Example sentences of "that [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asian ships did not go round the Cape of Good Hope to trade with Europe , and East Indiamen , as the Company 's ships were called , were so heavily armed and were so much safer from the risk of piracy that merchants found them useful carriers even though they did not sail as fast as local ships until the Company had its ships built of teak some decades later . |
| 2 | The view that states imperil their own legitimacy when they offend their own subjects ' conservative conceptions of constitutionality is found more amongst other academic students of politics than amongst political scientists themselves . |
| 3 | The hypothesis that states pursue their national interest could be shown to be empirically superior to its rivals , thus grounding a Positive science of international relations . |
| 4 | The outlawing of indirect discrimination , the requirement that employers analyse their labour force , the requirement that they operate proper employment procedures where necessary should benefit all the people of West Belfast . |
| 5 | Many such policies have to be enshrined in a legal framework to ensure that employers implement them . |
| 6 | It is essential that the parties to a takeover bid recognise their associates and that associates recognise their associated status so that the appropriate disclosure obligations can be complied with . |
| 7 | But a prison spokesman said : ‘ We are very mindful of the fact that prisoners have their dignity . |
| 8 | At one time , people thought that birds transformed themselves into other creatures during the winter . |
| 9 | Despite the considerable pressures on the churches at the central and top provincial levels in 1922 , sparse reverberations as yet reached that grass-roots base which was considered earlier . |
| 10 | The point , however , is that Toennies based his analysis not on the difference between peasant community and urbanised society , but between the old-fashioned town and the capitalist city , ‘ essentially a commercial town and , insofar as commerce dominates its productive labour , a factory town ’ . |
| 11 | This usually all works well with a large one-off competition , but if you have organised a series of regional newspaper competitions , for example , you will need to have a foolproof system to ensure that winners receive their prizes shortly after winning and you do not have irate editors ringing up saying that their readers are growing angry at the lack of delivery . |
| 12 | fair point , its still er , I mean its a considerable number , I mean you can see why the insurance company 's are doing quite well , but your willing to put up with that as well for the , for the good points of a car , for the freedom that er , that cars give you and the safety someone has said , the individual safety as a woman , yes . |
| 13 | Any reports that readers send me will be treated with complete confidentiality . |
| 14 | For the Delphi as with the Victoria Centre it is important that schools recognize their needs but for Roger this is based upon a mutuality of interest which is unimpeded by the operation of specific criteria . |
| 15 | There is a narrow line between harness fund raising and commercial exploitation and within the thin financial margins that schools operate there may be a temptation to fudge issues and associate with producers and distributors of products that conflict with the school 's or parents ' values . |
| 16 | Coming from Russia , where freedom of the press has been not so much unknown as uncomprehended since long before the Revolution , he is shocked to discover that a free press disseminated all kinds of false , partial and invented information and that journalists contradict themselves from one day to the next without shame and without apology . |
| 17 | Gomez 's slight smile was that of a man who believed that politeness demanded he act a little embarrassed at doing his job . |
| 18 | The way we have chosen the symbols T and S also means , conveniently , that trajectories threading their way through the top face of the box B according to some sequence of Ts and Ss , make the same sequence of passes through the tubes , T and S. |
| 19 | A further key advantage for many people is that AVCs allow you to purchase ‘ added years ’ , to make up any shortfall in your entitlement to benefit under a company scheme . |
| 20 | He found ( see also Batson and Best ( 1981 ) ) that animals given his discrimination training procedure showed an enhanced preference for the safe flavour ( the conditioned inhibitor ) . |
| 21 | Roth now believes that animals select what he calls ‘ optimum thermal surroundings ’ . |
| 22 | Once it was recognized that animals orient themselves in a variety of ways , the engineering approach was extremely successful in identifying the underlying mechanisms . |
| 23 | An audience listens to music , not to words ( in fact , especially in choral music , the words are frequently indistinguishable , or so difficult to grasp that listeners ignore them ) . |
| 24 | The majority of executives found guilty of corporate crime not only retain their jobs or have others found for them , but also find that funds to cover their fines are somehow made available . |
| 25 | Somehow he had learned that tantrums enabled him to avoid work . |
| 26 | This suggests that tantrums have something to do with the normal development of a child 's personality , rather than with the way they have been brought up — although the way they are handled can make things worse . |
| 27 | Now in fact what that means for me is that actually we 're all programmers — we always have been — but we have n't been used to explaining it in quite the way that computers need us to explain it , and of course that goes back to this question of understanding English that we were talking about last time . |
| 28 | However , as John Springhall has recently argued , there is little evidence that teenagers suffer anything like an ‘ identity crisis ’ during their adolescent years . |
| 29 | It does however , seem likely that working class wives were tolerant of occasional abuse , provided that husbands had what they considered ‘ just cause ’ . |
| 30 | Does this refute the assumption that nations pursue their self-interest ? |