Example sentences of "that [vb past] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they acquired their homes , they persuaded the council to section off some land at the back , and that became their secret garden . |
| 2 | Both had skinhead haircuts and both wore identical grey tracksuits that hugged their large beer bellies . |
| 3 | The two Chelonians he had seen earlier were strapped into padded harnesses that suspended their front set of limbs conveniently over the main instrument panel . |
| 4 | He smiled , watching the smooth , impenetrable diplomatic faces that maintained their benign reasonableness even for him . |
| 5 | In the population census for 1991 nearly one in seven of Bassetlaw 's residents said that they had long term illnesses , health problems , or handicaps that limited their daily activities or work . |
| 6 | The explosion blew out the windows and door , and shattered the banks of units , sucking up a whirling storm of glass and wires that whiplashed their arm-covered heads . |
| 7 | Curiously he comes out as another kind of social engineer who tries to show people that granted their fundamental motives ( to obtain a range of pleasures and avoid a range of pains ) they will do best to act rightly ( in terms of the general happiness ) . |
| 8 | The politicization of issues and even of policy-making structures remained considerable : one reason for uniting the postal and telegraph administrations in 1878 was to swamp the allegedly Bonapartist ‘ telegraphist ’ personnel ( 3000 employees ) among the 27,000 postal employees ; often of humble social origins , the latter contained ardent supporters of a republic that assured their social advancement . |
| 9 | Today 's Stagisti , guided by the mechanical tragedies that befell their hapless predecessors , know that preventive maintenance is the key to dependability . |
| 10 | Europe and Japan were dismayed and angered last month by comments from the US government that ignored their significant roles in the programme ( Japan is contributing a similar module ) . |
| 11 | Taking Pen into her own house , Wilson set off , hurrying through streets that told their own tale . |
| 12 | Their pupils were covered with red mud from slips and falls , but the teachers were unmarked except for ochre spatters that streaked their mailed tunics |
| 13 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 14 | In the years that followed their initial observation , Bliss in London , Andersen in Oslo and an increasing number of labs began to investigate in immense detail the neurophysiology of LTP . |
| 15 | I 'm really surprised that you expect something logical from an outfit that released their second album well in the wake of their third . |
| 16 | At just over six foot , with thick curling brown hair and eyes that owed their startling blueness to his Irish ancestry , Tom was used to being the object of female appreciation whilst being slightly puzzled by it . |
| 17 | The Beatles began in the showbiz style of a previous generation — homosexual manager , ‘ variety ’ type packaging , ‘ romantic ’ lyrics — but quickly expressed a fresh sexuality that supplemented their huge class impact : ‘ neither boys-together aggression nor boy-next-door pathos , ’ they challenged pop 's previous masculine division between Stud and passive Boy Slave . |
| 18 | Here they were played with affection and an aware responsiveness to Janacek 's uniquely personal musical language that created , in the later works of the group particularly , an intensity that belied their relative brevity . |
| 19 | Specialized ornithischians in the late Cretaceous were the remarkable duck-billed dinosaurs , animals that lost their front teeth and had arrays of tiny grinding teeth at the back of the jaw that were continually replaced , like those of the shark , and must have been able to cope with tough vegetation . |
| 20 | I tell you what if we had every company that sent their two parcels a week , if we carried them all we 'd be doing well would n't we ? |
| 21 | Whilst water stress periods depressed production of wheat grown under normal carbon dioxide levels , wheat grown under 1000 ppm of carbon dioxide produced as much as unstressed plants grown at the current atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide , and remained turgid at moisture levels that wilted their unexposed counterparts . |
| 22 | The Galileans ' decision to defend the first was motivated by the perceptual experiences that accompanied their telescopic sightings of Jupiter , and Kepler 's decision to record the second was likewise based on his perceptual experiences when directing a telescope towards Mars . |
| 23 | Five years ago companies that bought their personal computers sight unseen through the mail were few and far between . |
| 24 | Except that it was only the wealthy that did their two years . |
| 25 | The thunderflash exploded with a stunning ferocity that shattered their jagged nerves and twisted their sagging faces with terror . |
| 26 | There has also been significant criticism of companies that have entered into transactions that were unsuitable for their needs and that increased their financial risk . |
| 27 | The expanding role of general practitioners , along with the 1990 contract , the establishment of family health services authorities , and the introduction of medical audit have increased accountability , but general practitioners have been demotivated by the imposition of a contract that increased their administrative burden without clear evidence of clinical benefit . |
| 28 | What happened in Middlesex eventually happened all over England , and as Midland bricks and Welsh slates — and later more unspeakable materials like asbestos and corrugated iron — flooded into every corner of provincial England , the ancient local materials that fitted their own regions so well , for they came out of their very soil , disappeared one by one . |
| 29 | These were songs that laced their natural exuberance with a strain of English satire that was remarkable because it seemed so unaffected . |
| 30 | Darwinian evolutionism is an example of a theory that was adopted by middle-class thinkers because it portrayed Nature in terms that paralleled their preferred framework of society . |