Example sentences of "that it be their [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Now the poor are made to feel ashamed , that it 's their own fault , some shortcoming which they have .
2 In this country , it is often assumed that teachers are a law unto themselves once they are inside the classroom and that it is their professional training and sense of professional responsibility that are the chief influences on their practice .
3 The girls insist that it is their fundamental right to wear their scarves at all times , just as some of their fellow students wear skullcaps or the cross .
4 They will inevitably feel that it is their own fault — that they are in some way ‘ bad ’ or deserving of such treatment .
5 I shall argue that it is their particular use of rhetoric that permits this .
6 A second difficulty with this most obvious method of testing is that , even if a preponderance of Protestants were to emerge , it would not follow that it was their religious convictions that supplied the motivation for their science .
7 Would the rest of Britain simply accept that it was their democratic right to self-determination that was being exercised ?
8 While Billy was at the bar ordering another round , Yanto told the girls about the motorbike and explained that it was their first outing on the machine .
9 I used to tell trainees that it was their first aptitude test to see if they could make it over Stamford Street ! ’ was not too upset to find that she will have to devise a new aptitude test from the summer .
10 The Times recorded that this was their sixth partnership of over 150 ; the Telegraph that it was their seventh century stand ; while the Guardian made it the eighth .
11 The children learned from the example of adults that it was their supreme duty to protect the Royal Family from the degradation of other people 's curiosity .
12 Although a degree of corruption was inevitable , it seems in Æthelred 's reign to have gone so far beyond what many of his subjects considered acceptable that it was their main preoccupation when they considered having him back .
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