Example sentences of "[v-ing] that [pers pn] do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amstrad Plc launched its £300 Pen Pad yesterday , proving that you do n't need a RISC processor to build a pen-based notepad . |
| 2 | But looks are deceiving and , despite her daintiness , Jo 's no lightweight — for , as Home and Away 's policewoman Jane Holland , she 's proving that you do n't have to be big and brawny to act tough . |
| 3 | The verdicts are implicitly defining what is appropriate behaviour for women and suggesting that they do not have much of a safeguard if they stray into areas regarded as ‘ male territory ’ whether it be a barracks room or a street late at night . |
| 4 | This is best explained , not by suggesting that they do not have interests in common or that they are satisfied with things as they are , but by attending to the crushing significance of those ideas in society which preach that to be poor is an individual 's own fault and reflects his or her lack of preparedness to study and train , to work hard , to postpone having a family , or what have you . |
| 5 | Do n't know why I 'm singing that I do n't even like . |
| 6 | you get out of singing that you do n't get anywhere else . |
| 7 | May we learn to face up to our problems and try to sort them out instead of pretending that they do n't exist or trying to run away from them . |
| 8 | But I would feel a bit snidey pretending that I do n't know them . ’ |
| 9 | Oh and I just hope he 's remembering that I do n't want to be the sister in there . |
| 10 | We shall focus on the search for drugs which lower blood pressure , while noting that they do not cure , that their role is essentially palliative , and that their use is not always appropriate . |
| 11 | Er , but erm er nevertheless , the , the fact is that the TESSA is a good investment , providing that you do n't need access to your money , and you 're going to get a tax advantage from it . |
| 12 | The best kind of flat is one that is above ground floor level and has its own entrance , providing that you do not gain access to your entrance up an unlit staircase or a long , dark walkway . |
| 13 | People are always complaining that they do not have enough work space/dumping space , but it may well be what they really need is better organized storage . |
| 14 | Darwin had himself studied some of these plants , verifying that they do actually consume the flies which land in their pitchers or on their leaves and get caught there , and finding that it was apparently to nitrogenous compounds that the plants responded . |
| 15 | There are difficulties in answering a question by saying that we do n't know . |
| 16 | Erm , over the last few months , we 've been over our administration , attacked , saying that we do n't care about the rural communities , only the conservative party care about the rural communities , that 's what we 've been told . |
| 17 | It 's very difficult , because you 're , again , I mean , we 're saying that we do n't get positive feedback , how many of us truthfully give positive feedback through to our staff ? |
| 18 | Saying that we do n't |
| 19 | say , say , saying that we do n't hang about in the , he 's gone say that . |
| 20 | The two kinds of reason for saying that they do not matter need to be kept distinct . |
| 21 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the very people of whom Labour Members complain , saying that they do not give a service in Government Departments , almost always belong to unions who support the Labour party ? |
| 22 | In other words , not only do we not have in front of us an exact cost for the works that are being voted through in this Bill — we have to go on the basis of an outdated figure of £1.4 billion , which is in itself an enormous amount — but the Government are saying that they do not have the foggiest idea whether the amount involved will accord with their investment criteria . |
| 23 | Knitters often ask me about knitting double jacquard , saying that they do n't like the floats on single-bed Fair Isle fabrics . |
| 24 | As described by one character , this catch-all phrase is ‘ a short way of saying that they do n't claim to find either the ultimate cause or the ultimate cure , but they do know exactly how it functions , and can prescribe accordingly ’ ( 149/151 ) . |
| 25 | It goes without saying that they do n't deserve it , but considering how much the Beeb fall over themselves to shower praise on them , I thought it was a certainty . |
| 26 | Having said that , however , most left academics and activists when it comes to the electoral crunch do vote Labour , excusing their commitment by saying that they do so " without illusions " but perhaps signalling by their actions that they do see some kind of meaningful choice at the polls . |
| 27 | I put this earlier by saying that I do not believe that the causal nexus of nature or that of history could be broken . |
| 28 | Having grown up a northerner , I make no apologies for saying that I do not regard myself as a southerner who happens to live a few miles up the road . |
| 29 | ‘ Champagne , hot scented baths , Sibelius , tiny kittens , very , very , very expensive underwear that you hardly know you 're wearing , and skiing at night and going into the big stores on fifth Avenue and trying on all the three-hundred-dollar dresses and shoes and then saying that I do n't like any of them — I do that quite often — and … ’ |
| 30 | Yes I 'm not I 'm not saying that I do n't think it 's a an important consideration . |