Example sentences of "' [noun pl] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He graduated from Valdese High School , studied chemistry at Wake-Forest University in North Carolina and then had to face a hard choice between his parents ' wishes that he return to work in the family businesses and his own strong interest in chemistry . |
| 2 | So it is to the consequences of structural change for the economics of global competition and the adjustments of firms ' strategies that we now turn . |
| 3 | Many would-be claimants are so afraid of going into solicitors ' offices that they try the local Citizens ' Advice Bureau ( CAB ) first . |
| 4 | William Waldegrave , the health secretary , rejected nurses ' demands that he delay the government 's NHS reforms because patients ( they said ) are suffering . |
| 5 | Erm but some of these childrens ' addresses that we 've had at St Paul 's they are very interesting and you get something out of them . |
| 6 | The homeworkers ' expectations that they would receive work regularly , and their effective inability to refuse consignments of work , meant that their situation was similar to that of the regular casuals in the " O'Kelly case " . |
| 7 | It was in the course of researching our customers ' needs that we discovered how surprisingly few families have adequate life insurance . |
| 8 | And Hayling had told him to tone down the politics to smooth away advertisers ' fears that it was going to be a Commie rag . |
| 9 | According to the Arable Research Centres ' Justin Smith , some growers in Bedfordshire have been so disappointed with the insect pollinators ' efforts that they have ploughed up their crops to put in linseed or leave fields fallow . |
| 10 | He pays tribute to his treatment at Gartree prison , he apologises to the bomb victims ' families that they have had to keep reminding them of their loss : ‘ But we had to fight for our freedom . ’ |
| 11 | And in the years after the end of the 1939–45 war there was such a spate of generals ' diaries that it at times seemed difficult to understand how these men had time for the job in hand , so busy were they with their diaries . |
| 12 | Xorandor is capable of wordplay , he even puns on Shakespeare : ‘ softwarily we are observed ’ ( 179 ) , and he gives a reply to one of the twins ' questions that they later discover to have been ‘ syntactically clear but contextually ambiguous ’ ( 183–4 ) . |
| 13 | The participant orientation finds expression in citizens ' beliefs that they can influence government at both the national and local level . |
| 14 | He pushed for the formation of the government-funded Teesside Development Corporation and pours cold water on critics ' suggestions that he has failed the region over the relocation of the Ministry of Defence quality assurance unit . |
| 15 | Expert clauses very commonly provide that the decision will be final and binding , and it is clearly in the parties ' interests that it should be so . |
| 16 | It 's for this reason that many of the shop stewards ' conferences that we 've convened in the last year have been pressing a policy of consolidating bonus pay into the basic rates and we 've achieved some small success in this in building brick and in one or two other industries . |
| 17 | The compounds ' responses to magnetic fields and pressure have boosted scientists ' hopes that they will form the basis of practical superconducting . |