Example sentences of "[vb past] that they [verb] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anthropologists , following Evans-Pritchard 's lead , have reacted against this way of seeing primitive , or non-literate , peoples , and maintained that they do not act as they do for the same reasons that neurotics act in Western society . |
| 2 | Such mishaps were bad omens , and though the townspeople maintained that they did not take the Wheel seriously they were happier when all went according to plan . |
| 3 | Then parents found that they did not need to have so many babies . |
| 4 | Truancy within the school day ( by pupils skipping individual lessons ) was not seen as a problem by headteachers ; 14 schools reported that they did not keep period attendance records . |
| 5 | He had seen its lines in the spectrum , and realized that they did not correspond to any known substance . |
| 6 | But as they began to see the possibilities of the data highway , they also realised that they did not have the technical expertise to build the sorts of switched networks necessary to bring it off . |
| 7 | ( aside ; a ‘ little lad ’ of 18 ) once studies HAMLET in the course of A level lit. and realised that they did n't have pencils in those days — he remains confused ! ) . |
| 8 | In 1989 , Lloyds Bank , the firm 's landlords in Newport , announced that they did not wish to renew the lease on the Newport office . |
| 9 | In mid-July the Croatian authorities announced that they did not have the resources to cope with any more refugees unless substantial help from abroad was forthcoming . |
| 10 | Anglican polemicists had promised that they would allow the Dissenters some degree of toleration , if they helped them protect the Church of England from the Catholic onslaught , whilst the bishops in their petition affirmed that they did not act " from any want of due tenderness to Dissenters , in relation to whom they are willing to come to such a temper as shall be thought fit , when the matter shall be considered and settled in Parliament and Convention " . |
| 11 | They argued that they did not claim that the cassettes were genuine . |
| 12 | ‘ She talked about ‘ Debbie 's flat ’ not ‘ our flat ’ so I assumed that they do n't live together . |
| 13 | The following intimated that they did not wish to stand for re-election , Dr F. Neave , Mrs S. Peterson , Mrs V. Hawkins , G. Espin , A. Mack . |
| 14 | By a letter dated 23 October 1991 they stated that they did not intend to intervene or be heard and that , since the paragraph applied only to disclosure by the defendants in compliance with the order it would not prevent them from using any material which they had already obtained or which they might obtain independently . |
| 15 | However , most of the interviewees stated that they did not perceive this process taking place . |
| 16 | ‘ They stated that they did not want him to exist in this fashion . ’ |
| 17 | A number of interviewees ( 12 per cent ) stated that they did not object to nominating others for the actual snowball sample itself because they could first ask the nominee , but would not furnish identity codes on an indiscriminate basis . |
| 18 | Hewlett-Packard executives , however , confirmed that they did not regard the plan to introduce servers at the 20 regional branch offices as a ‘ funded project ’ and Hungarian Minister for Labour Gyula Kiss made no reference to the programme in a detailed briefing on Hungarian employment policy delivered to the foreign pass contingent last week . |
| 19 | The Board of Guardians replied that they did n't have any isolation hospital and were unable to accept liability . |
| 20 | " There 's that Gedge boy wants you , " Mrs Blakey said in a puzzled way on each occasion , and on each occasion they replied that they did n't wish to see him . |
| 21 | The National Olympic Council indicated that they do not object to the tours by New Zealand and Australia and neither would they do anything to prevent the Springboks from touring France and England later in the year . |
| 22 | In the proposals which the Government made in 1984 in a White Paper , A Revised Framework for Insolvency Law ( Cmnd 9175 ) , largely based on the Cork Report , they indicated that they did not intend introducing a debt counselling service , but referring any debtor with liabilities less than £15,000 to an ‘ insolvency practitioner ’ . |
| 23 | Only two trade unions indicated that they did not want to be part of the SZOT confederation . |
| 24 | Israeli officials indicated that they did not oppose the concept of the peacekeeping force . |
| 25 | Others indicated that they did not need any more qualifications for progress at work . |
| 26 | A further 63% indicated that they did not use such a source . |
| 27 | I 'd read about , I read erm read in erm some paper or other not so very long ago , about erm a funeral and the that was going along the road of course , and they came to a to a erm hotel and they were och , they were going for miles and miles and miles and they went into this hotel and the they party the funeral party went into the hotel and had a good few drinks and they were well away when they came out and they they they went away without the coffin , for two miles , two miles before they discovered that they did n't have the coffin . |
| 28 | Everything was perfect except that when I came to train experimentally naive monkeys , I discovered that they did not like peanuts . |
| 29 | Some of them had gotten to greater than 400°C , so they decided that they had better cool the reactor . ’ |
| 30 | As soon as the redundancies were announced , just over half of those who retired before the pension age decided that they did not want to go through the process of trying to find work . |