Example sentences of "[adj] that [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is it about the British that makes them confuse service with servility |
| 2 | The latter are shapes so memorable that knowing they exist matters more than actually seeing them . |
| 3 | He 'd worked for firearms makers Springfield and Samuel Colt before beginning his own company in 1890 , and knew that identical parts could be made to a standard that meant they were interchangeable . |
| 4 | It was a faculty common to all good sailors , the essential extra that enabled them to meet the seas whatever the conditions so that their craft ran straight rather than in the long zig-zags of the helmsman imprisoned by the compass and only reacting to the swing of its needle . |
| 5 | If the algorithms for correction of the above four types of spelling errors were to be applied to our system , it is unlikely that applying them to the highest-rated allowable string ( if there are any allowable strings ) is going to find the intended word . |
| 6 | It was precisely their erudition , their cultivation , their financial security , their disdain for the mediocre that led them to the gas chambers . |
| 7 | What we do n't know is what they had in common that made them end up where they did . ’ |
| 8 | There are two springs in particular that interested them , 200 kilometres north-east of Calcutta and some 30 kilometres apart near Shantiniketan where the Indian poet Tagore lived . |
| 9 | Most discordant twins had one or other antigen , Identical twins who are discordant for diabetes start out with the same susceptibility ; it is only the action of an environmental stimulus on one twin , and its absence on the other that makes them discordant . |
| 10 | They 've become acutely aware that to succeed they need to be more than just well-informed , they need to be well-read in the widest sense . |