Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [be] [that] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | When women are told , ‘ Just do your breathing and do n't let those doctors interfere with you ’ , my experience is that they are very bitter when their labours do n't turn out the way the NCT has predicted . ’ |
| 2 | To the extent that Europeans know of this Oxbridge dominance , my experience is that they regard it with some satisfaction ( they have generally heard of Oxford and Cambridge ) , but that their satisfaction changes to complacency when they reflect upon what they believe to be the uniquely class-ridden structure of English society . |
| 3 | My authority is that they are recognised and utilised by informal and formal agencies such as parents , schools , governments and criminal justice systems as ‘ sources ’ of control . |
| 4 | The one thing I do ask all my patients is that they try not to question whether or not the regression is real during the course of the session itself . |
| 5 | They are yet to be involved in the testing process : ‘ My real concern for my children is that they have n't gone through the tests for 14-year-olds yet , ’ he says . |
| 6 | My guess is that they might not . |
| 7 | My guess is that they were from some cabaret or other . |
| 8 | My guess is that they meant to come back , only with so much police activity they did n't like to risk it . ’ |
| 9 | My guess was that they would find their way into the press and would undermine our efforts to settle the health dispute . |
| 10 | My hunch is that they 're local . |
| 11 | My view is that they would not . ’ |
| 12 | Their excuse was that they feared the influence of those Catholic lords who , pretending to be the king 's loyal advisers , were in fact anxious to restore his mother to the throne . |
| 13 | The highest praise for its plans is that they are , in some areas , less bad than they might have been . |
| 14 | The reason for their notoriety is that they are complicated by a number of factors others than real changes in the levels of crime . |
| 15 | If they had been advised as to the necessity for clear offers in writing with terms set out from the bank , their case is that they would have taken that advice , they would have waited for the bank offer and if and when it had not been suitable for them they would not have exchanged and their case is also that er once things had gone er very badly wrong and they wanted to get out of the contract if they had been advised as to the way out er then er they would have been er of that , they would have served notice and they would have got out of the contract . |
| 16 | Their case is that they were effectively forced to er complete unwillingly without the or the finance to make a go of the business and they suffered the losses which are claimed er set out in heading form initially on page sixty two of the pleadings bundle in further and better particulars . |
| 17 | Their strengths are that they will have drive and self-confidence , and the weaknesses , they 're intolerant towards vague ideas and people . |
| 18 | Their strengths are that they have a critical thinking ability . |
| 19 | Their strengths are that they have a critical thinking ability and they can be objective . |
| 20 | One strange thing about her books is that they nearly all tend to be set a little bit back in the past , so that the position of the women that she is describing and the society in which she is describing them is n't quite what 's actually going on a the time she 's writing . |
| 21 | If they stood apart from their era , assuming human nature can ever do this , their fear was that they would have faded away as irrelevant oddities ; if on the other hand they became fully part of their century their fear was that they would not be giving an alternate witness , another voice . |
| 22 | If they stood apart from their era , assuming human nature can ever do this , their fear was that they would have faded away as irrelevant oddities ; if on the other hand they became fully part of their century their fear was that they would not be giving an alternate witness , another voice . |
| 23 | The agreed version of their origins is that they were lepers or the descendants of lepers , whom no local community would accept as neighbours . |
| 24 | The reason for their inclusion is that they are seen as influencing ( or being indicative of ) the responsibility of offenders for their actions . |
| 25 | Their charm is that they are all so different in character — and each Take That fan has their favourite . |
| 26 | One of their advantages is that they are an early potato which comes to maturity in autumn . |
| 27 | Their punishment was that they were to walk bare foot behind the procession on the following Sunday , but instead of one taper they had to carry four tapers ( value 2d ) and there they should offer two at the High Altar , and two at the Altar of St. John . |
| 28 | I think erm my two , or perhaps three , favourite novelists for today would be William Golding , Graham Greene and Iris Murdoch , and it seems to me that at least part of their importance is that they are really concerned with moral themes , as George Eliot was , even though , like George Eliot , they are shy about forcing a particular moral down the throat of a reader . |
| 29 | Perhaps the furthest idea from their hearts was that they were going to be attacked . ’ |
| 30 | An argument for the co-evolution of dispersers and their trees is that they , in contrast , avoid the seeds , though in the past such seeds may have been in some way indigestible , promoting the relationship of today . |