 4 | Whilst there is no denying that from its early days the Castro government provided safe haven and some aid to the revolutionary groups which flocked to Havana from all over Latin America and the Caribbean — in 1959 Cuba was the launching base for unsuccessful attacks on Haiti , Panama and the Dominican Republic — these activities must be set in context . |
| 5 | It is worth noticing that at least one senior member of the Board of Education ( William Cleary , Head of the Elementary Branch ) had argued , as early as 1941 , against the tripartite system and in favour of comprehensive schools . |
| 6 | And there , after her warming-up exercises , she leaped like a gazelle , undisturbed by the fact that she was being filmed on video by two pupils and barely noticing that during the session a small group of people tiptoed on to the gallery , and she did her last jump to applause . |
| 7 | The inspector duly obliged , but when the couple tried to get off he barred them , explaining that on the cheapest ticket they could travel to Leeds and back — but not leave the train . |
| 8 | ‘ Try explaining that on your wedding night , Sally-Anne Tunstall , and tell your husband who it was who was there before him . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You might have trouble explaining that at the inquest , my lad . ’ |
| 10 | Ah , well I was explaining that to er the woman that cleans , you know that she told us we can wash ourself , you know . |
| 11 | The author recalls an able Treasury minister who , after resignation , became a convinced and cogent parliamentary reformer , explaining that as a minister he had had no time to work out this aspect of policy and therefore , since the Treasury was opposed to more specialist committees of the House of Commons , he used the brief they provided and he had been a formidable opponent of these reforms at the Cabinet Committee level . |
| 12 | The majority supported their conclusion by explaining that throughout the drafting process of the Article , right until the final draft , the word ‘ selected ’ had been preferred . |
| 13 | In 1659 he similarly petitioned the recalled Rump Parliament to remember ‘ The Good Old Cause ’ , and initiate reform ; and in June 1660 he addressed a ‘ warning ’ to the newly restored Charles II , explaining that like King David he must govern the faithful justly . |
| 14 | Where the decline of British engineering has diminished the industrial base and opened a black hole in the trade balance , the growth of German engineering output , matching that in Japan and America , has helped create a near impregnable manufacturing trade surplus . |
| 15 | Relating that to Labour 's ‘ unprecendented mass conversion ’ to moderation in Brighton last week , Mrs Thatcher said she did not believe her opponents now stood for home ownership , strong defence and financial rectitude . |
| 16 | Everything in it will get ten times bigger wo n't it Right , and this is why the short cut works , because a really clever way of timesing that by ten is to make that number come here , that number come there , this number come here , right , this number come here , and this number come here . |
| 17 | Mr MacGregor will also be shown statistics revealing that between 93.4 and 97.5 per cent of ScotRail trains met timekeeping targets in the four weeks to 27 February . |
| 18 | These words were used specifically of Whitman 's writing about lilacs or the mocking-bird , and revealing that at such moments his theories and beliefs dropped away like needless pretexts . |
| 19 | It was , however , nothing so dramatic or pompous-merely a statement revealing that at that time the question of my succession to Macmillan had simply not crossed my mind . |
| 20 | It is revealing that on the fifth disc , which comprises material all drawn from BBC broadcasts — Chausson 's Poème , Brahms 's Vier ernste Gesänge plus a recital of English songs — there is very little distortion . |
| 21 | Mr Leigh also highlighted the tensions in Government by revealing that as a minister he had organised other meetings of junior ministers in opposition to the Maastricht Bill paving the way for closer European ties . |
| 22 | But it is deeply revealing that in neither of these paintings are the revolutionary perspectival implications of the Demoiselles explored or developed , or indeed more than hinted at , and that in the Basel painting figures have been transformed into still life . |
| 23 | This said that Soviet historians had recently discovered documents revealing that in April-May 1940 all but 394 inmates of the three camps had been turned over to NKVD administrations in Smolensk , Voroshilovgrad and Kalinin , and had been " never again mentioned in NKVD statistical accounts " . |
| 24 | Some of the topics we attempted to touch on were : The differences between conceptualisations of feminism in the ’ West ’ and ’ Third World ’ historically and currently , while understanding that in the ’ West ’ and the ’ Third World ’ there is a diversity of women and ideological positions . |
| 25 | Veblen took pleasure in representing that in a society as dedicated to practical efficiency as the United States emulation should have been directed to the pursuit of objectives as conspicuously useless and therefore wasteful as gold or precious stones . |
| 26 | He begins by summarising that for the obvious reasons of inaccessibility and defences , the peoples who reside among mountains are the last to be conquered : he progresses to consider similarly-caused impediments to civilisation : he deduces the part remoteness plays in the preservation of ancient languages . |
| 27 | A ‘ hard case ’ — and I am not disputing that for the Bland parents it is indeed a very hard case — has been found which can , and I believe will , be skilfully exploited to justify the ‘ dignified ’ removal of a subtly-expanding range of people who will be deemed to be living lives which are below some ‘ expert 's ’ criterion of an acceptable standard . |
| 28 | There really is something to celebrate as the new hospital opens — its consultants say it is the best in the country — with a standard of care and treatment equalling that in private hospitals combined with the facilities to continue pioneering research into skin disease . |
| 29 | By July , Hoare was forecasting that before long refugees will ‘ have to be supported from British public funds if scandal is to be avoided ’ . |
| 30 | And I 'm sure you need no reminding that during the past ten years , a new order has emerged and is emerging , which is changing the roles traditionally per performed by the three sectors . |