Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [that] [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previously Labour 's leaders had qualified their rejection of a Popular Front by hinting that they might consider if there was evidence of a serious backbench Tory revolt . |
| 2 | It is nigh on impossible to get the mirror and glass completely clean , so you will have to make a slight compromise by accepting that there will always be a certain amount of dust caught between the two layers of glass , due to static electricity . |
| 3 | It is only by experimenting that we can learn new and interesting textures . |
| 4 | In the next example , the teacher could have developed this child 's thinking by suggesting that they should find out if the boat would still float when carrying a smaller stone or if a larger boat could carry the stone they had . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He was about to return the compliment by suggesting that she might have lost a little weight when she leaned across and helped herself to another jam tart . |
| 7 | Ian Scott , co-ordinator of its rural adult education project , said that at times the enthusiasm of the groups being taught had to be dampened : ‘ At the opening class of a course being run in Co Durham , the students frightened the tutor by demanding that there should be a march on County Hall . |
| 8 | STEVE COPPELL last night tried to stamp out speculation that he may quit Crystal Palace by vowing that he would see out the remaining 18 months of his contract . |
| 9 | The Tokyo councillors from the LDP and the DSP defied their leaders , however , by announcing that they would continue to support Suzuki . |
| 10 | The leaders of the two Unionist parties , James Molyneaux ( of the Ulster Unionist Party ) and the Rev. Ian Paisley ( of the Democratic Unionist Party ) , effectively bypassed the ultimatum by announcing that they would fly to London on May 15 in the hope of meeting John Major , the UK Prime Minister . |
| 11 | IBM Deutschland GmbH greeted Gerstner 's appointment by announcing that it would cut nearly 4,000 jobs this year , up from the 3,000 planned : ‘ We need a cost efficient structure as soon as possible , ’ chief executive Bernhard Dorn said . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Chief Constable of the RUC added confusion to the parades policy by announcing that he would permit an Orange church parade on the Sunday before the Twelfth to pass through the Tunnel because it would be a ‘ peaceful , dignified , church parade ’ but insisted that the Twelfth march had to be re-routed . |
| 14 | Yesterday , the Prime Minister started his speech by announcing that he would specify ’ what we can accept ’ at Maastricht . |
| 15 | On the afternoon of Dec. 20 , only 90 minutes before the deadline , Cuomo ended 10 weeks of uncertainty by announcing that he would not enter the 1992 nomination contest . |
| 16 | This afternoon , the Environment Secretary Michael Howard , back pedalled a little by announcing that he would allow the authority to spend another two and a half million pounds . |
| 17 | He has surprised Becker by announcing that he will forgo the French Open next June in order to prepare for Wimbledon , the one major championship to have eluded him . |
| 18 | The same circumstances required that Franca should sleep downstairs ; Franca had herself , promptly forestalling embarrassment , simplified the rearrangement by announcing that she would now occupy her boudoir ; and letting Jack and Alison assent silently , and without having to murmur ‘ please ’ or ‘ thank you ’ . |
| 19 | DEFIANT Princess Diana asserted her newly won independence yesterday by announcing that she will NOT attend Princess Anne 's wedding tomorrow . |
| 20 | By denying that we could empirically identify the linguistic framework employed by other agents ( or , indeed by ourselves ) , Quine challenged the claim that we can have a substantive prior conception of truth which can be used to formulate questions for transcendental reflection . |
| 21 | He went adrift by imagining that you could float in water head up and then duck your head under , thus displacing an extra quantity of water , which could be measured . |
| 22 | On passing a sentence of imprisonment of two years or less the Act empowered a court to suspend the sentence by ordering that it should not take effect unless during a specified period the offender committed another offence punishable by imprisonment . |
| 23 | Sadly , when he went into one of his depressions , he sometimes seemed to punish us by deciding that he would n't go on any more — he 'd stop eating and that would be that . |
| 24 | The court astonished everybody by deciding that it could not rule on the legality or otherwise of something that had not happened yet . |
| 25 | And the statement encourages those who have received it to ask in addition for the free copy of the latest statutory accounts by requiring that it must contain a conspicuous statement of their rights under section 239 . |
| 26 | The Cleveland Inquiry Report endorses this by stating that they should be informed and consulted whether the investigations are medical , police or social . |
| 27 | A few chambers have set a shining example by stating that they will grant pupillages ( some of them accompanied by monetary awards ) by open competition ; if you wish to apply , write for details to John Stuart Colyer Esq . |
| 28 | For example , we can specify the constraints on /a/ before velars in inner-city Belfast by stating that it can be realized as a mid-front , low mid-front , or low-front vowel , but not as a low-back vowel . |
| 29 | Cossiga , however , caused controversy by stating that he would not sign some of these hurriedly approved laws , and objecting in particular to a bill on conscienscious objection which , he said , failed to reconcile the freedom of the individual and the constitutional duty of citizens to defend their country . |
| 30 | Will the Minister respond positively by stating that he will grant both applications to allow that small number of people to be retained in my constituency ? |