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

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1 And whilst it was never , it could never have been God 's will for Naomi to backslide with Elimelech her husband , and to go into Moab out of the mess that they make of their life , out of the mistakes that they , they perpetrate again and again , God somehow in his graciousness , in his mercy brings goodness from it !
2 That they know of his desolation ,
3 There is also something grammatically unusual ( comparable to the opening of Bleak House ) in the occurrence of a series of parallel graphological sentences which are " defective " in that they consist of noun phrases alone : these are ( 10 ) , ( 11 ) and ( 12 ) , and the same construction is continued in ( 13 ) .
4 It is accepted by the careers service that the figures are rather crude , that they consist of people who register an interest in YT and that there are various problems about counting those people as actual demands for YT places .
5 Of course , you are likely to get some people who say that they thought of it first .
6 It was only after they had worked out the correct tautomeric form of each base and found that adenine is exactly the right shape to pair with thymine ( and guanine with cytosine ) that they thought of Erwin Chargaff 's discovery that DNA always contained equimolar amounts of bases in each of these pairs .
7 Furthermore , and even more important , various writers clearly show that they thought of England as a nation .
8 When I looked at all this stuff , it came to me that it was very interesting that they thought of Beauty as beautiful and Cruelty as cruel .
9 When I looked at all this stuff , it came to me that it was very interesting that they thought of beauty as beautiful and cruelty as cruel .
10 Detectives working on the case are working on the theory that they died of hypothermia or suffocation or a combination of both .
11 They reported that they knew of no matter involving her in any way and asked for a description of the white identification cards .
12 Even employers who steadfastly denied that they would ever use such a method usually indicated that they knew of those who did .
13 What is most worrying about these two episodes is that they smack of an orchestrated campaign on the part of the English rugby powers-that-be to create added tension between nations , for which Brian Moore is singularly well-equipped to be the aggressive mouthpiece .
14 I sensed that they approved of him whole-heartedly , and that by comparison I was no longer the blue-eyed boy of the family : I did not come up to scratch .
15 So I was able to release these two successfully , and had the satisfaction of knowing that they approved of the site I 'd chosen .
16 It is said of some speeches that they smell of the lamp .
17 It was an odd fact that they spoke of him in terms of discovering a new talent — a new star who had emerged quite suddenly — and apparently unaware that he was a veteran of a string of past films .
18 I divined that they spoke of the woman who was on trial for her life in Geneva on the morrow .
19 The slow rate of industrial growth in France and relative lag within an industrialising Europe at the formative period of trade unions meant that they consisted of relatively skilled workers employed in comparatively small-scale enterprises .
20 He argued that they consisted of a material substance , the ‘ germ plasm ’ , which transmitted characters from parents to offspring via the nucleus of the egg and sperm cells .
21 Now no level headed business man in his right senses would recommend that they dispose of any part of it for a temporary , permanent gipsy site or whatever you like to call it .
22 Some , such as Schmenner ( 1987 ) , feel so strongly about this that they talk of ‘ the black holes of cost accounting ’ .
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