Example sentences of "[vb pp] that they [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It was not supposed that they dealt at arm 's length .
2 It has also been claimed that they acted as Rome 's representatives in areas devoid of large towns or cities , or military garrisons , but this hardly equates with the known distribution of most of the British-based officials in or near auxiliary forts .
3 Nottinghamshire County Council wo n't confirm what the latest allegations are about but it 's been reported that they centre on fraud and sexual harassment at Redoaks .
4 Nottinghamshire County Council wo n't confirm what the latest allegations are about but it 's reported that they centre on fraud and sexual abuse at Redoaks .
5 Consequently , it is suggested that land cultivation grants in the LFA remain withdrawn and that drainage grants are reduced to 30% under both AHDS and AHGS schemes in the LFA except in the proposed Marginal Zone ( the least handicapped Article 3(4) LFA land ) where it is recommended that they revert to the level obtaining outside the LFA ( 22 ½%),; reflecting the increased financial benefit likely to accrue from drainage schemes on such lower elevation , least handicapped land .
6 Some have been toppled , and some are so eroded that they appear to be nothing more than wind-scoured boulders .
7 One of the things we said the worst training session can be is going over stuff that I already have done , already known , what training have I received that they received in the past ?
8 Meetings are , of course , an important part of work ; indeed some people have calculated that they spend at least 60 per cent of their time in meetings of one sort or another .
9 Although the Schools generally are based in cities , it is intended that they cater for participants from the surrounding ‘ region ’ .
10 When one begins to take passages of Scripture and to ask how those can be so presented that they speak with equal force and with the same intended meaning as when they were originally communicated , all kinds of possibilities emerge .
11 Paddy quickly took command , but with most of their gear missing and two men so badly injured that they had to be left behind , there was nothing for it but to try to make the rendezvous with the LRDG .
12 It is taken for granted that they bring with them their housekeeping skills .
13 She took it for granted that they talked about ‘ the handover ’ .
14 At first interview they had said that they worried about Mrs White , especially when they could not get over to see her , and that it was a bit of a strain on them both because neither of them was ‘ in perfect health ’ .
15 Moreover I do not think that it can be said that they succeed in righting the imbalance in the symbolism of Christianity .
16 Although slides and photos have been the traditional medium , and are widely accepted as substitutes for the landscape ( Shuttleworth , 1980b ) , Kreimer ( 1977 ) has also argued that they need to be put more fully into their context .
17 Any erm deficiency at the end of the financial year was made up by a rate demand , erm so i the it was n't the same in all municipal undertakings , some of them were allowed to carry forward their balances but Ipswich , whether it was erm , er by law or er a , oh I do n't know what it be , perhaps needed that they got to be , the erm balance of the year had to be balanced at the end of the year , so you had a rate demand and of course that rate demand went on to the next year 's rates .
18 It is thought that they developed in the oceans , possibly as a result of chance combinations of atoms into large structures , called macromolecules , which were capable of assembling other atoms in the ocean into similar structures .
19 All I can say is that in a period of two years erm of five , in that time there was five sets of redundancies at erm Hatfield , there are two occasions we were told that they went through it and agree with the unions that there 'd be no more for twelve months and one occasion there was another chap in three months , so if you believe anything that the P A E people there , you know , you really want to wear dark glasses but could I ask you a question , I understand that there is something going on at work with Richard at and my guess is , is , erm that sort of job which we are , there is some form of development plans going forward .
20 So it is important to remember that schools are not factories — however frequently we are told that they have to ‘ deliver ’ the curriculum , and however deliberately we are exposed to the pressures of competition and market forces .
21 It is assumed to be adversarial , whether the couple feel adversarial or not , whether or not they have specifically agreed that they want to be sensibly amicable .
22 Soldiers initially alleged that they fired at the car after it had driven through an army checkpoint and hit a soldier .
23 Interviews with doctors who practise euthanasia have shown that they resort to LAWER when they have neither the courage nor cruelty to talk openly with patients , relatives , or colleagues .
24 Analyses of outcropping Carboniferous shales have shown that they range from lean to rich .
25 Experience has shown that they call for more work from officials , and that they meet with resistance from officials ( see Jenkins , 1978 ) .
26 Selectors should also avoid books which are so tightly bound that they have to be held forcibly open .
27 It can be demonstrated that they go beyond mere autorepresentation , and that they contextualize in a variety of ways , as the recent autobiographical texts demonstrate .
28 And others were so deeply affected that they withdrew from the community , shutting themselves away in their homes .
29 I used to take them home on quite a number of occasions if I 'd known that they lived in the immediate vicinity .
30 We may not have known that they lay beneath the surface of our lives .
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