Example sentences of "that they [verb] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wear these muzzles from time to time so that they become accustomed to the restrictions imposed upon them . |
| 2 | Some travellers maintain that they get used to jet-lag but others find that the problem becomes worse . |
| 3 | Croatia 's acceptance follows on from the recent announcement that the Baltic states of Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania has been reinstated to their former status as full members , a status that they enjoyed prior to the outbreak of the second world war . |
| 4 | In a backyard shack in a Dallas suburb , and outside of normal working hours , he was turning out custom-built metal detectors that were of such advanced design for their day , that they wee superior to many of the commercially available machines of the time . |
| 5 | Or it might suggest that the religious symbols , by which men and women have conferred meaning on their lives , meet such pressing psychological needs that they remain impervious to scientific frames of meaning , which , in the last analysis , only dictate how things are and how they came to be so , without pretending to answer the why and the wherefore . |
| 6 | Despite the publicity on transmission of the disease , ignorance was such that they became afraid to even visit me . |
| 7 | The most obvious comment to make on the new-style courses , though , is that they look set to be a great success , if candidate uptake is an indicator . |
| 8 | Coaching also means insisting at housegroup level that if someone makes a commitment to the group and does n't live up to it that they say Sorry to the group about it . |