Example sentences of "[subord] [art] [noun] that [verb] they " in BNC.

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1 They appear in the most numbers where the marshes meet the wolds and where the stream that feed them from this higher region are , in consequence , faster flowing .
2 The reasons were simple : ‘ The British people are opposed to the sell-offs because they are more socially-responsible , more community-minded , more far-sighted , more patriotic than the Government that governs them .
3 But since the thrust of the argument is for grass-roots power and the paper refers implicitly to unpopular counties created by the 1974 reforms , the districts are less worried than the counties that contain them .
4 This suggests that although the blast that killed them was intensely hot , it lasted only a few moments , not long enough to ignite fabrics .
5 YOU ca n't enjoy good beer if the pubs that serve them are badly run or have been modernised in a vulgar and insensitive fashion .
6 It was a position of strange intimacy ; as if the steam that shrouded them was a veil that cut out the world .
7 I have noticed this during the last two or three days that I have been sitting here , being able for the first time in this House , to see the faces of my old associates , I have admired the way in which they have cheered to keep their spirits up , and I have admired those who have done that knowing — knowing — that only a few weeks , possibly , remain , before the place that knows them now will know them no more .
8 While it is true that cause could be inserted in ( 134 ) , it is significant that the writer has used make with a subject ( " enzymes " ) which actively produces chemical reactions and is even described in the same sentence as an agent that speeds them up .
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