Example sentences of "[noun] that they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Not quite enough perhaps but still enough to be an admission that they got it seriously wrong in the year before . |
| 32 | Eagan , Minnesota-based Cray Research Inc has introduced a new Y-MP M90 series of supercomputers , claiming that they offer the largest main memories ever , in the hope that they make it possible to solve important scientific and engineering problems that are too large for the memory of any existing computer system to handle efficiently . |
| 33 | They missed a few kicks at goal but they nailed Northampton to their line and worked up such a storm that they had them scurrying all ways . |
| 34 | You will see that we intend sending a leaflet to each member with the summer edition of Rural Wales , with the plea that they use it to recruit at least one new member . |
| 35 | Milton ward Tories were so impressed by his la-de-da-accent and gold-plated walking stick that they made him social secretary . |
| 36 | ‘ It is a coincidence that they announced it on the eve of my press conference , ’ he admitted . |
| 37 | And receiver 's and that wa , when they sold off all the business , cos they , they then pay out the money that they owed her back . |
| 38 | An annuity is an arrangement with a financial institution whereby , if you are over retirement age and do not want to leave your property to anyone when you die , they will effectively buy your house from you ( albeit at a bit less than the market price ) , give you guaranteed security of tenure until you die , and turn the money that they pay you for the house into a regular income for life . |
| 39 | Insecurity , hunger , constant vilification and injustice were their lot , and it was as exhausted escapees that they made their way from Europe via Liverpool to Halifax ( then the most important port on the Atlantic coast ) , before finally settling in Montreal . |
| 40 | It 's part of the school 's job to convince parents that they want what the school wants and values . |
| 41 | It 's no consolation to those involved in Monday 's canoeing tragedy , but British school trips have an impressive safety record and schools are keen to assure parents that they do everything in their power to ensure the wellbeing of pupils in their care . |
| 42 | It is sometimes said of bodies such as the CICB that they owe their existence to exercises of ‘ prerogative ’ power , but in this context , this means the same thing as saying that the body was not set up by statute . |
| 43 | But erm n n not , not the handicrafts that they teach them now at school . |
| 44 | Some doctors are so overwhelmed by their own emotions that they find it hard to handle the mother 's . |
| 45 | about the little boy that they think he 's dead |
| 46 | On their way to a match against Great Lever , it was said that four members of the Accrington team became so ‘ liquored up ’ when they stopped to take refreshment at Blackburn that they missed their train . |
| 47 | Er , the recommendation to those committees was that they should treat the paper as a basis for consultation , it was on that basis that they approved it , it was my impression that they support it in general terms . |
| 48 | But I told Malcolm yesterday that I thought that , that we operated on the basis that they trusted everybody . |
| 49 | It 's looking good but it 's down to us They 've convinced dealers that they have something worth selling … even in a recession . |
| 50 | Shirley Lorimer of Lowdens says : ‘ He invited all his friends round for a party and Glenn and Charlie were so enthralled with the Lowden guitars that they bought one each . |
| 51 | ‘ Oddly enough the selectors only told me shortly before the match that they wanted me to play left centre so that ‘ Obbo ’ could get some of the ball , ’ Cranmer reminisced . |
| 52 | Excellent , it just store any , it stores energy , it does n't make any itself and that 's the point that they want you to make erm normal little throw away batteries that you have in your tape recorder or something , they produce energy , they do n't have energy sort of put into them , chemicals and things . |
| 53 | Dinner was an unvarying weekly round in which boiled beef and mutton figured largely , and it was little compensation to several hundred hungry schoolboys that they took their meals in the school 's magnificent hall , overlooked by the demure and decorative paintings of Antonio Verrio . |
| 54 | Ultraviolet light is so important to insects that they use it as a main component of their colour vision . |
| 55 | He starts by remarking that scientists and ( at that time ; he was writing in the 1950s ) philosophers usually take science as the understanding of an independent reality , with the presumptions that they know what it is for something to be ‘ real ’ and for someone to ‘ understand ’ it . |
| 56 | Statements may be made with regard to their mode of carrying on business , such as to lead people of ordinary sense to the opinion that they conduct their business badly and inefficiently . |
| 57 | As the father of eleven children ( laughter and applause ) — I have not been a disciple of Dr Malthus but you will clearly understand that , while I appreciate the ladies , I am strongly of the opinion that they have their proper station in life ( Hear ! |
| 58 | Then it was meant to be Detroit , Chicago , St Louis and work its way west and end in Los Angeles but word of mouth , the cover story in Rolling Stone which Tony coerced out of them , and various other things created such a sensation that they lengthened it . |
| 59 | The meaning that they gave it should send cold shivers down the spine of any parent : fully a half thought that it was an instruction to cross the road , and half of these thought that it was showing you how to do it — by running ! |
| 60 | But tutors were so impressed with the two girls ' work in textiles that they made them unconditional offers . |