Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now she is wishing that I was back at work . ’ |
| 2 | Traditionally , her top class has spent a residential week at Paignton Zoo and she is determined that , given the restriction on charging for activities within school hours , the tradition will be maintained ad infinitum . |
| 3 | Nicola from Chartbury in Oxfordshire is very worried about her younger son , and she is hoping that some of you may be able to help . |
| 4 | Now she is hoping that her open luck will change , though it looks as though Smashiton will have too much to do in tonight 's £100 450 metres open at Sunderland . |
| 5 | A mother insists on her small son 's going to bed at a certain time , in spite of all his protests , because she knows he needs enough sleep to keep healthy and alert ; but in his view , she is insisting that he gives up his happy play , cutting him off from the rest of the family , for no good reason . |
| 6 | She is insisting that Gerry finds them a ‘ love nest ’ a safe distance from his wife . |
| 7 | She is inferring that when mortals feel secure , and sound in their knowledge of others , then that is the time for them to be unsure of most , because if anything is going to happen , it will happen then . |
| 8 | Need it be a matter of wonder , when we see her capable of such restraint in general , that she should retire within herself and exercise that control we find her continually exerting over all her thoughts and actions the more energetically at a time when she is taught that a stray thought of desire would be impurity and its fruition pollution . |
| 9 | Helping an elderly woman to adjust and to find a new identity is never easy , but it can nearly always be achieved if she is shown that she is still loved and needed , by her family and friends . |
| 10 | She is saying that this good thing , this knowledge , can be used — to tell us , for example , that Amis is not a Tudor writer : but she is rather more moved to say at the same time that it ca n't or can hardly be used , devoted as she is to the thought of a separation between , in this case , Amis 's friendships and politics , his life — and his art . |
| 11 | In the language of contemporary sociology , she is saying that juvenile delinquency is a subculture … |
| 12 | He said : ‘ What is the housewife going to do when she is told that the price of her electricity has now reached 10 pence per unit . |
| 13 | She is told that if she catches sight of him when he visits her in the darkness , he will leave her . |
| 14 | People still think the greatest compliment they can pay you is to say that you look younger than your age . |
| 15 | We 've attempted , Chairer , to assess this proposal and then to set a criteria I think it 's important for members to understand that currently there is a consortium that er , is in operation , fully operational that is carrying out the tasks erm , that are identified in the consultation document mainly erm the consultation document itself does erm show exactly what the health authority is doing erm , the proposal now before you is to extend that erm to one merged unit of health authority with one executive board erm based with three local health clinics erm , to provide the service . |
| 16 | Yours will most probably be the arms she needs at this point , and the best thing you can do for her is to show that you share her grief , and that as far as possible you are going to be the rock on which she can lean while the sands of her life are shifting so frighteningly beneath her feet . |
| 17 | It is related that Annia Galeria Faustina , the wife of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius ( 121–180 ) , was so desperate to become pregnant that she drank the warm blood of a dead gladiator . |
| 18 | However , if you receive a groin kick and it is discovered that you are not wearing a guard , then you will automatically be disqualified , regardless of whose fault the low kick was ! |
| 19 | When it is discovered that the combination of certain proportions of charcoal , sulphur and saltpetre produces disagreeable results , then there is no reason why the benefits of gunpowder should be restricted to China . |
| 20 | But when it is discovered that a substance harms women 's reproductive health , women of childbearing age are usually kept from jobs that might expose them to it . |
| 21 | If it turns out that this is not the case , if it is discovered that the prohibition denies the would-be rapists more of a chance to pursue the good life than it gives their possible victims , then one may have to adjust other features of the political framework to make sure that this does not result in inequality of ability to pursue one 's conception of the good . |
| 22 | However , where it is discovered that the tax law does not have the effect that the Government and taxpayers generally thought it had , there are circumstances in which it is right to introduce legislation to restore the position retrospectively to what it was thought to be . |
| 23 | Years later it is discovered that Grom reached the Elven Kingdoms of Ulthuan , causing great destruction until finally defeated by the High Elves . |
| 24 | When the sentence has been passed , possibly ( as the sentencer indicated in this case ) with the benefit of some mitigation , it is discovered that the means to pay either did not exist or have in one way or another disappeared . |
| 25 | This goal is about to be reached when it is discovered that a great deal more investment is required . |
| 26 | Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky is the most suggestive of all Dostoevsky 's accidental men , and it is fitting that the phrase itself should never be used of or by him . |
| 27 | He studied engineering in both France and Germany , patenting the first compression ignition engine in 1892 , so it is fitting that while Germany probably had the early lead , particularly with trucks , French makers have had a love affair with diesel cars since the 1930s . |
| 28 | It is fitting that the river should , according to legend , be associated with Tamara , a beautiful nymph who in ancient times lived in a cave deep below the earth . |
| 29 | In view of their close relationship , it is fitting that Hofmann should have the last words on Edward Chambers Nicholson . |
| 30 | With such magnificent surroundings , it is fitting that Kenwood is the home of one of the most important private collections of paintings to be given to the nation this century , including world-famous works by Rembrandt , Vermeer , Turner , Reynolds and Gainsborough . |