Example sentences of "that they [verb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Now the audit industry was in favour of that at the time because it saw itself as able to get its fingers into local authority audit so they were prepared to accept that they could do it then , it 's only now er when it 's proposed on what 's been their traditional prerogatives , they er er they audit of banks and private sector er er companies that they balk at the proposition and say ooh it 's horrendous we ca n't do it . |
2 | There had been stone dragons , and jade dragons so delicate that they disintegrated at a puff of breath . |
3 | One of them made crochet toilet-seat covers that they sold at the shop . |
4 | In the middle there is a little pond with a fountain , and the golden carp that swim in it are so tame that they come at the sound of Dennis 's voice . |
5 | But it 's not part of the the police case here , that they knew at the time that they entered the flat . |
6 | He would n't let me pay that for it , he said that they had at the shop . |
7 | International referee Derek Bevan , who handled the World Cup final , agreed with Kirkpatrick , citing another area where law changes have had negative consequences : ‘ When the ball is fielded following a high kick from the attacking side the chasing forwards can close in and circle the catcher provided that they remain at a distance of 10 metres . |
8 | TEAM Components Bureau , having secured their first Scottish women 's league title last weekend , are keen to ensure that they remain at the top . |
9 | No , the fact of it was , Diane and her employer might easily have been two different species for the way that they looked at the world . |
10 | Government ministers seem to think that they look at a pile of brochures . |
11 | I suggest to those who talk of regional banding that they look at the protection that the banding system will offer to people living in London and the south-east . |
12 | The interesting points to note for both papers are that they emerged at a time when the SDP , a party of the middle-ground , was in the ascendant , and that neither moved to the ‘ left ’ , not even the social democratic ‘ left ’ , in the 1987 election . |
13 | Soldiers initially alleged that they fired at the car after it had driven through an army checkpoint and hit a soldier . |
14 | So what I 'm proposing is that we write to er Mick and erm Richard , asking what powers and responsibilities that they propose at the moment to devolve to Southwell . |
15 | The talks were the most significant in a 15-month series of deputy foreign ministerial level discussions in that they occurred at a time when the two countries appeared to be on the verge of restoring full diplomatic relations . |
16 | They can thus form an expectation of p ( ) t conditional on the information that they have at the end of period t - 1 . |
17 | Individuals in that generation of whom we know most seem to have grappled uncertainly with how to deal with their growing understanding of and revulsion from the slave trade ; sometimes it was almost to their own surprise that they arrived at a commitment sufficiently deep to devote a major portion of their time and energies to the cause . |