Example sentences of "[noun] that they be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If fundholders were to be a lever for change in the reorganised National Health Service there is evidence from this study that they are achieving this objective . |
| 2 | A group was taught to choose the right coloured plastic ball ( one gave an electric shock , the other brought food ) and individuals were then able to instruct the other Octopi , who indicated by rapid eye and head movements that they were paying close attention , before successfully completing the task . |
| 3 | Both Buchanan and the author of the Vindiciae deal explicitly with the charge that they are placing ultimate political power in the hands of the multitude , " the beast with many heads " , as both authors refer to it . |
| 4 | The supposedly technical and neutral nature of the ‘ autonomous ’ model of literacy which they employ appears to absolve them from the charge that they are making ideological claims about cultural difference . |
| 5 | I said the same I ca n't persuade our chaps on the Yorkshire Moors that they are getting twenty six pound a week , when they 're not , you see ? |
| 6 | In other business the Supreme Court upheld the convictions of eight members of the nationwide Sanctuary Movement , who claimed that their rights had been violated when agents had infiltrated church services to uncover evidence that they were harbouring illegal aliens from Central America . |
| 7 | Whether or not they consider it appropriate to enter the European Eco audit systems when it appears , using the new standard will certainly give a company ( and its other clients and audiences ) confidence in the knowledge that they 're tackling environmental concerns in a systematic and integrated way . ’ |
| 8 | Luke made the word sound like an oath , and Folly had the curious feeling that they were having two conversations at once — and only one of them was about ancient history . |
| 9 | All those facts give the lie to the Government 's claim that they are extending educational opportunity to everyone and that they are genuinely interested in creating a classless society . |
| 10 | The move coincided with announcements by the governments of Thailand and the Philippines that they were lifting economic sanctions . |
| 11 | Alan Hazlewood , of the Ipswich and Suffolk Chamber , warned strikers that they were threatening working people 's jobs , while Jim Wellerd , his counterpart in North and Mid Essex , said member firms had not reported any difficulties . |
| 12 | I mean I think the message that they were communicating last was that it 's about them being appearing to be a good |
| 13 | In 1930 , Helene Deutsch described the syndrome of frigidity t-n a significant group of her patients , women who are ‘ psychically healthy ’ , yet for whom the concept of orgasm was completely alien : ‘ In intercourse they experience a happy and tender sense that they are giving keen pleasure , convinced that coitus is of importance only to the man . |
| 14 | ‘ It is an open secret that they were seeing each other regularly until all hell broke loose back in the summer , ’ said a source close to Camilla last night . |
| 15 | And the Magistrate , watching like a stoat , could see by the alarm on their faces that they were assigning this treatment to Dr McNab for no other reason than that he had happened to mention it . |
| 16 | Intermediates could see even less well than their imperfect ancestors , and it is no consolation that they are building better eyesight for their remote descendants ! |
| 17 | Everyone was fiddling like mad when we got a leak through from the office that they were sending private detectives round the houses … |
| 18 | For instance , in American factories ( I visited Peavey a couple of years ago and many , if not most of Yamaha 's processes apply there , too ) there 's a far higher proportion of musicians involved — people who know why guitars work and who are actively interested in the fact that they 're producing musical instruments and not simply ‘ product ’ . |
| 19 | Secondly , this decline in fertility did occur in depressed industrial towns and among industrial groups whose prospects of unemployment were high and whose access to the ‘ acquisitive way of life ’ must have been limited by the fact that they were receiving some form of unemployment or health benefit and struggling to survive . |
| 20 | Well I think we can all , I mean I think just the fact that they were asking those questions I think literally days before they gave the approval worries me . |