Example sentences of "the [noun pl] that [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The bosses of a troubled firm and the shareholders that appoint them choose between chapter 11 and workouts . |
| 3 | 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 … ’ . |
| 4 | In America small town-dumps have been closed , or sold by the cities that owned them to private operators . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Figure 1 shows several of the most elementary transformations together with the rules that generate them . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 's Thus the women who stayed at work sometimes acquired the skills that made them " fully " trained in the trade . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Like light , they carry energy away from the objects that emit them . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | His dilated pupils told one story , the honesty of the eyes that enclosed them another . |
| 17 | Erm , well if we have to pay twenty pounds extra for erm , an extra television , what about the shops that sell them ? |
| 18 | Alike in size and general appearance , but not in the guards that operated them . |
| 19 | The muscles are strengthened by an increased flow of blood , as are the ligaments that attach them to the bones . |
| 20 | It has been argued that very few electors usually read them and that many of the commitments made do not enjoy widespread support among voters , even among those voting for the parties that issued them . |
| 21 | and vote for the parties that excludes them , but that mean the sort of thing he he does n't make much of that . |
| 22 | After that she stood in a hazy dream , listening to the words that made them husband and wife . |
| 23 | Only the bigger parties are sure to receive the bonuses that provide them with over-representation . |
| 24 | The quality of edges , and therefore the lines that express them , is conditioned by the manner in which a surface retreats from the observer . |
| 25 | More than 20 plasterers were resident in Bristol in these years and what seems to have happened was that the two Tyndalls brooded over rolls of Chinese wallpaper and popular books of decorative devices like The Modern Builder 's Assistant ( 1757 ) , picking up and choosing the themes and the motifs that pleased them . |
| 26 | The key point about self-assembly is that the forms generated derive from the nature of the elements that make them up . |
| 27 | In urban areas this means protecting the elements that make them attractive , whilst seeking to improve those areas that would benefit from regeneration . |
| 28 | But it is thought , however , that these few people do n't have the antibodies that protect them from the toxin if it is produced . ’ |
| 29 | We will continue our efforts to break down the barriers that prevent them from competing freely throughout Europe and in the wider world . |
| 30 | It is caused by a loss of calcium in the bones that makes them become softer , porous and weaker . |