Example sentences of "[that] they [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is equally undeniable that they derive great pleasure from physical confrontations with rival groups of supporters and go to great lengths to evade the authorities and make such confrontations possible . |
| 2 | The way in which royal messengers allegedly searched far and wide for a suitable bride ignores the likelihood that the union with Emma was motivated purely by political considerations , while the statement that they sent other sons to Normandy to be educated is a misleading reference to the exile of Emma 's offspring by Æthelred . |
| 3 | Although , as Beaumanoir stated at this time , the magnates were ‘ sovereigns within their baronies ’ , they were supposed to execute the crown 's ordinances — which often meant that they anticipated royal legislation by legislating in their own name for their own domains . |
| 4 | The time may well have come when the taxpayers of our country need their own union to ensure that they receive better value for their money — rather like local authority ratepayers ' committees . |
| 5 | But , as prisoners see it , the new system means only that they receive negative replies to their complaints more quickly . |
| 6 | If parents are to be encouraged to bring up mentally handicapped children at home , it is essential that they receive this type of short term respite on a regular basis . |
| 7 | English historians have sometimes lamented the retention of continental possessions by the English crown in the later Middle Ages , maintaining that they distracted English kings from their proper purpose : the reduction of the British Isles to obedience and the formation of an island nation state . |
| 8 | Public inquiries have the advantage that they remove all suspicion of cover-up from any government department , and it is true that the examination and cross-examination by skilled counsel usually leads to the veracity and relevance of the evidence being established . |
| 9 | When organisms are examined it is seen that they form natural groups with features , usually morphological , in common . |
| 10 | One of the reasons why the better shipyards and coachbuilders were expensive was that they kept large stocks of valuable timber seasoned and seasoning . |
| 11 | If we return , for example , to the case of student protesters , we have already noted that they show some signs of a need for parental surrogates , and certainly they are seldom complete anarchists . |
| 12 | To help raise parental esteem so that they become equal partners in this process ; and so that young children are able to see their parents as problem solving , confident role models . |
| 13 | I understand that they purify minuscule amounts of water . |
| 14 | Also , current recommendations for screening for stroke and major coronary events by blood pressure measurements are not rational in that they take little account of the absolute risk of these diseases , specifying cut off levels for blood pressure screening that take little or no account of age . |
| 15 | In the course of doing so money will have to be spent on cleaning up the Six ( and , no doubt , eventually , the Soviet Union , too ) to ensure that they make respectable cohabitants of the new Europe which various leaders from Gorbachev to Delors to François Mitterrand have envisaged . |
| 16 | To begin with , young girls and women are frequently told that they talk too much , that they make facile use of words , that they chatter idly . |
| 17 | Modern breeds of these homing pigeons return so reliably and are so tame and amenable that they make excellent subjects with which to investigate the homing ability . |
| 18 | The result is that they make less use of their linguistic resources than they do at home and have less opportunity to extend those they already possess , except perhaps in relation to the specific vocabulary associated with the tasks they are required to perform . |
| 19 | So although the two models are observationally equivalent they are different in that they make different predictions about what would happen if the economic environment changed . |
| 20 | No , Tumbleweed are n't dabbling with any radically new threads here — cool melodies blasting through the '60s garage and topped off with some neat psychedelic baubles — but there 's such obvious songcraft at work that they burn new holes in some well-worn fabric . |
| 21 | By 1180 , more than half the bishops of France were again royal fideles , with the consequence that they sought royal justice against their local oppressors . |
| 22 | It is only after the death and complete dehumanization of the suicide that they threaten physical harm to those who offended them in life . |
| 23 | She says that they lived some miles from London , but they could see the red glow in the sky and smell the smoke . ’ |
| 24 | Celia Hooper-seated opposite him in just such a chair and situation , so that they resembled two bookends without intervening books — was suggesting that she should draw up a basic plan for the annual deanery party , which happened at Loxford Rectory after Easter , a get-together for all the priests of the deanery , eight of them , and their wives . |
| 25 | But American policy is nothing like formed , which explains European complaints that they hear different things from different Americans . |
| 26 | They are typical in that they adapt non-literary work on language . |
| 27 | For managers to have information about what happens in earlier and later phases of education does not guarantee that they put that knowledge to good use . |
| 28 | Erm , now they changed the order that they put these things in , so I need you to tell me as we go along which ones are which . |
| 29 | It is a sign of Marx 's and Engels 's intellectual courage that they put these laws to the test by seeing whether they accorded with what was then known about early cultures . |
| 30 | Most teacher-training programmes include provision for trainees to sit in with other teachers so that they get some experience of the environment they will work in . |