Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] that their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time the Warriors had reached the objective , the riflemen in the back had been sufficiently aware of what was going on around them to know that their own survival would depend on the spirit of fight they could produce . |
| 2 | I know that their actual task is to pass the examinations they meet . |
| 3 | Further , the authorities in a number of nuclear states have made unilateral statements of one kind or another which indicate that their nuclear weapons may not have escaped entirely from laws-of-war restraints . |
| 4 | The continuing use of a simple majority system was opposed by opposition parties which felt that their best chance of defeating the Colorados would be by combining forces in a run-off election . |
| 5 | Before women could form into groups to press for change they too had to challenge ruling ideas — ideas which suggested that their proper place was at home with the family . |
| 6 | When other meat is scarce they are not above eating carrion in an advanced state of decomposition , which suggests that their olfactory system is not particularly sensitive . |
| 7 | The factory also illegally employed children , normally the sons and daughters of employees who found that their own wages were insufficient . |
| 8 | But there was a very small group who acknowledged that their unspoken anger was so powerful , they used their tears as a revenge , knowing that their husbands hated tears and knowing that weeping they could discomfort them . |
| 9 | The first requirement must be love of and pride in one 's country , which can grow only in men and women who genuinely feel they have a stake in it , however small ; men and women who know that their own initiative , ingenuity , and hard work will improve that stake and make fuller and more secure lives for their families . |
| 10 | A FAMILY who discovered that their centuries-old manor stands over ‘ the lost palace ’ of the last Welsh prince are fighting a desperate battle to keep their home . |
| 11 | Certainly the ethos of an Augustinian priory with its stress on the expression of an inner religious faith in the active life of the community would have been sympathetic to the characteristic concern Hilton displays in his writing not just for professional religious but for all those , whether in active or enclosed life , who feel that their religious faith holds the secret of a dimension of fulfilment to which they desire access . |
| 12 | A sense of deprivation of a different kind continues to smoulder amongst the immigrant groups of Indian , Lebanese and Europeans , especially in Kenya and Zimbabwe , who feel that their economic position may be attacked , or re-attacked , at any time . |
| 13 | In practice , the platform becomes a place for people who want to be seen , those who believe that their own importance is such that the presentation of the programme is secondary to their right to be seen beside the programme participants . |
| 14 | Two of the first three games of the 1976 tour were easily won , so that any English optimist who thought that their Australian experiences might have knocked the stuffing out of West Indies had to ponder anew . |
| 15 | The Fifties were the years of its vendetta with show business , which began in 1947 with the jailing of ‘ the Hollywood Ten ’ , writers who held that their political opinions were no business of the Committee , relying on the First Amendment to the Constitution which guarantees freedom of thought and belief . |
| 16 | Many will be the writers who composed on early Amstrads , and how will we ensure that their working discs , successors to the invaluable rough note-books and diaries of writers like W H Auden and Graham Greene or campaigners like Marie Stopes , which we already possess , can be used as readily by future generations of scholars ? |
| 17 | If we group together all the industries that were predominantly in public ownership on the departure of the Labour government , we find that their total employment was thrown into decline in the North from 1978 to 1981 , but that it continued to grow in the South . |
| 18 | In the case of the snail and its fluke parasites , we decided that their preferred shell thicknesses were divergent . |
| 19 | As obstruction in these cases is because of the tumoral process itself , we postulated that their longterm patency in benign biliary strictures was likely to be better . |
| 20 | We stressed that their existing methods of weight control were not particularly effective . |
| 21 | A group of Puritans who felt that the Church of England was too close to the Roman Catholic Church had left England and gone to the Netherlands ; they noticed with regret that their children were becoming Dutch in speech and habits , and some of them decided that their best prospect of remaining both godly and English was to get in touch with the Plymouth merchants , obtain from them financial support and the legal right to found a colony , and go somewhere in America where English bishops would not interfere with them . |
| 22 | However , when we talked to professionals in various fields , from the UK and abroad , no-one felt that their particular profession was understood in any depth . |
| 23 | They found that their only means of illumination was the collection of antique paraffin lamps and that there was only one boiler — which worked intermittently . |
| 24 | One of the less well-known consequences was that , when the companies who wrote unit-linked business wished to introduce personal pensions , they found that their natural mode of operation led them to return on death the fund which had built up for the policyholder , rather than any specific guaranteed rate of return . |
| 25 | They say that their novel sensor can measure the concentration of the active ( - ) -isomer of ephedrine , the sympathomimetic decongestant and bronchodilator , down to a limit of 10 -5.3 mol dm -3 in the presence of common serum ions ( J. Chem . |
| 26 | They may also do so if they anticipate that their liquid assets may soon be squeezed by government monetary policy . |
| 27 | They observed that their right winger , Franck Corrihons , had never dropped a goal until the 73rd minute of the cliff-hanger against Bayonne when , with Biarritz trailing 15–13 , he landed a monstrous 60-metre drop-goal to steal the game and with it a place in the semi-finals . |
| 28 | Once serfs began paying redemption dues they discovered that their new taskmaster , the state , was less efficient and less demanding than the gentry . |
| 29 | Indeed the Americans soon found themselves moving yet closer to Britain , especially once they discovered that their own initiatives ( not least their pressure on Israel ) still left them at loggerheads with Egypt and the Arab radicals . |
| 30 | They know that their personal life is rooted in God the Trinity . |