Example sentences of "[v-ing] [that] [pron] [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gray said : ‘ There 's no denying that it 's going to be a tough fight now . |
| 2 | Digital Equipment Corp also has a copy of the paper , and some of the COSE people think DEC is now only a photo opportunity away from announcing that it 's becoming a COSE too . |
| 3 | IBM Corp has shocked all Manhattan — or at any rate New York 's chattering classes — by announcing that it is to close the Gallery of Science & Art , an extremely popular gallery for visiting art exhibitions in the basement of its tower on Madison Avenue : it says it will try to find the seven employees of the gallery other jobs in the company , without holding out very much hope . |
| 4 | Yet software house Microsoft recently caused quite a stir in computer circles by announcing that it is using real people , working for real companies , to test its software products . |
| 5 | Digital Equipment Corp also has a copy of the paper , and some of the Common Open Software Environment people think that DEC is now only a photo opportunity away from announcing that it is becoming a member too . |
| 6 | And he gets a lot of publicity out of this by er , being photographed with Ted Heath , by announcing that he 's showing clemency to people who are convicted by the Iraqi courts , and that really people should n't hold too much against him . |
| 7 | Excuse me I have to say Princess Diana yesterday stunned the world announcing that she is to quit public life . |
| 8 | The phatic function : opening the channel or checking that it is working , either for social reasons ( ‘ Hello' , ‘ Lovely weather ’ , ‘ Do you come here often ? ’ ) , or for practical ones ( ‘ Can you hear me ? ’ , |
| 9 | Meanwhile , the company is bragging that it 's having trouble dumbing down the Alpha chip to make it slow enough to sell against the 80486 . |
| 10 | However , if he happens also to run a business and sells one of the cars in circumstances suggesting that he is selling it in the course of that business , then he is likely to be regarded as doing just that , Southwark London Borough v. Charlesworth ( paragraph 9–20 above ) . |
| 11 | undermine your opponent 's credibility by : questioning his experience suggesting that he is losing control negotiating to the point of his mental exhaustion |
| 12 | I am not suggesting that it is proven that our motives , reasons and purposes are not themselves reducible to mechanically operating causal factors , as a fully determinist model would have it ; but if that is the case , we are so far from being able to specify these factors that they do not offer a model we can actually work with — as we saw in the discussion of positivist criminology in Chapter 2 . |
| 13 | Seeing that nothing 's drowned in the pool recently . ’ |
| 14 | And that bloke is responsible for seeing that everything is put in place . |
| 15 | ‘ there must be something in the nature of a criminal intent of the kind which means that it is done with the idea of some form of hostility to the police with the intention of seeing that what is done is to obstruct , and that it is not enough merely to show that he intended to do what he did and that it did in fact have the result of the police being obstructed . ’ |
| 16 | spends his day blending the malt and seeing that it is despatched correctly . |
| 17 | Richard is responsible for seeing that it is done . |
| 18 | Seeing that she 's going off to sleep , I thought she 'd like that little dog cos that 's furry . |
| 19 | ‘ I would imagine so , seeing that he 's going to be working here ! |
| 20 | I can let go , trusting that everything is happening perfectly . |
| 21 | And the fact of having , and also of course of realising that he is having , the same experience as he , and the same sensation , as he 'd experienced many years before , this sensation releases a whole set of associated feelings . |
| 22 | If the parents of a mentally handicapped child immediately reject the child on realising that it is handicapped , or find that life with the child is so difficult that they feel unable to cope , it falls upon the state to find an alternative place of residence , in particular on local authorities . |
| 23 | At least that 's what it 's telling the PC press , with IBM retorting that it 's trying to spook customers . |
| 24 | Even in the prenatal period the fetus is communicating that it is growing in size ; and in the later months of pregnancy that it is capable of movement . |
| 25 | And as a Portuguese Euro-minister claims that Britain 's oil may have to be controlled by the authorities in Brussels , Jacques Delors demands another £2bn and ERM-inspired interest rates force thousands on to the dole , how long will it be before one of our major political parties has the guts to campaign against the European Community in its present form , rather than sticking their collective heads in the merde and pretending that everything 's coming up roses ? |
| 26 | ‘ Well , Marie , ’ I say , pretending that she 's sat there listening to me . |
| 27 | Social learning theory does not take into account the biological and genetic factors of nature however , in believing that everything is learnt and nothing is innate and sometimes these must be taken into account . |
| 28 | Examples of this may be : the agoraphobic person who never goes out because they believe they will collapse and die of a heart attack ; the lift phobic who believes they may become trapped in the lift and suffocate to death ; a person who avoids meeting others because , if a disagreement starts , they believe they will lose their temper and hit people ; and last , a person may obsessively check the locks on doors and windows , believing that somebody is bound to break into the house if they fail to make these checks . |
| 29 | To the question whether a man , who has intercourse with a woman believing that she is consenting to it , though she is not , commits rape , I think that he [ the ordinary man ] would reply , ‘ No . |
| 30 | As a matter of general law , apart from the statutory provisions and the Law Society 's regulations , the firm 's name must not be such as to deceive the general public into believing that it is dealing with some rival firm . |