Example sentences of "the [noun pl] that their " in BNC.

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1 Inevitably , there is concern among the institutions that their representatives have been excluded from the upper tier and are in a small minority in the lower tier .
2 Through discussion or role-play , teachers should seek to provide frequent opportunities for this type to writing to occur , and should respond to the meanings that their pupils strive to convey .
3 Rolls-Royce were swift to establish in the courts that their purchase of the trademark Bentley overrode their contract with him , which had banned his own use of his name for ten years only .
4 In the succeeding months it became plain that the determination of American leaders to play the key role in shaping the new world order was to clash with the equally determined insistence of the Russians that their interests were of paramount importance over a large part of the globe .
5 Leading companies choose Dr Karrass ' Workshops because the skills that their executives learn have proved to work in practice .
6 As we have seen , the formal liberal democratic theory of bureaucracies was that officials ( sometimes called bureaucrats or civil servants ) simply implement the policies that their political masters — the representatives of the people — present to them in the form of laws and regulations .
7 Indians tell the poll-takers that their country should stay clear of the whole business .
8 What Labour Members say makes it sound as though they do not want parents to know what the schools that their children are attending are like .
9 The meeting was chaired by Betty Sinclair , who reminded the supporters that their objective was to demonstrate for civil rights , for jobs and for houses : ‘ We are asking you to listen to the speakers , and what we have done today will go down in history and in this way we will be more effective in showing the world that we are a peaceful people asking for our civil rights in an orderly manner . '
10 All of these explanations are predominantly psychologistic in their understandings ( or misunderstandings ) of both teacher thinking and teaching quality ; and they are particular kinds of psychologistic explanation that take very little account of how teachers themselves understand , interpret and deal with the demands that their work situation makes upon them .
11 If both deposits and loans are non-indexed , the losses that the banks make on their loans are compensated by the losses that their depositors make on their deposits .
12 What personal records there may be of more general ‘ social life ’ have the limitations that their authors are rarely ‘ ordinary ’ people .
13 The Panel Chairman told the parents that their children were well , settling down in their foster homes , and that some were going to school .
14 A gradual recognition by the parents that their approach does not appear to work is necessary before they will try another approach .
15 But for the most part , later eleventh-century castellans had contrived to convert their homage into little more than a symbol of deference and willingness to perform service ; the implications that their castle and office were enjoyed purely by delegation , that their duty lay in exercising powers and privileges only for the benefit of their lord , were swiftly transmuted into something much less rigid ; exactly what depended on the prince 's powers and proximity .
16 Then , with confirmation from the counts that their political mouthpiece had performed splendidly at the polls , they turned on Portadown .
17 I was able to talk to the farmers about the difficulties that their industry faces at the moment , the need for reform of that industry and the importance that farming will undoubtedly have in the future of our country .
18 Britain 's Department of Trade and Industry notified European developers nearly 18 months ago of the problems that their system might cause for people who wear hearing aids .
19 In relation to the almost antithetical Marxist positions of Sartre and Althusser , Foucault does not , however , simply follow the latter rather than the former : he articulates through a historical perspective the problems that their work encountered and attempts to produce a new method of historical enquiry — though not a general theory of history as such — that is both theoretically coherent and politically effective with respect to the particular problems under examination .
20 It shows the customers that their account has been credited with the amount involved .
21 He rang it again at seven o'clock at night to warn the gleaners that their work for that day must end .
22 In contrast , the Dionysiac chorus , like unconscious actors , enter into and lose themselves in the characters that their collective ecstasy impels them to conjure up .
23 Those hon. Members who are told by the Whips that their loyalty , obedience and voting record will all be taken into account may rest assured that those things are , indeed , taken into account , but in a totally different way from what one is led to believe if one wants to speak in the House from either Front Bench .
24 The metal crowd were really quite ancient but now we 've got a mum monitor who answers the phone and reassures all the mums that their little ones are going to be OK . ’
25 More than 5,000 striking civil servants demonstrated in Cotonou on May 12 in support of demands for higher wages and the regularization of their working conditions , and in protest against government control of the media and restrictions on the right to strike ; the government responded by assuring the strikers that their wage demands would be met as soon as the budget had been voted on .
26 He 's been telling the girls that their costumes for the video will be added by using computer graphics .
27 There was the contact with friendly adults , but not so close as to suggest to the children that their real parents were being supplanted — a common resentment in foster homes .
28 ‘ Apparently Emma and Sophie are fine — bearing up very well — although Mrs Meadows says that she has n't done any more than to tell the children that their parents have had a slight accident .
29 Just as they are taught other subjects , they should increasingly be taught about such topics as mental handicap so that they do not grow up with the prejudices that their parents may possess .
30 Holding solicitors confirm to the others that their client 's part is signed and is identical to the part signed by the other party ; they agree they will forthwith insert in both parts the agreed completion date .
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