Example sentences of "they [verb] that their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They found that their only means of illumination was the collection of antique paraffin lamps and that there was only one boiler — which worked intermittently . |
| 2 | One of the less well-known consequences was that , when the companies who wrote unit-linked business wished to introduce personal pensions , they found that their natural mode of operation led them to return on death the fund which had built up for the policyholder , rather than any specific guaranteed rate of return . |
| 3 | They say that their novel sensor can measure the concentration of the active ( - ) -isomer of ephedrine , the sympathomimetic decongestant and bronchodilator , down to a limit of 10 -5.3 mol dm -3 in the presence of common serum ions ( J. Chem . |
| 4 | They may also do so if they anticipate that their liquid assets may soon be squeezed by government monetary policy . |
| 5 | They observed that their right winger , Franck Corrihons , had never dropped a goal until the 73rd minute of the cliff-hanger against Bayonne when , with Biarritz trailing 15–13 , he landed a monstrous 60-metre drop-goal to steal the game and with it a place in the semi-finals . |
| 6 | Once serfs began paying redemption dues they discovered that their new taskmaster , the state , was less efficient and less demanding than the gentry . |
| 7 | Indeed the Americans soon found themselves moving yet closer to Britain , especially once they discovered that their own initiatives ( not least their pressure on Israel ) still left them at loggerheads with Egypt and the Arab radicals . |
| 8 | They know that their personal life is rooted in God the Trinity . |
| 9 | They have suffered the extreme agony of first-order doubts , so they know that their subsequent faith in God is the only answer to that question which called everything in question . |
| 10 | They believe that their accepted right to control prisoners and wield power over them is threatened by the development of welfare services and personnel within prisons and the ( gradual and still fairly minimal but growing ) recognition of prisoners ' rights . |
| 11 | In particular , they believe that their own writings can create a popular opinion which will vote against this powerful complex . |
| 12 | But even where a case is tried summarily , magistrates still have the power to commit a convicted defendant to the Crown Court for sentence where they feel that their own powers are inadequate . |
| 13 | Since they could recognize ‘ intelligence , wit and wisdom ’ in members of the lower strata , they appreciated that their social inferiors were at least their equal in certain respects . |
| 14 | After a discussion , they decided that their best hope for safety would lie in leaving the house , making for the shore and trying to get away in a ship . |
| 15 | But by the end of May 1797 , with the countryside bursting suddenly into beauty after the coldest spring Dorothy could remember , they knew that their unorthodox tenancy was not likely to continue : John Pretor Pinney was already looking for rent-paying tenants . |
| 16 | But they now had a great advantage because they knew that their viral DNA was in the gene and so they could use this knowledge to fish out the gene that clearly plays some role in limb development . |
| 17 | No feet picked up , just a slovenly shuffle in the snow … as if they knew that their scraping passage festered in the mind of the Major . |
| 18 | told an NOP survey that they thought that their take-home pay would be hit . |
| 19 | They recognize that their overall goal is to launch their child into the world , as an independent and responsible young adult . |
| 20 | But in Dublin they proved that their real home is the great indoors . |
| 21 | Once they recognized that their own groups ' discussions were not very different from others , they began corporately to own the curriculum of the new school . |