Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] that their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is one of those English expressions so weathered that their emotional batteries are irretrievably flat but , from the lips of someone who spoke English with the cool precision of a fluent foreigner , the phrase was terribly affecting . |
| 2 | FPA director Doreen Massey said : ‘ When one in three of all pregnancies is unwanted and one in five ends in abortion , GPs and clinics must work together to ensure that their combined services are reaching this huge area of need . ’ |
| 3 | Faced with the prospect of a stream of disclosures as the general election approaches , Mr Gandhi 's advisers have apparently concluded that their best defence is also to attack the opposition with the corruption stick . |
| 4 | Regular users can suddenly find that their normal dose will give them extreme and dangerous side effects . |
| 5 | Together they inadvertently ensured that their four children would be little more than emotional cripples . |
| 6 | The sacked Timex workforce have finally accepted that their nine month battle with the American corporation is over . |
| 7 | ‘ Their own evidence conclusively demonstrated that their main object was to make sure that the plaintiffs , whom they described as their ‘ core ’ customers , did indeed take delivery on July 25 , in order to encourage their other reluctant customers to follow suit . ‘ |
| 8 | The American government had pressed the Bahamians to clean out the drug lords , but instead the trade had flourished until the Americans finally insisted that their own coastguard be allowed to patrol Bahamian waters . |
| 9 | Both have already learned that their few toys come only at Christmas and on birthdays . |
| 10 | The precise stage reached by the Yakuts remains more controversial , but Soviet historians generally agree that their tribal society was already decaying , so that the Russians found a community with marked class differences . |
| 11 | Although the villagers of Zubaydat significantly increased their productivity through the introduction of drip irrigation , they quickly found that their real problem lay with marketing . |
| 12 | An appeal court later agreed that their first trial was ‘ wrong in law ’ , but upheld the death sentence . |
| 13 | As well as having samples tested , manufacturers must also demonstrate that their quality-control system is up to scratch . |
| 14 | Moreover , after the attack on the embassy , they were also persuaded that their own lives would be seriously threatened if the Shah arrived in America . |
| 15 | Making the characteristic impedances of the constant-k and m-derived filter sections identical also ensures that their critical frequencies are the same . |
| 16 | Rosemerry and her husband , Harry , 50 , later found that their gentle playing had actually been breaking their daughter 's bones . |
| 17 | They also believe that their greatest responsibility is to support the future of the monarchy . |
| 18 | They also believe that their poor accomodation may have been a factor in loosing the baby . |
| 19 | These nations also recognize that their public sector purchasing would not be enough to maintain a full array of aerospace , telephone switch and computer industries . |
| 20 | FIMBRA had also concluded that their sole proprietor members should not be authorised to hold client money . |
| 21 | Consequently many Greek writers of the fifth century and later realized that their own society was the end-product of a long period of advance . |
| 22 | people probably realize that their own circle of acquaintances is too narrow to provide a reasonable basis for estimating party chances and so they must rely on a combination of personal contacts , media comments , and especially published opinion polls . |
| 23 | He was also ensuring that their first record , The Bride of Christ , would be out in a few weeks . |
| 24 | Indeed , people often report that their early sex lives were relatively unrewarding . |
| 25 | The protein products encoded by many of these genes have been characterised — some in considerable detail — and the evidence is now compelling that their abnormal expression is related to the development of human cancer . |
| 26 | But did the women really feel that their own work had been less important ? |
| 27 | Women that live communally , for example in a college hall of residence , often find that their monthly periods become synchronised , and experiments have shown that the controlling force behind this is odour . |
| 28 | However , whereas GEC/Siemens had originally proposed that their joint bid would result in a series of joint ventures between them , it became increasingly clear subsequently that the bid was , according to Sir John Clark , Plessey 's Chairman , ‘ no more or less than a simple old-fashioned attempt to carve up one of the leading British electronics companies ’ between GEC and Siemens ' . |
| 29 | Talking to them one often finds that their main priority is the adults in their lives . |
| 30 | When teachers ask what librarians can offer in pupil.guidance , chartered librarians often retort that their own knowledge of children 's literature greatly exceeds that of the average teacher ( usually strikingly untutored in such matters ) , and when self-styled educational technologists wonder what a librarian can tell a student about a filmstrip , the retort in recent years has been prompt , and along the same lines . |