Example sentences of "[verb] that their [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Many of the staff found that their closest friends still date from that era . |
| 3 | To forestall rival suitors who might become political enemies , Ernst August and his wife agreed that their eldest son , Georg Ludwig ( George Lewis ) , must marry the girl ; Sophia Dorothea 's own parents were delighted in view of the English royal connection . |
| 4 | As a consequence , young Shetland married couples seem to presume that their best options are to await council housing or build houses on one spouse 's kinfolk 's land . |
| 5 | Practical help and emotional support of the bereaved are of course interwoven , but from the purely emotional standpoint it could be said that their greatest needs are for loving concern , good listening and patient understanding of their need to work through their grief in their own way at their own pace . |
| 6 | In other words , many executives in firms experiencing economic difficulties and who know from experience that the inspectorate mainly imposes administrative sanctions will calculate that their best interests lie in not conforming to factory health , safety , and welfare regulations ; instead they will gather their excuses and get on with the violations . |
| 7 | I judged our Swiss hosts to be sincere in saying that their latest equipment would be offered on a preferential basis to NATO and other friendly countries , and that it would not find its way to Argentina . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A group of Puritans who felt that the Church of England was too close to the Roman Catholic Church had left England and gone to the Netherlands ; they noticed with regret that their children were becoming Dutch in speech and habits , and some of them decided that their best prospect of remaining both godly and English was to get in touch with the Plymouth merchants , obtain from them financial support and the legal right to found a colony , and go somewhere in America where English bishops would not interfere with them . |
| 10 | Women in the 90s believe that their best interests are still not being represented by politicians ; despite all the talk of ‘ women 's charters ’ and changing demographics in their favour , 76% sense a ‘ bias towards men ’ . |
| 11 | They also believe that their greatest responsibility is to support the future of the monarchy . |
| 12 | Few suffer the agony of Johanna Young 's parents and find that their worst nightmare has become a reality . |
| 13 | The continuing use of a simple majority system was opposed by opposition parties which felt that their best chance of defeating the Colorados would be by combining forces in a run-off election . |
| 14 | Central Office experts had to confess that their harshest forecast had been far exceeded . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Future Neil Kinnocks — or David Blunketts or Michael Meachers or even Ken Livingstones — will find that their best strategy in their early years in national politics will be to act and speak in a way that appeals to ordinary television-watching , newspaper-reading Labour Party members , rather than to the left 's hyperactivists . |