Example sentences of "[v-ing] that [pron] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prester was believed to have written to the Byzantine Emperor Manuel Comnenus , enumerating the wonders of his kingdom , and affirming that he ruled over the three Indies and over seventy kings , and that twenty bishops , twelve archbishops and a patriarch acknowledged his authority . |
| 2 | There has been wide disagreement among historians concerning the chronology of population recovery , some suggesting that it started before the end of the fourteenth century , others favouring dates around 1430 and others again preferring the early sixteenth century ( 59 ; 75 , p.15 ; 99 , p.269 ) . |
| 3 | Some of his little ways had indeed been quite surprising in the past , seeing that they ranged from the quartering of badgers , rescued from a baiting , in her coal-shed to the introduction of separate limbs and even of whole orphans for dissection when they were in good supply towards the end of winter ; but she had grown used to them little by little . |
| 4 | Validation of the suffering individual , treating him or her with kindness , professional respect and dignity , being open and honest , separating the awareness of the disease from the understanding of the suffering human being , following the distorted reasoning and disturbed actions and accepting that they appeared to the sufferer to be most appropriate at the time they were committed . |
| 5 | I was so sure I was drowning that I forgot about the race and screamed out , " Father ! |
| 6 | Younger first time buyers would find such a scheme an unnecessary burden since , presuming that they retired at the standard age , they would have to continue paying their mortgage for 30 or 40 years before the pension plan matured to pay it off . |
| 7 | She glanced at it uneasily , remembering that it ran past the witch 's cottage . |
| 8 | She had to find her own way to the bathroom and was pleased with herself for so quickly remembering that it lay at the end of the passage . |
| 9 | Several other counties are already regretting that he slipped through the net . |
| 10 | As it was , the ‘ smokeless shimmer of vapour ’ was so cooled by cleaning that it drifted across the river to cause mischief with the leadwork on Wren 's great dome . |
| 11 | 9.16 Developing neighbouring property Landlords frequently include a proviso stating that nothing contained in the lease shall prevent them from altering , adding to , refurbishing and generally executing works to neighbouring property . |
| 12 | But surely , a speaker could have conveyed an impression of athleticism simply by saying that they sprinted up the hill . |
| 13 | But but prior to doing that they met with the branch that had put the resolution in . |
| 14 | Although conceivably not before 994 , this was probably earlier , for the greatest possible length of time that could have elapsed between 994 and Æthelric 's death is five years — assuming that he died in the last year that the will could have been confirmed — and whether even this justifies the description " many years " seems questionable . |
| 15 | So I was able to release these two successfully , and had the satisfaction of knowing that they approved of the site I 'd chosen . |
| 16 | It was held that in showing that he relied upon the figures in Lloyd 's Register and had disregarded the figure in the ship 's documents , he had failed to prove that he had had reasonable grounds to believe the truth of his misrepresentation . |
| 17 | Tin Maung Win of the NLD was reported by Voice of Myanma radio on Jan. 31 to have " passed away " on Jan. 18 ; on Feb. 8 the Associated Press news agency reported that diplomats were claiming that he died in the city 's Insein prison . |
| 18 | Sabatini had sympathy for her , admitting that she went through the same ordeal before winning the US Open in 1990 . |
| 19 | What was I doing , in the late twentieth century , arguing that what happened in the first century was of relevance to whether or not I could be a deacon . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ The review of ‘ I 'm Never Gon na Die Again' in Select started off saying that all the guitar playing that I did in The Birthday Party was genius and that since then I 've been very vague and confused . |
| 22 | If we find that industries are now disappearing fairly rapidly , it is also worth realizing that they arrived on the landscape quite suddenly . |