Example sentences of "that they [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Critics of the Ellis-Beto era contend that they traded off abuse by staff for abuse by inmates , in order to achieve a controlled and disciplined prison environment . |
| 2 | I do not claim any more for these criteria than that they raise at least the possibility of a belief being affirmable . |
| 3 | Dot did n't want to hurt its face so she placed her knees carefully to one side of the lamb so that they pressed into the sewn field of flowers on the edge . |
| 4 | There is a theory that they brought with them the ancestors of the naturally polled northern breeds such as the Angus and Galloway , but in fact there had been polled cattle in Britain since the Iron Age and they were not necessarily imported — not even from Scandinavia , where many cattle are polled . |
| 5 | The message that they brought to each doorstep , however , required revision several times during the programme . |
| 6 | And she gave the school , no she gave them did that much , that they brought for here school books , and she finished her education in . |
| 7 | Empowering local communities , that 's what really frightens the Tories , because what it means is they 'll never be able to come back with those repressive and regressive policies that they brought in two years ago . |
| 8 | They were busy packing a basket with the things that Sigarup would need , talking quietly , moving back and forth between the two rooms : collecting blankets , cooking pots , a bag of wheat flour , salt and chilli , the cotton tarpaulin that they stretched across upright sticks to make a tent . |
| 9 | Now the audit industry was in favour of that at the time because it saw itself as able to get its fingers into local authority audit so they were prepared to accept that they could do it then , it 's only now er when it 's proposed on what 's been their traditional prerogatives , they er er they audit of banks and private sector er er companies that they balk at the proposition and say ooh it 's horrendous we ca n't do it . |
| 10 | We hope to juxtapose paintings that they painted at the same site at the same time ’ . |
| 11 | ( 1981 ) list 15 predictions that they derive from their conditioned attention theory and point out that many of these have received empirical confirmation . |
| 12 | Homology between DRP and dystrophin extends over their entire length , suggesting that they derive from a common ancestral gene . |
| 13 | One is led to ask whether it is the attention to and general nature of such claims that first needs explaining , especially when it appears that they derive from such a specific social group , namely those in a western academic sub-culture who could arguably be said to have their own interests at stake . |
| 14 | The answer to the question whether motivation arousal patterns derive from one 's past or from the situation in which one finds oneself is that they derive from both . |
| 15 | One reason for them being so common is that they reproduce at a high rate , and their high reproduction rate is one of the main topics of this chapter . |
| 16 | ‘ I take it , from the fact that they remarked on it , that they 're not Copt themselves ? ’ |
| 17 | Initially , they simply put together a series of guidelines , concerned with scale , height and the street network between the buildings , which amounted to two sheets of paper that they sent to the developer . |
| 18 | In the event the justices had not completed their task by 12 noon and it was at 12.45 p.m. that they returned to court to state their reasons . |
| 19 | All 27,000 dismissed and striking workers would be permitted to return to employment in the same job and at the same grade and wage as at the beginning of the strike , provided that they returned to work in the period from Jan. 31 to Feb. 6 . |
| 20 | All the same , solitary bucks — if they can find no existing holes to make use of — will sometimes scratch out short tunnels for shelter , although it is not work that they tackle at all seriously . |
| 21 | Now she and Philip create designer jewellery in their spare time that they sell through galleries and museums in Britain and America . |
| 22 | ‘ The programme enables pupils to gain practical experience of the world of work , ’ she said ‘ and we hope that they return to school more confident and mature and better equipped to make informed decisions about their future . ’ |
| 23 | Many people find that they return to the same company over and over again , or take up a permanent job offer at a place they have been working for a while . |
| 24 | In addition they are improving the environment that they return to when tools are downed each evening . |
| 25 | Party loyalty is by no means an irrelevant factor in explaining and predicting the behaviour of congressmen , but on any issue that they perceive to be contentious within their districts nobody expects a member of Congress to put party before district . |
| 26 | But there are erm others who , for whom teaching is the major aspect and the major important role that they perceive for themselves erm but there is always a balance and on balance , taken over the whole system , I should think that most people spend fifty or sixty per cent of their time on research . |
| 27 | With the first morning pull the dogs become so excited that they shit within metres . |
| 28 | It is by no means clear that many newcomers are even aware of the feelings that they arouse from time to time in the local population . |
| 29 | Ullman therefore suggests ( contra empiricists and Piaget ) that a baby — or , one might add , a kingfisher — can see that two appearances are views of one and the same object even if it has never seen that sort of object before , and even if it has no tactile or manipulative evidence suggesting that they pertain to one and the same thing . |
| 30 | Flexing his fingers so that they popped with the cold , he looked around tensely . |