Example sentences of "that [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I said , I was almost half way up the front before I realised that between knitting the back and starting the front I 'd had a teaching session . |
| 2 | The main division is that between receiving and the rest of the sub-section : per Lord Bridge in Bloxham . |
| 3 | And what was all that about sending him your regards ? |
| 4 | Vladimir Bukovsky informs us in his book To Build a Castle ( the story of his life as a dissenter ) that for reading poems in Mayakovsky Square in Moscow , he and his friends were arrested by the KGB . |
| 5 | With a Newtonian reflector , therefore , the observer looks into the tube rather than up it , so that for pointing to a planet or a star it is usually helpful to have a small refracting telescope mounted on to the side of the tube to act as a finder . |
| 6 | Understandably , this has been a bone of contention with many of the staff of the polytechnics ever since , who maintain that for teaching at degree level to be lively and effective it needs to be supported within the institution by an active research programme . |
| 7 | The result is that for sending in the report to criticize the employee 's punished . |
| 8 | At its most intrusive the V8 roars valiantly under full throttle , but there is no escaping the fact that for demanding driving this engine occasionally labours under the strain . |
| 9 | Despite these drawbacks the mid-year estimates undoubtedly provide an invaluable source and Champion ( 1987 ) concludes that for monitoring population change in England and Wales between 1971 and 1981 they may well be superior to the census ; Scottish estimates , however , he considers less accurate because they were not revised in the light of 1981 census results . |
| 10 | But I would say that for recording I 'd use the passive sound ; it 's warmer , more mellow , and would sound good — although I 'd still prefer to gig with the Vester . |
| 11 | The best known of such a transformation is probably that for turning Celsius temperature into Fahrenheit where F=32+9/70C , or , for another example , a conversion formula for turning imperial weights into metric ones . |
| 12 | However , the fact is that for approaching half a century British cities have been publicly regulated by a system designed to guide , shape and control the form and appearance of the urban environment . |
| 13 | A few days later the dealer would ring and persuade his client to invest in another stock , on the grounds that for making money a portfolio of several shares was needed . |
| 14 | This shows that for mixing to take place between high molecular weight components the solubility parameters would have to be virtually identical . |
| 15 | Rechtschaffen claims that during dreaming this is not possible . |
| 16 | I 'm admitting that through writing this article , the article I vowed never to write , I have missed a couple of nappy changes , and I feel so guilty about that . |
| 17 | If this is to be taken seriously as meaning that through learning language , rather than geography , history or other social sciences , pupils acquire better understanding of foreign cultures , then teachers need knowledge of the relationship between language and cultural learning . |
| 18 | The idea was that through deconditioning , unblocking , a ventilation of the soul ( ‘ airing your problems ’ ) , it was possible to achieve some kind of frank and freeflowing exchange . |
| 19 | I contrasted two quotations : an epigram of Goethe , saying that through reading Plutarch he learned that we were all human beings , and a passage from Hegel denying that we can ever understand the men of classical Antiquity because they represent a different stage in the evolution of the human mind . |
| 20 | There were then , as there are today , young people from other groups who , irrespective of academic ability or social class , felt that through teaching they would be serving future generations . |
| 21 | The effect of all this uncertainty and waiting was that through listening to her mother and Maria Candida , Sara began to convince herself that she already knew and loved her future husband and the country he would take her back to . |
| 22 | They felt that through joining the movement they had been liberated from the ills of modern society and that they were at last free to make the world a better place and themselves better people . |
| 23 | Roby was worried that through linking the four Iranians to the British hostages , the Iranian government was preparing the ground for announcing that the Britons , too , were dead . |
| 24 | second , that through understanding how talk works we can choose to play high or low status as appropriate . |
| 25 | There is also an anxiety that through losing touch with developments , skills are also lost . |
| 26 | yeah , but it 's a , a fair size down , but er Middleton I 've never been there , I do n't know where it is , but it must be near Corby that worth finding on the er map |
| 27 | The MP for Fife Central claimed that after subtracting additional Government funds to cover new Scottish Office responsibilities — such as Care in the Community which will come into operation in April and the allocation of teaching and research grants to Scottish universities and higher education institutions — the actual increase was only £130 million in real terms . |
| 28 | This meant that after accepting the traveller 's booking , the airline accepted more bookings for the flight than there were seats on the aircraft . |
| 29 | It was typical of him that after serving as an assistant White House physician during the eight years of the Eisenhower Administration , he became restless after eight months with the more liberal Kennedy Administration and left the White House for service as a deputy surgeon with the Pacific Air Forces , becoming command surgeon of the 7th Air Force in South Vietnam . |
| 30 | As New Zealanders sifted through the ashes of their World Cup defeat they were beginning to realise that after forming a recipe with which to win the Cup in 1987 they just as surely set up a system which would lead to losing it in 1991 . |