Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] that their " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have had reports from a high percentage of attendees that their levels of self-esteem and confidence have increased considerably . |
| 2 | So it was — as Steve Gould put it — that Charles Lyell " managed to convince future generations of geologists that their science had begun with him " . |
| 3 | They did not have the money to stay out on strike or take other sorts of actions that their employers opposed … . |
| 4 | In fact it is a characteristic of teachers that their spirits vary quite markedly . |
| 5 | There is no doubt among those who have been given the gift of tongues that their prayer life and their ability to praise God in all circumstances has grown dramatically . |
| 6 | They exchanged addresses , bits of old sausage , gave each other presents of socks that their wives and sweethearts had knitted , and hoped and pretended , that it was all over . |
| 7 | Similarly , the insistence of lords that their tenants perform their feudal duty of watch and ward ( guet et garde ) , or carry out necessary repairs to castle wall or ditch , as their predecessors had customarily done , was an insistence which reflected economic necessity . |
| 8 | It is , however , illustrative of a growing feeling amongst Germans that their political leaders are out of touch . |
| 9 | Dead metaphors have in common with idioms that their constituent elements do not , in the straightforward sense , yield recurrent semantic contrasts : consider , for instance , the contrast stone / knob in We shall leave no — unturned . |
| 10 | Official moves to placate the students with promises that their complaints would be looked into eventually succeeded . |
| 11 | All Wednesday evening and into the night , companies trickled in with announcements that their kit was being used as part of Nynex Corp 's new Nynex Enterprise Services high capacity digital private line service ( CI No 2,148 ) : the system will use more than 100 Sparcserver systems from Sun Microsystems Computer Corp to provide the services , and they will use Tivoli Systems Inc 's software to manage the services ; Dynatech Corp 's Parallax Graphics unit supplied its XVideo system to display digital video coming from up to two channels of live video display and one-channel video output , and Synernetics Inc , based in North Billerica , Massachusetts says it will supply a switching hub for the Enterprise Fibre Distributed Data Interface part of the system . |
| 12 | The overcharging has been revealed after complaints from companies that their bills include lines , equipment and services not being used , he said . |
| 13 | Wesleyans had smarted most from criticisms that their ministers were neither educated nor cultured and admitted the need for a ‘ cultivated as well as a consecrated ministry ’ , a ministry of young men of ‘ piety and culture ’ with ‘ a more thorough training … and a more complete equipment for the Ministry ’ . |
| 14 | Scientists will have to make their priorities clear , in terms that their audience — whether professionals in another discipline or the general public — can appreciate . |
| 15 | Not least , they serve as a warning to firms that are building dominant positions in markets that their conduct is likely to be scrutinized if their market share crosses a given threshold . |
| 16 | Quite how the governors were to explain to parents that their school 's results were poor because of their own poor economic circumstances was not explained . |
| 17 | It 's also a source of distress to parents that their daughters could n't feel able to confide in them , but it happens . |
| 18 | The shortage of Pentiums is so bad that those that have them are said to be ‘ tea-bagging ’ them — moving their precious chips from system to system to prove to customers that their box works , then quickly back into the safe . |
| 19 | Second , on a tour of the provinces in the summer of 1858 Alexander made plain to backwoodsmen that their committees should take a positive view of the reformist enterprise . |
| 20 | The menopause may be a marker event , signalling to women that their social desirability is terminating . |
| 21 | What we 've , so what it means is we have to make it clear to those people who are authorised to sign off invoices that their signature not only authorises accounts to pay it but also signifies that the delivery has been checked and is erm , is adequate . |
| 22 | This would have led to science becoming a babel ; but it shows the widespread fear among chemists that their science would be ‘ reduced ’ to something else by armchair theorists who did not know how to hold test-tubes or blow glass T-pieces . |
| 23 | It urged countries to revert to containing the disease at levels that their own general health services , rudimentary though may of them were , could cope with . |
| 24 | The enlightenment derives from the need for commercial success , from the necessary recognition by members that their business can not succeed if they take more out of it than it can stand . |
| 25 | The Special Claims Control squads also harass women directly by threats that their benefit will be stopped and with soft talk about men sponging off women . |
| 26 | Instead of this , the impression was given by ministers that their previous doubts about the Maastricht Treaty had been swept away by the Danish vote . |