Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's new is that the old defence , that a director did not ‘ knowingly or willingly ’ allow something to happen has been eroded and , Bell said , ‘ directors will have to show specifically and beyond a shadow of doubt they could not know what was happening or that they had minuted their protest ’ . |
| 2 | He gave the jury a list of Meehan 's past convictions , knowing that he was prevented by the rules of evidence from telling them that Waddell was at that moment serving a sentence in Barlinnie for wounding or that he had served a previous sentence for perjury at Meehan 's trial . |
| 3 | If you change course later on in the essay , it will be obvious that you do not know where you are going or that you have not planned your essay with enough care . |
| 4 | This pattern persisted for nearly six months before both parents began to realise that James ' behaviour during the day was not improving and that he stopped playing as soon as he saw his father . |
| 5 | The completion of the canon of Scripture by the early Church does not signify that they thought the Lord had stopped speaking or that he had nothing fresh to say . |
| 6 | she feels that the whole thing needs rationalizing and that she 's just come , co come to the pi the point where she can rationalize everything for once in her life . |
| 7 | On Thursday , facing uproar on all sides of the Commons , Mr Major ordered that the mess be sorted out and Downing Street duly declared that there would be extra money for the poor over and above RPI uprating and that it had all been planned before the Budget . |
| 8 | Other highlights of the survey suggest that the construction industry is stagnating and that there has been a steep fall in new orders , declining sales and lower selling prices . |
| 9 | There is no doubt that Unionists believed in what they were doing or that they saw the government 's actions as justifying their responses . |
| 10 | It is hard , after a lifetime of sharing disappointments and problems with a parent , to find that they are no longer capable of sustaining conversation , that their memory is failing or that they have little interest in things outside their own immediate situation . |
| 11 | Oh , you may notice that you get out of breath when you have been running or that you hold your breath when frightened . |
| 12 | The Webbs objected that the scheme did not distinguish sufficiently between deserving and undeserving and that it included no measures for the prevention of unemployment . |
| 13 | Then she saw that Peter had been crying and that he had taken the trouble to wear a clean , white shirt . |
| 14 | She asked after you and was pleased when I told her how well your business was doing and that you seemed in good spirits since she said she had been anxious for you . |
| 15 | I think he once did say to me that he was very disturbed at how much ‘ coke ’ David was doing and that it had got to the point where he did n't hide it from deFries , whereas he did for quite a while at first . |
| 16 | Mark Whiteside ( 18 ) , said he had only recently started modelling but that it had all been good fun . |
| 17 | I seem to recall that the hon. Gentleman was one of those who until recently persistently argued that standards in our schools were not falling and that he resisted pressure for changes in teaching methods and other ideas designed to correct the fall . |
| 18 | Being out of touch is bad news so we need to be constantly on our guard that we do n't assume that we know what our consumers and clients are thinking or that we know what they want . |
| 19 | I suppose that bearded bloke must 'ave dropped it , I suppose I must 'ave picked it up without thinking and that I went off with it in an absent-minded way . |
| 20 | On a slightly different theme , left to our own devices and left to the club 's devices this Association and membership have always been very proud of our own record of educating and not legislating and that we have an ability er to instill in people a need to gain information and training along the way . |