Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] they [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report published by the Indonesian Government and the action that they subsequently took — for example , against certain military commanders involved in the incident — show that they are not concerned simply with a cover-up . |
| 2 | Our participants had the clear perception that they also have powers within the classroom , conceived as a specific social setting , and they act to establish themselves and their powers . |
| 3 | As peregrines have been known to dive at a speed of 180 miles an hour , they hit their prey with such force that they often break its neck , and sometimes even break the head clean off . |
| 4 | Today 's inquest was told that two grandchildren of the murdered woman were so close to the shooting that they too were hit . |
| 5 | Individuals who could be held responsible for the negligence in question ( for example , if it were an audit , those who were in charge of it , and perhaps the head of the audit function in the firm , and even its managing director ) might still be sued individually ( managing partners may feel as a result that they personally would have little to gain from incorporation ) . |
| 6 | Small peasant farmers can not compete with capitalist concerns , with the result that they often lose their land to them and end up working for them or migrating to the towns in search of wage labour . |
| 7 | Soviet officials are taking the cruise-missile threat very seriously , though , bearing in mind that they also face similar weapons carried by B52 bombers and nuclear submarines . |
| 8 | They have suffered a terrible ordeal , and it is my sincere hope that they will find the peace of mind that they so richly deserve . |
| 9 | At the time of the 1835 emancipation , as also at the cessation of apprenticeship in 1838 , abolitionists enacted rituals of triumph and unity , though it was significant for the future that they now acknowledged differences and , ironically , different abolitionists performed different rituals indicative of unity . |
| 10 | The have had er a long grade of time since the complaint was put to the commission , to put a notification in if they wanted to protect their position , but still they could of done so on , on a precautionary basis , and without prejudice basis they have not done so , a longer standing commissioner had invited them to do so ten years ago , they could do so this week on without prejudice basis and that may erm lead to security in the future that they now seek |
| 11 | The Keynes effect and the real-balance effect were regarded as so weak and uncertain in practice that they rarely , if ever , featured in debates on economic policy matters . |
| 12 | But if only now is it God 's intention that they also be admitted to orders , women must necessarily see themselves as some kind of secondary citizens . |
| 13 | Of course , if all had been there the second day the justices could well , and should in my judgment , have invited them to consider the intention that they then had to substitute prohibited steps orders for the sought after care order . |
| 14 | The ones able to secure ‘ sugar daddies ’ fooled the poor men into thinking that there was a Tiller rule that they only go out in twos and threes and so managed to get meals for their best friends as well . |
| 15 | Women are making such progress in the world of French crime that they sometimes seem to be monopolising the police report headlines . |
| 16 | It was a magnificent fightback and such was Welsh distress that they never looked like preventing it . |
| 17 | This fear derives more from a recognition that they often lack the additional personal qualities which they see as necessary for certain types of work , which is why most policemen are reluctant to deal with rape victims or to undertake community and neighbourhood policing . |
| 18 | The rebels were forced to sue for peace — and they received it , but only on condition that they too took the cross . |
| 19 | On the other hand , Hungary , Poland and Czechoslovakia have recently re-formed their agricultural regimes with such rigour that they now have what are effectively free markets in farming . |
| 20 | The net effect of these injunctions ( as well as others we shall meet later ) is to ensure that the natural inability of human beings to respond ‘ perfectly ’ to all situations , however demanding or paradoxical , is construed by those human beings as clear evidence of personal inadequacy : they lack the ability , resilience or ready-made savoir-faire that they somehow ought to have , in limitless supply , if they are to be able to look themselves in the eye in the bathroom mirror each morning . |
| 21 | Several other chairmen wanted a concerted public admission that they too had inadvertently breached the regulations ( and it was indeed difficult to avoid technical breaches of the detailed regulations ) , but the choice was made rather to maintain a prudential low profile . |
| 22 | These are still only marginally emergent , and are under great pressure from the dominant forms of developed capitalist and state-capitalist modes , which often have the additional advantage that they effectively control the production and the directions of the newest technologies . |
| 23 | The forbidding presence of these mercenaries was sufficient to persuade the inhabitants of the citadel that they too would be well advised to join the revolt . |
| 24 | I agree with the hon. Gentleman 's comments about the danger of MacSharry 's proposals , particularly in areas such as Wales , which are so dependent on farmers who are not big farmers in the general sense of the term but who need the support that they now have . |
| 25 | Some farmers have been so convinced by industry-generated publicity over the absence of a proper income that they just have n't bothered declaring any income . |
| 26 | and parents begin to give up on you becoming the little genius that they always hoped you 'd turn out to be ! |
| 27 | In essence we can say that the sentenced prison population is a function of the number of people received into prison and the average length of sentence that they actually serve ( sometimes known as effective sentence length : Fitzmaurice and Pease , 1992 : 575 ) . |
| 28 | When will we have an honest statement from the Government about arms supplies of every kind that they undoubtedly licensed for export to Iraq ? |
| 29 | The big Gloucester builder was so badly battered in the World Cup campaign that he had to take six months off work — and he and self-employed forward Paul Rendall lost so much money that they successfully appealed for a hardship payment . |
| 30 | M M My Lords , i it is important that whatever is taught to a child between the ages of five and eleven that the child is able to benefit from it educationally if the child is , is overloaded as it were by being presented erm a curriculum that they simply can not manage , then that 's going to create confusion , but it 's also important to say that one of the erm er objectives of this whole exercise is to underpin all education , both morally and spiritually and I believe we 're doing a great deal to get that right . |