Example sentences of "that they [vb base] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only purpose of this sweet liquid is to please insects so greatly that they become addicted to it and devote all possible time during the flowering season to collecting it . |
| 2 | The classification schemes that have been considered so far are general bibliographic classification schemes in that they attempt to encompass all of knowledge . |
| 3 | From the creative user 's point of view , the problem with ‘ lifestyle ’ approaches is that they attempt to generalize , and by generalizing they lose the fine detail that distinguishes habits and attitudes in any individual market . |
| 4 | For that is how they are supposed to function , that is how they publicly claim that they attempt to function , and , as we shall see below , that is the normal way to justify their authority ( i.e. not by assuming that they always succeed in acting in the ideal way , but on the ground that they do so often enough to justify their power ) , and naturally authorities are judged and their performance evaluated by comparing them to the ideal . |
| 5 | The form that they take depends upon the species of waterlily from which the variety has been derived . |
| 6 | It is , rather , that the errors that they make permeate their philosophy of mathematics , their account of its foundations , of what their subject is about , and in what direction it should develop . |
| 7 | The use or significance of ‘ stills ’ and long shots in this context is that they tend to lessen the impact of the coverage , making it less attractive and exciting , thus diminishing , so the argument goes , the likelihood of imitation . |
| 8 | Follow-up of these students shows that they tend to remain in nursing much longer that the younger applicants . |
| 9 | Nonconformists ' ‘ strength and … weakness ’ he claimed , ‘ lie in the fact that they tend to reflect contemporary social and political movements ’ . |
| 10 | And indeed as people get old or ill I find again from personal experience that they tend to give things to several people . |
| 11 | Can I just say , first of all , that I am the odd-speaker out in this gathering because virtually everyone else who has addressed you has done so from the point of view of their own particular expertise and occupation and those of you who know health councils will appreciate that they tend to take a pretty robust view of private care as it impinges on anything to do with health . |
| 12 | One disadvantage of general library skills workbooks is that they tend to teach the use of the library and its resources in isolation from other studies . |
| 13 | These stations are run by boards appointed by the state governments so that they tend to act as mouthpieces of the respective state governments . |
| 14 | Good spatial resolution means that they tend to respond to high spatial frequencies . |
| 15 | These are directed to control conflict — though in fact they make it so much a part of the formal structure of the organisation that they tend to legitimise and even perpetuate it . |
| 16 | A further reason why such dichotomies as are embodied in the quantitative–qualitative distinction should not be allowed to dominate our thinking is that they tend to obscure the sheer and sometimes bewildering variety of materials that can qualify as data . |
| 17 | First , when we examine a very wide range of psychotic traits in normal people , using questionnaires that contain different kinds of item , we find that they tend to group into clusters closely corresponding to the different ways in which clinical psychosis manifests itself : in emotion , in perception and thinking , and in socially deviant behaviour . |
| 18 | The problem is one which affects all libraries which follow a responsible programme of binding , since , for reasons both of conservation and security , serial parts must be bound as early as possible , with the result that they tend to become unavailable for consultation at a time when demand for them is relatively high . |
| 19 | Perhaps one of the most disturbing elements of black youth 's attraction to sport is that they tend to eschew more ‘ earthly ’ pursuits and go in search of sporting success . |
| 20 | Inevitably this affects their attitude to these people so that they tend to assume that all their visits are time-wasting . |
| 21 | Brazil 's informatics policy has obliged industry leaders like IBM and DEC to adopt policies in Brazil that they tend to avoid elsewhere . |
| 22 | Most people are aware , for instance , that a major link between those who suffer heart attacks is that they tend to have a high level of cholesterol in the blood . |
| 23 | ‘ What is advantageous about cheaper guitars is that they tend to have one sound , and when you plug 'em in you either like the sound or you do n't . |
| 24 | Let us be clear about the facts of the election that they tend to neglect . |
| 25 | Many people these days have a rather negative concept of health in that they tend to look on it as a state in which one does not feel ill or has no pain — in other words , a state of absence of illness . |
| 26 | However , one of the problems with fan clubs is that they tend to operate for very young people . |
| 27 | The problems with unwanted feelings are that they tend to hinder us in the here and now even though the feelings are often associated with past or future events . |
| 28 | So relaxed in Italy , according to one anonymous wag , that they tend to build the house first and apply for planning permission later . |
| 29 | An important feature of such costs is that they tend to increase rather than decrease with sales volume . |
| 30 | The authorities say they 'll provide alternative services for everyone who uses the Centre and that they hope to redeploy the forty staff . |