Example sentences of "that they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think erm you 've got to say that it is not easy to find people to give the commitment to local government work these days and I think a partial remuneration of the expense that they incur is a very reasonable thing for the public to have to meet . |
| 2 | Their political involvement demanded that they forgo family and personal relations . |
| 3 | Critics of the Ellis-Beto era contend that they traded off abuse by staff for abuse by inmates , in order to achieve a controlled and disciplined prison environment . |
| 4 | In 1985 , when Japanese chip makers last started slashing prices , America 's government insisted that they raise them in order to protect the ( virtually non-existent ) American DRAM industry . |
| 5 | If the mother objects to abortion on moral or religious grounds , the tests are virtually pointless , and certainly not worth the additional risks that they raise . |
| 6 | The trouble with all these concessions and compromises is that they raise as many problems as they solve . |
| 7 | Rather more reasonably , the Government also insisted that they raise the interest charge in hire purchase schemes to market rates ( rather than the privileged rates at which the Boards borrowed capital from the Treasury ) . |
| 8 | While Compacts can not dictate policy of this kind it is essential that they raise the issue of involving trade unionists with prospective employers . |
| 9 | To those workers who profess bewilderment as to how they might help , who feel their knowledge in sexual matters is insufficient or are doubtful of their capabilities for sexual counselling and aid , one would suggest that they raise the matter within their training departments . |
| 10 | Not only is having had some form of employment considered to increase a job seeker 's attractiveness to an employer and diminish the chances of a devaluation of his work skills , but temporary placings themselves can turn into permanent ones , either because the temporary position is made permanent or because the employer becomes acquainted with the capabilities of the temporary worker and recruits him into a vacant permanent position.1 Special temporary employment schemes such as the Community Programme are often justified in this manner , the suggestion being that they raise the chances of the long-term unemployed finding jobs some threefold ( Turner , 1985 ) . |
| 11 | The issues that they raise are complex , and procedurally they affect the responsibilities of a large number of bodies , both in Government and outside it . |
| 12 | I do not claim any more for these criteria than that they raise at least the possibility of a belief being affirmable . |
| 13 | These phenomena are so elusive , so debatable , so exploitable by the credulous and those who thrive on manipulating them that they drive more away from genuine religious experience than they attract to it . |
| 14 | It is further intended to change people 's attitudes so that they drive more smoothly and are aware of the kind of roads that they are using and drive at speeds tailored to fit the environment . |
| 15 | ‘ They want to show you that they trust you . ’ |
| 16 | So what we have , if I can paint it like this , is a development programme which does n't just rely on Oxfordshire Social Services putting cash into it , because there are , if we manage this process properly , other people who we can encourage to bring money into Oxfordshire , but the key thing that 'll only do it is if they 're confident that they 're dealing with a competent organization and somebody that they trust and they have some form of credibility . |
| 17 | Dot did n't want to hurt its face so she placed her knees carefully to one side of the lamb so that they pressed into the sewn field of flowers on the edge . |
| 18 | Your mind became numbed to everything about human beings except that they pressed close around you all the time , that they slept above or below you , that you could never turn your head without seeing some evidence of their closeness — their clothes or their books or their photographs — that they made it impossible for you ever to be alone . |
| 19 | THE BARE STONE WALLS OBVIATED THE NEED FOR WALLCOVERING AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE ASHLEYS MOVED TO THEIR NEXT HOUSE THAT THEY PRESSED AHEAD WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF WALLPAPER . |
| 20 | B. Hunslett claims the Service Crew were the first élitist group to travel the country with the casual look , and that they brought it to the attention of the general public . |
| 21 | There is a theory that they brought with them the ancestors of the naturally polled northern breeds such as the Angus and Galloway , but in fact there had been polled cattle in Britain since the Iron Age and they were not necessarily imported — not even from Scandinavia , where many cattle are polled . |
| 22 | We know that they brought other domestic animals with them but it is inconceivable that they would have taken a wild cat from the mainland . |
| 23 | The sole result was that they brought back a hatred of all Europeans , except the Germans , whose courage they admired . |
| 24 | The message that they brought to each doorstep , however , required revision several times during the programme . |
| 25 | These extensive changes integral to the process of industrialisation involved , moreover , a major paradox , in that they brought a ‘ new ’ society with great productive potential and more sophisticated and complex ways of living , while at the same time generating extensive disruptions in , traditional patterns of life and relationships , as well as creating new material problems of overcrowded and unpleasant urban conditions , poverty and unemployment . |
| 26 | The night that they brought him up here . |
| 27 | And she gave the school , no she gave them did that much , that they brought for here school books , and she finished her education in . |
| 28 | Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks . |
| 29 | The fact that they arranged for a petition from the inhabitants of Southwark , complaining about those who had welcomed the Palatines , to be presented to the Commons on the same day that they brought in the bill of repeal , suggests that contemporary politicians ( unlike some modern-day historians ) did believe that popular pressure could have a powerful impact on events at Westminster . |
| 30 | Empowering local communities , that 's what really frightens the Tories , because what it means is they 'll never be able to come back with those repressive and regressive policies that they brought in two years ago . |