Example sentences of "they [verb] that [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spain , Portugal , Ireland and Greece also oppose an early enlargement , albeit for rather different reasons : they fear that the current transfer of resources to them from the richer countries — above all , from Britain and Germany — might be put at risk , and have made it clear that their support for any growth in the size of the Community is contingent on their receipt of guaranteed levels of Cohesion payments . |
| 2 | Military officials in the occupied territories at first appeared to contradict Eliezer 's statement when they announced that no such freeze had yet been ordered by the military authorities . |
| 3 | They announced that the new body which they had established , the Commonwealth of Independent States ( Sodruzhestvo Nyezavisimikh Gosudarstv ) , was open to all republics of the former Soviet Union , and to any other state which shared its aims . |
| 4 | When documents from the Conservative Cabinet 's Family Policy Group were leaked in 1983 , they revealed that the then Employment Secretary Norman Tebbit believed women should abandon waged work and return to their homes . |
| 5 | After the Mirror accused them of a cover-up , they revealed that the deadly brew trickled down the outside of a hot evaporator for FIVE HOURS before alarms were triggered . |
| 6 | They planned that the next wave of new machinery would be installed in an area away from the shop-floor where engineers would try out working practices so that shop-floor workers would simply not have the chance to gain the upper hand . |
| 7 | They realized that the old technique of depending upon the trained observer 's overall impression to characterize the natural vegetation of an area was unreliable . |
| 8 | In unison they agreed that the new system , ‘ improves consistency and is a great asset ’ . |
| 9 | They agreed that the technical equipment used in operations must influence the type of work organisation for employees : in the case of coal mining , the new cutting equipment and conveyor belts made working in small groups no longer practicable . |
| 10 | After much debate they agreed that the parliamentary group and the government should negotiate with those parties wishing to phase out nuclear energy by 2010 without being bound to close the first nuclear power station by 1995 , the date envisaged by the 1988 legislation [ see also p. 37197 ] . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There would have been an enormous panic when they realised that the Irish girl had been picked up by the Bonnards . |
| 13 | It was then they realised that the German target was not the bridge but the warships in the Firth of Forth . |
| 14 | If they judge that the New Moon can be clearly seen , then it will be Id . |
| 15 | They argued that a new racism based on arguments about cultural difference had largely taken over the arenas of public debate . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | They argued that the higher recall scores in the earlier experiment could have occurred because of more efficient storage of the passage at input , or because of better reconstruction of the material at recall . |
| 19 | They argued that the apparent over-representation of black youth in the criminal statistics may be that youth is such a large part of the black population . |
| 20 | They argued that the Keynesian obsession with the demand side of the economy was misplaced ; the real focus of attention should be the supply side . |
| 21 | They contend that the original objective — to protect the holy places of Islam — has been hijacked by the war-mongering regime of President Hosni Mubarak . |
| 22 | They recommended that a limited member of such posts should be available subject to certain safeguards ( Widdicombe 1986 : 154 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Now it seemed to me that was n't a very erm reasonable balance and er comparing that with the with the Secretary of State 's recent pronouncements where he talks about local planning authorities needing to breathe fresh life into the countryside through their development plans and I want local planning authorities in rural areas to give the need to diversify the rural economy as much priority priority in their thinking as protecting the countryside and the two go hand in hand , and comparing those two er points I I would I would put to North Yorkshire the question , Do they think that the explanatory memorandum is is consistent with that er policy statement from the Secretary of State ? |
| 25 | 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 ] . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Although they proposed that the coercive power of bishops and ecclesiastics should be abolished , the use of the Book of Common Prayer would be tolerated . |
| 28 | They moved that a new scheme should be prepared , in conformity with catholic social teaching . |
| 29 | Lippmann 's view , like J. S. Mill 's , was that the electors have the right to choose their rulers or government , but beyond that they should leave government to govern without interference or pressure : " Their duty is to fill the office and not to direct the office-holder. " ( p. 46 ) A not dissimilar view was put forward by Bernard Crick , who said of referenda , the power to recall representatives and other devices for popular intervention : " They forget that the first business of government is to govern … |
| 30 | They suggest that the principal growth fault in the Mesozoic may simply propagate from the subcrop of the thrust and extend towards the surface at a steeper angle , as illustrated by the Mere Fault ( see also Lake 1975 , in connection with the structure of the Weald ) . |