Example sentences of "that [pers pn] is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe it is possible to propose an explanation for the intuitive feeling one gets that the -ing form would be somewhat inappropriate here : the author is describing a person who is groping for anything which will reassure her before she meets her angry father and the mere fact that she is able to perceive objects which are familiar to her — when she feels so disoriented that she can take nothing for granted — is what gives her the sense that she is neither shirking nor lying . |
| 2 | That she is probably dealing with a barren original only emphasizes the problems of conventionality . |
| 3 | Her clutched hands are locked together showing that she is completely cut off in her emotions towards her husband . |
| 4 | Although some poems , especially her essays , suggest that she is also looking toward a wider audience , in the vast majority of poems she speaks specifically to some woman she knows . |
| 5 | The procedure continues for weeks with the man unable to tell the girl that he still buys the ticket even though he no longer has a car , and the girl not wanting to hurt his feelings by revealing that she is just taking a short cut , walking through the car park on her way to W. H. Smith . |
| 6 | Nell dies in mid-winter , far from home ; but we all know that she is homeward bound and will see another and better spring : |
| 7 | I have been a fan of hers for a long time and it is wonderful to see that she is now achieving the status and success that she deserves . |
| 8 | For it can not be emphasized too much that the transsexual , even after conversion surgery , continually seeks reassurance that she is now accepted in her new sex role . |
| 9 | Susan : Mrs C is prejudiced herself because , I mean , she said to Karen that she is only getting bad because she hangs around with too many black people . |
| 10 | We can speculate that there is a psychological motive for this switch , with Adele using a change of code to indicate that she is only reporting these words and does not herself " stand behind " them or vouch for their validity . |
| 11 | A general characteristic of the feminine psyche is to seek confirmation and approval from others , and when these are not forthcoming , it is tempting for the woman to think that she is totally mistaken . |
| 12 | The fact that she is basically thinking in terms of the resurrected , cosmic Christ again tends to minimize any distinction which there might be between a woman and Christ in regard to sex . |
| 13 | Passive suffering , where the woman does n't move around , scream or swear , may mean that she is too focused on the pain , with no distractions to help her . |
| 14 | She is back in the house that she is always remembering and talking endlessly about , she has her precious Miss Cress . |
| 15 | What happens when the unconscious child in Joan Halton finds yet again that she is always losing out , this time to her husband , to his old car on which he dotes or to his mother who is still demanding so much of his time and attention , and that he appears to be forgetting that he is now married and has new first loyalties ? |
| 16 | In addition to this lump sum the annual half a million pound allowance will be paid to the Duchess by the Queen partly to ensure that she is never tempted to publish memoirs or talk about her failed marriage . |
| 17 | And while she might not have done herself a lot of favours over the last five years , it has to be concluded that she is better getting out while the going 's still good . |
| 18 | Helping an elderly woman to adjust and to find a new identity is never easy , but it can nearly always be achieved if she is shown that she is still loved and needed , by her family and friends . |
| 19 | His wife Val contributes a postscript in which she reveals , rather wanly , that she is still looking forward to her honeymoon , postponed because of a rugby match . |
| 20 | There the Welsh and English school timetables differ , so that when a morning of Medau was started at the town hall , English-speaking mothers came to the first session and Welsh-speaking ones to the second ; she was therefore obliged to give the former in English and the latter in Welsh — surely a triumphant example of good public relations and adaptability — though Wynne claims that she is still having a struggle to master Welsh . |
| 21 | It must follow that it is similarly empowered to order an addition to the registered holding . |
| 22 | Each can be associated with a particular file so that it is automatically loaded when the application is activated . |
| 23 | Well , it says on the bottom of the , your copy of the charge sheet , production of driving license you must produce it , failure to produce it will mean that it is automatically suspended and it also means you 've committed yet another offence by not having a driving licence here to produce Mr ! |
| 24 | Failure to produce it will mean that it is automatically suspended and it also means you 've committed yet another offence by not having a driving licence here to produce Mr . |
| 25 | However , where more than one person ( eg a merchant bank and a stockbroker ) agrees to act as the agent of a party to the takeover and his associates for the purpose of making disclosure , particular care must be taken to ensure that the responsibility for disclosure is agreed between the parties and that it is neither overlooked nor duplicated . |
| 26 | One of the most important aspects of deixis is that it is invariably distinguished by its use . |
| 27 | I think that the intrusive system of inspection that we have introduced through recent Security Council resolutions is probably adequate , provided that it is vigorously enforced , to prevent the Iraqis from developing a weapon . |
| 28 | This kind of chauvinism is , of course , perfectly normal coming from sections of today 's Conservative Party , except that it is normally directed at the ‘ Anti-British Broadcasting Corporation ’ . |
| 29 | They are the culminations of a whole life which , as Malcolm Johnson puts it , ‘ sculpted their present problems and concerns ’ ; a life itself built around many different ‘ life-threads ’ — education , work , marriage , children , hobbies , and so on — so that it is best understood , both in psychological and social terms , ‘ as a complex of strands running for different lengths of time throughout a life biography and moulding its individuality ’ . |
| 30 | It may be argued that because the affective domain deals with qualitative differences it can not be planned for in the same systematic way that is applied to knowledge , and that it is best dealt with by providing suitable models , and by discussion when problems and student needs arise . |