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

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1 The SFO had alleged that they secretly arranged for their own companies to buy shares , thereby raising the take-up level announced to other investors .
2 These rocks , called dacites , are often so viscous that they scarcely flow at all , and merely heave themselves sluggishly to the surface to form an irregularly flat-topped mound over the vent .
3 The individual who 's gon na be assertive is likely to be open and honest or likely to admit things that are not so good at honest those , but they 're not gon na necessarily apologise for those , they 're gon na treat those as statements of fact and they 're certainly gon na try and involve other people and actually say what do you think this , what are some ways forward er but it does n't mean that they 're gon na be walked all over and they still stand up for the things that they firmly believe in .
4 The sight of all which struck them with consternation or a kind of horror that they incontinently gave over search and with the utmost hurry and dread , throwing earth and turf to fill up the pit they made , they departed , having neither of them the courage to enter or even inspect into the further circumstances of the place ’ .
5 They do n't occur in any other plant families , and it seems almost certain that they somehow got into the pea family by cross-infection from animals , viruses perhaps acting as intermediaries .
6 The addition of internal discriminations within the nervous system adds nothing relevant to this , unless the internal discriminations really possessed semantic properties , so that they somehow contained in themselves a real description of the world .
7 A common criticism of both these theories is that they simply look at the end result of education ; they are examples of an ‘ input/output ’ model .
8 He claimed that they soon adapted to life in captivity and became useful pest-controllers .
9 The voting-oriented positive approaches to redistribution , given the comments above , may seem on stronger ground in explaining policy in that they largely rely on a narrow self-interest motive to make them tick .
10 editor of the Eatanswill Independent , a fire-eater and a Buff ( Whig ) , whose opinions so inflame his rival Pott , editor of the Blue ( Tory ) Eatanswill Gazette , that they eventually come to blows .
11 This was very much the implication which was drawn from Darwin 's work by those anthropologists who published immediately after The Origin of Species , so that they enthusiastically talked of natural selection and the survival of the fittest in their outlines of human history .
12 In an urgent ruling yesterday , the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg ordered the government immediately to repeal specific clauses of the act which relate to the Spanish presence , on the grounds that they illegally discriminate against foreigners .
13 They declared that they both agreed on the need for further reductions in their respective nuclear stockpiles , but that they had not yet agreed on which types of weapons should be reduced and the speed of reductions .
14 They have precious little in common , except that they both worked in the construction industry before journeying to London .
15 Computer graphics should now make the same kind of inroads into feature film production that they already have in television .
16 It must be made crystal clear that they must withdraw from the land that they presently occupy in Croatia before there can be progress towards a lasting settlement .
17 That many of his clients saw him in the former category is suggested by the fact that they frequently passed to him details of their restless and unsuitable executives in the hope that he would redeploy them .
18 She displays how to build living structures of pictorial importance by weaving individual dancers or groups deliberately and solemnly so that they frequently pause in a meaningful picture of distinctive shape .
19 It is true that they frequently spoke in terms of a division between Whigs and Tories , especially in Anne 's reign ; yet there were times when they rejected this language in favour of a distinction between Court and Country parties or even some multi-party formulation .
20 A spokesman confirmed that they probably come from the Bremen Kunstverein , from which fifty paintings , 1,715 drawings and 3,000 prints went missing at the end of the war , and that experts are still examining them .
21 The observations indicate that they probably consist of nearly pure sulphuric acid ( H 2 SO 4 ) .
22 Many people have exercised their right to buy homes that they previously tenanted from local authorities .
23 But the social tact of the Masai was most impressively demonstrated by the fact that they rarely asked for anything .
24 One of the most popular misconceptions about the past is that our ancestors were rooted in one particular place , that they rarely ventured beyond their restricted horizons and that consequently they were limited in their outlook and in their knowledge of life beyond the parish .
25 The Sunshine Girls were the only troupe to travel as far as St Petersburg and Budapest but it was noticeable that they rarely worked at the Winter Gardens which was Jennie 's stronghold .
26 Although Montag himself is not involved in the television very much , Mildred is an avid viewer and this affects their relationship as husband and wife to the extent that they rarely talk to each other .
27 The Puritan missionaries thought the heathens did n't deserve to exist and the heathens were so compliant that they duly dwindled towards extinction .
28 Another achievement , which both Christine and Bernie are proud of , is the ban on hunting on council-owned land that they successfully campaigned for back in 1982 .
29 The big Gloucester builder was so badly battered in the World Cup campaign that he had to take six months off work — and he and self-employed forward Paul Rendall lost so much money that they successfully appealed for a hardship payment .
30 Whether one believes that ideas of morality determine the content of criminal law or that they instead serve as justification for the state or a social class to exert economic and political control , the relationship between law and morals is important .
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