Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] that [modal v] [verb] they " in BNC.

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1 Concentrations of PCBs in whales and dolphins have been found to be between five and 20 times the level that would classify them as toxic waste in the US .
2 FED UP with being Beatles copyists , the Stones invented the riff that would sustain them forever , flipped the finger to the authorities that wanted them jailed , punched hippies in the throat and threw the blues into a seething vat of hydrochloric sex acid .
3 In a historic test case his parents Allan and Barbara , along with Airedale Regional Health Authority , are seeking a change in the law that would allow them to disconnect the feeding tube and let Tony die .
4 The first of these , initially expressed in the letter from Lord Selborne , Minister for Economic Warfare , to the Foreign Secretary , Anthony Eden , on 21 July 1944 , after the Cabinet decision on 17 July 1944 to hand back captured Russians if Soviet authorities requested [ KP 1 ] was the fear of many Russians of the fate that would await them on their return to the Soviet Union [ KP 2 ] .
5 Small drawers , their lists of contents framed in brass on the front , stretched from floor to ceiling ; nails in any length ; screws ditto , tacks , washers , hinges , brackets ; all stacked and still , awaiting the request that would release them from their unemployment .
6 Now the veil of ignorance deprives the persons in the original position of the knowledge that would enable them to choose heteronomous principles .
7 They were standing on the jetty with a score of chattering women , waiting for the launch that would take them to the depot ship Omega .
8 It is eluding them , Lee thought , like the swinging end of a bell-rope that has to be grasped before it will ring the bell that will awaken them .
9 The method of advertising used will depend largely on the ‘ advertising or marketing budget ’ , but the product can be advertised using several different types of media and the hotel or hotel group will select the method that will give them the best coverage within their financial means .
10 And then the woman that would lend them money 'd say , well you 're not having any more , so you 'd got to try and find somebody else who 'd lend you money .
11 The evangelist who tells us three times that Jesus contracted his perspective to concentrate on Jerusalem and that at Jerusalem the disciples had to await the coming of the Spirit that would equip them for mission , ends his second volume with a triple reminder that this good news , beginning from Jerusalem ( Luke 24:47 ) reaches Rome ( 19:21 ; 23:11 ; 27:24 ) .
12 They could n't have been so very far behind them — in fact they should have passed them unless — unless Silas had decided to turn along the road that would take them to the bush walk .
13 There are no provisions in the treaty that would exclude them from taking part in it .
14 And Leicester to get the win that will keep them right up amongst the leading clubs .
15 Were they just words he was reading , or did he realize that three aircraft meant twenty-one crew , and countless women waiting anxiously for the phone call that would tell them their man was safe — or the letter that would tell them he was not ?
16 The centres aim to bring the best energy-saving technology into everyday use , by equipping planners , engineers and consumers with the information they need to choose the technology that will suit them best .
17 They had to plan a route that would take them over 50 kilometres in a three day period .
18 Fifty had continued upriver , on a course that would take them to Perth and to Scone opposite .
19 Vocatives in general are an interesting grammatical category , again underexplored , Vocatives are noun phrases that refer to the addressee , but are not syntactically or semantically incorporated as the arguments of a predicate ; they are rather set apart prosodically from the body , of a sentence that may accompany them .
20 Thus his/her students will probably receive from him/her no feedback of a kind that might help them learn from his/her response to their work .
21 The monks and nuns , virtually pensioned-off gentry , could see little future except death in resisting the royal will and threw in their lot with a change that would guarantee them reasonable security .
22 They 'll go to any lengths to reinstate a dictatorship that will protect them , just as my father 's regime did for forty-five years .
23 Since meeting at a Roy Ayres gig at Ronnie Scotts , hard blowing jazzer Matt Wienevski and rapper/DJ D-Zine have developed a partnership that will see them hailed as the Phil Spectors of London funk .
24 Bernes , who has since resigned , denies the allegations and made a counter-claim that Valenciennes trainer Boro Primorac had approached Marseille to secure a result that would help them avoid relegation .
25 When looking for a stretch that may contain them I 'm after variety in depth and flow , lots of lovely gravel and plenty of watercrowfoot for shelter .
26 ‘ With a cataract that will flood them ? ’ said Loppe .
27 The urge to return to the sea is now so great that they will wriggle out of a pond and cross dew-drenched meadows if that is necessary to reach a stream that will lead them to salt water .
28 Tamayo said he would , but only if Remba could invent a process that would allow them to have a relief-like dimensionality .
29 The bars representing the jobs are rearranged in order so that they do not overlap each other when the logic is represented by vertical lines connecting job starts with the finish of a job that must precede them .
30 The bars representing the jobs are rearranged in order so that they do not overlap each other when the logic is represented by vertical lines connecting job starts with the finish of a job that must precede them .
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