Example sentences of "that [v-ing] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tests show that eating lots of fibre or switching to polyunsaturated fats has about as much chance of prolonging your life as wearing a wig , but a kipper two or three times a week will have your life assurance rep collecting the premiums for ever . |
| 2 | I learned that using someone sexually leaves you feeling oddly empty and bad about yourself . |
| 3 | Traditionally , the law has said that allowing someone who is terminally ill to die is lawful , but bringing about his or her death is unlawful , even if he or she consents or requests it . |
| 4 | But I soon saw that keeping everyone guessing was Kenny 's way of retaining control . |
| 5 | People may say that understanding something , as you are now understanding what I have written , involves interpretation , that is , translating something linguistic , a sentence , into something non-linguistic , a thought ; but they do not say it because they have found they actually have to do any such translating . |
| 6 | The difficulty for the Company in England was that establishing someone who had crossed to North America took an initial investment equal to about a year 's wages , so the investors had to keep on providing supplies without seeing any sign of how the colony would repay them . |
| 7 | Ethical problems will surface , for no power-based organization likes to have its idiosyncrasies made public , and the anthropologist who is a member of the family and not merely a temporary visitor to the ‘ backyard ’ exotica can find that writing anything at all becomes crucially problematic . |
| 8 | In Mahal [ 1991 ] Crim LR 632 ( CA ) , it was held that a jury could find that pushing someone through an open window 22 feet from the ground could lead to " the risk of some harm " . |
| 9 | This brought home to me the fact that paying lots of money for an established defender ( central ) is a massive risk . |
| 10 | " Mr Drew says that wearing anything like that is idolatry . |
| 11 | The first point to note is that sending someone a contract of employment does not involve any re-formatting of text . |
| 12 | I think that having somebody in pram pushing distance , who has recently had a baby can be of great value and at least it means there is help at hand if you need it . |
| 13 | Research has shown that having someone to talk to and confide in is an important factor in preventing depression . |
| 14 | If your goal is a college scholarship , the odds are very high that attending one for a few years will lead to a number of scholarship offers from top-notch college tennis programmes in the United States . |
| 15 | Well , I consider that letting someone know why they 've lost is natural justice . |
| 16 | Ludens , who had never shaved anybody but himself before , soon discovered that shaving somebody else required a different technique . |
| 17 | ( Indeed , the reactions to the fact of the questionnaire varied from , on the one hand , the view that only HMI should authorise such an enquiry , to the view that asking anything at all was an unwarranted interference with personal liberty . |
| 18 | However , combining the results suggests that approaching one in ten of local sexual attacks , which are mentioned in the local press , may also be mentioned in the national press . |
| 19 | It is self-evident that learning something entails a prior capacity to learn it . |
| 20 | The ways in which internal charges are weighted can encourage users to feel that storing everything is cheaper and altogether easier than managing it more actively . |
| 21 | Lazaris suggests that hurting someone — consciously causing distress — is always manipulative ; it is always dishonest . |
| 22 | Their legal rights were not affected by admission to a home and the guidelines warn that restraining someone without their consent , or on the instructions of a third party , is unlawful and unacceptable . |
| 23 | She told him that the Bible indicated that thinking something was like doing it . |