Example sentences of "[v-ing] that [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The locals are praying that he wants to stay in Santa Barbara forever . |
| 2 | If a person writes a book or magazine article denying that he has committed any crime , are his words to be interpreted as his opinion regarding the crime ? |
| 3 | This view avoids the necessity of explaining how an increase in complexity can occur by denying that it happens , but only at the expense of supposing not only that there is a minute homunculus in the egg but that within that homonculus there is an egg containing a still more minute homonculus , and so on , in Chinese box fashion , ad infinitum — or , if not ad infinitum , at least back to Eve , who carried within her a sufficient number of successively smaller homunculi to account for all the future generations of mankind . |
| 4 | Whatever criticisms may be made of the STV there is no denying that it has proved viable in its own fashion in twenty-two general elections in the Republic of Ireland . |
| 5 | There are some good points — like explaining that everyone knows how to keep their balance and that normal balance should be used when skiing . |
| 6 | Harriet 's explaining that she gives a service , something about helping people realize their dreams . |
| 7 | Unix System Labs is apparently looking at the Tiny 386BSD boot disk ( the one that 's been circulating in the academia , which derives from Bill Jolitz 's work and is not from Berkeley System Design Inc ) checking that it does n't infringe their property rights . |
| 8 | But if you are working from a consultancy or from an office situated at some distance from the manufacturing units you will need to organise a system for sending a product out and checking that it has gone . |
| 9 | ‘ We would n't dream of going back , ’ he asserts , revealing that he has seen ‘ really substantial increases in sales ’ on books that have been denetted . |
| 10 | One has the odd title of the Boulevard du B.A.B. , revealing that it has taken over the line of the old tramway , the Bayonne-Anglet-Biarritz ; the other , further back from the coast , is the N10 , once the crowded highway along which French motorists hurtled into northern Spain but now a gentler place to drive , the motorway having supplanted it . |
| 11 | A double page spread appeared in the Mail , featuring Beattie 's real mother , Zelma , in her house in Hull , and revealing that she prefers to use Mercury as it 's cheaper . |
| 12 | Moreover , the fact that he fails to realise the ironic force of the question , and rushes into affirming that he does know the Queen is ample demonstration of the extent to which , beneath his posturing , he has lost his composure under the pressure of the situation . |
| 13 | Johnny Hero played the between set music — again proving that he hosts easily the best disco in town . |
| 14 | It is still a thoughtful , finely acted and daringly all-encompassing film , suggesting that no-one has a fixed nature . |
| 15 | The grand mean direction is statistically indistinguishable from the three Miocene reference directions , suggesting that there has been no footwall tilting . |
| 16 | I am not suggesting that he arrives at the meaning of Truth as the result of philosophical or metaphysical speculation in a vacuum . |
| 17 | The anthropologist 's appetite for information and his curiosity are boundless , and he is naturally particularly attracted by those avenues of inquiry where the answers come hard , suggesting that he has touched on a sensitive and hence significant vein . |
| 18 | Thus it would seem that the ‘ dawn of civilisation ’ , so often quoted in a context suggesting that it represents a fairly finite occurrence taking a relatively short space of time , did , in all probability cover a very long time indeed , perhaps many thousands of years . |
| 19 | Some of the manifestations of septic shock , such as hypotension , haemoconcentration , and gastrointestinal ulceration were reported to be mimicked after intravenous administration of platelet activating factor in rats suggesting that it plays a role in this syndrome . |
| 20 | That last phrase , presenting the savage mind as ‘ vanished ’ , yet suggesting that it continues in our own , is in line with Eliot 's refusal when discussing Lévy-Bruhl , to pin down just how the savage mind is related to the modern . |
| 21 | It is pale , with very small eyes , suggesting that it spends much of its time underground . |
| 22 | Caffeine abolishes the apparent cooperativity of InsP 3 -induced calcium release , suggesting that it interferes with the event that couples the binding of InsP 3 to subsequent channel opening . |
| 23 | The POU domain of this protein is unusually divergent in its sequence suggesting that it belongs to a novel class of POU family proteins . |
| 24 | In contrast , antibodies against C/EBPδ ( 27 ) completely abolish the IL-6 induced complex suggesting that it contains C/EBP δ/NF-IL6; β . |
| 25 | We are already falling into the trap of describing an ideal world and suggesting that it exists . |
| 26 | The association of thrust faulting on the margins of the Tibetan Plateau with normal faulting in its highest regions has been interpreted as suggesting that it has attained its maximum elevation , and that consequently it is tending to grow outwards rather than increase in altitude . |
| 27 | ‘ Methinks I should contrive to send her a message , suggesting that she pays me another visit . ’ |
| 28 | ( So much so that , although I believe in God , my great difficulty is accepting that he believes in us ! ) |
| 29 | And to that ultimate challenge of the book the herb can not reply , except by realising that he does not know the answer , and that he is glad he does not know . |
| 30 | Blue chips such as British Telecom are realising that it makes sense to ‘ take work to the people to overcome a permanent shortage of software engineers in the South East , says Malcolm Lees at BT 's software centre . |