Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [that] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this connexion it is worth remembering that it takes a little longer to change where cymbals are concerned ( owing to the way in which they are held ) but from bass drum to side-drum , triangle , or tambourine , or from any of these to any other , is a matter of seconds . |
| 2 | That policy was overturned in two minutes flat but it is worth remembering that it had held sway since the inception of the service areas fifteen years earlier . |
| 3 | Indeed , in 1781 the philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote a monumental and very obscure work , The Critique of Pure Reason , in which he concluded that there were equally valid arguments both for believing that the universe had a beginning and for believing that it did not . |
| 4 | This last provision looks so sweeping that there is a danger of supposing that it has swept away all difference between legal and equitable rights . |
| 5 | Perhaps the charge that attitudinism makes ethics peculiarly irrational is merely a way of saying that it denies that there is such a thing as objective ethical truth . |
| 6 | This is just another way of saying that it has 3ml of alcohol in every 100ml . |
| 7 | Still hammering away , the Institute has the satisfaction of knowing that it has at last brought home to the Ministry of Health , within whose purview this question comes , that things are not what they ought to be , and Dr Eichholz , who has just retired from the Chief Inspectorate of Special Schools , is at its request making a special enquiry . |
| 8 | Amiss thought of mentioning that it had tasted like condensed milk with a tea bag waved at it , but felt that might be a slur on Alf 's taste-buds . |
| 9 | There would be a double irony if , within a team or area budget , further cash were available , but care managers themselves had been bluffed in turn into thinking that it was't . |
| 10 | Do not be misled , however , into thinking that it works like a spreadsheet because it is only a grid for entering figures and can not perform any calculations for you . |
| 11 | We think there is very strong ground for saying that it does , and that by recognising both potential criminal origins in section 211 and then by channelling all judicial review applications together by section 21K under Order 53 , the legislature was providing for all . |
| 12 | He has found several different types of Anomalocaris ; from studying the whole lot , he thinks he can make a case for saying that it belongs with the arthropods , not out on its own . |
| 13 | On the contrary , if the student body were to take its right to learn ( Lernfreiheit ) seriously , and were to be vigilant in seeing that it enjoyed the kinds of academic freedom I spelt out earlier , it would necessarily take on an assertive role . |
| 14 | Secure employment will come from embracing new technology , not from pretending that it does not exist . |
| 15 | The court was unanimous in holding that it had such a right . |
| 16 | So what , what , what could it am I right in saying that it 's related to the , the work that you 're doing is related to the particular circumstances the particular problems that people living in flats have had ? |
| 17 | The use of a choke chain for training purposes is not favoured by all trainers , but provided that it is fitted correctly then it should not injure the puppy , and can prove useful in ensuring that it learns to walk properly on the leash . |
| 18 | Philip Urbach was encouraged by a German-sounding word ( ‘ Maybe English was n't so difficult after all ’ ) , without realising that it meant war over Poland . |
| 19 | Law ( b ) is more falsifiable than law ( a ) , which is tantamount to saying that it claims more , that it is the better law . |
| 20 | Hence ( vi ) to say , as Wittgenstein does , that the first person utterance is not verified by observation is tantamount to saying that it has no truth-value . |
| 21 | There is no understanding of religion without appreciating that it concerns this second kind of expression and communication . |
| 22 | There was the faintest whiff of irony in the fax which Grant Baird , head of Scotland Europa , sent to Highlands & Islands Enterprise on hearing that it had been elevated to Objective One status in the European Community , entitling it to the maximum amount of regional development funds . |
| 23 | Behaviour of the twin-T as a rejection filter is easily understood qualitatively on appreciating that it comprises a low-pass filter ( R , R , 2C ) in parallel with a high-pass filter ( C , C , R÷2 ) . |
| 24 | Can he pick up a tin of beans without feeling that it hates him ? |
| 25 | It is worth repeating that it stripped for ever from folklore the idea that British Rail was wholly independent and could do what it liked , that the Government had no connection with it and were not concerned in the day-to-day running of its affairs , and that there was a chasm between British Rail and the Government . |
| 26 | In the light of this amended agreement , the British LTA might have been forgiven for thinking that it had pre-empted any legal action over its former agreement , which it had sent to Brussels for consideration as long ago as September 1990 . |
| 27 | Why should it not , if there are grounds for thinking that it matters to the fiction ? |
| 28 | As a counter to this strongly argued view , it is worth mentioning that it assumes that ‘ biggest is best ’ and that the potential benefits of synergy will actually accrue . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |