Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [that] they [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 Do you feel that you 're giving the parents the kind of support that they require ?
2 Erm any bit of hope that they 've got erm i is going to be gradually eroded as far as I can see .
3 Both of hope that they include ideas to inspire and encourage those with even the smallest of gardens to create their own interesting , colourful features . ’
4 The first satisfaction of indeterminist claims , including those , like the present one , which are not within but are antecedent to the traditional area of dispute about Free Will , is of course that they leave , or promise to leave , room for a reassuring or enhancing view of ourselves and our situation .
5 Part of the answer is of course that they have little choice if , for example , the firm is made bankrupt .
6 When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils .
7 All report a passionate directness of response that they attribute to the setting and the pathology of the patients , but which probably has as much to do with social class .
8 He went on : ‘ When you lose £21 million like this , it 's a very serious matter because it 's a very large part of the amount of money that they handle .
9 The amount of money that they give back to this community , I would like to see it supported
10 The revival of small-scale farmhouses cheeses and the subsequent interest in these individual products has been brought about partly by the farmers ' need to cut the amount of milk that they send to the Milk Marketing Board and partly by the public 's demand for ‘ real ’ cheeses with traditional texture and flavour .
11 Tigers also contact each other by means of roaring , a form of vocalization that they share with other members of the genus Panthera , namely lions and to a lesser extent leopards .
12 But it is in their generalized role as the preventers and headers-off of criminality that they give the greatest value to schools as well as to young people and their families .
13 Critics argue that because of the control of information officials are in a position to slant their recommendations to one course of action that they prefer rather than one they do not prefer .
14 Indeed , and to allow them to take that sort of action that they feel allows them , or enables them to express what they 're feelings are , but to assume that they can take the sort of action that we as adults have not been able to take , i.e. to find different ways and more mature ways of resolving conflicts is putting expectations on children that we as adults have n't been able to achieve ourselves .
15 The peace of mind that they produce however is won not without some costs .
16 ‘ In the light of these realities , is it really reasonable to expect the police to apply to the Irish population in this country the presumption of innocence that they apply to other citizens ?
17 Some widows become so restless and panic-stricken in the early months of bereavement that they fear they may be going mad , and you may find yourself having to give your parent strong reassurance on this point , to help her to deal with this common anxiety .
18 In either case the process occurs in order to ensure that the zooxanthellae receive precisely the amount of light that they require , no more , no less .
19 For example , the perceived colours of objects are only loosely related to the wavelengths of light that they reflect into our eyes .
20 Well that 's that is I think everyone who 's ever worked on computers , editing or word processors , has been very fascinated by the change of attitude that they 've had , that somehow it is n't finished .
21 Well that is I think everyone who 's ever worked on computers , editing or word processing , has been very fascinated by the change of attitude that they 've had , that somehow it is n't finished , it 's never finished .
22 Good designers are forced to get their stuff made in other countries simply because they ca n't get the quality of manufacture that they want here . ’
23 The strain of living up to the lofty concept of marriage that they have invented is tiring , at times , and she is a busy woman .
24 But existing evidence about the kinds of work that they do , their earnings and conditions of work , the alternatives available to them , and their level of satisfaction is conflicting and limited .
25 Do you think we perhaps put kids off an interest in science by our sort of insistence that they have to have a solid understanding of Newton 's laws and all sorts of principles , and we lose the magic too early ?
26 Do you think we perhaps put kids off an interest in science by our sort of insistence that they have to have a solid understanding of Newton 's laws and all sorts of principles , and we lose the magic too early ?
27 Homes are generally colder than in the West , and student dormitories unheated : people habitually wear so many layers of clothing that they look almost round .
28 Their main concern is in divulging the sorts of fuel that they use to generate power .
29 Erm we do n't see a great deal of difference that they 've had the same problem as we 've had , in that we ran out of time before we could put the er finished act together properly .
30 It 's er a kind of foam that they use for insulation .
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