Example sentences of "that [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , life was n't really like that , but the advertisers want us to believe it was , and that eating their product will help us recapture the feeling — and the taste . |
| 2 | In an article in the TES ( 14/9/90 ) Mary Castle claimed that there are fourteen local authorities that insist their schools should have no direct contact with journalists , so one needs to be clear about the LEA regulations before giving a story about the school to the press . |
| 3 | Statistics already show that black women , less susceptible to the street violence and drug problems that undermine their brothers , are now more likely than black men to matriculate and graduate from university . |
| 4 | Homeland of the Nez Perce and the neighbouring tribes of the Shahaptian ( H ) and Salish ( A ) families that shared their Plateau culture . |
| 5 | There was this story about er the wife that shared their milk with butter . |
| 6 | Image , hyperbole , parallelism , comparison , repetition or any other trope are potentially all equally effective in committing poetic violence on ordinary language , and it is this differential function and not any inherent quality that constitutes their interest for Russian Formalism . |
| 7 | In any case it is important that librarians remain in close touch with the industry that produces their raw materials , through the literature , and through formal and informal contacts . |
| 8 | It is as if we have frozen the beauty or anaesthetized it in an image ; but the images are like the humming birds of a museum case , the real and living beauty is incomparably brighter for those birds are gems that flash their iridiscent colours in a tropical forest . |
| 9 | But this poses a problem : if ‘ crimes ’ are diverse , changeable and selective , how can we expect to be able to make any general statements about the conditions that influence their prevalence ? |
| 10 | When they acquired their homes , they persuaded the council to section off some land at the back , and that became their secret garden . |
| 11 | They also include species that eat their way through enormous quantities of sediment , extracting edible particles from it , and in the process reprocessing all the sediment ; some of the fossil heart urchins probably had this habit ( see p. 128 ) . |
| 12 | Like mantises that eat their mates , or are eaten by them during intimate congress — even knowing that such a fate must occur — they were fraternally drawn to one another , obeying a bizarre tropism . |
| 13 | It would , note , generally fall not on the individual household , but on whichever public authority is responsible for waste collection — and thus on local taxpayers — and on companies that bring their rubbish straight to the dump . |
| 14 | The eventual acceptance of Lévi-Strauss and Barthes by their respective disciplines indicates the value orientations that made their interpretation possible . |
| 15 | But the hatred was merely the other side of love , the element that darkened it , touching their passion with the hostility that made their lovemaking resemble fighting . |
| 16 | Everywhere there was a reek of something acrid that made their eyes smart . |
| 17 | ALTHOUGH MANY former RAF Chedburgh , Suffolk , personnel have had cause to return to their old Station , at least 398 have had that choice denied them — although it was their sacrifice that made their colleague 's choice possible . |
| 18 | Not a single one of the millions of fish that fought their way up the river ever returns to the sea . |
| 19 | In a recent study a group of exporters indicated that financing their export activities , which included managing cash-flow as well as managing exchange rate fluctuations , was their most difficult task . |
| 20 | Experimenters , who approach an experiment with a belief that their hypothesis will be borne out by the experiment , tend to make mistakes of interpretation that favour their hypothesis and tend to overlook interpretations which are unfavourable to it . |
| 21 | The fear is that indiscriminate Bt spraying and widespread use of genetically transformed crops that make their own Bt toxin will reduce the product 's effectiveness and accelerate the spread of resistant strains . |
| 22 | These large fish are called ferox , a distinct species of brown trout that make their living by eating their smaller brethren . |
| 23 | Moreover , he urges his readers not to join sects that make their adherents abandon their families , give up their money and worldly interests , and lead restricted lives that are ordered entirely by the rulers of the sect . |
| 24 | The duo 's set seemed lethargic , a muddy mix robbing them of the textured subtleties that make their records so invigorating . |
| 25 | Most other weapons can not be considered to have characteristics that make their use illegal whatever the circumstances ; although some others perhaps do — for example , bacteriological weapons , which can equally be argued to be per se illegal . |
| 26 | What most managers want to know is how they should juggle what Mr Stark calls the ‘ confusing mix of self-interest , altruism and other influences ’ that make their businesses tick . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , Dr Mowery and Dr Teece have varied sources that make their picture of Japan convincing . |
| 28 | I have a streak of economy in me , even when contemplating how to épater les bourgeois , and recipes that make their sauce out of a stock made at an earlier stage tend to appeal most . |
| 29 | The gods that make their careless journeys across the world , playing with science or magic as they will , create thousands of everything , of sea almonds , of waves , of days — of words . |
| 30 | All of them sheep and cattle yes , even the savage beasts birds of the air and fish that make their way through the water . |