Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [that] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be observed that in those cases there was no statutory period after cessation of trade during which jurisdiction continued , and the court was therefore faced with a stark choice between saying that the jurisdiction ceased immediately active trade was suspended , or saying that it continued until the business had actually been wound up by payment of the debts . |
| 2 | We are already falling into the trap of describing an ideal world and suggesting that it exists . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There is a particularly fine example in the last pas de deux of La Fille Mal Gardée where Lise and Colas weave themselves into an embrace which is so tender , gentle and loving that it arrives at the end of a phrase as the most natural thing in the world . |
| 5 | People were cursing the Greenhouse Effect and swearing that it had put paid to surf in Hawaii for all time . |
| 6 | A World Bank spokesman responded to the leak by denying that the memo in any way represented Bank policy , and adding that it had been written in a deliberately ironic tone in order to provoke internal debate within the organization . |
| 7 | Galileo took the argument further and claimed that the correctness of his law of inertia could be demonstrated by dropping a stone from the top of the mast of a uniformly moving ship and noting that it strikes the deck at the foot of the mast , although Galileo did not claim to have performed the experiment . |
| 8 | — ‘ Non , ’ Alyssia said , mastering the French word and deciding that it had a certain ring to it when used in conversation with this particular woman . |
| 9 | Also , an SSR based on the first SSR should be generated without reference to the offending module and stating that it supersedes the first . |
| 10 | Also , an SSR based on the first SSR should be generated without reference to the offending module and stating that it supersedes the first . |
| 11 | Even when the referential locus of noun and adjective are the same , however , there is no general guarantee that the overall " output " , in terms of intensional entities ( and the real or potential referents to which they may correspond ) will be the same under these two ways of linking an adjective to a noun , which amount respectively to introducing a subject x identified in part through having the property F , and to introducing a subject x and saying that it has the property F. For instance , if we move from the predicative structure : ( 7 ) clouds are small to the phrase small clouds , we pass to an expression which identifies a certain group of entities but does nothing more than identify them ; whereas expression ( 7 ) identifies a quite different ( and much larger ) group of entities , and says something about them ( which , as it happens , is not true , even though small clouds certainly do exist ) . |
| 12 | The ANC strongly criticized the budget , calling the level of social expenditure proposed " hopelessly inadequate " and alleging that it reflected " ongoing apartheid priorities " . |
| 13 | An enchanting Greek relief ( metope or section of a frieze ) from Reggio ( Rhegium ) with two running or dancing nymphs ( fig. 25 ) shows in its sophisticated movement and modelling that it belongs later in the century , but from the fall of the hair we can see that here too the faces were turned towards us . |
| 14 | Deputies from Estonia 's Russian minority boycotted the vote on the new law , describing it as discriminatory and claiming that it violated the constitution of Soviet Estonia , although Estonian nationalist deputies countered that that document had ceased to be valid since the March 30 declaration of a transition to independence [ see pp. 37322 ; 37461-62 ] . |
| 15 | He was appalled at the thought of turning into a pub at five-thirty for a quiet drink and finding that it had been converted into a Poets ' Pub , ‘ reverberating , like an African village , with the roll of ‘ Drake 's Drum . ’ . |
| 16 | At the start of the present study and , indeed , until its analysis stage we did not associate the Dounreay-Thurso area with the oil industry , and finding that it contained a high proportion of oil workers was unexpected . |
| 17 | There is so much of your father in you , Mikhail … it is like finding an old and dusty mirror in the attic and finding that it reflects only the past . ’ |
| 18 | Communication is not achieved by putting something that means — one thing to us in front of someone else and hoping that it means the same thing to that other person . |
| 19 | The Interministerial Council was an indispensable tool for keeping track of his own government and ensuring that it followed the line that he delivered from above . |
| 20 | Cunningham said his members are adamant about having input into system software and ensuring that it integrates with other operating environments such as Windows NT , Taligent and OS/2 . |
| 21 | The report criticises the authority for not giving help to the family and ensuring that it maintained contact with Horler . |
| 22 | This scepticism apart , most bass amp manufacturers would opt for a similar system if they thought the market would stand it , but realising that it places significant extra financial strain on the consumer , most do n't . |
| 23 | For a moment I felt an instinctive resentment , but remembering that it contained things ‘ for me ’ , I picked it up . |
| 24 | He read it through , a touch uneasy that its jocularity might displease Newton but knowing that it told Newton what he wanted to know . |
| 25 | During April 1988 , Suchard , the Swiss-based chocolate manufacturer , launched a dawn raid on Rowntree , the York-based company , quickly scooping up a stake of 14.9 per cent as a ‘ strategic investment ’ , but claiming that it had no intention of launching a full-scale takeover bid . |
| 26 | CITROEN disputes Daihatsu 's economical motoring laurels ; while admitting that it has not tackled the Round Britain run yet , it says that its AX diesel has achieved 112.01 mph over a 100 mile road route . |
| 27 | The regulatory role of the Department of Trade and Industry in respect of Barlow Clowes had been sharply criticized in reports both of an independent inquiry ( published on Oct. 20 , 1988 ) , and of the Ombudsman ( published on Dec. 19 , 1989 ) ; on the latter date the government had announced that in the exceptional circumstances it would make ex gratia payments ( totalling some #150,000,000 ) to all investors who had suffered loss , while stressing that it had no legal liability to pay compensation . |
| 28 | His aim was thus to keep the Herbert hegemony intact , while ensuring that it continued to be used in the royal interest . |
| 29 | His aim was thus to keep the Herbert hegemony intact , while ensuring that it continued to be used in the royal interest . |
| 30 | 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 . |