Example sentences of "[art] [noun] that [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | There they give just the same protection to their new owners as they did to the jellyfish that developed them . |
| 2 | The hasty note , the spluttering pen , the exasperated correction , the careful clerkly hand , the grandiloquent flourish , the obsequious subscription , the torn seal , the glint of sand still held in the writing from the hand that strewed it centuries ago — all these and much else bring me into close company with the past , more than the rooms in which men sat , the streets they walked , the clothes they wore or the trinkets that adorned them . |
| 3 | The bosses of a troubled firm and the shareholders that appoint them choose between chapter 11 and workouts . |
| 4 | Youngest of the three were the ‘ Pre-Puberty ’ boys aged ten to thirteen ; they were to be taught ‘ the true facts of their origin , of their life development , and of the dangers that surround them … ’ . |
| 5 | In America small town-dumps have been closed , or sold by the cities that owned them to private operators . |
| 6 | Erm , and neither of them have been brought here , they 've done the bit that suits them , of of of civilianising the the the er crime prevention officers but the bit that actually needed doing they 've not done |
| 7 | It is an atavistic reaction , born partly of disappointment that decades of believing that infectious diseases are a danger past and partly from the underlying despair of those infected with HIV and the anger of the groups that represent them . |
| 8 | Pious it may sound , but I do actually believe that there is a sense in which a group of students do collectively know much of what they need to know about learning : the problem of the PGCE year is to give them confidence that they know ; and the experience that knowing they can successfully act on their knowledge . |
| 9 | For ants , matricide is an act of special genetic madness and formidable indeed must be the drug that drives them to it . |
| 10 | The government says schools like Pate 's are better-off out of local authority control … but admit that the school has had it 's hands tied by the rules that say they ca n't spend more on teachers than the county council will allow.The governments proposing a review of the regulations system in 1994 but for teachers at Pate 's who 're facing redundancy and pupils a drop in educational standards this could be too long a wait . |
| 11 | Figure 1 shows several of the most elementary transformations together with the rules that generate them . |
| 12 | But if as a Westerner you can not read the abacus , or the scales , it is bad luck , because the assumption is that everyone shares the skills that enable them to do this . |
| 13 | 's Thus the women who stayed at work sometimes acquired the skills that made them " fully " trained in the trade . |
| 14 | The only thing they lost was the toss of the coin that decided they would play at Turf Moor again on Monday . |
| 15 | That put Swansea 8–6 in front at half-time , but even then the Aussies could n't have expected the storm that awaited them in the second half . |
| 16 | FED UP with being Beatles copyists , the Stones invented the riff that would sustain them forever , flipped the finger to the authorities that wanted them jailed , punched hippies in the throat and threw the blues into a seething vat of hydrochloric sex acid . |
| 17 | The thread that bound them had snapped with one expert tug . |
| 18 | Most of life , after all , is spent within four walls , and the space they define , the objects that fill them , the prospects on which they open , inevitably influence and express our consciousness . |
| 19 | Victorian writers often present themselves as speaking from their fireside to those of their readers , while the stories they tell , like those of Dickens 's narrator , Master Humphrey , may be prompted by the objects that surround them . |
| 20 | Like light , they carry energy away from the objects that emit them . |
| 21 | For humanities students , as for science students , the values that attracted them to a subject were values which were also important to them as individuals . |
| 22 | The players become cold and indifferent when they do not follow the soloist directly ; the stick that directs them humiliates them , takes away their natural wish to excel … |
| 23 | They remained as they were ; in some fashion they were communing , and I could sense from my vantage point the necessity that linked them . |
| 24 | ‘ We are the part that allows them to retain their customers , ’ Heggie says . |
| 25 | We should not be bothered by safeguarding entrenched institutions , nor about winners or losers , but by how better to persuade tourists to come to Scotland and how to help the industry that makes them welcome . |
| 26 | It is true that , by contrast with those that constitute ‘ imaginary things ’ , the ideas that constitute ‘ real things ’ are , for Berkeley , independent of the human mind : they are not subject to the voluntary control of the mind that perceives them . |
| 27 | The principal purpose of this book is to examine Ronald Reagan 's efforts to deal with these problems ; to examine the techniques he and his staff used as they sought to break free from the ties that bound them ; and to assess how successful Reagan was in mastering the system of government and in achieving his policy objectives . |
| 28 | OK , there might n't perhaps be all that much left over now from the early joys of their marriage ; yet , in an odd sort of way , the longer they 'd abjured the divorce-courts , the stronger had grown the ties that bound them together : home , children , friends , memoria , insurance policies ; and above all , perhaps , the sheer length — the ever-increasing length — of the time they 'd spent together as man and wife . |
| 29 | IT 'S the rematch of the decade — the Buffalo Bills against the side that made them look like schoolboys in Superbowl XXVII , the Dallas Cowboys . |
| 30 | His dilated pupils told one story , the honesty of the eyes that enclosed them another . |