Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [v-ing] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are not concerned with any bridges being built in South Africa so much as ensuring that our own are not destroyed . |
| 2 | It was pretty wonderful to be sitting there watching it all and knowing that I was the only person in the whole school who realised exactly what was going on inside the Trunchbull 's pants . |
| 3 | In accepting the payments the revenue were doing no more than agreeing that they would not be treated as prejudicing any such right . |
| 4 | ‘ Your reasoning ’ , he says , ‘ is the same as saying that we can get a rose through planting a noxious weed … |
| 5 | ( Saying that two sentences can have matching assent/dissent conditions is the same as saying that they can be stimulus-synonymous . ) |
| 6 | Note : Saying that an operator is reversible is not the same as saying that it is an invertible function on the set of states . |
| 7 | It is obviously the case that showing that something is inevitable is not the same as showing that it is necessary for health and survival . |