Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As has been suggested , it was particularly the perceived threat to the importance of organised religion that they represented which galvanized Mrs Whitehouse and others into action . |
| 2 | Or stood in despair as your children big or little , carry on ignoring your repeated demands that they stop whatever undesirable thing it is that they are doing ? |
| 3 | Salmon have been shown to be capable of the necessary olfactory discrimination , but the most direct evidence that they use their sense of smell comes from experiments , of the kind first performed by W. J. Wisby and A. D. Hasler , in which the salmon 's olfactory sense was impaired . |
| 4 | It may be because the juniors act independently with equal quantities of youthful enthusiasm and historical ignorance that they get themselves into situations that the dinosaurs have seen before . |
| 5 | So terrified of doing the wrong thing that they do nothing at all — except bleat like sheep about their petty rules and regulations and their morality . |
| 6 | It 's a a a re a really nice restaurant but you can pick all your food raw and they just , there 's a chef cooking , and you just get one of these plates , you can have as many helpings as you want , they serve you a cold starter and a hot starter but there 's a buffet that 's about half the size of our club and one side of it it 's all fish on a wet fish slab , and steak , and veal , and chicken and so there 's every sort of meat you can think of , and you can pick a wooden platter full of it , so you go and give it the chef with this number that they give you and then they come serve you with whatever you want . |
| 7 | Erm now , so he said erm that 's what they 're aiming for this thing that they want them to do on May the eighteenth plus a sponsorship walk on the sixth of June |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | After all , ’ he threw at her , ‘ I 'm sure it was a mere oversight that they forgot you in the first place . ’ |
| 10 | Secondly were Mrs White 's brother and sister-in-law who were reported earlier as saying at second interview that they thought she should remain at home ‘ if things keep as they 're going now , and she gets the services she 's getting ’ . |
| 11 | If it feels compelled to produce its poison , it does so instantaneously by forcing its ribs outwards with such vigour that they break its skin and rip open the poison glands . |
| 12 | A number of tradesmen in the timber , textile and tin-plate industries looked upon coffin-making and funeral furnishing as something by which they could profit , and it was not unknown for some to meet with such success that they abandoned their established trade to go into undertaking full time . |
| 13 | You 've only got to solve the silly simple thing that they give you which is |
| 14 | It was only when PC Buckingham called for assistance on his personal radio that they realised what was happening . |
| 15 | Whitlock had spent most of the afternoon with them and he 'd come away with the distinct impression that they held him in little regard . |
| 16 | Any buds that do manage it do so with such energy that they propel themselves away to project their seeds into wilder gardens . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 19 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 20 | about the little boy that they think he 's dead |
| 21 | The basic stuff that they know they need , to go to the next stage . |
| 22 | I think that day that they gave me a lift home . |
| 23 | And I 'm sure that when we go down the road we can Although i we 're always ready to look at erm car drivers and some of the stupid things they do and some of the stupid things that they do which annoy us , at the end of the day w you 've still got to bear in mind that erm there are people in our own fraternity , as it were , that er do n't do as they should . |
| 24 | The often-repeated criticism made of elite and traditional theorists that they assume what they should be proving — namely the distribution of power — may from this perspective be seen to miss the point of elite analysis , since it is not typically concerned with the question of whether the minority that exercises power is a significant proportion of the entire population . |
| 25 | The concepts of a right and a liberty ( as opposed to freedom generally ) probably originated however , in systems of juridical law , and it is in legal systems that they have their most subtle and interesting applications and most thorough and detailed elaborations . |
| 26 | I wondered what would happen if I ignored the call or pretended it was n't me , but I had a strong feeling that they knew it was me . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ( There is , of course , much more evidence that they exercise their power covertly , by establishing informal rates of work , by absenteeism , by working to regulations . ) |
| 29 | But I love those little box things with the lacy paper that they pack it in . |
| 30 | We believe that the Further and Higher Education Bill 's provisions meet the concerns expressed by my hon. Friend the Member for Rutland and Melton ( Mr. Latham ) and by others , and we can categorically reassure those colleges that they have nothing to fear . |