Example sentences of "they [vb base] that [adj] [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Student leaders say they fear that young people could be brainwashed by the organisation . |
| 2 | They fear that such schemes could lead to disciplinary action against sub-standard teachers and to the beginnings of a merit pay system . |
| 3 | There are five chicks living in the nest and they fear that bad luck will follow if they remove it . |
| 4 | They suggest that peculiar factors may account for the high levels recorded on a limited number of ground-based instruments . |
| 5 | They suggest that this factor may be related to genetic abnormality or more rapid progression of growth in younger women . |
| 6 | on the one hand the transport federation and the confederation support the demands of the railway sector at the negotiating table , and on the other hand , let us say , they also call for prudence and moderation when they realise that these demands may not be achievable , and rather than lead people over the precipice and into more strikes that will not have positive outcomes , they recommend the adoption of an approach based on increased dialogue and the moderation of demands . |
| 7 | They realise that improved techniques may disprove today 's theory , and so they no longer use the terms , true and false , right or wrong , but only value a theory for it 's usefulness at the time . |
| 8 | 17.5 These points are relevant both to programmes of study and to assessment , since they show that linguistic forms can not be corrected or assessed independently of their purpose . |
| 9 | The attempt to answer claims that psychological attitudes affect survival in cancer patients is reported today in The Lancet from researchers in California , but they add that other factors may have influenced the results . |
| 10 | Sometimes they assume that such relations can be altered by intervening at this purely psychological level . |
| 11 | The offer is there and is open to senior police officers if they believe that such batons would be of advantage to their forces . |
| 12 | Wholeness of body , mind and soul should be the prior concern of all Christians and they believe that this wholeness can be found through faith . |
| 13 | It is possible that although the politicians and administrators most closely involved know that the appearance of immense progressivity is a sham , they believe that this appearance will deceive others into thinking that such objectives are being achieved . |
| 14 | Assume that they believe that sufficient liquidity will be achieved if 10 per cent of their assets are held as balances with the Bank of England . |
| 15 | If things are as bad as the hon. Gentleman says , will my right hon. Friend ask the business men why the west midlands has managed to attract so much investment in manufacturing from abroad , why foreign countries have chosen to locate in the United Kingdom and whether they believe that those people would stay if they had to experience the burden of heavy taxation , job losses and days lost in strikes that would occur with the return of a Labour Government ? |
| 16 | They believe that any newcomer would take months to come to grips with what has gone wrong at Ferranti and would as a consequence be worse placed to negotiate a rescue for the group . |
| 17 | They have taken this position not because they are resistant to change , but because they believe that these proposals will politicise the British Police Service and they are in my view entirely right to have that view . |
| 18 | This is because a very common thing among people with mental illness , which is not properly understood , is the way they feel that other people can read their mind . |
| 19 | Most companies , although indicating a preference for locally manufactured equipment , have made extensive use of suppliers from outside Wales , generally because they feel that local suppliers can not meet their needs . |
| 20 | They suppose that collective responsibility can be assigned only through something like the first method we noticed in the accident example . |
| 21 | ( It is paradoxically liberals who provide me with my argument for this when they argue that violent people can be ‘ understood ’ since they know no other language with which to express their inarticulate aggro . |
| 22 | The Germans and Italians say a team of European politicians should go to negotiate the release of hostages , even though they agree that such trips should be condemned . |
| 23 | People sometimes resist change to save face when , for example , they think that supporting change would amount to an admission that some of their previous decisions or beliefs were wrong . |
| 24 | The problem is often the more awkward because owners of country houses are hesitant to protest when they realize that other options may bring the new road much closer to the houses of neighbours . |