Example sentences of "[that] they [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1985 , when Japanese chip makers last started slashing prices , America 's government insisted that they raise them in order to protect the ( virtually non-existent ) American DRAM industry . |
| 2 | I mean Preston is about twenty miles south of er where we are but I know that there are gardens north of where we are that do grow good peaches but what they do they cover the er plants during the early spring round about February time and they cover it with very fine ne net , that 's all they need to do with it just cover it up when the flowers are out , make sure that they lift it off every now and again to do the pollinating , get them set and then when the frosts have gone take the net off . |
| 3 | Cereal farmers are using less nitrogen fertiliser and have changed the way that they apply it in direct response to concern over nitrogen pollution , according to a report form the Home Grown Cereals Authority . |
| 4 | It was said in Scorer v Seymour-Johns [ 1966 ] 3 All ER 347 per Salmon LJ that the special element can be characterised as the connection relying on the employee to the extent that they regard him as the business rather than his employer : in that case the employer 's business had many recurring customers ( cf Fellowes & Son v Fisher [ 1975 ] 2 All ER 829 ) . |
| 5 | To the extent that Europeans know of this Oxbridge dominance , my experience is that they regard it with some satisfaction ( they have generally heard of Oxford and Cambridge ) , but that their satisfaction changes to complacency when they reflect upon what they believe to be the uniquely class-ridden structure of English society . |
| 6 | Of course er they have about erm well I 'm not sure , about twenty eight or thirty thousand gallons of diesel stocked up there , and of course in them buying it in bulk like that they get it at a cheaper rate . |
| 7 | Also , more is understood nowadays about the balance of life within a pool , so the much quoted passage of the father of English gardening , William Robinson , in his classic The English Flower Garden ( 1895 ) scarcely applies now : ‘ Unclean and ugly pools deface our gardens ; some have a mania for artificial water , the effect of water pleasing them so well that they bring it near their houses where they can not have its good effects . |
| 8 | When parliament allows groups of individuals to exercise such power it should come as no surprise that they use it for their own advantage and contrary to the public interest . |
| 9 | Ultraviolet light is so important to insects that they use it as a main component of their colour vision . |
| 10 | When parents are so concerned for the children 's safety that they prevent them from exercising choice and making decisions , they are depriving them of the experience they need in order to cope with life as mature adults . |
| 11 | A common result of this is that when the philosophers deny autonomy to women , they do so for the same sorts of reason that they deny it to children and cite lack of rationality , capriciousness and vulnerability among their characteristics . |
| 12 | And I would be the last person to advocate that we follow the American practice of litigation er to the extremes that they pursue it in the States . |
| 13 | Er , the recommendation to those committees was that they should treat the paper as a basis for consultation , it was on that basis that they approved it , it was my impression that they support it in general terms . |
| 14 | The mercenary ones simply put up with them and pretend that they love them for what they can get out of them . |
| 15 | Clearly they all function with the agreement of their management committees and funders , and within NACAB membership conditions , In fact NACAB has democratically voted its support for a broadening of roles , by reiterating in the new membership regulations the responsibility of the management committee for ensuring that bureau workers are trained in social policy work , and that they see it as a natural complement to bureau work when dealing with individual clients . |
| 16 | Yet we can not claim that our sensory reality is more real than theirs : that we see it the ‘ right ’ way and that they see it in some less than real manner . |
| 17 | You build a bond up with them , so that they see you as a friend with whom they have this special relationship . |
| 18 | To the extent that they destroy him as a competitor , they destroy him , speaking generally and largely , as a customer . |
| 19 | The C E C when they 're talking about motions sometimes say that they accept them with the qualification and I 'd like to say to Congress this morning will you accept a qualification from the branch moving this to say that we are talking about groups of members and their needs not individuals ? |
| 20 | The great advantage of such institutions is that they fit you for prison conditions . |
| 21 | Goodey has not looked at it satisfactorily as far as I 'm concerned and as far as many of the scheme members are concerned , I mean he has concluded that the employers are still entitled to er do what they like with the surplus , the only thing that he recommends that they do it with the approval of the regulator himself , but he the other thing that the |
| 22 | The Olympic athletes , the cricketers and the tennis seeds are just playing games , although one can hope that they do it in a sporting fashion . |
| 23 | 4 One problem with many passages in Eliot 's plays is that they send us to similar but stronger passages in the poetry . |
| 24 | An annuity is an arrangement with a financial institution whereby , if you are over retirement age and do not want to leave your property to anyone when you die , they will effectively buy your house from you ( albeit at a bit less than the market price ) , give you guaranteed security of tenure until you die , and turn the money that they pay you for the house into a regular income for life . |
| 25 | Moreover , such texts are the more dangerous in that they affect us at a subconscious level . |
| 26 | ‘ That they have him in the Tower of London . ’ |
| 27 | Remember their contact demands that they provide you with an office desk and telephone facility for three weeks |
| 28 | The point about studies on non-human animals is not that they replace studies on humans but that they provide us with pointers to what we should study in people and how we should study it . |