Example sentences of "that their " in BNC.

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1 Amnesty International believes that their trials were unfair .
2 Tell the President that you have read about their case , that their trial was unfair — even the Appeal Court agrees on this — and ask that they are released immediately .
3 Also , attorneys may be putting themselves up for huge amounts of emotional strain , knowing that their clients stand to lose more than their liberty .
4 In that last respect , however , they were like practically everyone else on the island , which may in itself be a reason why we should not be quick to decide that their behaviour lacked political significance , and consisted of antics .
5 This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life .
6 It can be said of these strong-minded and independently gifted accomplices that their work shows a dimension of reciprocity and replication , of the production unit , which stands at an appreciable remove from parody and plagiarism , and from the mimicry of other people 's voices which is comprehended in the term ‘ ventriloquism ’ , which Amis goes in for in private , among friends , and which is also a pleasure of the novels he writes .
7 — Besides , you 'll find , that their Couples were never marry 'd : — But yonder I see my Coridon , and a sweet Swain it is Heaven knows ; — Come , Dorinda , do n't be angry , he 's my Husband , and your Brother ; and between us both is he not a sad Brute ?
8 Thus , protestant loyalists fight incorporation into a united Ireland for the reason that their perception of protestantism and their values of polity contain a powerful rejection of catholic monopoly , which they identify with catholicism tout court .
9 I have to say that if this room was filled by the Roman Catholic bishops of Ireland and they were pushing me very hard about divorce , I would have to say very clearly that their fear that civil divorce will make marital breakdown worse , or enhance or facilitate it — my answer would be : No , it will make very little difference .
10 Technology suppliers to the British hotel and restaurant industry say that their products are often under-exploited , because too little thought has been given to what the systems are supposed to achieve and too low a priority is given to staff training .
11 ‘ Any prospective purchaser of systems should , therefore , make themselves fully confident that their chosen supplier has the depth of skills and personnel available in all areas .
12 ALL the contract catering chefs interviewed believed that their rates of pay were higher than if they were working in hotels or restaurants .
13 ‘ How is it that their entertaining is so — er — reliable then ? ’
14 DROP DEAD FRED is produced by Working Title , whose films we are celebrating throughout the Festival , so it 's particularly appropriate that their latest success opens the Festival .
15 It is appropriate that their 1991 conference takes place in the UK as the president elect of the association is Derek Malcolm , film critic of The Guardian .
16 Plant pests are herbivores , eating foliage or sucking the sap , while predators are carnivorous and live by feeding on plants pests , directly or by laying their eggs among colonies so that their larvae have a ready supply of food .
17 Instead of accepting that their normal circuit is not possible and organising an alternative , they may try to make their formal pattern and so run themselves into an even more difficult situation .
18 The doctors tell us that elderly pilots and pilots who smoke should be aware that their tolerance to a shortage of oxygen is lower than younger people 's or that of non-smokers .
19 Drugs : What parents can do DM.2 16 pages of guidance for parents worried that their teenage children are — or may be — using drugs .
20 The inference in this was not really about the career chances of the still tiny percentage of graduates ( who are obviously well aware that their chances of reaching the highest echelons are constrained by the limitations in the numbers of top posts ) , rather it was a reassertion that those with a degree are almost a different species and remain a threat to the stability of the institution .
21 Today these are still of immense import , with men deriding those in another division or section , bragging that their villains are the toughest or their section tasks more numerous and arduous .
22 Those exquisite hand-tailored shoes would not feel that their place is in an airy whirl of orgasmic delight .
23 Coaches are generally asked to give an undertaking that their entries all comply with age ceilings .
24 ‘ For Moses and Aaron knew , they knew full well , ’ said Mr Menzies in a sorrowful coo , ‘ that their lot was a thankless one .
25 Those born on a Friday are said to be marked out for special piety , which does not mean that they will be pious necessarily ; only that their natures are imbued with that proclivity .
26 He had thought that their businesses were realms of feudal benevolence .
27 Indeed , as I mentioned above , there is plenty of evidence from research with the very young infants that their input systems allow them to make appearancereality distinctions ( for example , apparent versus real shape ) at so young an age that the possibility that they have to rely upon records of their actions to do this is just not worth considering .
28 We should say that their thoughts are captured by salient information where they should be centrally directed , inhibited and co-ordinated .
29 They were free to look over the top of the box to see what size the bricks really were , and they were quite aware that their own view was distorted because one of the portholes contained a magnifying lens .
30 I do not entirely believe the member who said that their traditions were more important than the money .
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