Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [v-ing] that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the paradox is that we only use the word hypocrisy when we have reasons for believing that we have found the thing itself . |
| 2 | This is certainly possible , but we do have some theoretical reasons for believing that we have , or are very near to , a knowledge of the ultimate building blocks of nature . |
| 3 | It is important to be clear then about our reasons for feeling that we had to explain why women have come so far rather than explaining why there had been so few gains . |
| 4 | Styczynski had x-rays after saying that he had pains in his chest and pins and needles in his arms . |
| 5 | It was during those months of waiting that she felt in her heart that her husband was once again seeing Camilla . |
| 6 | She shrugged casually , hating to spoil the impression of intimacy between herself and Piers by confessing that he had told her nothing . |
| 7 | Services should also affirm their policies on equal opportunities by ensuring that they monitor the use of their services by specific ethnic groups , test that the information they make available for the public is comprehensible and accessible , canvass users ' views of the current services , recruit staff of different ethnic backgrounds , at all levels in the organization ( although , in the case of Afro-Caribbeans in particular , this can be difficult due to the lower educational opportunities of this group and , in consequence , a paucity of suitable candidates for posts ) , and institute a programme of training for staff of all grades and backgrounds to understand their own conscious and unconscious prejudices about race and culture . |
| 8 | Anderson attempts a show of strength by using the IFID , " I demand " five times and " I insist " once , but his insecurity is indicated by the fact that he has to support his demands by asserting that he has the status permitting him to make these speech acts . |
| 9 | It is a modest mark of our gratitude to those with gifts and skills of writing that we make this increase to the Public Lending Right … ’ |
| 10 | Because of the many hours of sitting that we do , we lose the ability to squat or even the ability to sit down without falling down . |
| 11 | The palaces of meaning that she built with Friend in the endless night inside her — what were they for ? |
| 12 | The group really does operate as a group and you can attend all the social functions without feeling that you have to pair off . |
| 13 | It relates to the very distinction between standard and other effects , and depends on what that distinction grants , that we sometimes speak of decisions and the like as effects without supposing that they issue from causal circumstances , which by definition are necessitating circumstances . |
| 14 | The courts justified this vesting of managerial autonomy over the everyday business of the company in the hands of the directors by arguing that it flowed from the construction of a company 's articles of association which formed a contract between the members of the company . |
| 15 | Humanity will insist that individuals must accept their personal obligations by acknowledging that they do have within them impulses and appetites which are a legacy from millions of years of ruthless evolution , and that the time has come when they must introduce into their lives the concept of a high standard of self-discipline to control those impulses and appetites . |
| 16 | Humanity will insist that individuals must accept their personal obligations by acknowledging that they do have within them impulses and appetites which are a legacy from millions of years of ruthless evolution , and that the time has come when they must introduce into their lives the concept of a high standard of self discipline to control those impulses and appetites . |
| 17 | ‘ But assuming that the Queen 's health continues to be good , Prince Charles will be well into middle age himself , and will be very aware that history could repeat itself if he puts William through all those ghastly years of waiting that he has gone through . |
| 18 | In November 1989 Secord had pleaded guilty to a felony charge of making a false statement to congressional investigators by denying that he knew that funds from the Iran-contra operation had been used to instal a security system at the house of Oliver North . |
| 19 | Having grown up a northerner , I make no apologies for saying that I do not regard myself as a southerner who happens to live a few miles up the road . |
| 20 | She persevered for fifty pages before admitting that she had n't taken in a word . |
| 21 | In those circumstances , it is unnecessary to express any view on the proper construction of the charter and statutes beyond saying that I have heard nothing which persuades me that the views of Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle and the Court of Appeal [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 1277 were wrong . |
| 22 | Encourage them to express these feelings by suggesting that they state what exactly is worrying them . |
| 23 | In regard to his relations with the Vietnamese de Lattre claimed that Bao Dai was the ablest statesman in Vietnam ; but perhaps rather spoilt things by adding that there had been several recent instances when Bao Dai ‘ had showed the proper co-operative spirit and , in some cases , even initiative ’ . |
| 24 | But if we lost in 1992 — as we certainly lost in 1987 — because prosperous voters feared that we would reduce their disposable income , we will not win back those middle income families by pretending that we have abandoned the very purpose of our creation and our existence . |
| 25 | Its urgent overall rhythm commands the choreographer to keep the dancers moving forever onwards with greater intensity to the climax , whilst the shorter phrase rhythms give the Chosen Maiden and smaller groups such ways of moving that they hold the audience 's full attention until the fall of the curtain . |
| 26 | So good ways of checking that you got it right , and then you can go on comfortably with , let's have a look at erm this time you 're buying a block of gold , er |
| 27 | there are ways of doing that they do n't do that , you know there 's a thing I |
| 28 | The case , Cohen v. Cowles Media Co. , arose from the attempt of Dan Cohen , a Minnesota political operative , to sue two of the state 's largest newspapers for revealing that he had leaked information to them . |
| 29 | Oh no , I mean the these were clients and they could never be friends after doing that I 've come to the conclusion you can either keep your money or you can keep your friends , but you 're not going to do both . |
| 30 | Clearly this method disposes the health professionals toward feeling that they have helped architect the final programme . |