Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [that] they " 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 | Encourage them to express these feelings by suggesting that they state what exactly is worrying them . |
| 3 | You can often get them back on track by suggesting that they take turns at riding the tricycle or that they make the Lego building a joint effort . |
| 4 | Thus in R v Stanley ( 1965 ) , Lord Chief Justice Parker explained the meaning of the terms ‘ indecent ’ and ‘ obscene ’ by suggesting that they both convey the same idea , ‘ namely , offending against recognised standards of propriety , indecent being at the lower end of the scale and obscene at the upper end ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He sought to save the lives of More and Fisher by suggesting that they be required to subscribe only to an oath to respect the succession , and not to repudiate the authority of Rome . |
| 7 | This is best explained , not by suggesting that they do not have interests in common or that they are satisfied with things as they are , but by attending to the crushing significance of those ideas in society which preach that to be poor is an individual 's own fault and reflects his or her lack of preparedness to study and train , to work hard , to postpone having a family , or what have you . |
| 8 | He astounded his American masters by demanding that they give him a more worthwhile job or he would be on his way home . |
| 9 | PEKING — Having dumped two heirs apparent in under three years , Deng Xiaoping yesterday moved to buttress the shaky position of yet another set of hand-picked successors by announcing that they , not he , were now running China . |
| 10 | LOOP have ended two years of speculation by announcing that they have definitely split up . |
| 11 | The Tokyo councillors from the LDP and the DSP defied their leaders , however , by announcing that they would continue to support Suzuki . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | unalterable conviction in favour of the adoption for our Palace of Administration of the revived national style — a style so characteristic of our own age it is beginning to be called Victorian — we protest against being obliged to tolerate an effete Palladian or mongrel Renaissance architecture to please those who wish to claim the merit of a breadth of view and of artistic sympathy by denying that they have any prejudices on the subject , one way or the other . |
| 14 | They , or something like them , are admirable and important and we must strive to make them political realities , but they are not in themselves law and nothing is gained by pretending that they are law . |
| 15 | The reality that there are rights of ownership and that they are liable to , and do , conflict with those of labour can not be exorcised by pretending that they are not there ; and it is the exclusion of the public sector from the Committee 's purview which admits that reality . |
| 16 | It does not follow that it is the duty of government to provide these services — the duty could be discharged by securing that they are available from other sources : this is what is implied by the distinction between the providing and enabling state . |
| 17 | DNs demonstrated an awareness of the need for compression bandaging by reporting that they regularly applied compression to 198 ( 73 per cent ) of affected limbs and ‘ sometimes ’ to a further 12 ( 4 per cent ) . |
| 18 | The Cleveland Inquiry Report endorses this by stating that they should be informed and consulted whether the investigations are medical , police or social . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Clearly there is a belief that by demonstrating that they know what kinds of attainment targets can be identified in children 's work at different ages , art teachers will bring much greater credibility to their subject . |
| 21 | Ideas , according to Berkeley , are particulars whose significance is explained by saying that they stand for the things they represent . |
| 22 | As Piaget said when he reported the original finding , trying to explain the children 's behaviour away by saying that they ‘ misinterpret the question ’ is circular : of course they are misinterpreting the question and the next question is about cognitive determinants of this misinterpretation — this ‘ non-conservation ’ . |
| 23 | Sainsbury , for example , defend the sky-high price of their organic vegetables by saying that they take less percentage profit on them , and that the wholesalers seem to be the ones jacking up the price . |
| 24 | Her mother answered her , using a phrase that so many people unthinkingly use , by saying that they were not going to have another baby because ‘ After all , it nearly killed me having you . ’ |
| 25 | The potentially harmful beings may be described by the adjective yabud ( bad , harmful , ugly ) , but whenever thus designated , the speaker will invariably qualify this by saying that they are not ‘ truly bad ’ because they only cause harm if a person breaks a rule , or inadvertently falls into a trap . |
| 26 | We can , therefore , define mental phenomena by saying that they are those phenomena which contain an object intentionally within themselves . |
| 27 | In more extreme manner we might wish to register our displeasure at the felling of a row of fine trees for a road-widening project by saying that they had the right to be left in peace . |
| 28 | Arthur had eaten large helpings of scampi and steak-and-kidney pudding , refrained from the damson pie as a gesture , and taken his mind off the others ' plates by saying that they would do the film if he and Fred were allowed to write it , direct it , find the props , and put together the sound track . |
| 29 | Cancer responded by saying that they were disappointed because they buy all their hardcore gore videos from Germany , one of the only countries where such material is available uncensored . |
| 30 | It is entirely wrong and against natural justice for the Government to make a pre-emptive strike against one of those bids by saying that they will support the other with the financial guarantee of £48,750 . |