Example sentences of "[v-ing] that [pers pn] [modal v] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not taking the hero for granted , but missing him madly and praying that he would be fit to return for the Davis Cup . |
| 2 | She wore her bridal clothes and jewellery : this was how her mother had sent her , for the first time , from her home , taking care that every detail of her ornaments should be perfect hoping , praying that she would be happy . |
| 3 | Inwardly praying that she might be able to show her piety and understanding , she said , ‘ Yes , I 'm sure it must mean a lot to you . |
| 4 | While denying that he would be merely a stopgap premier , Goh nevertheless stated in December 1989 that " it is obvious that Lee Hsien Loong will be after me " . |
| 5 | Griffin replies to such scepticism rather lamely : ‘ Allowing that an animal can be aware of outside events but denying that it can be self-aware becomes somewhat ridiculous — can the animal be aware of other creatures but not of itself ? ( 1984 : 205 ) . |
| 6 | In much the same way that Kodak announced , in May of last year ( ahead of the actual launch ) , its plans for its revolutionary Photo CD project , ( a new technology which will revolutionise the way that pictures are viewed ) , so too Reebok , in March of this year , made a pre-emptive strike by announcing that it will be launching , ( initially at the Olympics in July ) , its latest technology , which will be introduced to tennis at the US Open , in September . |
| 7 | Clarac looked at him and gave a slight bow , understanding that he would be allowed nothing today . |
| 8 | She gave him a level look , understanding that he must be working , as they say , on information received . |
| 9 | One example , suggesting that we may be able mentally to rotate objects , was mentioned at the end of the last chapter , and a second , in this one , demonstrated that we do in fact recognize sets of similar markings ( note that a psychological demonstration that we can do something , and an account of a calculation which would enable us to do so , are quite different things ) . |
| 10 | I am not suggesting that we should be completely sceptical about the value of introspection . |
| 11 | Not that I 'm suggesting that we should be soft when children do wrong but that we just reverse the ratio of our attention and energy from the negative to the positive . |
| 12 | The local Licensed Victuallers Association have pointed out that all six pubs have gardens and car parks , suggesting that they will be converted to plastic ‘ eating houses ’ . |
| 13 | So what are you suggesting , are you suggesting that they should be bombing the general population ? |
| 14 | I am not suggesting that you should be totally selfish , but people will put on those who ca n't say ‘ no ’ when they need a helping hand . |
| 15 | His mind filled with primitive lore and with a sense of awkwardness at the numerous exhausting social roles he had to play in addition to that of the London banker , Eliot wrote to Mary Hutchinson in 1920 worrying about his inherited characteristics and suggesting that he might be a savage himself . |
| 16 | Emile Littler was a much younger producer of rival pantomimes ; feeling more than a little disloyal , Mr Smith wrote to him in desperation suggesting that he might be interested in his dancers . |
| 17 | Separate allegations against Gates — suggesting that he might be implicated in illegal efforts to supply US arms and technology to Iraq via third countries such as South Africa and Chile — were also believed to have been made to congressional investigators and federal law enforcement officials . |
| 18 | Alf is periodically nodding at his son-in-law and suggesting that he would be better off if he read the book Alf has in his hands . |
| 19 | In light of this , it is perhaps worthwhile noting that we have demonstrated recently that the DNA-PK requires DNA breaks in order to become activated efficiently in vitro , suggesting that it might be involved in mediating a response to DNA damage ( 11 ) . |
| 20 | It may be you see that the manufacturing flavour of the past two years was to do with the pre er Common Market period getting inside the European Union ring fence with the manufacturing plant and there is speculation as to whether that will now change that the Common Market is now established and that that window of opportunity for manufacturing has tended to recede suggesting that it may be erm administrative er er services service sector that erm these international companies would now want inside the Union . |
| 21 | If he was insincere in this , it is none the less ironic that in 1980 , when many within the Church of England were suggesting that it would be a more effective body if it were disestablished , his name should have been reintroduced into the Prayer Book as a martyr for the cause of Establishment . |
| 22 | In 1927 his sister Evangeline presented a reasoned " memorandum " suggesting that it would be wise to establish a different method of appointing the next General . |
| 23 | Peter , North Yorkshire , I hope Mr is not suggesting that it would be the intention of the County or the District pursuing the new settlement to er include within it er polluting industry . |
| 24 | He accepts the evidence that there has been a drying-out in the continental interiors affecting both the United States and the Soviet Union and then qualifies his acceptance by suggesting that it will be remedied in the next century by greater precipitation . |
| 25 | Blakemore inverted the concept , suggesting that it can be used to indicate an error band about a digitized line . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , that 's an artful way to get me to wait on you , ’ interrupted Sally-Anne frankly , ‘ and I suppose , since you are so cunning , and I am dying for a drink , you might have your way — perhaps a bonus on my wages might be an idea , seeing that I shall be doing this out of hours . ’ |
| 27 | er Graham seems to think they 're hinting that they should be done on the same day |
| 28 | Davidson and the General kept hinting that I would be much better off without it , but I was terrified that without it I should never be able to fly again , so refused to let them touch it . |
| 29 | He is now thought to have rejoined the Labour Party , and to have composed an ‘ open letter ’ to Neil Kinnock hinting that he should be helped to find a suitable constituency . |
| 30 | They they marched to the er to the workhouse , demanding that they should be taken in , you see . |