Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] that [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Capital values at least have the benefit of being related to a market , although I am sure that many owners will seek to convince their bank managers that their property should be in band H while they seek to convince the rating authorities that their property should really be in band F. |
| 2 | I want to reassure Esquire readers that their penises are safe . ’ |
| 3 | By mid — 1943 it was made very clear to the Main Force Groups that their " selection " was unacceptable as I sent more crews back than we kept . |
| 4 | Daedalus reasons that their nerve-endings must contain some heavy metal that absorbs X-rays by this sort of mechanism ; the captured energy then fires the nerve . |
| 5 | Neil Kinnock former idealist who realised that he has to temper idealism with reality and also persuade his dyed in the wool colleagues that their ideas were out of date . |
| 6 | Kenya has been so dependent on official aid and structural adjustment loans that its government dared not go in for countertrading — despite the fact that , like Brazil , it was surrounded by poor , debt-ridden neighbours . |
| 7 | Letterman confided to me after one of our tennis games that my pieces in Manhattan had always struck him as somewhat trivial — artifices — until he read my piece ‘ Drancy , Ante-chamber of Death ’ . |
| 8 | One manager was primarily responsible for securing the new product line , and for persuading management colleagues that their novel approach to organizational design and management style was going to be effective . |
| 9 | We know from the study of modern depressive individuals that their illness , if it is of the type termed manic-depressive , can take a sometimes sudden and completely opposite course . |
| 10 | When we were about nine and ten and a half we had somebody living in because there were an awful lot of evening meetings that my father had to go to and usually mother went with him . |
| 11 | ‘ We can accept the white silk sheets that your mistress sent , but not the painting Tony sent ! ’ |
| 12 | He seemed to be telling team mates that his parachute had not performed correctly . |
| 13 | He left behind him a police force outraged by his treachery and a judicial establishment unable to believe that , for the first time , a South African policeman was prepared to tell all about the dirty tricks departments , the hit squads , the assassination detachments and the enormous , shabby , meritorious , violent conspiracy so interwoven into the blood and guts of the South African security services that its agents can no longer tell the difference between criminal pursuits and active police work . |
| 14 | Then there 's a fuzzy bit I ca n't remember — oh yes , it 's not a lake , it 's the sea , with tremendous waves , and I 'm still on my front looking downwards , but the people have disappeared , and the sea 's full of the furniture at Cal 's house — the grandfather clock that chimes every quarter hour , the gold velour sofa , all those tiny thimbles and china bells that her mum dusts every day of her life , even their bath and loo in trendy slate-blue — and everything is swirling round as if a great Sea God was stirring it like a pot full of stew . |
| 15 | Here they behaved in such a way as to convince the ASS officers that their lives and those of others were under threat , hence the decision to fire . |
| 16 | Reagan was perceived by many to possess the leadership qualities that his opponent lacked . |
| 17 | On 17 July 1991 D. began staying access with his mother , and the mother was telling the social services and the guardian ad litem who had been appointed in the juvenile court proceedings that her relationship with the father was over . |
| 18 | Erm , perhaps it will be Mr 's policy to impune all district auditors that their findings are not worth erm , troubling with . |
| 19 | The Dutch , for example , had what at least from their own point of view were admirable and generous plans for what might have turned out to be an independent Indonesia ; but , like the French , had failed to persuade their Republican adversaries that their ultimate freedom was assured in European hands . |
| 20 | The problem came to light when an off-duty policeman complained to consumer watchdogs that his sons were ‘ overcharged . ’ |
| 21 | Remember when comparing prices that your COSMOS FUNBREAK holiday already includes your entry ticket to the EURO DISNEYLAND Theme Park — ( worth over £19* for an adult 's 1 Day Pass and over £34* for an adult 's 2 Day Pass ) , guaranteeing you entry into the Theme Park . |
| 22 | It is significant that certain of the institutionalized practices that are commonly found in developing countries and that have evolved as a protection for family well-being actually impair the quality of family life and add to the life hazards that its members experience . |
| 23 | But , what with today 's theatre seat prices , the difficulty of parking the car , and the limitations of radio and television , who would not pay the £5 subscription 10 or 20 times over to bring back the stay-at-home multiple choice facilities that our grandparents enjoyed . |
| 24 | Not only can I confirm my hon. Friend 's figures , I can go further and tell him that an additional £115 million has been invested by the three health authorities that his patients use in Cambridge , Peterborough , and West Norfolk and Wisbech . |
| 25 | The urgency of the problem is compounded by three factors : the increasing world population ; social , economic and political pressures for economic expansion in industrialised countries ; increasing awareness in Third World countries that their economic situation could be improved by increasing their energy consumption . |
| 26 | The administration also took note of the fears of American oil companies that their interests might suffer elsewhere in the Middle East as a result of the nationalization of the British company . |
| 27 | Capital values at least have the benefit of being related to a market , although I am sure that many owners will seek to convince their bank managers that their property should be in band H while they seek to convince the rating authorities that their property should really be in band F. |
| 28 | Wearing these badges , the overwhelmingly white visitors roam about the galleries , from one installation condemning the racism of white America to a humming collection of heating ducts that its creator calls a model of a nuclear reactor . |
| 29 | Another problem is the general feeling amongst Health Service employees and their property advisors that their listed buildings are liabilities rather than assets . |
| 30 | It was a dramatic and impractical outfit of a kind I only expected to see on the male models who posed in the more outlandish fashion magazines that our rich clients brought aboard Wavebreaker , yet Jesse Isambard Sweetman managed to wear the elaborate style with an elegant insouciance . |