Example sentences of "[noun] that they [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , and to allow them to take that sort of action that they feel allows them , or enables them to express what they 're feelings are , but to assume that they can take the sort of action that we as adults have not been able to take , i.e. to find different ways and more mature ways of resolving conflicts is putting expectations on children that we as adults have n't been able to achieve ourselves .
2 The ministers who like the House either do so because , in their opposition days , they enjoyed its fellowship and had few other contacts in London , or they feel so confident of their capacity to score off the Opposition that they like revealing their talents .
3 We 're already so far ahead of our expected ratings that they keep suggesting we move it to an earlier time , but I wo n't let them .
4 It was in 1863 at the farmhouse at Camerone in Mexico that they had fought their most spectacular action .
5 At the moment there 's no indication that they 've done anything , it 's almost as though that particular prescription was .
6 In the same article , art historian Mina Gregori said of Antelami 's ‘ Months ’ at Parma that they had lost their Romanesque contours and were now quite indistinguishable ; later she wrote that : ‘ Antelami 's ‘ Months ’ are now ruined : unsightly puppets robbed of their Romanesque contours ’ .
7 For students — young people and adults alike — it will mean more opportunities to gain new skills , obtain qualifications and develop fully the roles that they need to fulfil themselves at work and as citizens .
8 They reassured Pamela that they did trust her , but added that they hoped she would feel more able to be open with them about her social life .
9 ‘ I 'm semi-female now , and women 've always had the excuse that they like to change their minds .
10 It also alters the definition of what amounts to distribution , so that members of racist organisations can no longer shelter behind the plea that they intended to circulate their seditious material amongst their own number .
11 Debtors who showed the courts that they had made their best efforts to pay , and also showed they were not fraudulent or reckless in incurring debt could be given relief from liabilities after three years .
12 But now others think they have got you and they will find out this afternoon that they have caught you speaking the truth .
13 I respect the fact the Hunt are here , er I respect the fact the literature that they 've sent us , from all sides of the fence , from the League Against Cruel Sports , the hunting fraternity , it 's been very helpful .
14 It was n't until a physiotherapist found a vertical tear in the hamstring that they had to admit I was injured and that there was nothing wrong with my motivation .
15 I 've almost given up on the London Borough of Bromley because the land , the areas that they 've offered us have been quite impractical and although we 've got , you know , croquet is a cheap sport .
16 Shell bosses were so impressed with his skill that they offered to supply his lubricants and clothing for five years .
17 It is , rather , that the errors that they make permeate their philosophy of mathematics , their account of its foundations , of what their subject is about , and in what direction it should develop .
18 They 'll be exclamations and things they 're just exclamations that they 've heard I think on television .
19 However in all fairness to the Halling unit a number of those older men who fought in the first war wore medals for gallantry , and were to show us youngsters that they had lost none of their skills with a rifle .
20 Harry swore Sam to secrecy , and the two young fishermen told their crews that they had found nothing but an empty boat .
21 But Mr and Mrs Wormwood were both so gormless and so wrapped up in their own silly little lives that they failed to notice anything unusual about their daughter .
22 The newly-established Ecological Left/Alternative List is to be led by Jutta Ditfurth , who denounced the mainstream Greens on the basis that they had rejected their ecological and socialist origins .
23 They were so fed up with people asking to use the phone to report an accident that they decided to do something about it .
24 The judge , a Jockey Club member , told a news conference that they had reached their conclusion after studying hours of video tape of the race .
25 - British Rail issue a new timetable and you have a nasty suspicion that they have juggled it around so that they have deleted a few trains and cut out that convenient late night one , and you look for your old timetable to check but it has gone with the wind .
26 ( I have been told many times by participants in such workshops that they have felt it necessary to conceal from their colleagues where they were going ! )
27 Northampton have been so suitably impressed by Ross 's abilities that they have offered him the coaching job for the next two seasons , a post that he has accepted .
28 It has a weird effect , so bad one day that they had to give me valium to take off my bandages because I could n't handle it any more .
29 There is a danger that some schools may be so busy fishing for pupils in other people 's ponds that they forget to guard their own .
30 And then I went and showed her all forms , all these form things that they 've got I were letting her read it .
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