Example sentences of "they that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When my right hon. Friend visits the county palatine , will he hold a meeting with tenants and perhaps point out to them that a standard rate of 35p in the pound , which was described as preposterous by the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) , was the rate levied by the last Labour Government ? |
| 2 | It feels to them that a major event has changed their lives and yet people around them seem to be wanting them to forget it and ‘ get on with things ’ as quickly as possible . |
| 3 | The investigators had also come into possession of what was said to be Fhimah 's personal diary , improbable though it must have seemed to them that a trained intelligence agent would keep one or put anything in writing , let alone the incriminating English word ‘ taggs ’ ( sic ) in the middle of an entry in Arabic and then , according to media reports , leave the diary behind for the investigators to find . |
| 4 | Addressing concerns expressed about the problem of lawlessness in some parts of the country which was deterring some businessmen from expanding their operations , Khan reassured them that a special force would be set up by the government specifically to protect oil installations . |
| 5 | He also told them that a thin palladium wire , only ¼ inch in diameter and an inch long , had reached the boiling point of water within a few minutes , that the wire produced about 26 watts of energy per cm 3 , ‘ about four and a half times what we put into it ’ and that in an early stage of the experiments the apparatus suddenly heated up to an estimated 5000 degrees , vaporising a block of palladium , destroying a fume cupboard and damaging the concrete floor . |
| 6 | I assure them that every extra basket of rice produced will be immediately sent to the countries in need . |
| 7 | It was upon them that the legal profession focussed in the early 1970s in an attempt to improve its tarnished public image . |
| 8 | It was perfectly clear to all four of them that the forensic skills , the intellectual abilities , the sheer weight of grey cellular matter , the brutalizing experience of countless similar quests , possessed by the real experts was infinitely greater than that of the mere professionals . |
| 9 | The same letter informs them that the Official Custodian can provide a leaflet giving a list of common investment funds . |
| 10 | I have to tell them that the only way we can meet our targets is an absolute freeze . |
| 11 | Alastair Croall , Earlston club secretary , said last night the SRU had informed them that the only appeal was to the union 's annual general meeting in June . |
| 12 | Alastair Croall , Earlston club secretary , said last night the SRU had informed them that the only appeal was to the union 's annual general meeting in June . |
| 13 | I told them that the grand piano was two feet too short and DeFries said , ‘ Cancel the gig — no gig . ’ |
| 14 | I had a sudden pang of conscience that I really ought to tell them that the funny-looking herb on the left of their kitchen garden was not really an obscure form of ivy and on no account must they attempt to smoke its leaves . |
| 15 | Next it is necessary for the agent to attend before the Examiners in parliament to satisfy them that the General Orders have been complied with , and this constitutes a heavy responsibility because the effect of non-compliance can be serious . |
| 16 | Prefaced by an ‘ urgent remonstrance ’ to the gentlemen of England , warning them that the young Queen Victoria 's announcement of her intention to marry Prince Albert may lead to great numbers of her female subjects taking a similar nuptial initiative owing to Leap Year of 1840 ( traditionally a woman could make a proposal of marriage only in a leap year ) . |
| 17 | He told them that the educational psychologist was very good and really knew the children . |
| 18 | The following Spring , a still shaken Khrushchev called a group of writers to his dacha outside Moscow and told them that the Hungarian rising could have been avoided if a few writers had been shot in time . |
| 19 | Arnulf wrote a letter to the English bishops shortly before their meeting , telling them that the French king , the French bishops , and Henry himself were all agreed to support Alexander and that they were only postponing their announcement until the English bishops could vote to join them . |
| 20 | it took some time before it was explained to them that the French pronunciation of GPT sounded just like ‘ J'ai pété ’ which , as all you Europhiles no doubt know , means ‘ I have broken wind . ’ |
| 21 | Late one afternoon Rioja had rushed in to tell them that the whole camp was being evacuated across the border and they must flee before the men who were coming to shoot them reached the hut . |
| 22 | I explain to them that the local garage which supplied us with petrol has closed and we therefore no longer have an account . |
| 23 | It seemed incongruous to them that the sweet teenager they knew was not only surviving life in the toughest of all trades . |
| 24 | ‘ It did not occur to them that the wrong drug had been introduced not by accident but deliberately . |
| 25 | It is therefore of utmost importance for a plaintiff to provide sufficient evidence of the above matters to the court to satisfy them that an actionable nuisance does in fact exist . |
| 26 | The second prejudice against dissection was held by religious people who took in a literal sense the resurrection of the body , and had an emotional commitment to this doctrine , even if intellect told them that an incomplete body could be no bar to the miracle of rising from the grave with the sounding of the last trump . |