Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] that their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Londoners may agree with Labour that their city ‘ is losing the confidence of the people who live and work there ’ because of its dirt , noise , congestion and crime ; but they are probably not yet convinced that voting Labour will provide the remedy . |
| 2 | But it was only when Susato began to publish at Antwerp in 1543 that their songs appeared in quantity and it was Susato who really launched Crecquillon with a book of 36 chansons à 4 parties in 1543 , though he had published Crecquillon 's greatest hit , ‘ Ung gay bergier ’ , in a miscellaneous collection the year before . |
| 3 | Those who hoped , then , for a genuinely unitary system of examining may be disappointed ( though it is far from clear that their hopes were ever realistic ) . |
| 4 | With him went several members of the Beni-Gomez family , and it is from this that their hatred of Rodrigo dates . |
| 5 | When children go into the countryside and visit farms , they will see that the conditions are completely different from those that their fathers may have seen when they worked on farms during their holidays — that was one of the great traditions of United Kingdom cities . |
| 6 | Now a group of major , highly competitive retailers seek to persuade the world in general that their opposition to Sunday trading stems from a desire to preserve the small shops sector . |
| 7 | The arrangements set up by the two Houses differed widely , but they have had in common that their powers derive from the practical assistance given by the United Kingdom Government in the prompt provision of legislative proposals and other Community documents , and from the Government undertaking not to agree any proposal in the Council of Ministers until parliamentary scrutiny is complete . |
| 8 | Things do not look white in virtue of something analytically involved in their looking white , something which they have in common — as metals have in common that their oxides dissolved in water yield an alkaline solution — with other things that look white . |
| 9 | The excluders , since theirs is the prevailing view in our educational and other institutions , want to keep convincing the world at large that their choice as to who belongs is the only possible one . |
| 10 | There is often disagreement between spouses ; wives complain at best about lack of help and support from their husbands , at worst that their husbands make increased demands and take out their frustrations about the relative on their wives ; husbands complain that their wives are so |