Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you do n't need to be Italian to know that insisting on bringing a car in this mess is n't very bright . |
| 2 | This is a scandal not merely because police stations are not equipped to hold prisoners for more than a day or two — everyone from Lord Justice Woolf to the Inspectorate Constabulary has condemned the present arrangement — but because police cells are now being used as a convenience to enable the Prison Department and the Home Secretary to claim that overcrowding in prisons is diminished . |
| 3 | It can not , therefore , be a Christian insight to urge that speaking in tongues is an indispensable mark of life in the Spirit of Christ ; whereas it is an undeniably Christian insight to insist that love and holiness , so manifest in the life of the incarnate One , should mark those who claim to have his Spirit . |
| 4 | While this is probably true for most people , it is also important to remember that preparing for retirement really has to be a staged process . |
| 5 | It is also worth noting that dealing need not actually take place ; the minimum requirement is merely that the insider had reasonable cause to believe that dealing in the relevant shares would take place . |
| 6 | They used to believe that investing in big , publicly traded issues would keep their portfolios liquid even in a bear market . |
| 7 | The Liberal Democrats happen to believe that investing in our children 's future will provide the highest dividends of all ; and the better quality of life which a good education brings . |
| 8 | As good Marxists the Bolshevik leaders tended to believe that following on the eventual restoration and ‘ correct ’ development of favourable economic conditions , ‘ correct ’ social and political attitudes would also come about at all levels . |
| 9 | We are to understand that owing to B 's negligence an injury was sustained either by C or by some other user of the highway . |
| 10 | Further to compound my mystification , he does not seem to realise that according to Christian dogma , God is not only loving but also just and that He may be calling Christians to a future life which is not necessarily ‘ better ’ than the present . |
| 11 | Chief among them , and born of the group 's increasing feeling that they stood far something , embattled against a hostile world , was their tendency not only to see merit where none existed ( in the poetry of Fox , for example ) , but actually to think that belonging to the group — which began at around this period to be known as the Inklings — was in itself a sort of merit . |
| 12 | He must not be allowed to think that staying in bed would solve the physical problems of his hemiplegia , as the opposite would certainly happen : he would become lazy , weak , and his spasticity would become more entrenched and pronounced . |
| 13 | He used to say that staying with friends was the best way to kill a friendship . |
| 14 | I just wanted to say that speaking as a psychiatrist |
| 15 | Some fans have been on to say that calling for the manager 's dismissal is not the answer . |
| 16 | How much of the liquor in this anthropoid coffin was body fluid will have to be left to the imagination ; suffice it to say that owing to the construction of such coffins it would have been practically impossible to have introduced much liquid preservatives . |
| 17 | Greenidge was happy to admit that playing alongside the South African was ‘ an education and an inspiration ’ , but he also conceded that while they both had many outstanding days individually they did not score as many runs in partnership as they might have done , since they were both attacking players and therefore risk-takers . |
| 18 | Maggie was about to protest that talking to Roger and Luke did not qualify as lurking , but Roger made off with a bottle in each hand and Luke had vanished again . |
| 19 | Ireland tagged along , trying to prove that playing on reserves of passion and pride were good enough . |
| 20 | But it is vital , before we canonise the creatures , to note that acting for an end ( requiring teleological explanation ) is almost a defining feature of the living world as a whole . |