Example sentences of "they [verb] that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are used to politicians listening with some care to their demands , and the evidence of this attention and the obvious impact of general elections is usually sufficient to make them feel that the old maxims of the Westminster model still have some meaning . |
| 2 | An analysis of Minor Project proposals confirms that documentation is in general short — no more than two or three sides of A4 and the scope of current library awareness and the use reflected in them reveals that a higher proportion of Minor than of Major award schools claim to have already established library skills programmes . |
| 3 | Since the existing rules applied to a serf-based society , suspending them implied that the social order on which they depended was to be altered . |
| 4 | Well , nearly — it appeared game , set and match to the PFA but either the memory , or the shorthand , of the Football League 's negotiators was faulty because in their letter to clubs , describing what had been agreed , they led them to believe that the second principle had not been conceded . |
| 5 | They came together with control engineer Dave Smith to look at this particular problem but , as their work progressed , their recently acquired quality training made them realise that a Corrective Action Team was needed to look at the wider question . |
| 6 | Some of the more extreme Tories , by contrast , flirted with the idea of restoring the son of James II , the Catholic Stuart king deposed in 1688 , while most of them demanded that the British war effort be concentrated on a mainly naval and colonial struggle against France . |
| 7 | They declare that the united Germany , too , shall abide by these commitments . |
| 8 | Spain , Portugal , Ireland and Greece also oppose an early enlargement , albeit for rather different reasons : they fear that the current transfer of resources to them from the richer countries — above all , from Britain and Germany — might be put at risk , and have made it clear that their support for any growth in the size of the Community is contingent on their receipt of guaranteed levels of Cohesion payments . |
| 9 | Military officials in the occupied territories at first appeared to contradict Eliezer 's statement when they announced that no such freeze had yet been ordered by the military authorities . |
| 10 | They announced that the new body which they had established , the Commonwealth of Independent States ( Sodruzhestvo Nyezavisimikh Gosudarstv ) , was open to all republics of the former Soviet Union , and to any other state which shared its aims . |
| 11 | When documents from the Conservative Cabinet 's Family Policy Group were leaked in 1983 , they revealed that the then Employment Secretary Norman Tebbit believed women should abandon waged work and return to their homes . |
| 12 | After the Mirror accused them of a cover-up , they revealed that the deadly brew trickled down the outside of a hot evaporator for FIVE HOURS before alarms were triggered . |
| 13 | You do not need to invest in technology to comply with the quality standards , but they concede that a computerised accounts system is really the only cost-effective way to deal with the financial management requirements . |
| 14 | They planned that the next wave of new machinery would be installed in an area away from the shop-floor where engineers would try out working practices so that shop-floor workers would simply not have the chance to gain the upper hand . |
| 15 | They realized that the old technique of depending upon the trained observer 's overall impression to characterize the natural vegetation of an area was unreliable . |
| 16 | In unison they agreed that the new system , ‘ improves consistency and is a great asset ’ . |
| 17 | They agreed that the technical equipment used in operations must influence the type of work organisation for employees : in the case of coal mining , the new cutting equipment and conveyor belts made working in small groups no longer practicable . |
| 18 | In the end they agreed that the 120 commissioners should hold their meetings in the church of St-Castor at Koblenz , lodging each night on opposite sides of the Rhine " to forestall outbreaks of fighting between the commissioners ' men " . |
| 19 | After much debate they agreed that the parliamentary group and the government should negotiate with those parties wishing to phase out nuclear energy by 2010 without being bound to close the first nuclear power station by 1995 , the date envisaged by the 1988 legislation [ see also p. 37197 ] . |
| 20 | Finally , both groups progressed in the same way when they realised that a basic structure containing some predetermined questions was very important but that scope for flexibility and improvising questions was equally important . |
| 21 | There would have been an enormous panic when they realised that the Irish girl had been picked up by the Bonnards . |
| 22 | It was then they realised that the German target was not the bridge but the warships in the Firth of Forth . |
| 23 | If they judge that the New Moon can be clearly seen , then it will be Id . |
| 24 | They argued that a new racism based on arguments about cultural difference had largely taken over the arenas of public debate . |
| 25 | IT IS now a little more than three years since four biologists caused a minor uproar among molecular geneticists by publishing in Nature two papers in which they argued that a substantial proportion of the DNA of animal cells may exist for no higher purpose than its own propagation . |
| 26 | They argued that a communist victory in northern Indo-China would help to relieve the economic problems of communist China ( long-term Chinese weakness being an important assumption in American policy ) . |
| 27 | They argued that the dysgenic effects were not as great as this figure , since the difference in intelligence between social classes was not that great , but they accepted the logic of an argument based on differential fertility by social class . |
| 28 | They argued that the higher recall scores in the earlier experiment could have occurred because of more efficient storage of the passage at input , or because of better reconstruction of the material at recall . |
| 29 | They argued that the apparent over-representation of black youth in the criminal statistics may be that youth is such a large part of the black population . |
| 30 | They argued that the Keynesian obsession with the demand side of the economy was misplaced ; the real focus of attention should be the supply side . |