Example sentences of "that they [verb] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mackintosh ( 1960 ) draws attention to an important aspect of the annual vertical migration that many species follow ; dispersing northward at the surface in summer , their descent to 400–600 m in winter ensures that they return south in the southward-flowing waters at those depths . |
| 2 | They oppose the proposed changes for political reasons , believing that they form part of the task the prime minister , Michel Rocard , has set himself to reform public sector industry — reforms that many to the left of Mr Rocard believe to be inherently unsocialist . |
| 3 | They are alike in that both form part of a single entity-identifier ; this is reflected in surface syntax by the fact that they form part of the same noun phrase as their head noun . |
| 4 | there are certain principles that are clearly at the heart of the Constitution , parliamentary sovereignty being the prime example , but there are many provisions , be they expressed through statute law or the writings of constitutional experts , that are of constitutional significance but on which there is no clear agreement that they form part of the British Constitution . |
| 5 | These forms of repetitive and obsessive behaviour become so ingrained in the horse , that they become part of the horse 's ordinary behaviour even when it is not bored . |
| 6 | Yet what they seem satisfied with is that they initiate contact with the lawyer , and not the other way round , as and when they think he or she is needed . |
| 7 | Bile and bile salts inhibit motility and it has been proposed that they take part in the putative ‘ ileal brake ’ mechanism . |
| 8 | Careful experiments have made it clear that they take note of the geographical features below them and when leaving their home loft they circle above it as if refreshing their memory with one last look before departing . |
| 9 | There is good evidence that they take note of the position of the sun , but birds released on an overcast winter 's day when the sun was invisible still returned . |
| 10 | It also makes it clear that those artificial targets can be revised and that should be the focus of our campaign to make sure that they are revised , to make sure that they take account of the real concerns in the real world . |
| 11 | The fivefold symmetry and the hydrostatically operated tube feet are such distinctive characters that they make members of the group very easy to recognise . |
| 12 | The law demanded that they attend school for the few hours they were not in the theatre , but time spent on education was minimal as the pantomime was so popular that there were matinées most days . |
| 13 | The council as highway authority lodged an objection to the registration of the road verges on the ground that they formed part of the highway . |
| 14 | Winchester 's complaints that they had had no opportunity to make any representation and that they lacked particulars of the allegations which were made against them , met with no response from Lautro . |
| 15 | Winchester complained that they had had no opportunity to make any representations , and that they lacked particulars of the allegations made against them , to which there was no direct response from Lautro . |
| 16 | ‘ We felt that they deserved sponsorship from the local community and as our business grows , we would like to share our success with an organisation whose aims we fully support . |
| 17 | The ANC said that the Commission 's revelations confirmed that the state had conducted a " vicious campaign of misinformation and propaganda " against the organization since its unbanning in February 1990 , and that they added weight to the widely held belief in the existence of a " third force " of agents provocateurs linked to the SADF which was engendering township violence . |
| 18 | On the rare occasions that they took place in the dining-room Fru Møller 's professional know-how and courtesy were apt to desert her . |
| 19 | This time , the crew were in such high spirits that they dropped Nickles over the heart of Berlin , spirits that were somewhat subdued when it was realised that they could not close the bomb bay doors after combing . |
| 20 | The facts that they restricted entry to the lounge to certain classes of passengers and gave their staff instructions as to what to do with lost property were insufficient to manifest the intention to exercise the requisite degree of control . |
| 21 | I 'd learned their names only to the extent that they owned horses in the horse car or had touched bases with Filmer , which came to only about half . |
| 22 | realize that they had cushions on the seats . |
| 23 | ‘ The French were fortunate in that they had vessels of the right kind available . ’ |
| 24 | Police said that they seized knives at the Coronation Street house . |
| 25 | This is an illustration of the well-known problem of computer scientists becoming so enthralled with their own inventions that they lose sight of the needs of users . |
| 26 | Nor does Herodotus necessarily refer to the Jews when he mentions Syrians and Phoenicians of Palestine , who acknowledge that they learnt circumcision from the Egyptians ( 2.104 ) . |
| 27 | Second , the concern of pluralists to explain the making of public policies means that they emphasise inputs into the political system to the detriment of a serious consideration of public-policy outputs . |
| 28 | And they go on to explain that they keep tabs on the injured who they rescue until they either leave hospital or die . |
| 29 | It is certain that they became participants within the traitor ranks of NTS … you know of that , Comrade Major ? |
| 30 | Last last time I was er resting was er about sixteen months ago and er I actually applied and got pretty far down the line er for a position within Woolworths only to find that er when they stated that they wanted people between the ages of twenty eight and thirty five they did actually mean that . |