Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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31 All the women in the conference planning group had so far been white , and we were only just beginning to respond to Black women 's demands that we examine our racism , and tackle it .
32 Eudo had replied through swollen , bloody lips that he knew nothing , so the questioners changed tack .
33 It is only when you stop scanning the horizon for monumental shapes that you realise they have been looming unnoticed in the foreground all along .
34 Just not going away , even the tablets that you gave me , they was n't even taking it away , it , away like .
35 And I thought er and er I had wee tablets that you gave me a while ago , Brusdeximit
36 so I started working through them , but without referring back to the notes that you know what some of them
37 In the case of the Emperor Nero , we can tell from coins that he abandoned his youthful hairstyle for the more mature one ‘ arranged in steps ’ ( as Suetonius calls it ) in AD 63 ( fig. 13 ) .
38 ‘ In most cases that we heard there was no real problem , but in some cases there was fire so we decided to have the recall as a purely precautionary move . ’
39 However , in some of the cases that he mentioned it appears that there must have been some error , or they would have been dealt with more promptly .
40 Separately , calculate the hours that you think you will be allowed on taxation .
41 I thank the Minister for delivering every one of the pledges that he gave us in Committee .
42 These categories of luck threaten the very notion of moral responsibility in that if the precondition of control is consistently applied we would be disbarred from making the wide range of moral judgments that we find it entirely natural to make .
43 At times I become so obsessive about the dangers that I find myself making lists of what could go wrong .
44 Fru Møller , who resented the embargo on her taste within the house , and frequently complained of the frustration she endured at having to maintain the past in all its detail , enjoyed the discipline the White Garden imposed , the contacts that it brought her in the gardening world , and the admiration its unusual beauty reflected upon her .
45 They complained so much that not enough time had been allowed them for their discussions that we had them back a second week .
46 He started wearing women 's clothes , he started putting on make-up and on the last couple of times that I saw him he was pretty strange .
47 ‘ In those Go-away times that I knew you had I should have guessed you needed help . ’
48 It is to the elaboration of rules that we direct our attention in the next chapter .
49 I started off the way I write every album — wrote a couple of songs , got a feel for the music and called up the musicians that I thought I could do the songs with .
50 Though he showed no very clear signs that he realized it , the Tsar had crossed the Rubicon , carrying the nobility with him .
51 She signed the forms that he brought her to sign , even though the name on them was n't always her own , and then Belov slipped them into a file under a stack of others and took them away again .
52 A storm arrives from the west , the snow falling so thickly in a few minutes that I fear I will lose my way .
53 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 .
54 You might then wonder what the cutting of the hair had to do with it — well , one of the features of auto-immune diseases is that they cluster within individuals and sometimes within an individual 's family , and the reasons for that are that the immune responses that we have we inherit with our genes .
55 It is at his feet that we throw ourselves like the bound figures which form the pedestal of this statue ( one captive looks upward with adoring eyes ) .
56 One set of typefaces that I like there are on the slightly goofy side are the Goudys erm and it took me a long time of , your know , hearing purists try to explain to me why before I understood the distinction .
57 It 's part of the school 's job to convince parents that they want what the school wants and values .
58 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 .
59 But erm n n not , not the handicrafts that they teach them now at school .
60 Use in rural areas is extensive , but it is in urban areas that it reaches its apogee , with some 30 per cent of home-work trips and 64 per cent of home-school trips made by cycle .
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