Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] that they " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says it 's part of the staff 's contract that they work different shift from time to time — at times of crisis or if someone is sick we have to ask someone who knows the job to cover . |
| 2 | New South Wales , on the other hand , ran in six tries to win quite convincingly in the end , although it has to be said in Scotland 's defence that they came close on several occasions to scoring a try and only slipped out of range in the last five minutes when they conceded two tries , both of which were converted . |
| 3 | It is to no-one 's advantage that they should be homogenised . |
| 4 | IT IS something of a public statement of Carter 's record company 's faith that they are prepared to spend £20,000 of unrecoupable readies on a major aerodynamic lig for the British press ( faith that is vindicated , one could argue , by the band 's confirmed Biggest Ever Hit ‘ The Only Living Boy In New Cross ’ — Number Eight last week and rising ) . |
| 5 | By and large the Poles and Germans of the city had shown very early in the Free City 's existence that they could rub along together . |
| 6 | And Queen 's hope that they will be joined by other top quality players who are currently studying at the university but play with other club sides . |
| 7 | The Government 's admission that they must return to that issue is another apology , but return they must , as anyone who considers what is happening in British Telecom — the bills paid by the customers or the salary received by the Chairman of that company — will be quick to point out . |
| 8 | French Socialists prepare to feast on crumbs of comfort The Socialists have been told so often that they are heading for total rout in tomorrow 's election that they will be relieved if they manage the 20 per cent predicted by the polls , writes Diana Geddes in Paris |
| 9 | The examples of ( 32 ) are simply associatives , as treated above in Chapter 2 : ( 32 ) a criminal lawyer subterranean explorer electrical worker 6.6 This leaves us with a small number of other phrases such as those in ( 33 ) , which turn out to be worth further investigation : ( 33 ) a true poet our late president a sheer fraud a real friend the future king my old school We certainly agree that there is an intuitively different " feel " to these , and a few others which can be found in the corps of English adjectives , and we would agree also that this has something to do with the distinction between referent ( or entity ) and sense ; however , we can not agree with Bolinger 's verdict that they are adjectives which qualify sense only . |
| 10 | I ca n't , I ca n't remember precisely even so I think it , it , it 's Walsall 's loss that they have n't got an airport any more , it , it 's purely but erm they , they did have a lot of s divided up into a lot of sports fields at one time did n't they but the people who 've , is it the M E B who control those buildings now ? |
| 11 | But if only now is it God 's intention that they also be admitted to orders , women must necessarily see themselves as some kind of secondary citizens . |
| 12 | Never once had it crossed Jasper 's or Bert 's mind that they might be refused . |
| 13 | It was also weighing on Bernard 's mind that they were opening more and more shops in Europe and yet the European commercial scene was not as stable as that in the UK . |
| 14 | It was only under President Carter 's administration that they were returned to Hungary , having been removed from the potential clutches of Germans and Russians in 1945 . |
| 15 | No club was named in the piece but Wyre Boat Angling Club have complained to Angler 's Mail that they recognized themselves as the targets of Bob 's attack — and say his comments are inaccurate , totally unjustified and reflect solely a minority view . |
| 16 | Secord and Hakim told Secord 's lawyer that they thought they were doing ‘ the Lord 's work ’ . |
| 17 | The admission that laws of nature can not be established by induction became possible only with Karl Popper 's demonstration that they are sufficiently assured by a continued failure to refute them , the rationality of a claim depending not on its origin but on its success in surviving criticism . |
| 18 | Lionel Elvin , Director of the University of London Institute of Education , had , as a member of the Robbins Committee , framed its recommendations for the teacher training colleges ( as they were called before the committee 's recommendation that they be renamed colleges of education ) to be brought within the universities ' ambit . |
| 19 | Inland Revenue employees discovered this when they took a claim — that the Revenue 's requirement that they transfer from manual methods to using a computerised system was in breach of contract — to the High Court . |
| 20 | In the end , the WICBC 's attitude that they could not accept any individual who did not uphold their tradition of sportsmanship prevailed , and Gilchrist played no more Tests . |
| 21 | These words recur so often in Wordsworth 's work that they seem to represent an unwavering core of faith . |
| 22 | Well , what we did was we what we did was we erm found the alarm system to try and calculate some reasonable output rates erm but what we found was the output rates seemed incredibly low using based on the completion that they have got So what we was we erm took the nine week 's work that they 'd done and erm plus they 'd obviously based our output rates on that erm just for a little example , using the allowances we have n't got whereas actually we 'd been calculating it on what they had n't worked so , that was basically what we So moving on to the actual short-term programme |
| 23 | Flames of doubt were fanned by the crew 's insistence that they had activated the emergency radio beacon for a week , though it was not picked up . |
| 24 | They were not swayed by the Coal Board 's insistence that they could do what they wanted any more than by the unions ' claims about the threatened mines . |
| 25 | Back then he had argued with his son : had denied Yuan 's insistence that they were the gaolers of Tsao Ch'un 's City , the inheritors of a system which shaped them for ill . |
| 26 | Still , Huy had answered Surere 's summons , had even given in to the messenger 's insistence that they travel in the closed rickshaw , so that he would not be able to tell where they were going . |
| 27 | Even with Smith & Nephew moving to oxygen bleaching for Lil-lets , and Tambrand 's denial that they use chlorine bleaching ( though Tampax do contain rayon , produced using chlorine ) , there are still problems with tampons and sanitary towels . |
| 28 | DUNCAN FERGUSON and Scott Booth will this afternoon get the opportunity to justify Craig Brown 's opinion that they are full internationalists of the future when they team up for the first time in Scotland 's Under-21 side . |
| 29 | When parents are so concerned for the children 's safety that they prevent them from exercising choice and making decisions , they are depriving them of the experience they need in order to cope with life as mature adults . |
| 30 | They fly home today without any punishment over our exposure of Aqib 's ball doctoring or Lamb 's revelation that they cheated during last weekend 's one-day international . |