Example sentences of "[v-ing] that [pron] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ended up with a rash of headlines , some announcing that we were in favour of the teaching of grammar , some that we were against . |
| 2 | And the Royal Institution of Great Britain in Albemarle Street was that day announcing that there were to be eight lectures given by Mr. Faraday on Static or Franklinic Electricity , to commence on 21 April . |
| 3 | However as late as 1668 another Roman , Mario Savioni ( c. 1608–1685 ) brought out a book of five-part Madrigali morali e spirituali , explaining that they were to be sung each at the end of one of his previously published Concerti morali and adding that he had ‘ taken care to unite together the aria and the madrigal so as to conform with the character of the concertos ’ . |
| 4 | He persuaded them that I was not employed by the Government , explaining that I was under the Emperor 5 personal protection , which accounted for my escort of soldiers . |
| 5 | For all that he could be expected to stay in the Lorrimores , car for at least fifteen more minutes I felt decidedly jittery , and I left the door open so that if he did come back unexpectedly I could say I was merely checking that everything was in order . |
| 6 | They asked him if they were making too much noise and he said no , not at all , he was just checking that everything was in order . |
| 7 | The meeting was friendly and Albert went off to Brighton where he roundly denounced me and all my works — without revealing that he was without his customary hat which he had forgotten and was hanging safely on a hook in my hall . |
| 8 | During the many weeks of my father 's hospitalization , I often came close to accepting that he was on his way . |
| 9 | One event which has lived in my memory , and which I would not have liked to repeat , was of cycling home one evening ( I lived near Altrincham ) — and I was in the middle of Barton Bridge when I heard a German bomber overhead — I have never pedalled so quickly since , realising that I was in the middle of a prime target . |
| 10 | Curiously , Palin made a point in the commentary about how he was n't pretending that he was on his own or that there were not gruff acolytes kneeling at his feet as he spoke . |
| 11 | Later that week believing that he was in no danger he returned to Rochester to keep the festival of All Saints . |
| 12 | In The Knossos Labyrinth ( Castleden 1989 ) , the evidence is summarized for believing that it was in the Central Court that the bull-leaping ritual took place , a ceremony that was itself central to the Minoan belief-system . |
| 13 | While the war continued I could ( almost ) fool myself into believing that I was like those other women who were merely separated from their men ‘ for the duration ’ — or , if not that , at least I felt that my life was suspended . |
| 14 | Defiantly her chin came up , challenging him , warning that he was beneath her dignity ; that if he tried to hiss her she would … |
| 15 | At that moment we heard the German changing to Port — he was returning there — and I requested immediate descent , adding that we were in a CB . |
| 16 | In 1324 he wrote to the Pope complaining that he was in danger from magic and occult practices , and the Pope replied by advising him to turn to God with a whole and contrite heart . |
| 17 | Those who wished to appeal more directly to fascist or nazi ideas would criticize her Christian and anti-German ideas , while stating that she was on the right track . |
| 18 | It quoted a Polish couple who arrived in Hungary yesterday as saying that they were in a large shop on the main square when two or three thousand people began chanting anti-Ceausescu slogans outside . |
| 19 | The DTI objected to both the picture of Gazza and the reference to Armstrong 's suicide , saying that they were in bad taste . |
| 20 | Some gave him their life history , then came round to saying that they were in bed , in the back of the villa , in the bath , already gone to work . |
| 21 | ICI welcomed the new limits , saying that they were in line with its own aim of cutting discharges by half by 1995 . |
| 22 | ( Amnesty also returned to an issue covered in its December 1990 report on abuses under the Iraqi occupation — see p. 37927 — saying that there was in fact no reliable evidence to support the claim that babies had died as a result of being removed from incubators by Iraqi troops . ) |
| 23 | The next day all this was swept from their minds when a letter arrived from Eileen , saying that she was to be married by special licence . |
| 24 | A UK Foreign Ministry spokesperson responded on the same day by saying that it was for Iran to make the first gesture and that the UK would " not accept Iranian intervention in [ its ] internal affairs " . |
| 25 | The Palestinian group refrained from approving the US plan , saying that it was for the PLO to do so . |
| 26 | Igor Kasatonov , Commander of the Black Sea Fleet , refused to take the oath , saying that he was under the command only of the C.-in-C. of the CIS armed forces , Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov . |
| 27 | Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) in late August 1989 visited prisons at the request of the government , which claimed that organizations such as the permanent human rights commission ( CPDH ) and the support group for families of political prisoners were falsely estimating that there were between 6,000 and 7,000 inmates . |
| 28 | Now Locke you 'll recall had articulated a concept of private property as a natural right , inherent in individuals independently of membership in a civil society and in doing that he was of course trying to mount a case against erm Filmer 's position . |
| 29 | The steward is said to have issued the boys with a receipt , made out for £5 and indicating that it was for the journey from Stonehouse to Gloucester . |
| 30 | Consequently , LEAs earmarking certain discretionary items in this way would still have to count them in calculating that they were within the 10 per cent limit . |