Example sentences of "that their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheriffs served writs on the Royal and Ancient and the United States Golf Association and the two letter-writers say that if they are resolved of nothing else in life it is that , even if persuaded that their lavish handicaps would be significantly reduced by using Ping Eye2 clubs , they would never buy a set or play with anyone who has . |
| 2 | They also believe that their poor accomodation may have been a factor in loosing the baby . |
| 3 | The bishop and his clergy formed a visible manifestation of the continuity of the community in consequence of the fact that their due succession was treated with care . |
| 4 | Without patronage , however , political interests withered in time , for the needs of the voters would drive them to look for aid elsewhere if there did not seem a reasonable probability that their present connections might recover their lost influence in London . |
| 5 | Neither referred to their parents or seemed to realise that their present life was coming to an end — Victoria too young , Jonathon too preoccupied . |
| 6 | Also , workers may be reluctant to retrain until they are convinced that their present skills are not sufficient to enable them to find work . |
| 7 | We can see that their present distribution upon the globe is the result of all the more recent changes the earth 's surface has undergone ; and by a careful study of the phenomena we are sometimes able to deduce approximately what those past changes must have been , in order to produce the distribution we find to exist . |
| 8 | Shift workers and international travellers take several days for their systems to readjust , with the consequence that their low temperature when awake results in poor mental performance and a feeling of disorientation . |
| 9 | Even within state bodies , the development of internal markets , as in the National Health Service , means that their various sections seek to sell services to each other . |
| 10 | Most often known to us as witch doctors or medicine men , it has now been realised that their accumulated knowledge and experience of which natural substances work in the rapid healing of wounds , or alleviation of pain , is a major resource which modern science can use to good effect in producing ‘ new ’ drugs . |
| 11 | The hon. Gentleman should know that advertising money is being spent and electoral registration officers are working hard to ensure that their electoral registers are up to date and accurate . |
| 12 | WACC 's Women 's Programme encourages full and equal participation of women in public communication so that their distinctive insights into , and experiences of , life become part of the public agenda while , at the same time , the oppressive mechanisms of male domination are removed . |
| 13 | By the 1940's it was becoming more usual to conclude rather that their distinctive role was quite other than that of saying anything factual at all . |
| 14 | Tom McClenaghan , the council 's director of administration , reveals in a report that owners will be charged an initial £12 for the security of knowing that their furry friends can no longer go as they please . |
| 15 | Moreover , the success of these pre-Hispanic cultures implies that their food-producing systems were effective . |
| 16 | But the migratory instinct and the geographical pattern seems so deeply etched into their inward mental fabric that their pre-programmed habit rules the day . |
| 17 | That their slowhand groove hypnosis and generous sing-song commerciality made mincemeat of the Happy Mondays at Brixton a fortnight ago is easy to fathom tonight . |
| 18 | Ultraviolet light has long been accepted as a provocative factor for herpes of the face and lips and many people find that their annual attack coincides with their visit to Majorca or trip to the ski slopes . |
| 19 | That is probably the worst one day figure which happened , as I say , combination of war and the snow , when the shops were pretty well closed off , and yes we certainly saw figures that , on a day for day basis to last year , they were seventy five per cent down , but cumulative I mean the position 's much better than that erm nowhere near that sort of figure , and erm we are very confident that the summer market for overseas holidays will recover steadily and we 'd be very surprised if , by the end of September , we 're more than five or six per cent down on summer holiday bookings compared to last year , and we 're confident enough to have brought back our campaigns and our advertising starts this week , and we 've even been confident enough to announce to our staff that their annual salary review will take place on the first of April as scheduled . |
| 20 | Far from flinging him out , you would rather discuss what has gone wrong and try to put it right ( apart from women in the North , who feel more strongly that their errant man should be shown the door ) . |
| 21 | ‘ Always assuming , Colonel , that their prospective target was in the hotel . |
| 22 | Firth , Hubert and Forge report that their middle-class respondents almost always named grandchildren as well as children as being part of their close family . |
| 23 | Their main danger is that their entire home will become drenched and waterlogged . |
| 24 | A world famous fashion house recently found that their entire production of a line of woollen garments were infested with the larvae of the clothes moth , just before they were due to be sent to the retail outlets . |
| 25 | The correspondents expressed deep gratitude to Hannah — they were so inspired by her sublimely tranquil and uncomplaining acceptance of the kind of material deprivation considered unacceptable by modern society , so moved by her angelic demeanour and indomitable spirit , that they had been obliged to consider their own situation and concluded that their individual complaints about life were so paltry by comparison that their entire perspective had been changed . |
| 26 | It seems clear that what has happened here is that Johnson has forgotten about the problem of finding ways of making meaning plain and has shifted to a different lexicographical problem , namely how to provide an exhaustive definition of words so that their entire meaning is made explicit . |
| 27 | One can only hope that since these are resources being created by scholars who are interested in the dissemination and preservation of scholarship that their broad distribution and usage will enhance the likelihood of their preservation . |
| 28 | There are only so many different varieties of coat colour for moggies , and if the family cat was a tabby , or a black cat with a white flash on its chest , then the owners are not to be blamed for thinking that their long-lost friend has finally found its way home . |
| 29 | Before 1948 , the provision of hospitals was the responsibility of various statutory and voluntary bodies , with the result that their geographical distribution reflected a variety of factors other than need . |
| 30 | But people in this group , often unemployed or single parents on low incomes , had not even been trying to get most forms of credit because of their own feeling that their personal circumstances would rule them out as applicants . |