Example sentences of "they [verb] [that] this [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They insist that this group is ‘ nominal ’ , rather like Christians who go to church for the comfortable feelings they get , but who never put their faith into practice . |
| 2 | Yet its the subject of strangers and the dangers they pose that this performance is all about . |
| 3 | They hope that this state is a lost cause . |
| 4 | With the law as it is there may be some men who would prefer an adult partner , but who at present turn their attention to boys because they consider that this course is less likely to lay them open to prosecution or to blackmail than if they sought other adults as their partners . |
| 5 | They claim that this age is far worse than previous ages , and they go on as though they had learned nothing at all from history — and yet history is the great teacher of life ( magistra vitae ) . |
| 6 | For technical reasons , they argue that this representation is Chomskyan logical form . |
| 7 | They agree that this god is ‘ transcendent ’ , that is to say separate from the universe which He brought into being . |