Example sentences of "that they [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does not mean that the person needs necessarily to go faster , but that they organize their time more effectively . |
| 2 | Why should Paul 's preaching have so provoked the Nazarean hierarchy that they sent their own emissaries in his wake to discredit him ? |
| 3 | ( ii ) They should have continuing opportunities to write for formal or public purposes so that they increase their command of the structures of written Standard English . |
| 4 | On May 22 Gorbachev held a meeting with Gorbunovs and Estonia 's President Arnold Rüütel , later described by Rüütel as " difficult and unpleasant for all sides " , at which Gorbachev repeated the demand that they cancel their independence declarations before any negotiations on the republics ' status could begin . |
| 5 | Yet this is not to say that her contemporaries completely misread her first four novels , nor that they misjudged their merits . |
| 6 | We are led to the conclusion that 11a is grammatically but not semantically deviant by the fact that substitutes for bake which normalise the sentence ( e.g. shake , forsake ) , as a class , have no distinctive semantic attributes ( that is to say , members of the class share no characteristic patterns of co-occurrence with other open set elements that differentiate them from non-members ) ; however , they do share a grammatical peculiarity , which is that they form their past participles with — en . |
| 7 | In the past they had a degree of self-doubt because many realized that they owed their position to factors other than merit . |
| 8 | Every Buttermere neighbour and old wrestling foe would be given a free mug of beer as his first drink and throughout the day Joseph would ask a little — often useless — favour here , another there in order to keep them within his ken : so that they kept their eyes , he would say to himself , on the signals coming from the flagship . |
| 9 | Managers should be obliged by the Takeover Panel to provide their shareholders with the same information , particularly three-year cash-flow forecasts and industry analysis , that they show their bankers . |
| 10 | Or ‘ The trouble with self-made men is that they worship their creator . ’ |
| 11 | They can argue that they make their position on these things perfectly clear , and that if people vote for them then they know what they are going to get and have no right to claim that sabbatarianism is being forced on them . |
| 12 | We ordinarily say of causal circumstances and causes that they make their effects happen , but we do not say , and will deny , that effects make either of the two causal items happen . |
| 13 | It 's something to do there 's a clue the clue to Switzerland is something to do with the way that they make their electricity . |
| 14 | Why is it that they bestow their ardour upon the well-adjusted , wholesome architects of pop 's fatal new maturity ? |
| 15 | Tie the beef and lamb into compact rolls or squares so that they retain their shape during cooking and will be easy to cut . |
| 16 | It must be made clear to students that they retain their Compact entitlements and may redeem them for employment within Compact companies whenever they leave education , whether at 16+ , 18+ or after higher education . |
| 17 | Some enjoyed themselves so much that they formed their own team in the league . |
| 18 | He clearly demonstrated that they formed their spores in sac-like structures known as asci , typical of the Ascomycetes . |
| 19 | With regard to the latter , it should be noted that many Glasgow deaf church members around that time were very religious and so strongly disapproved of drinking that they formed their own temperance Society , the Glasgow Mutual Improvement Society . |
| 20 | It is clear from thinking in Brussels and Paris that their views on international trade owe more to Friedrich List than to Adam Smith , although it is always surprising that they bemoan their countries ' so-called tutelage to the United States and at the same time attack the liberal economic policies which lie at the root of American power : why do they not realise that they should adopt economic liberalism as well ? |
| 21 | The speakers have chosen their own topics , based on their own interests and enthusiasms , and it is important that they convey their zest for the subject to an audience , preferably establishing at the outset that the subject deserves the audience 's attention . |
| 22 | From Wimpey Homes to Dr A.J. Watson stating that they regretted their inability to level the area of open space and provide some form of play equipment at Baberton Mains . |
| 23 | Because all known ureilites are much too small to have sustained high energy impact on the Earth , we conclude that they acquired their diamond-lonsdaleite intergrowths when their parent bodies collided with other objects while hurtling through space . |
| 24 | He turned down all but a handful — ‘ the handful who came with their hands full , ’ said Lucie , meaning that they bribed their way in . |
| 25 | The monks of the Middle Ages used to practise ‘ divine reading ’ , which meant that they expected their lives to be transformed as a result of what they read . |
| 26 | Their applications have been stalled by the Securities and Exchange Commission 's demand that they re-run their accounts in accordance with principles used in the US . |
| 27 | Workers at Dowty aerospace can at least take comfort in one thing — the firms management say that they hope their streamlining programme is now at an end and that no further major redundancies will be announced . |
| 28 | Modern biographers suffer many accusations : that they trawl too widely and deeply ; that they pick over entrails insensitively , confirming Dr Arbuthnot 's definition of biography as ‘ the new terror of death ’ ; that they invade their subject 's most intimate quarters and lay all bare , regardless , it is said , of relevance or the feelings of surviving kin . |
| 29 | Perhaps a telling comment on this is that a major reason for the recruitment of top , superannuated civil servants into business is that they know their way round the political labyrinth of Whitehall . |
| 30 | It is impossible to forget these mothers and the matter-of-fact way in which they relate their experiences , an indication that they know their suffering is by no means unique . |