Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] that they " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realised that men in politics had dominated world attitudes for long enough and although they claimed to be experts on everything , my experience showed that they understood very little . |
| 2 | but I have been led in my experience to believe that they possess a natural intelligence and character which if properly guided and consistently handled should lead them to play a useful part in the synthesis of tribal life in Kenya … as a factor for stability in political development … |
| 3 | My suspicion remains that they still want to close Rosyth . ’ |
| 4 | At gym lessons I needed to organise my changing routine so that I could take off my outdoor shoes , slip my feet immediately into my gym shoes and , even before I tied my gym-shoe laces , put my outdoor shoes into my satchel hoping that they would stay there throughout the lesson . |
| 5 | When my Cid saw that they who eat his bread were returned , he went down from the tower , and received them right well , and praised them for what they had done like good knights : howbeit he was full sorrowful for Alvar Salvadores that he should be in the hands of the Moors , but he trusted in God that he should deliver him on the morrow . |
| 6 | He knew that their karma dictated that they would be together in various incarnations . |
| 7 | She wished to bring an action against her employers alleging that they had been negligent in failing adequately to protect her against the known risk of injury from this pupil . |
| 8 | Its defenders say that they will always keep its price high and carefully screen potential owners , as a way of protecting it . |
| 9 | Competition for employees will increase and clearly many major industries are preparing their plans to ensure that they remain competitive . |
| 10 | Checking their activities to see that they were confining themselves to local products , and were not turning to smuggling was very difficult until improvements in transport and in the structure of government meant that the vast majority of imports paid duty . |
| 11 | His abduction had been a blow to their attempts to show that they were bringing Lebanon to order . |
| 12 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 13 | The Evangelists use the miracles to say who Jesus is but the way they arrange their accounts shows that they are also interested in the authority of Jesus , the salvation offered by Jesus and Jesus ' conquest of evil . |
| 14 | In general , the measures were to attempt to create an environment for cycling which was safe , direct , comfortable and in which cyclists felt that they were being encouraged and provided for . |
| 15 | They were therefore under the most powerful compulsion to adapt their ideas and tailor their programmes to ensure that they had mass appeal . |
| 16 | Kylie and sister Danielle would have their fans believe that they could n't be closer and that any hint of rivalry is all in the imagination of the press . |
| 17 | For the purposes of Clause ( 4 ) of the Agreement , in the event of glass ) being broken or fuel pumps damaged as a result of a collision or an attempt to avoid a collision between two or more vehicles , the intention is that the Immobile Property Insurer shall only recover in total 75% of their loss provided that they have signed this Agreement with the Insurers of the vehicles concerned . |
| 18 | The very nature of their distress means that they are likely to be unable to go out and face the social whirl , at least initially . |
| 19 | The Lords did not in their speeches think that they were undermining the authority of Lawrence . |
| 20 | Handing out certificates recently at my adult education college in Wandsworth , I was enormously impressed by the number of special needs students who received one , who never in their lives thought that they would qualify for a certificate . |
| 21 | Religious ideologies also might prepare their adherents to believe that they are the élite chosen to be saved . |
| 22 | Where the market is allocated on the basis of tenders , more intricate measures may be needed to ensure that the contracts are shared out , including perhaps ‘ allocation ’ of each contract to a particular firm and agreement on how the other firms will rig their bids to ensure that they are not awarded the contract ‘ by mistake ’ . |
| 23 | A group of young teenage girls once admitted to me that although they frequently complained because their parents insisted that they should be home by a certain time , they recognized that the deadline gave them a useful excuse for not getting out of their depth . |
| 24 | In these ways , they force their parents to recognise that they are no longer a mere extension of them or the family , but independent human beings with views and ambitions of their own . |
| 25 | She wanted their parents to know that they had had an accident , were safely aboard a Royal Navy ship and would be home soon . ’ |
| 26 | The Greek experience therefore raises the question whether an active , participatory democracy requires this sense of communal identity , or a collective or general interest in which individuals feel that they share , before it can function effectively . |
| 27 | Our figures suggest that many of the subjects were neither what their proponents claimed , nor what their nature demanded that they should be . |
| 28 | Will he note that it is rare for a mosque to be locked and that people of the Islamic faith remain in their mosques to ensure that they are not vandalised . |
| 29 | the social position of the fishermen and their families means that they are scared to speak out , scared to get together with other people to talk about the problems , and they think there is nothing they can do about it . |
| 30 | ILBs will therefore have ‘ ownership ’ of the SVQs for their own sectors , and SCOTVEC will work in partnership with industry in their development to ensure that they have flexibility , coherence and relevance . |