Example sentences of "the [noun sg] that they may [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forgive me if I share them with you , in the hope that they may echo your own sentiments . |
| 2 | To the charge that Victorians sentimentalised the deaths of their children has been added the allegation that they may have inflicted psychological damage by bringing them prematurely into contact with death . |
| 3 | They not infrequently turn for some answers to the religion that they may have been introduced to in the past but have long since rejected . |
| 4 | It gives counsellees ‘ permission ’ to talk about difficult areas , and indicates that we are willing to listen to all the emotion that they may harbour , but which they felt no-one else wished to know about . |
| 5 | A second role of coins in the study of portraiture lies in the help that they may give in the identification of other portraits , particularly sculptures , since it is only very rarely that the latter 's accompanying inscriptions have survived to identify them . |
| 6 | The market position of women is related to the period that they may withdraw from the labour market to have children . |
| 7 | I say this with scorn , because the leader of the Labour party can no longer hold out to his people the prospect that they may change the law through this place . |
| 8 | Evil men may be reborn as sub-human animals , but virtuous men have at least the prospect that they may escape from the cycle of rebirths into the nirvana of final extinction . |
| 9 | Organisations have system boundaries in the sense that they may occupy a definite geographical area , although this is n't always the case . |
| 10 | There is nothing new in the idea of population cycles , or in the suggestion that they may influence the business cycle ( Losch 1937 ) . |
| 11 | We pray for the leaders of the government throughout the world that they may have a desire and be unselfish . |
| 12 | As generations followed the pattern of the maze , the earth energies may have illumined their forms in just the way that they may have done with the cup-and-ring marks and the pilgrims ' tracks . |
| 13 | First , there is an inability to consider alternative ways in which the ‘ other side ’ may see the world , and especially the possibility that they may see ‘ us ’ as the aggressor . |
| 14 | The choice of Aquitaine is then linked variously to the ability of the people of that part of Gaul to pay , the possibility that they may have backed the wrong side in the recent usurpations against the emperor Honorius , and the threat from separatist groups north of the Loire , who were known as Bacaudae . |
| 15 | Similarly , all feelings should be considered valid , despite the fact that they may upset other group members . |
| 16 | It is the content of a project which gets children interested , quite naturally , not the fact that they may develop their reading skills . |
| 17 | This is due to the fact that they may attribute different weight to the various values , and also may apply the same criterion differently in the same concrete situation . |
| 18 | That 's a reality , and I do n't see why this office should not consider the fact that they may have to get involved in that . |