Example sentences of "that [adj] be their " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , the Lords feel that they have a duty to defend the constitution ; indeed , that that is their ultimate raison d'être . |
| 2 | The Government must get the blame when bills go through people 's doors , and I for one intend to make clear that that is their fault . |
| 3 | When you say the County Council is committed to the northern or the outer relief road route , do you mean committed or do you mean that that is their preferred option . |
| 4 | It seemed to me that they assumed and air of could n't care less you know that that was their attitude after nationalization . |
| 5 | As the constable quoted above makes clear , it is not that all neighbourhood policemen defuse every situation by the display of patience , sympathy , tolerance , and understanding , it is more that this is their first choice and they use other recipes , by becoming ‘ heavy-handed ’ and resorting to arrests , only when this one fails . |
| 6 | But officials deny that this is their aim . |
| 7 | Just as young children will cry and remonstrate or say ‘ do n't leave me ’ , so the adult may use just the same words or convey by their behaviour that this is their worry . |
| 8 | As a congregation comes before God and gives time to him in praise , they are declaring their understanding that this is their highest purpose and pleasure in life : to know God . |
| 9 | There is a need to recognise and further consider the position of male carers , while not using this issue to deflect us from the more general issues which arise for women through entrenched assumptions that this is their ‘ natural ’ role . |
| 10 | She refers , in particular , to radical feminists who turn on its head the criticism that women are more emotional than men , and claim that not only are women more emotional , but that this is their strength , and that in comparison , men are enfeebled , deadened and impoverished creatures . |
| 11 | Let us hope then that England produce a performance of such mind-bending awfulness in order to succumb to this dodgy outfit , who probably ca n't believe that they are still in with a shout , and may thus fool themselves into believing that this is their year … at least until they hear the result from Turkey . |
| 12 | Young people in particular are getting to see that this is their country . |
| 13 | Local inspectors , on the other hand , can rightly argue that this is their great strength . |
| 14 | So if they can find a way at working with one another and realizing that this is their life ! |
| 15 | The parties declare that this is their intention ( see clause 15.2 ) and in clause 15.3 acknowledge that they consider the restrictions to be reasonable . |
| 16 | Most of the airmen and women fly home in January but some say they have been here so long that this is their home , they 'll be staying in England . |
| 17 | All progressive voices in Islamic countries know that this is their fight too , because look what happens if we fail . |
| 18 | We tend now to think of Classical bronze statuary , for example , as being covered with a fine green or deep brown patina , and moreover that this was their original state . |
| 19 | And it was a little strange that this was their first meeting ; her red Golf was a frequent sight on the headland , her cottage had frequently met Iris eyes from the top storey of the mill . |
| 20 | If only two hundred were to be seen , then the chances were that Balliol would assume that this was their full strength . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It seems that this was their means of asserting their continuing independence of Moscow . |
| 23 | He thought that this was their purpose , their raison d'être . |
| 24 | There can be little doubt that we are seeing their real diversions , that these are their own instruments and the clothes they would really have worn . |
| 25 | When Protestants did accept that they enjoyed material advantages over the Catholic population , they argued that these were their just rewards for loyalty . |