Example sentences of "[vb past] that their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Both sides of the compartment were lined with machinery and metal boxes so crushed and mangled that their original function was incomprehensible . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Many of the staff found that their closest friends still date from that era . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The experimenters repeated their tests , and found that their first results were indeed wrong , and Mendeleev was right . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Those who remained in work found that their non-working hours totally revolved around their heroin use : |
| 10 | The factory also illegally employed children , normally the sons and daughters of employees who found that their own wages were insufficient . |
| 11 | Some realized that their first year savings were intrinsically ‘ once only ’ : ‘ We ca n't go generic every year , ’ said one lead clinician . |
| 12 | Maclean realized that their only chance was to bluff their way out of the situation , so they set off for the main gate . |
| 13 | An appeal court later agreed that their first trial was ‘ wrong in law ’ , but upheld the death sentence . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In November the Six agreed that their foreign ministers would meet every three months . |
| 16 | While in Bali the ASEAN leaders agreed that their forthcoming summit in Singapore would proceed as planned . |
| 17 | He recognized that the manyattas were ‘ an indigenous school ’ , an integral part of the process whereby a Masai became distinctively a Masai , and recommended that their character-building qualities be respected and adapted . |
| 18 | However , no-one would listen to us and the Dampness Group realised that their first task was to get evidence to prove their common sense approach . |
| 19 | In a blatant lie the Junkers argued that their massive estates were vital to the German economy and to the country 's ability to support itself . |
| 20 | The authors believed that their serological results supported the view that infection with M paratuberculosis might cause Crohn 's disease . |
| 21 | But there was a very small group who acknowledged that their unspoken anger was so powerful , they used their tears as a revenge , knowing that their husbands hated tears and knowing that weeping they could discomfort them . |
| 22 | LTTE sources , however , claimed that their total casualties did not exceed 17 . |
| 23 | Clinton aides claimed that their own polling showed their man winning comfortably , a steady seven points ahead of Bush . |
| 24 | The project predicted that their big breakthrough , would come in 1990 . |
| 25 | Their replies , detailed in Table 7 , below , showed that their main sources of information were posters outside the Library ( 61% ) , advertisements in the press ( 24% ) , and personal contacts ( 20% ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But the Liberal Democrats protested that their front bench spokesman had had to wait nearly five hours to be called by the Speaker instead of being called at the start of the debate like the Government and Opposition . |
| 28 | Once serfs began paying redemption dues they discovered that their new taskmaster , the state , was less efficient and less demanding than the gentry . |
| 29 | A FAMILY who discovered that their centuries-old manor stands over ‘ the lost palace ’ of the last Welsh prince are fighting a desperate battle to keep their home . |
| 30 | 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 . |