Example sentences of "[that] [verb] they [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was precisely their erudition , their cultivation , their financial security , their disdain for the mediocre that led them to the gas chambers . |
| 2 | Yeah but I thought in the case of like Petula Clark and Lulu it was because they won it that got them into the scene sort of thing . |
| 3 | Many of the great fortunes in this country are still in the hands of the landed aristocracy who tend to be preoccupied with maintaining their great estates and country houses , no doubt feeling that opening them to the public is in itself a form of patronage . |
| 4 | The muscles are strengthened by an increased flow of blood , as are the ligaments that attach them to the bones . |
| 5 | They have , therefore , fewer cultural resources with which to resist the forces that place them in the underclass . |
| 6 | If the algorithms for correction of the above four types of spelling errors were to be applied to our system , it is unlikely that applying them to the highest-rated allowable string ( if there are any allowable strings ) is going to find the intended word . |
| 7 | It is this ability to produce flowers throughout the summer and early autumn that ranks them with the true annuals when it comes to creating the most colourful and long lasting planting schemes . |
| 8 | They were now thirty-odd miles away from the Manchester slums where they had been brought up , a distance that put them beyond the range of mobility of their families , who could not afford to visit them . |
| 9 | As Packer ( 1968 ) has pointed out , the criminality of their enterprise acts as a kind of ‘ tariff ’ that protects them from the competition of ‘ legitimate ’ entrepreneurs unwilling to take the risks of illegal enterprise , and provides them with customers who have no legal redress against the most excessive forms of exploitation . |
| 10 | They wandered down the cobbled streets to the Riviera , across the Villa Comunale and then over Via Caracciolo to the balustrade that separated them from the boulders that sat on the edge of the sea . |
| 11 | They became aware , therefore , of the vast gulf that separated them from the supreme Reality and the great confessional religions were born to meet these new conditions . |
| 12 | He scrambled down into the cold , howling plain that separated them from the stones . |
| 13 | Instead , he was leaning forward , peering through the glass that separated them from the chauffeur and glaring furiously at the car in front of them . |
| 14 | between different production systems , institutions , schemes and social organisations in which business enterprises figure prominently but are nonetheless only one component of a network that links them with the educational system , the technological infrastructure , management/labour relations , the relations between the public and private sectors , and the financial system . |
| 15 | Polar stocks are generally assumed to have accumulated , and still be accumulating , adaptations that equip them for the polar environment ; endemic polar species , that are found only in polar regions , are assumed to be derived from temperate or subpolar stocks , via intermediate stages that no longer exist . |
| 16 | An interpretation I have often heard is that God 's ways are mysterious and wonderful , and it may well be that in the very last moments of the person 's life they had an encounter with God that set them on the path to eternal life . |
| 17 | Initial domiciliary assessments are carried out by either a medical or a non-medical team member by using a semistructured schedule that guides them through the various clinical , functional , social , and other components of the assessment . |
| 18 | Perhaps they feel it is a way of getting back at the system that keeps them in the poverty gap . |
| 19 | She ignored the amazed looks that followed them up the long hill out of town , glad to reach home long before the other two . |
| 20 | Their new single , Family , includes all these elements and could be the one that breaks them into the big time . |
| 21 | 65 ) that the historian 's duty is ‘ to rejudge the conduct of men , that generous actions may be snatched from oblivion , and that the author of pernicious counsels , and the perpetrator of evil deeds may see , beforehand , the infamy that awaits them at the tribunal of posterity ’ . |
| 22 | He is now a forgotten man who will while away his twilight years alone and insecure in an alien land , longing to return to Russia.The KGB has not been slow to remind its senior intelligence personnel of the isolated lifestyle that awaits them in the West should they be tempted to defect , pointing out the benefits of enjoying a relatively luxurious and secure existence in Russia . |
| 23 | They ate and drank , sitting tucked into long grass that screened them from the river ; they could hear the flow of it , and the occasional plop of a fish . |
| 24 | Herbaceous forms grow as tightly-packed mats ( Saxifraga , Stellaria ) , rosettes ( Draba , Potentilla ) or cushions ( Silene ) , habits that keep them under the snow in winter and close to the warm soil surface in summer . |
| 25 | A good starting point is to ask parents to list ten things that irritate them about the school plus ten things that the school does rather well . |
| 26 | Some LEAs ( notably ILEA ) have tried to present examination results in a way that relates them to the ability of the school 's intake . |
| 27 | JONATHAN Davies scored 20 points as Widnes went on a scoring spree that took them into the second round of the Lancashire Cup . |
| 28 | Valdo and Romario soon defied the squelching conditions with a double exchange of passes that took them through the middle of the Dutch defence before the ball rolled across a gaping goalmouth with no one to apply a finishing touch . |
| 29 | Their strength is team work and a club-like atmosphere that took them to the finals in Spain and Mexico in the 1980s . |
| 30 | Helen watched him until he rounded the corner , then walked Nicola the ten or so yards along the street that took them to the entrance to her building . |