Example sentences of "[that] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tests show that eating lots of fibre or switching to polyunsaturated fats has about as much chance of prolonging your life as wearing a wig , but a kipper two or three times a week will have your life assurance rep collecting the premiums for ever . |
| 2 | Of course , life was n't really like that , but the advertisers want us to believe it was , and that eating their product will help us recapture the feeling — and the taste . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't really believe that eating a McDonald 's a couple of times a week , as I do , is bad for anybody , ’ said commercial director Lee Soden . |
| 4 | This is not to say that eating out must become a test , or analysing the menu a bore . |
| 5 | The Burgundians thought that eating too many potatoes caused leprosy , the Prussians believed that they were responsible for the dreaded consumption , whilst the Russians simply said that they were food sent from the devil . |
| 6 | There is no doubt that eating in the kitchen has an attraction all its own . |
| 7 | Ecologists agree that eating less meat is better for you and the environment . |
| 8 | Well , oh yes , I 'm sure I 'm not saying that 's the only thing that controls people 's food intake I mean clearly there are things cultural some cultures , the Japanese seem to love eating raw fish , I mean how they can bring themselves to do it I do now know , I mean the raw is I do n't think I 'd want to eat again , but er erm not always if they were cooked either , but erm the , the er and certainly if you look at the Australian Aborigines even though we take the Australian Aborigines as our kind of primeval people , they have astonishing food taboos , I mean their attitudes to food are very very culturally er effective to , to a quite extraordinary extent , some so that somebody somebody discovered that eating a tabooed food by accident , they 'll get very ill , a kind of psychosomatic illness . |
| 9 | ANY parent will tell you that eating out with children under three years old is not the most relaxing experience in the world . |
| 10 | I agree with you that it 's not right to call your son names , and that slapping him is potentially dangerous . |
| 11 | Also it was about time he learnt that bossing her around would n't be a push-over for him . |
| 12 | This involves a slight drop in picture quality , but the copying can be done as a part of the editing routine ( see page 82 ) and the loss in quality is then offset by improvements in presentation that editing inevitably brings . |
| 13 | Mr Chris Humphreys , London secretary of the National Union of Public Employees , warned that bringing in the troops would cause long delays and unnecessary suffering . |
| 14 | Statistics show that bringing in a new manager tends not to be a pancea . |
| 15 | They had retired from work within a year of each other and were looking forward to spending time together doing many of the things that bringing up children and working had so far prevented . |
| 16 | The group estimated that bringing coaxial links into the average British home would cost between £200 and £300 . |
| 17 | Eating out or shopping on holiday in Hungary is a real pleasure and it 's nice to know that bringing home presents and souvenirs wo n't break the bank . |
| 18 | He said that bringing in internment would be a very serious step , the consequences of which would be difficult to predict . |
| 19 | He attacked the claims of Prime Minister John Major and Chancellor Norman Lamont that bringing down inflation would get Britain out of the recession . |
| 20 | Here 's news for parents who find that bringing up children is more tricky than they thought . |
| 21 | The old bullying manner is completely gone ; we now find a persuasive , informal atmosphere , supported by illustrations which reflect the text in their message that bringing up babies is hair-raising , maybe , but lots of fun for everyone — just as the clinical photographs and chaste drawings of the old baby books reflect their atmosphere of stern duty . |
| 22 | He felt that bringing departments together to work towards a whole-school approach was going to be difficult and would be further complicated by the fact that some heads of department had unrealistic expectations of what the project might achieve . |
| 23 | It is not that students will get turned off by being given unconnected dollops of philosophy and sociology , and it is not that bringing in specialists in philosophy and sociology will lead to an incoherent curriculum , although both are true . |
| 24 | There is increasing independent evidence that the first trusts are proving that bringing management back into the hospitals is already bringing benefits to patients and staff . |
| 25 | They seem to think that bringing foreign coal into this country and burning it in place of British coal will do something to limit carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 26 | One of the messages from the Bill may be that bringing in those schemes and making them work is one way in which the engineers can show that they have as much to contribute in cutting the number of casualties as those who deal with the behavioural side of driving and those who build the bypasses that take traffic away from towns and villages . |
| 27 | The report said that of 1,330 active oil wells , about 700 were on fire at the end of April , with between 2,000,000-6,000,000 barrels lost a day , and it estimated that bringing the fires under control " may take up to 18 months " . |
| 28 | But they stressed that bringing civil servants to Canary Wharf would not necessarily save the project and added that the Government wanted Canary Wharf or any future owner to pay the £400m needed for an extension of London Underground 's Jubilee Line to Docklands . |
| 29 | ‘ I hate that preaching which tendeth to make the hearers laugh or to move their mind with tickling laxity and affect them as a stage player used to do , instead of affecting them with a holy reverence of the name of God . ’ |
| 30 | It is quite likely that preaching and debating about Jesus is what Paul had in mind . |