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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They declare that the united Germany , too , shall abide by these commitments . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In unison they agreed that the new system , ‘ improves consistency and is a great asset ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ] . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There would have been an enormous panic when they realised that the Irish girl had been picked up by the Bonnards . |
| 17 | It was then they realised that the German target was not the bridge but the warships in the Firth of Forth . |
| 18 | If they judge that the New Moon can be clearly seen , then it will be Id . |
| 19 | They argued that a new racism based on arguments about cultural difference had largely taken over the arenas of public debate . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They argued that the rapid movements involved in a star 's collapse would mean that the gravitational waves it gave off would make it ever more spherical , and by the time it had settled down to a stationary state , it would be precisely spherical . |
| 26 | They contend that the original objective — to protect the holy places of Islam — has been hijacked by the war-mongering regime of President Hosni Mubarak . |
| 27 | They recommended that a limited member of such posts should be available subject to certain safeguards ( Widdicombe 1986 : 154 ) . |
| 28 | They recommended that a similar ban be imposed on two of Krabbe 's team-mates — world 400 metres silver medallist Grit Breuer , and Manuela Derr , a member of East Germany 's gold-medal winning 4x400 metres relay team at the 1990 European Championships . |
| 29 | They stress that the only farmers who can benefit from the immediate purchase of ewe premium rights are those who have submitted a 1993 claim for more sheep than they have quota and are buying or leasing retrospectively . |
| 30 | Now it seemed to me that was n't a very erm reasonable balance and er comparing that with the with the Secretary of State 's recent pronouncements where he talks about local planning authorities needing to breathe fresh life into the countryside through their development plans and I want local planning authorities in rural areas to give the need to diversify the rural economy as much priority priority in their thinking as protecting the countryside and the two go hand in hand , and comparing those two er points I I would I would put to North Yorkshire the question , Do they think that the explanatory memorandum is is consistent with that er policy statement from the Secretary of State ? |