Example sentences of "they [verb] that a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They argued that a new racism based on arguments about cultural difference had largely taken over the arenas of public debate . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | They recommended that a limited member of such posts should be available subject to certain safeguards ( Widdicombe 1986 : 154 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They proposed that a preparatory committee should start work in July , to prepare for " a summit meeting of the CSCE participating states before the end of this year " in Paris to " mark the starting point for a more advanced stage of the Helsinki process " [ see p. 37386 ] . |
| 11 | To account for their complex set of results they proposed that a concurrent task may have either general effects , that is , influence performance by both hemispheres , and/or specific effects which are restricted to one particular hemisphere . |
| 12 | They moved that a new scheme should be prepared , in conformity with catholic social teaching . |
| 13 | If the points were electrically stimulated to induce correct electrical balance , the impending physical changes were averted , In many cases they found that a pathological condition could be reversed by stimulating and rebalancing the points . |
| 14 | But they found that a tremendous amount of grain was lost by being shed on to the stubble . |
| 15 | When the Spanish conquerors entered Mexico they found that a special variety , the fire opal , having a clear orange or yellow body , was held in high esteem by the Aztecs . |
| 16 | They found that a large proportion of the children had already spent the greater part of their lives in care . |
| 17 | They found that a local custom in the country was to walk around barefoot at all times of the year and in all weathers . |
| 18 | They found that a severe event was of most aetiological significance if it threatened a role , person or idea to which a woman was particularly committed ( established in an interview one year before ) or if it matched a long-standing major difficulty in the woman 's life . |
| 19 | They say that a close encounter between the Sun and a more diffuse star-like object in the cluster tore off a hot filament of gases . |
| 20 | They say that a domestic crisis brings a family closer together . |
| 21 | They realise that a free-trade solution is required : the key to success will depend as much on political courage as diplomatic skill . |
| 22 | But then they realise that a new line is needed . |
| 23 | On all of their criteria they conclude that a school-based approach is likely to be superior to either one based upon testing or inspection . |
| 24 | They hope that a moderate faction — perhaps led by the current prime minister , Hun Sen — will accept a role as the junior partner in a coalition government . |
| 25 | Two teenagers have chosen to bed down for the night in a freezer as part of their training for an expedition to the Artic Circle , They hope that a good night of shivering in sub-zero temperatures will prepare them for the trip . |
| 26 | However , national and international figures are available and they show that a greater proportion of this country 's work force is in work than in any other European Community country except Denmark . |
| 27 | ‘ They show that a major capital investment , amounting to £160 million in current prices , did not produce much physics and should have been closed long before it was in 1977 . ’ |
| 28 | They added that a full inquiry would be set up to investigate what happened . |
| 29 | Gentlemen : It is with great regret that I see so many students labouring day after day in the Academy , as if they imagined that a liberal art , such as ours , was to be acquired like a mechanical trade , by dint of labour , or I may add the absurdity of supposing that it could be acquired by any means whatever . |
| 30 | They complain that a 40-strong gang of mechanised pickers from Connah 's Quay and Deeside are wiping out beds conserved to prevent over-fishing . |