Example sentences of "that [pers pn] be [vb pp] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | She saw how the dark room had filled with transparent figures who marched along the walls singing and mocking , who wrapped themselves around her so that she was suffocated in their embrace , then turned to broken bricks and choking mortar dust which cascaded in torrents on to her , flattening her to the bed so that her limbs ached with pain and she could n't move . |
| 2 | It 's their way of telling us they 're in control , that we 're hooked on their line . ‘ |
| 3 | Employing one or several people to answer calls , so that they are screened for their relevance . |
| 4 | Their legal status is that they are controlled by their ‘ founders ’ , which are local enterprises and , in some cases , local communities of interest . |
| 5 | Kenny makes a similar point when arguing that we can talk of animal wants only to the extent that they are restricted to their conscious needs . |
| 6 | He takes as his starting-point the preconceptions of liberal legal and political theory , and suggests that they be pushed to their logical conclusion to fashion a programme for the reconstruction of the state and the rest of the large-scale institutional structure of society . |
| 7 | William of Jumiéges alleges that he treated the æthelings Edward and Alfred with honour , adopted them as brothers , and sent messengers to Cnut asking that they be restored to their own . |
| 8 | I have suggested that they were limited in their appeal because the changes they opposed were confined to doctrinal issues . |
| 9 | These parents may have been disturbed or overwrought , but this does not necessarily mean that they were mistaken about their child 's illness . |
| 10 | In a recent study by Willis and Nutter ( 1990 ) of 136 publicly funded utilities and municipalities in the UK 57 per cent stated that they were inhibited in their GIS developments by ‘ a lack of staff with the right expertise ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , the only conclusion is that they were lured to their deaths . |
| 12 | The sequel , in which the young bloods of Derby and Oaks night received their rebuff , was that they were distracted from their other responsibilities by a four-day jury hearing which found them guilty of riotous proceedings , but not of riotous intent . |
| 13 | At least the politicians who told the story can hardly have believed it , and it seems unlikely that people swallowed whole everything that they were told by their masters in antiquity , any more than they do now . |
| 14 | Mrs Coven is the ‘ outsize ’ adviser to Peter Robinson and she has borrowed the Derby Cup in order that it be displayed in their window . |
| 15 | In other words , general perceptions of bias ( or the lack of it ) were overlaid by a tendency for viewers to react against television news , alleging that it was biased towards their opponents . |