Example sentences of "[be] [verb] that their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most often known to us as witch doctors or medicine men , it has now been realised that their accumulated knowledge and experience of which natural substances work in the rapid healing of wounds , or alleviation of pain , is a major resource which modern science can use to good effect in producing ‘ new ’ drugs . |
| 2 | All Qualified Teachers attending the Coburg Course are reminded that their final payment of £170 is due by the end of the month . |
| 3 | Students are reminded that their eventual employers will expect them to have made good use of their time at university . |
| 4 | A large number of trade publishers are indicating that their non-book sales are an increasing component of their total sales . |
| 5 | I look forward to hearing his contribution and finding out whether he can guarantee to employees whose companies are about to be privatised that their future pension rights will be as secure as they are under TOPS . |
| 6 | Table 3.1 lists the four factors which determine the financial status of elderly people — employment , state benefits , private savings , and family transfers — and it can be seen that their relative shares have changed over time , with the decline in employment income roughly matching the rise in state benefits . |
| 7 | Practical help and emotional support of the bereaved are of course interwoven , but from the purely emotional standpoint it could be said that their greatest needs are for loving concern , good listening and patient understanding of their need to work through their grief in their own way at their own pace . |
| 8 | But it has to be said that their bass player Steve Harris does have his own football pitch and his own pub ! |
| 9 | By the spring of 1993 at least nine republics or regions within the Russian Federation were insisting that their own laws took precedence over those of the Federation as a whole , and the Chechen republic had gone still further and declared itself a fully independent state . |
| 10 | That evening the new recruits to L Detachment were informed that their first operation was to steal their camp . |
| 11 | But teetotallers include people who are too ill to fancy a drink , and a smattering of ex-alcoholics who have been warned that their next drink may be their last . |
| 12 | There is some movement either way , but in broad terms and it seems to me what proponents of other sectors are doing basically , is suggesting that their particular segment is better because of erm possible improvements which may or may not take in the future . |
| 13 | Some women , and hopefully more women , will turn that into political action — whether that 's demanding a playgroup for or whether it 's demanding that their political leaders were mainly male , pay more attention to women . |
| 14 | Meteorites are studied in the laboratory because it is thought that their chemical composition is showing us quite accurately the chemical composition of the Solar System at the time of its formation . |
| 15 | Little systematic evidence on Asian girls is available at present , but it is emerging that their educational achievements are continually improving and it is clear that the common image of the docile Asian girl uninterested in education and ‘ torn ’ between western and Asian cultures is a gross stereotype ( Brah and Minhas , 1986 ) . |
| 16 | That is to say that their premium income has been insufficient to meet claims and the difference has therefore had to be met from investment income . |
| 17 | Even academics , who are supposed to embody the quintessence of detached assessment , somehow respond with a lack of enthusiasm when it is suggested that their own methods of teaching , research , or organization might benefit from review . |
| 18 | It has been suggested that their slow decline in the last I00 million years or so has been caused by the commensurate rise in diversity of filter-feeding bivalve molluscs , which ousted them from their former habitats . |
| 19 | It has been suggested that their urological dysfunction may be a marker of perinatal neurological damage , but in a study of 191 wetters those with dyssynergic bladders and increased residual urine were also those with the most severe behavioural problems . |
| 20 | It was thought that their former colleagues might like to hear from the University , particularly if some improvement in the alumni services available to those who studied at Stirling years ago could be made both useful and attractive . |
| 21 | Birds respond to a wide range of sounds but for many years it was assumed that their low-frequency hearing was poorer than ours . |