Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun pl] that their " in BNC.
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1 | On March 21 Collor warned employers who dismissed workers that their books would be subject to " hostile inspection " and that they would be considered " unpatriotic " and guilty of " sabotaging " the economic programme . |
2 | Dr Toyoda dismissed fears that their dream of conquering the European market could be destroyed by the recession . |
3 | Dr Toyoda dismissed fears that their dream of conquering the European market could be destroyed by the recession . |
4 | FILM director Woody Allen 's young lover yesterday dismissed rumours that their affair was on the wane . |
5 | Yesterday , it emerged that members of his union and the National Union of Civil and Public Servants who work in the government 's Business Statistics Office in Newport , Gwent , expressed worries that their work could be ‘ prostituted ’ and ‘ manipulated ’ by politicians after the CSO was moved from the control of the Cabinet Office to the Treasury . |
6 | Even during the height of enthusiasm for the monarchy in the first half of the 1680s , Anglican polemicists offered hints that their loyalty to the Church came before their loyalty to the Crown . |
7 | Joan Daniels reminded teachers that their fees were due and that prompt payment would be very helpful . |
8 | After watching film of the captured pilots , Bush condemned their " brutal treatment " but gave assurances that their possible presence in target areas would not affect the prosecution of the bombing campaign . |
9 | ( I subsequently had ( 27 April ) a site meeting with an EGBT official , who completed a proposal form on the spot — however , the funding aspects are not my main concern here ; suffice it to say , 1 ) that I have always been confident that funding would be secured from one source or another , and 2 ) that my direct approach to SNH was done only because I had indications that their project approvals took months rather than weeks — something I have subsequently been assured is not true ) . |