Example sentences of "that they [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 There 's still another shoe to drop on whether they can survive the maelstrom of pressures that they 've just plunged into .
2 Er , that they 've either got to , well they 've preferably got to be bought rather than , just
3 Well it 's actually just basically the team it 's a new position that they 've actually made within each team now , within each division which is like , you 're dealing with higher accounts but a different type of account as well .
4 I could do a couple of tapes worth of slang words that they 've never heard of before .
5 Some find that they get better treated in there than they do outside , but for the others it 's just rubbish .
6 The fact that they had scarcely met for twenty years was immaterial and the bond between school fellows and fellow expatriates seemed stronger than ties of blood .
7 The Private Secretary , a dark , stocky man a couple of years McLeish 's junior , greeted him , observing cautiously that they had surely met at Francesca Wilson 's house ?
8 He had meant to point out to John le Grant that they had both engaged in extremely rough play at Trebizond , and if he chose to carry out another war contract , he was not doing it blindfold .
9 Initially , some progress appeared to have been made at the Jakarta meeting when Sihanouk and Hun Sen announced that they had finally agreed on a compromise formula on the issue of the SNC chair ( Sihanouk as chair , Hun Sen as vice-chair ) .
10 Jenna did n't know if he meant that they had finally arrived after a long journey or if he was reliving his youth here , claiming his past again .
11 It turned out that they had instead invested in an airline which never took off , a college that had no students , and a luxury yacht .
12 612 where it was held that a defendant had been validly committed for trial by justices notwithstanding that they had previously embarked on a summary trial but decided before the summary trial was concluded that in the circumstances they should not deal with the case and should commit the defendant for trial .
13 And I instanced Bob Geldof as someone whose commitment to the problem of hunger had certainly got things done , and inspired millions of people to see ( even if only transiently ) that they could make a contribution to a problem that they had previously held in their minds , albeit not very consciously , as ‘ not mine ’ and ‘ hopeless ’ .
14 They reckoned that they had already entered into their reign with Christ : they were already rich already filled with the powers of the Age to Come ( 1 Cor 4:8 ) Paul comes down immediately like a ton of bricks on this attitude which regards the Spirit as a medium of religious experience or an embodiment of supernatural power , rather than as the vocation to and equipment for the role of the Servant .
15 She looked up , startled to find that they had already arrived at the top floor , and were now walking down the corridor towards her apartment .
16 ‘ The — er — Palmer & Pearson job , ’ she interrupted , only then realising that they had barely touched on work the whole time she 'd been with him .
17 This meant that they had often moved to their present jobs away from their previous connections of kin and friends .
18 For it is the importance that the Formalists give to language in their theory of literature that enables them to avoid the difficulties and the fuzziness that they had so disliked in their critical and scholarly predecessors .
19 It was odd enough to see that rather feminine room crammed full with so many stern , dark-jacketed gentlemen , sometimes sitting three or four abreast upon a sofa ; but such was the determination on the part of some persons to maintain the appearance that this was nothing more than a social event that they had actually gone to the lengths of having journals and newspapers open on their knees .
20 I remembered that they had never flown in a light aircraft before today ; I shuddered to think of what could happen if they panicked .
21 Both insisted that they had never thought of themselves as husband and wife , and there was no reason why anyone else should do so .
22 Or the jurors could have taken the path they did in fact elect , which was to go to the very heart of the matter and conclude that these officers were only doing what they have been trained to do and that all the famous video footage demonstrated was that they had indeed gone by the book .
23 Occasionally they would get a little wary and move out of the swim but only to return a few minutes later to the area that they had apparently cleared for spawning .
24 First , it would undo the anti-inflationary credibility that they have painfully won in recent years , and which is the precise benefit offered by EMS membership .
25 The allies calculate that they have already dropped on Iraqi targets about one-quarter of the total tonnage of bombs dropped on Germany in the whole of the second world war , and destroyed one-third of Iraq 's tanks and artillery in Kuwait .
26 A key feature of the battery of initiatives is that they have largely stemmed from a Human Resource Management approach which is directed at employees as individuals .
27 The trouble with the new community councils is that they have largely fallen into the hands of the incoming middle-class whose views are likely to be coincident with the dominant ideology .
28 It is a tribute to the smoothness of the operation that many private pilots do not realise that they have effectively moved into another country 's airspace when they enter the Jersey zone .
29 Is the Minister aware that an Essex GP is calling on national health service hospitals in the Mid-Essex health authority to boost incomes by carrying out privately , in pay beds , procedures that they have effectively banned from the NHS ?
30 This probably explains why little children favour tall animals , that they have never seen in reality , to animals that slither and scuffle across the ground .
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