Example sentences of "[verb] that their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was awfully fond of her husband , of course , but there was no denying that their own lovemaking had become just a little predictable . |
| 2 | For example , in India , graduate schools of social work are a major training resource for the social welfare services but some observers suggest that their educational approach might not be congruent with local needs and might not be making their best contribution to the nation 's social welfare and social development goals . |
| 3 | Women who have had children will know that their vaginal muscles are slightly more relaxed after delivery , but they should remember that many men prefer space to move in and that sufferers of premature ejaculation will benefit from the more subtle stimulation of lax vaginal walls . |
| 4 | That band is Nirvana , and if you 're one of the 12 million owners of their last album , Nevermind , you 'll know that their radical reworking of what was heavy metal into what is now grunge has completely destroyed the old image of the moronic metal band . |
| 5 | A classless society would no doubt constitute subjects who ( like Miss Beale and Miss Buss ) , would be different from us , but they would be constituted nonetheless , and could not know that their own conviction of being unexploited was not mistaken . |
| 6 | Brook operates without parental knowledge or consent , determined that parents should never know that their under-age children are sexually active and receiving contraception , if the child requests confidentially . |
| 7 | They will know that their maturing children need not be committed to anything that they will not be free to abandon in later life if they so wish . |
| 8 | All Qualified Teachers attending the Coburg Course are reminded that their final payment of £170 is due by the end of the month . |
| 9 | Students are reminded that their eventual employers will expect them to have made good use of their time at university . |
| 10 | A study of working-class girls by Sue Sharpe demonstrated that their main aims and priorities were to marry , have children and settle down ( Sharpe , 1976 ) . |
| 11 | By the time the Warriors had reached the objective , the riflemen in the back had been sufficiently aware of what was going on around them to know that their own survival would depend on the spirit of fight they could produce . |
| 12 | Indeed , people often report that their early sex lives were relatively unrewarding . |
| 13 | They consider the ‘ lives , class affiliations and social circumstances ’ in which Socrates , Plato and Aristotle were writing and ‘ try to establish that their political theories are essentially partisan in origin and ideological in content ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 14 | More than one ex-dealer has claimed that their old firm would still have an employee 's banking details , and would ring the bank to check whether the ex-dealer was currently receiving a direct debit , and if so , from what firm . |
| 15 | Some owners have claimed that their Cornish Rex cats wag their tails when pleased , like dogs , although this is hard to believe . |
| 16 | Choreographers who do not adhere strictly to the old conventions of court etiquette realise that their total design will flow more easily because their dancers ' behaviour will appear more spontaneous and natural . |
| 17 | Both sides of the compartment were lined with machinery and metal boxes so crushed and mangled that their original function was incomprehensible . |
| 18 | The NRA argues that women are the first victims of the collapse of the criminal-justice system , and the message seems to be getting through : gun-dealers say that their fastest-growing market is among women . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Many women say that their own mother 's attitude also had a big effect on them . |
| 21 | He added : ‘ We started producing CD and SRi versions with the airbag a few weeks ago so several customers will already have been pleasantly surprised to find that their new car has one fitted completely free of charge . ’ |
| 22 | When the Rand study looked at five giant companies with Superfund sites , it found that their legal fees were only 21% of what they spent on cleaning up , and much less when only one company was involved in cleaning a site . |
| 23 | Many of the staff found that their closest friends still date from that era . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The experimenters repeated their tests , and found that their first results were indeed wrong , and Mendeleev was right . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Those who remained in work found that their non-working hours totally revolved around their heroin use : |
| 29 | The factory also illegally employed children , normally the sons and daughters of employees who found that their own wages were insufficient . |
| 30 | They did not so much as consider that their physical safety could be at risk . |