Example sentences of "they [verb] that [adj] [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are five chicks living in the nest and they fear that bad luck will follow if they remove it . |
| 2 | 's ( 1965 ) three dimensions and in a survey of heads of household in Illinois , found that socioeconomic status generally accounted for more of the rural-urban variation than either occupation or residence , and then rejected Bealer 's approach when they argued that future work should concentrate on single-dimension variables . |
| 3 | They recommended that this aspect should not be changed . |
| 4 | They suggest that this factor may be related to genetic abnormality or more rapid progression of growth in younger women . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They suppose that collective responsibility can be assigned only through something like the first method we noticed in the accident example . |
| 10 | They demanded that special consideration should be given to new OECD states , such as those in Eastern Europe , to ensure that these did not become a future dumping ground for EC waste . |
| 11 | They wanted to stay in Croatia , but they felt that continued conflict would only threaten their own personal security and future . |
| 12 | It was a private lair , and though they 'd often wished to have a fire they 'd never done so — not because they feared for the dry wood of the spinney but because they knew that rising smoke would sooner or later be investigated . |
| 13 | Most parents dreamed of their offspring becoming lawyers , doctors , teachers — professions they thought that good schooling could provide . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They said that another friend would look after her , but when we went to see her a month later , she looked absolutely awful , in a field all on her own and full of worms . |