Example sentences of "[that] they [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main weakness of these republican reforms was that they threatened fundamental change but did n't fully implement it . |
| 2 | The way in which royal messengers allegedly searched far and wide for a suitable bride ignores the likelihood that the union with Emma was motivated purely by political considerations , while the statement that they sent other sons to Normandy to be educated is a misleading reference to the exile of Emma 's offspring by Æthelred . |
| 3 | He took particular care of young players , seeing that they were well-fed and well-lodged and that they sent some money home to their parents each week . |
| 4 | Although , as Beaumanoir stated at this time , the magnates were ‘ sovereigns within their baronies ’ , they were supposed to execute the crown 's ordinances — which often meant that they anticipated royal legislation by legislating in their own name for their own domains . |
| 5 | I was told later by the Flight Sergeant that they counted five cannon and thirty 7.62mm holes in the machine . |
| 6 | English historians have sometimes lamented the retention of continental possessions by the English crown in the later Middle Ages , maintaining that they distracted English kings from their proper purpose : the reduction of the British Isles to obedience and the formation of an island nation state . |
| 7 | One of the reasons why the better shipyards and coachbuilders were expensive was that they kept large stocks of valuable timber seasoned and seasoning . |
| 8 | Alternatively , the prices could be adjusted somehow so that they met total costs . |
| 9 | The 1967 Abortion Act made it possible for women to get abortions if they were in the early stages of pregnancy and could persuade two doctors that they met certain criteria . |
| 10 | The new version of the directive , which had received the assent of the European Parliament ( EP ) on Nov. 22 , and which was due to come into force in January 1993 , allowed providers of financial services the right , in principle , to trade anywhere in the EC provided that they met minimum standards ( the so-called " single passport " concept ) . |
| 11 | I think that the 80s were beneficial in that they produced plural arts funding . |
| 12 | The Global Strategy paper that they produced pleased Churchill , and it became the starting point for the development of British military strategy in the nuclear era . |
| 13 | The things she said were always in disagreement , with the teacher or another member of the class , and cost her so much , in terms of physical anguish , that they carried great conviction . |
| 14 | We can agree that they carried these shows too far . |
| 15 | The audition which is the additional item includes moves at Policy and Resources Committee that they asked all committees to expose further reductions if possible to help close this gap of six hundred and seventy one thousand pounds . |
| 16 | A charge that they kidnapped 16-year-old Suzanne , of Moston , Manchester , in the week before her death was replaced by one of false imprisonment when they appeared before a city magistrate . |
| 17 | By 1180 , more than half the bishops of France were again royal fideles , with the consequence that they sought royal justice against their local oppressors . |
| 18 | Now designs were recognizably drawn from nature , but stylized in such a way that they formed bold patterns . |
| 19 | John always said that they spent more money restoring the facade than they ever spent on the thousands of workers who worked inside the plant , but then when it closed they could n't knock it down , so they turned it into a superstore . |
| 20 | She says that they lived some miles from London , but they could see the red glow in the sky and smell the smoke . ’ |
| 21 | The Music Halls , as might be readily anticipated , attracted the familiar accusation that they lowered moral standards and encouraged imitative crime . |
| 22 | Celia Hooper-seated opposite him in just such a chair and situation , so that they resembled two bookends without intervening books — was suggesting that she should draw up a basic plan for the annual deanery party , which happened at Loxford Rectory after Easter , a get-together for all the priests of the deanery , eight of them , and their wives . |
| 23 | The social taboo placed on discussion of birth control and sexuality , and the acceptance by a majority of middle class women of the idea that they lacked sexual drives — what Judith Walkowitz has called the doctrine of passionlessness — meant that little information was likely to come within the purview of women generally . |
| 24 | On the day I fished the Tarn , however , a long summer heatwave and a freak wind had brought algae up from the lake bottom so that they hung ill suspension , turning the lake the colour of pea soup . |
| 25 | They were both selfish individuals and she was now thinking that they deserved each other . |
| 26 | Mr Christopher wants Israel to expedite appeals from Palestinians deported last December on suspicion that they incited anti-Israeli violence . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , she said a lot of good things about how housework and things were essential social work — you know , saying it was work , hard work , servicing other people , not that airy fairy labour of love stuff , and how it ought to be recognised , and how it was because women were seen as wives and mothers that they got low wages , no money when they were at home looking after small kids . |
| 28 | A number of manors , such as Patching , complained repeatedly that they could not cope with such demands ; there is little evidence that they got any cuts . |
| 29 | She stepped out of it , naked save for a tiny pair of white lace panties so small that they exposed white patches of skin , luminous against her golden tan . |
| 30 | There was no indication that they , unlike the aggro leaders , were actively engaged in inciting other fans to join in the scraps or that they led concerted attacks against the opposition . |