Example sentences of "[noun pl] that they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was because the Callaghan Government ran out of money to spend on the water industry and the big utilities that they encountered such problems . |
| 2 | Embedded within discussions of human rights is the intention that we should not so organise our social institutions that they promote some people and inhibit others . |
| 3 | For a while they made so much work for the bailiffs that they had little time to harass the Nonconformists . |
| 4 | In addition to court rolls the family historian may come across rentals which give the names of tenants and the rents that they paid each year at Ladyday ( 25 March ) and Michaelmas ( 29 September ) . |
| 5 | Not only then is subcontracting widely practised but the small firms are so dependent on a limited range of buyers that they have little alternative but to accommodate to tight kanban schedules . |
| 6 | On Oct. 11 Iraq 's Oil Minister , Usamah Abd al-Razzaq Hummadi al-Hithi , had warned foreign banks that they faced legal action by Iraq " if they attempt to seize or transfer the ownership of funds " . |
| 7 | In the spirit of affability , may I congratulate the Government on one of the changes that they made some time ago , in which they followed fairly accurately the views expressed in early-day motion 488 , which noted that when ’ the Social Fund cold weather payments scheme trigger mechanism was put to a serious test it collapsed three times under the weight of its own absurdity the scheme is inadequate , inefficiently targeted and wasteful as the cost of advertising and administration are unjustifiably high ; and urges a new saving limit of £3,000 that would create a fully automatic scheme ’ . |
| 8 | MI5 and Special Branch also open mail illegally and break into so many properties that they have one section that does nothing else . |
| 9 | TWO North-East councillors came face to face in court for the first time yesterday over allegations that they assaulted each other . |
| 10 | However , LIFESPAN will not transfer software to a user whose disk quota is exceeded , or will be exceeded by the transfer , even if the user has EXQUOTA privilege , so check with users that they have sufficient quota for their largest required transfer out of LIFESPAN . |
| 11 | In other words , they are reacting to the ‘ coalness ’ or ‘ oilness ’ of the chemical , rather than the chemical itself This theory stretches credibility considerably , because synthetic compounds go through so many chemical reactions , distillations and purification procedures that they bear little relationship to their raw materials , let alone to each other . |
| 12 | Often , too , husband and wife have become so caught up in their work , their children or their respective outside interests that they devote less time to each other . |
| 13 | In such a state , driven by the worst fear of all , that of sudden death , and given that they are all approximately equal in power , it would seem to be in men 's interests that they reach some agreement , each to have only as much liberty as he is prepared to allow to others . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , she said a lot of good things about how housework and things were essential social work — you know , saying it was work , hard work , servicing other people , not that airy fairy labour of love stuff , and how it ought to be recognised , and how it was because women were seen as wives and mothers that they got low wages , no money when they were at home looking after small kids . |
| 15 | The 1967 Abortion Act made it possible for women to get abortions if they were in the early stages of pregnancy and could persuade two doctors that they met certain criteria . |
| 16 | More fundamentally , managed competition and the new system of contract funding means that clinicians and managers have a common interest in demonstrating to purchasers that they provide good quality , cost-effective care . |
| 17 | We 'd like to see the er government give a very clear signal to er the police that they want these laws not to be enforced in this prejudiced and discriminatory way . |
| 18 | It therefore seems directly consistent with the theory that candidates were forbidden to try to persuade the voters that they had better policies or attitudes than other candidates : a directive which had distinctive consequences for the pattern of the contest . |
| 19 | But American policy is nothing like formed , which explains European complaints that they hear different things from different Americans . |
| 20 | Spinoza says that it is no mere accident that this is never so , but that it is built into the essential nature of human beings that they need these relations with others for the achievement of personal fulfilment . |
| 21 | Perhaps because it is of the very essence of human beings that they transcend any situation into which they come or bring about . |
| 22 | Some people think they 're connected with religious ceremonies , others that they have some kind of astronomical significance . |
| 23 | So many poison-producing amphibians give vivid and unmistakable warnings that they have such defences at their disposal . |
| 24 | Substantial shareholders are required to give assurances that they accept ultimate responsibility for the liabilities of the GEMM in question . |
| 25 | Notwithstanding accusations that they had imperialist designs on Europe , Americans hoped that the Continent would soon be able to stand on its own feet , free of US support . |
| 26 | One is aware that educators in this field are treading sacred ground and expose themselves to accusations that they create unrealistic expectations ( say , elaborate rituals ) , or that they encroach upon the territory of other professionals ( the Clergy , perhaps ) . |
| 27 | While it is true that by the turn of the century both middle and working class women were profoundly affected by the gospel of maternalism preached by the medical profession , imperialists and politicians , it is also possible to find examples of straightforward resistance to physicians both on the grounds that they encouraged middle class women to lead idle lives and that they posed a threat to female modesty . |
| 28 | ( I have remembered for many years the patronne of a restaurant in the little Norman port of Barfleur who refused to cook artichokes for dinner that night — it was then 6.30 p.m. — on the grounds that they required two hours boiling . |
| 29 | The facts that they do fearful things to themselves and to others regardless of consequence and that they are unaware of the connection between cause and consequence are the essential psycho-pathological nature of addictive disease and denial . |