Example sentences of "they [verb] that [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this situation the social worker planned to offer the family time and encouragement , to help them realise that if uncomfortable messages are not delivered , it breeds even more resentment and antagonism ; intolerable situations build up . |
| 2 | In this way , following Marx , they contend that if military expenditure and involvement in society and politics has increased , then it must in some way be functional for the survival of capitalism as an economic system . |
| 3 | They suggest that if current trends in world population growth , industrialisation , pollution , food production and the depletion of non-renewable resources continue , then within a short space of time , perhaps less than a hundred years , economic growth will come to a halt , the industrial base of the world economy will collapse and finally after severe global recession and famine , not only will population growth fall dramatically but so will the level of population itself . |
| 4 | They say that although many shops THINK they 're providing for the disabled , the facilities are often inadequate . |
| 5 | They say that although many shops THINK they 're providing for the disabled , the facilities are often inadequate . |
| 6 | They say that although many shops THINK they 're providing for the disabled , in reality , they are not . |
| 7 | They reasoned that if such events occurred , particularly in Germany , the problems regarding supplies of industrial and processed goods would be solved , if not immediately , then at least fairly quickly . |
| 8 | So when the Jews arrived on board from a mainland where they had been despised , systematically humiliated and imprisoned , they discovered that although this ship was legally still part of Germany , flew the swastika and had large portraits of Hitler in its public rooms , the Germans with whom they had dealings were courteous , attentive and even obedient . |
| 9 | They believe that if socialist revolution has not arrived today , it will come tomorrow . |
| 10 | They believe that when all pledges and donations have been received , the shortfall should not be too great . |
| 11 | They state that when terminally-ill patients who are still able to make decisions , request a doctor 's help to die , such requests for active termination of life by a medical act , which directly and intentionally causes death , may be morally justifiable and should be given serious consideration . |
| 12 | They reckon that if each machine brought in $192 a day ( a claim the Las Vegas experts call unrealistic ) , and if the owners let the state pocket 90% of it , the state could earn more than $196m a year ; and it could put the money towards education . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , they claim that if syntactic analysis is guided by semantic cues then the relative difficulty of different syntactic forms should not be constant . |
| 14 | They argue that since human beings change they are going to need a different kind of partner in order to find fulfilment and satisfaction for the whole of their lives . |
| 15 | Second , they argue that because human intervention is involved in the production of transgenic plants or animals , they have somehow ceased to be biological and thus patentable . |
| 16 | They concluded that while different professionals and agencies use quite different definitions of the problem , on the whole the system operates according to a ‘ rule of optimism ’ whereby , wherever possible , the most favourable interpretation of family , particularly parental , circumstances is made and hence situations of actual and potential abuse are kept to a minimum . |
| 17 | In the first three months , three thousand miles , that does n't tend to happen in fairness erm and something like that would come up erm within that time scale , so , yes , I mean they have the right to go back to the dealer and I must admit in my overall view of the motor trade these days they do they are trying harder and harder to look after their customers because obviously they 're in business like everybody else , they know that their policy holders are covered by the Sale of Goods Act merchantable quality , erm and so they realize that if these things happen then they will endeavour to put the situation right . |