Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [that] [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | By Sept. 27 there were reports that the Iraqi authorities , who had introduced rationing at the beginning of the month , were warning that they would not be able to guarantee food supplies for foreigners beyond the end of September , but Iraq stated on Sept. 29 that there were " no plans to deprive foreign nationals of ration coupons " . |
| 3 | By the mid 1960s , only four per cent were reporting that they might be willing once again to vote for someone like Hitler . |
| 4 | I have already referred to the fact that the need to move the children had been precipitated by the announcement by the friends of the family with whom the children were staying that they could not keep the children any longer . |
| 5 | It 's ironical that only last week the National Association of Private Residential Homes were saying that they will be going bust as a result of inadequate funding . |
| 6 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 7 | Not only having gone to higher standards of were but also looking to account a motion which has already been passed by the Environment Committee on the fourteenth of September nineteen ninety three and what I was basically saying was that erm incinerator should come to That 's Life that the current E E C proposals on erm that that and I know that 's not a rule but in fact when Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution is actually considering this want to draw their attention to a motion which in some cases were saying that we would expect the highest possible standards if those developments were to go ahead with the . |
| 8 | he sa I do n't know he said , said he went to the he kept on getting it , offered of speed and he just sort of took more and more and more and people were saying that he could n't walk straight and stuff which er |
| 9 | A few hours later ministers were saying that there would be extra payments . |
| 10 | ‘ The lads were joking that I would be back in the team before they got their hands on the trophy , ’ said McGuinness . |
| 11 | But the same time as we were hearing that we should be cutting back , the news was also full of adverts . |
| 12 | For private residential care , we were arguing that there should be regulation of the location , form and size of private care by means of planning permission and monitoring arrangements . |
| 13 | Bunny raised no more than than an eyebrow and we shouldered our way through to the hall where Dosh and Freddie were discovering that they could really get to like Kümmel . |
| 14 | I know how much you were hoping that everything would work out for you and Anna . ’ |
| 15 | Local councils do help to direct communities and that 's what the Sanhedrin were hoping that they could do too , they advised their communities . |
| 16 | We were hoping that there would be room in a future match-day programme to advertise the following information . |
| 17 | I had a paper to say and they said there was too much money coming in here a week , because you were working that I could n't get anything and I , it said , I wrote , it , it all come when I wrote to say could I have relief off of prescriptions cos I was on that H I V at the time |
| 18 | I thought companies were ensuring that you would n't take that on , that stress . |
| 19 | Well , Peter 's getting close to retirement , and he was hinting that he 'd like to sell out . |
| 20 | Bukharin was suggesting that one can not construct a theory of transition a priori but must pragmatically steer towards a given objective , only then will the theory of transition emerge upon the basis of practical and concrete experience . |
| 21 | A , actually John was suggesting that we might talk nicely to John 's dad about the money they 've got invested in the sale of their pro , their ground . |
| 22 | Celia Hooper-seated opposite him in just such a chair and situation , so that they resembled two bookends without intervening books — was suggesting that she should draw up a basic plan for the annual deanery party , which happened at Loxford Rectory after Easter , a get-together for all the priests of the deanery , eight of them , and their wives . |
| 23 | Too much was happening that he could n't explain , things were spiralling out of his control . |
| 24 | Stuart Goldie , business manager at the Botanic Centre said it was fitting that it would be opening in May , as Middlesbrough started its year as Environment City . |
| 25 | So maybe it was fitting that it should begin here , at Nanking , where DeVore had first slipped the net . |
| 26 | Thereafter only Ward on the final afternoon played with any real confidence and it was fitting that he should score the only century of the tour just before the end of the match . |
| 27 | Besides , it was fitting that he should serve a people who were so obviously more admirable as human beings than himself . |
| 28 | It was not long , you will recall , since Ian Botham was remarking that he would not take his mother-in-law to Pakistan . |
| 29 | Around the same time Churchill was remarking that he would happily go to war with Egypt . |
| 30 | Bukharin was warning that there should not be such a fundamental revision of policies as would mean a return to the arbitrary and commandist methods of ‘ war communism ’ , This meant that , for Bukharin , industrialisation should proceed within the established framework . |