Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb -s] [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I would not for the world meddle with her plans , though I am proud that she has consented on the way to visit me for a while . |
| 2 | Mrs Burke leaves a remarkable house which deserves to be looked after with the same care that she has lavished on it for almost 20 years . |
| 3 | He says that she 's gone on longer than anyone thought , and she 's not even ga-ga ! |
| 4 | Competition in facilities at home and abroad would prevail , Spottiswoode believed , for a generation to come — we know that it has gone on ever since . |
| 5 | Indeed , according to Booth , it is only in the last couple of years that it has focused on product marketing . |
| 6 | But , despite the fact that it has capitalised on an unproven reputation ever since , it was not so much health which eventually transformed Brighton as royal patronage and high fashion in which the exercises of the spa served largely as a formal excuse for other , equally demanding , pleasures . |
| 7 | Zeneca admits that it has concentrated on too few products . |
| 8 | The governing body must be able to demonstrate that it has acted on reasonable grounds following reasonable investigations . |
| 9 | Suppose the origin of intelligence is so improbable that it has happened on only one planet in the universe , even though life has started on many planets . |
| 10 | Well I think that it 's gone on a long time and it 's not |
| 11 | Erm , amendment that need to be made to this words housing waiting list , we in fact no longer have a standard housing waiting list but have a housing needs register erm that says a great deal about the system that we have is that it 's judged on people 's housing need and not on their income . |
| 12 | Obviously you need to appeal to the Regional Committee if as a branch you 're not happy , but this rule should n't need to be bent , we should have one that is ours to be used for branches , the General Secretary himself says that it 's happened on several occasions so let's be a real trade union , not one that borrows from Peter to pay Paul , let's have a proper rule for branches . |
| 13 | if , if Freud 's theory of the group is correct , that it 's centred on the leader playing the super role then the presumably the leader could exhort members of the group to act better than they normally would , because after all one of the super leader 's functions is to set the goals for the ego and to give the the goal , the ego something to aspire to so er and as Joy mentioned in her papers and I 'm trying to remind you of , y you , you said that quoting Freud if you recall that , that , that Freud says and I think he , he , he repeats this from the also made the same observation that in a group or a crowd people can act a lot worse than they normally would , they can be more destructive , primitive erm and er more governed by their erm base emotions as it were , but equally in a crowd people can act better than they normally would . |
| 14 | It 's been interesting these past few days to watch the energy of the sun through the effect that it 's had on the snow . |
| 15 | Does the Secretary of State accept that the answer that he has given on paying the guaranteed minimum pension to the Maxwell pensioners is wholly inadequate ? |
| 16 | At l'Estaque , Braque was working from nature but one feels that the forms in his painting have not been suggested by those of particular landscapes but rather that he has imposed on the natural scene his own austere , angular , almost geometrical form of vision . |
| 17 | Is the Minister aware that due to the cuts that he has imposed on Northumberland county council |
| 18 | I have seen the results that he has achieved on fishing , and I am disgusted by them — I hope that they do not set a precedent . |
| 19 | On 7 May the applicant was admitted to bail , and so far as we are aware has been at liberty ever since , although it appears that he has appeared on a number of occasions at the Guildhall Magistrates ' Court , to what effect we do not know . |
| 20 | Now I 'm against that and I 'm therefore against I regret to say what the Noble Lord , Lord said , and I 'm extremely sorry to see that he has moved on this particular matter er because th there is no case , that has been really made out for this . |
| 21 | The anthropologist 's appetite for information and his curiosity are boundless , and he is naturally particularly attracted by those avenues of inquiry where the answers come hard , suggesting that he has touched on a sensitive and hence significant vein . |