Example sentences of "[v-ing] that [pron] or [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ VERY cut glass ’ was the phrase in my youth for hinting that somebody or something was a quality product . |
| 2 | Although hypothermia can happen accidentally , it is essentially an insidious condition that can happen over several hours , the victim becoming sleepier and sleepier in this time and not realising that he or she is freezing to death . |
| 3 | Your reader will then know that you are not presuming that she or he knows what the term means . |
| 4 | It is the child who refuses to abandon Dreams — who stubbornly persists in believing that he or she will explore the depths of the Amazon , or will become a film director — who becomes the adult who will achieve those ambitions . |
| 5 | The same survey found that the more a person smokes the less faith that person has in believing that he or she can stop . |
| 6 | The opportunity to talk about feelings and experiences , and to ventilate anxieties , sadness , anger or despair is important , as is the ability to find some personal meaning in the experience — for instance , following the death of one 's child , believing that his or her suffering and treatment may in some way help other children with the same affliction in the future . |
| 7 | Where the director or directors is or are not in sole control of the company , there is no difficulty in holding that he or they can appropriate from the company and the property belong to another . |
| 8 | Within my own practice , I have never met a white child who says he or she is not white ; neither have I met a black child growing up in a black family saying that he or she is not black . |
| 9 | The person is implicitly saying that he or she subscribes to the network of rules of the discipline in question . |
| 10 | The situation is not helped by the writers of " soap operas " who " explain " the behaviour of a murderer , child molester or other deviant by saying that he or she had epilepsy or a brain tumour . |
| 11 | This may simply involve a talk with the infected patient explaining the way in which the diseases are transmitted and asking that he or she make every effort to persuade the contacts to attend . |
| 12 | Uses behaviour that emphasises the interviewer 's powers to appraise and evaluate — sitting back in the chair , head tilting backwards , hand covering mouth , perhaps , looking doubtful and not registering any reaction to what is said , or indicating that he or she appreciates that their ‘ victim ’ has finished an answer . |
| 13 | Similarly , a director who is in charge of the company 's research and development programme would not be able to resist a negligence action by claiming that he or she lacked experience or qualifications in the area concerned . |
| 14 | We can not therefore , admitting that we or they did not know before , insist that we do know now , since that would be to make different claims in circumstances that show no relevant difference . |
| 15 | The ‘ meaning ’ theist is capable of recognising that he or she considers the problem in a mutual dialogue with the ‘ meaning ’ atheist , that each is out to convince the other and that each may convert the other to his or her views . |
| 16 | Later comes a point of being unable to accept the loss , very often searching for the person who has gone and thinking that he or she is still there . |
| 17 | The younger adolescent is to be pardoned for feeling that he or she ca n't win ! |