Example sentences of "they [verb] that [adj] [noun] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Student leaders say they fear that young people could be brainwashed by the organisation . |
| 2 | There are five chicks living in the nest and they fear that bad luck will follow if they remove it . |
| 3 | '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 . |
| 4 | They suggest that peculiar factors may account for the high levels recorded on a limited number of ground-based instruments . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | While both the IMF and the World Bank donor countries appeared satisfied with the progress of budgetary and monetary reforms , they indicated that increased efforts should be made to restructure the public services and parastatal bodies . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They decided that packed lunches should be standard-rated from 1 July . |
| 13 | They suppose that collective responsibility can be assigned only through something like the first method we noticed in the accident example . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They wanted to stay in Croatia , but they felt that continued conflict would only threaten their own personal security and future . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ( 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 . |
| 18 | Most parents dreamed of their offspring becoming lawyers , doctors , teachers — professions they thought that good schooling could provide . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ When the Government was persuading Parliament to accept the right to buy scheme , they said that local authorities would be able to use accumulated funds from selling their houses to build more . |
| 21 | They concluded that user-friendly interfaces can encourage the use of existing computerized IR systems in a cost-effective manner , particularly for inexperienced end-users . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They disliked this egoistic conception of man , and they suspected that egoistic motives might not be sufficient to underpin morality . |