Example sentences of "that their [noun] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the purposes of my present argument , however , of even greater importance than the influence exercised by Les Annales is the fact that their approach is clearly governed by the idea — definitive of concessive holism — that individualist and holist explanations are best seen as answering to different interests , and therefore as contributing , at least to some extent , to independent projects . |
| 2 | Although I do not begin to claim the sort of historical breadth of either Brown or Bynum , I do believe that their approach is not only helpful but necessary if we are going , as we must , to use the lives of women before us to encourage us forward . |
| 3 | The susceptibility of individuals to disease ; if animals are kept or treated in such a way that their immune system does not work very well , that in itself tells you that their welfare is less good than it might be . |
| 4 | They show , for example , how the full range of local authority associations , together with such professional bodies as SOLACE or CIPFA , have been deeply involved in financial matters but that their involvement is less apparent in other policy areas such as fire , education , housing and transport which are marked by their own configuration of interests ( such as the Institute of Housing Managers ) all of which have their own style of central-local relations . |
| 5 | It abandons any attempt to design market or internal controls over managers to ensure that their discretion is only exercised in the interests of shareholders . |
| 6 | Although I am sorry for those young people , I believe that their problem is often psychological , rather than inability to find work . |
| 7 | Perhaps today the general public take too much for granted , the , as a local Councillor I have to interview many people who come to me with housing problems , to be as patient as one can is essential as a politician , but after the complainant has gone , one is very conscious of the fact that their problem is so minute it is hardly worth mentioning . |
| 8 | To take another example , there are many biologists who , despite the acknowledged successes of molecular biology , do not believe that their subject is just a complex corollary to physics . |
| 9 | His prose too is highly mannered in both his Latin and his English treatises ; it calls attention to itself and to the writer in striking contrast to the calm , lucid prose of our other mystics , who are all careful to make it clear that their word is not law but only their own opinion . |
| 10 | We will ensure that their influence is severely curtailed and , if possible , removed . |
| 11 | I mean he 's a , he 's got to a , he 's got to be a claim all across the whole sitting is that the , that their budgeting is not enough is it ? |
| 12 | Take-up is lower among medium-sized companies ‘ perhaps because they feel their profile is too low to attract many claims or that their shareholding is so tightly controlled they wo n't come up against too many disgruntled shareholders who are the main source of claim in this country . ’ |
| 13 | It gives them total protection against rain and wind , without weight or bulk , while remaining breathable so that their perspiration is n't trapped inside . |
| 14 | Studies of dolphins have indicated that their communication is very complex , possibly as complex as human speech , but these sounds have proved difficult to decipher . |
| 15 | In many instances the parents may not realize that their child is well occupied and has not interfered with them until it is too late and the child has started to demand attention . |
| 16 | Parents can become very worried about slight losses of appetite in their child while others will not notice that their child is not receiving sufficient nutrition . |
| 17 | Some parents respond to food fads in the media and become concerned that their child is not eating what is considered ‘ healthy ’ food . |
| 18 | And secondly , I mean obviously parents are more worried if they feel that their child is not doing as well as somebody else 's child , and we 're back to this question of expectation again — where did they get the expectation that this other child is , as it were , some sort of norm that they ought to be living up to , and parents should talk to teachers and to other people who know their child and have got experience of their child as against other children to find out really whether their worries are truly grounded , or whether they are just groundless . |
| 19 | And secondly , I mean obviously parents are more worried if they feel that their child is not doing as well as somebody else 's child , and we 're back to this question of expectation again — where did they get the expectation that this other child is , as it were , some sort of norm that they ought to be living up to , and parents should talk to teachers and to other people who know their child and have got experience of their child as against other children to find out really whether their worries are truly grounded , or whether they are just groundless . |
| 20 | I have referred to the complicated question of administration , which will require careful drafting , but we want to try to ensure that those who serve in the voluntary reserve forces are available when they are needed and that their position is properly protected . |
| 21 | Because this is so , I do not believe that their position is as different from that of nineteenth-century anthropologists and Marx and Engels as they would like us to believe , if we were to take their rejection of ‘ evolutionism ’ at its face value . |
| 22 | Here , in the clearest indication yet that their marriage is over , Charles froze his wife out of official duties planned for them both . |
| 23 | ‘ That 's what you would do , I suppose , but Garry 's wife is one of those women who think they have an ideal marriage , and she would go into a decline at the very mention of another woman , so Garry is presenting her with concrete evidence that their marriage is over . ’ |
| 24 | This inner part does not go below fiddle G , so that the violins could lend the powerful aid of their G strings to it ( coupled with other instruments of course ) were it not for the fact that their presence is urgently required to help out the top line . |
| 25 | Prenatal diagnosis in the first trimester provides early reassurance to most mothers that their fetus is not affected by the genetic disorder under investigation . |
| 26 | They must be empowered to demand excellence in the courses that they attend and realise that their education is not a favour to them but a means of preparing them to be the sort of doctors that we want in the future . |
| 27 | Doctors nowadays recognise that their function is not a limited technical one of repairing or servicing a body . |
| 28 | The constitutional reply is that public authorities , being directly or indirectly elected , are the representatives of the public interest and that their function is precisely that of making such decisions . |
| 29 | The point is rather that we now have a strong data base from which to operate , and that the technical means are now available which would reveal precisely what our signals do mean ; perhaps to show that there are monsters , perhaps to find , at least beyond reasonable doubt , that their existence is too unlikely to warrant further study . |
| 30 | Small wonder that women worry about the menopause , and that their anxiety is then influenced by social factors such as attitudes about the sexual attractiveness of their ageing bodies , the changing status and role of women as children leave home , and the risk of loneliness and poverty if their marriages should fail as a result . |