Example sentences of "[noun] [that] they [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The timing of these concerted attacks to the same day , along the entire front , made it impossible for the Austro-Hungarian forces to be switched back and forth behind their line , with the result that they had to fight each battle with the support of no more than local reserves . |
| 2 | Amy popped her head round the door to tell Kathleen that they had found some ID on the track and the police had brought his parents in . |
| 3 | ‘ Maybe I 'll make it a condition that they do marry each other , the two of them . |
| 4 | It depends , if you need them they 're involvement then you may have to do it a slightly different way or maybe it 's the case that they have to accept this or that you 're gon na turn them over too . |
| 5 | If you can not see your way to doing this , I regret that I shall have to suggest to the Parish Council that they consider moving this account to another bank . |
| 6 | Even then , this is likely to be little more than an insistence that they begin to make some regular contribution to the household in the form of dried fish , tobacco , and so on . |
| 7 | And the tool that they use to do this is their own larvae . |
| 8 | And if you cast your minds way back to Tuesday you will remember that what I said was that the Americans were trying to create a system of limited government er and yet one which er protected the liberties of individuals not all individuals , not black individuals especially but of individuals , this was the rhetoric of the time and the main device that they invented to do this was something called the separation of powers and they argued that , where political power is concentrated , the potential for abuse is greater so that where executive and legislative powers are held in the same hands , as they are in our system of government , the , there is more prospect of government encroaching upon the rights of individuals . |
| 9 | Clwyd North West MP , Rod Richards , became concerned over complaints from constituents that they had to travel all the way to Wrexham for benefit agency tribunal hearings . |
| 10 | There are shallow inlets and islands in the Portsmouth area , but the main river valleys , although aggraded in their lower reaches , are not rias , presumably because the rivers have brought down so much alluvium that they have filled any rias which may have been present , whereas the rivers of Pembroke and south-west Ireland have been unable to achieve this . |
| 11 | The Supreme Court taxing officer takes the view that on the basis of the evidence that they have seen these figures are probably accurate and it is therefore for the paying party to show why the rates should not be applied . |
| 12 | Having said that , however , most left academics and activists when it comes to the electoral crunch do vote Labour , excusing their commitment by saying that they do so " without illusions " but perhaps signalling by their actions that they do see some kind of meaningful choice at the polls . |
| 13 | But it is the dignity of the funeral parlour , tempered by the knowledge that they have killed many people for their dream . |
| 14 | However , whatever that ability may be , inspectors can not avoid the criticism that they fail to follow many of the practices that ensure rigour in research . |
| 15 | It was also indicative of an air of fatalism hanging over Conservative Central Office , a feeling that they had answered all the questions on the examination paper without doing themselves justice and were now awaiting the marks with trepidation . |
| 16 | There is no obligation imposed on the organisers of an assembly to notify the police in advance that they intend to hold such a gathering . |
| 17 | Some areas of study are so hard of definition that they seem to evade all attempts to summarise them . |
| 18 | Their distinctive sound grew from adapting rock forms and instruments , and , eventually , it was in the pubs and folk festivals of Britain that they began to achieve some sort of prominence , while back home the discos of Harare pulsated to the real sound of Whitney Houston . |
| 19 | Losing at home four two to Swindon , their arch rivals after being two in front , but I 'd just like to make one point clear ; do n't blame manager Brian Horton because all of Oxford 's matches that they 've lost this season has been through their own fault : lack of character out there on the pitch , there 's nothing Brian can do sat on the bench . |
| 20 | One thing about leadership through team work is that it puts a much greater emphasis on training for the purposes of delegation and the word that they use to describe that piece is empowerment . |
| 21 | The disbelief Mortimer felt vied with rage at the thought that they had known this and had n't divulged it earlier . |
| 22 | Mitchley , on the other hand , have deservedly spent sixty-odd years rotting in the wastelands of Sunday soccer , their only consolation being that they have won all twenty-six encounters between the two clubs since 1932 . |
| 23 | But after two weeks of going back and fro to the barn they finally decided for some unknown reason that they had had enough . |
| 24 | It is all too common for teachers to feel so insecure in taking a class into the countryside or on to a farm that they prefer to avoid such excursions . |
| 25 | While recent scientific findings about sleep patterns receive regular exposure in the media in popular N science programmes and in magazines , there is little evidence from the results of the Hull survey that they have made any impression on the public mind . |
| 26 | Yes , yeah , yeah it 's like er breakfast cereals are good for you in a way that they 've got all the vitamins in for kids ai n't they ? |
| 27 | Some people who comply well with all that is suggested to them may have done little more than comply ( incidentally , much of the " normal " first year of recovery is reckoned to be little more than compliance ) and think erroneously after a few weeks of treatment that they have learnt all they need to know and have done all they need to do to remain free from addictive disease . |
| 28 | Early in the summer of 1992 Chris Eldon-Lee , the producer of the programmes , contacted me , with the view that they intended to repeat these four broadcasts with the addition of four more more and the Bishop 's Castle Railway would be one of these later four . |
| 29 | These points are being forgotten at the very time that they have become most pressing — for the transition from communism in Russia and Eastern Europe has added greatly to the demands that are being placed on western aid budgets . |
| 30 | And how do you know for a fact that they intend to bring these sorts of techniques in to Britain ? |