Example sentences of "[noun sg] that they have [verb] [adj] " 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 | The emotional help that we can offer most directly to bereaved people is to explain that such behaviour is not an indication that they have gone mad , but in fact rather the opposite . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The auditors said in their certificate that they had used one " methodology " rather than another and that it was not clear from the clause in the lease which methodology they should use . |
| 5 | She was bright and she was presentable , which meant that she already scored on two counts over the help that they 'd hired last year . |
| 6 | At the end of the twentieth century group exhibitions perhaps do not have the importance that they have had earlier in the century . |
| 7 | They won it for the outstanding service that they had given two clients , Comfort Cooling and PSA . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But it is the dignity of the funeral parlour , tempered by the knowledge that they have killed many people for their dream . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Right , okay , what we 're saying here is that the mum and the dad are normal people , they do n't have any problems , but they have got each of them have got abnormal gene and they 're going to have a family , the first baby that they have gets two normal genes , one from each parent , you only get one gene from each parent , fuses so that makes two genes so the baby has two genes , right , the first baby gets two normal genes , right and that baby is normal , which is very clear right , so here we have written this baby is not P K U affected and is normal and does n't actually carry the gene any more , does that make sense to you ? |
| 13 | The Revenue will not impose interest or penalties on anyone who has simply misunderstood the position , but will consider doing so where someone has knowingly made false or fraudulent declarations on the registration form , or deliberately failed to inform their bank or building society that they had become liable to tax . |
| 14 | The disbelief Mortimer felt vied with rage at the thought that they had known this and had n't divulged it earlier . |
| 15 | just label the triangle that they 've got opposite over opposite and hypotenuse and adjacent and translate what they 've got written there and use those . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But after two weeks of going back and fro to the barn they finally decided for some unknown reason that they had had enough . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's not certain , but there 's a suggestion that they have stolen British army trucks and uniforms and , with forged documents , pass themselves off as official convoys . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The heads reported an increase in the level of job satisfaction that they had experienced due to devolution — although one said he had n't had time to think about it ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They 'd hesitated for almost a year before they 'd made the move , finally spurred along by the fact that they 'd grown sick of talking about it . |
| 25 | Very confusing and the fact that they 've stuck that label on there does n't help very much either . |
| 26 | Now both the West Oxfordshire District Council and the Chipping Norton Parish Council erm voted overwhelmingly against this proposed scheme , and the fact that they 've put these recommendations to the County Council erm can I ask the three County Councillors present erm it means nothing at all from your point of view ? |
| 27 | I felt that it was too easy for what were essentially white women 's publishers culling some short stories and poems from Blackwomen and then hailing the fact that they had published x-dozen Blackwomen writers . |
| 28 | The fact that they had brought these missiles with them showed their aggressive intentions . |
| 29 | Lacking more substantive arguments for voting Labour , Gaitskell promised an extravagant ‘ electioneering'-type budget if returned to office , a ploy which the Tory leaders were able to ridicule despite the fact that they had started that particular game . |
| 30 | But the fact that they had supposed this at all suggests some appreciation of cattle-raiding 's implicit purpose . |