Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even after the passing of minimum-wage legislation in 1909 , as many as 42 per cent of the homeworkers in the trades covered by the Acts found that they could not earn the statutory minimum . |
| 2 | When bad times came and wages were below the level on which they could support their families , the labourers found that they had to ask the authorities of the parish in which they lived for relief ; in other words they became paupers , who could be sent to the workhouse . |
| 3 | Lloyd George might think that in beating Wilson over the space requirements of Asiatics in the debate over the Merchant Shipping Act in 1906 he was delivering the working classes from their unworthy prejudices against foreign seamen , but the seamen thought that they knew better . |
| 4 | He threw himself down on the bed with his head on my stomach , groaning , and between the groans saying that he would be a good husband in future , he honestly would , he adored me , he was very ashamed and only hoped I could forgive him . |
| 5 | Before applying for legal aid , the solicitors consider that it will be necessary to see the video of the boy 's interview with the police and social services , and to obtain and consider the social service records . |
| 6 | The princes of the realms decided that they needed someone to rally round and lead them in the event that war should come again . |
| 7 | The behaviourists insist that we can observe two things : first , what an animal does , and second , its previous environmental history . |
| 8 | Despite these unpromising signs , there were reasons for the Reaganites to hope that they might be able to succeed in the House . |
| 9 | The deputies announced that they were resigning because the government " has not been able to keep its promises " with regard to the Kurdish population . |
| 10 | Afterwards the deputies declared that they would refuse to recognize Ivashko 's election , denouncing it as a " farce " . |
| 11 | In Madzimbamuto v. Lardner Burke ( P.C. , 1969 ) Lord Reid said that even if Parliament acted improperly or unwisely , it was not open to the courts to say that it had acted illegally and that the resultant legislation was invalid . |
| 12 | Italy campaign was winding down ; the Bulgarians were seeking peace by the late summer ; a peasant revolt in Hungary caused the Austrian-Hungary Monarchy to waiver and the full deployment of the fresh U.S.A. troops had the effect of causing the Germans to realise that they could not win the war . |
| 13 | As far as the make-up of the commission is concerned , the Russians want it to be composed of professionals and specialists , while the Germans believe that it should above all have a strong political element ’ . |
| 14 | The Germans say that they can not absorb that number , and country after country is saying the same . |
| 15 | They realized they would be severely punished when the Germans learned that they had failed to do their duty . |
| 16 | When they did make extensive use of it for coinage , however , the high zinc and low iron content of the coins indicates that they must have used metallic zinc rather than cementation . |
| 17 | In 1428 , however , it and some neighbouring villages were excused from paying the subsidy because it had less than ten households , and the excavation of one of the houses suggests that it had been deserted as early as the second half of the fourteenth century . |
| 18 | Peter Field , the chief Australian negotiator , said that although developing countries in the " Cairns Group " would be expected to make lower cuts in protective import tariffs , their endorsement of the proposals showed that they were " prepared to bite the bullet " . |
| 19 | In spite of official acceptance of the suggested reforms by both government and the Civil Service , various examinations into the implementation of the proposals suggest that they have had very little real effect . |
| 20 | Mr Aziz 's initial reaction encouraged the Russians to believe that they would get a good reply , and get it promptly . |
| 21 | Although Blackett had been a member of the MAUD Committee — Britain 's first approach to atomic energy , subsequently dismantled after the realistic appraisal that if anyone could pull-off the atomic bomb it would be the Americans — Blackett 's love affair with the Russians ensured that he played no part in the US wartime atomic bomb project or its post-1945 British successor . |
| 22 | It is a contender : a colleague of Ackroyd 's on The Times announced that it was a ‘ sure contender ’ for the Booker Prize of 1987 ( which it did n't receive ) . |
| 23 | The press reacted in familiar manner , with The Times observing that it was ‘ becoming unsafe for a man to traverse certain parts of London at night ’ . |
| 24 | The rules state that you let a guy say his piece and you consider what he said . |
| 25 | In the main , its teachers in the early years came from London , and the minutes record that they were issued with free tickets weekly . |
| 26 | And given that humans have been predators of prairie dogs for at least 150 years , the researchers argue that they are perfectly legitimate to use in such a test . |
| 27 | The researchers admit that they have not yet achieved the ‘ ideal scheme ’ , for the switching is not truly random , but is related to the ( different ) periodic frequencies of the generators driving the standing waves in each cell . |
| 28 | The researchers warn that they will have to treat many more patients before they can report a cure , and that the expense and difficulty of obtaining bone marrow are likely to limit the number of possible treatments . |
| 29 | The two bronze Moors on the clock-tower outside hammered on the bells to announce that it was midday . |
| 30 | Perhaps the authorities thought that he had finally knuckled under . |