Example sentences of "they [verb] that [det] [noun pl] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They argued that these conditions were not satisfied and , therefore , that there was no legal difficulty in remedying adverse effects in the UK . |
| 2 | Where the reformers did start to understand , they perceived that those aspirations were to something much more even than that complete political democracy which required no property qualification ; and they did not like the perception . |
| 3 | They implied that these allegations were in the report . |
| 4 | They insisted that these issues were of paramount importance to all women because they were fundamental to marriage and the family and to its valid extension in female charity work and social reform . |
| 5 | However , they thought that these aspects were outweighed by the loss of headquarters functions and their multipliers from Scotland , and concluded that UK mergers policy was blind to some of these issues . |
| 6 | Certainly they conceded that these activities were popular in the sense that millions of people availed themselves of them but their argument had been that only in a very limited way can we talk of these activities as belonging to the masses : rather they represented the expropriation and packaging of what had previously been popular forms by middle-class organizations and in most cases by businessmen and entrepreneurs . |
| 7 | Thirdly , Gardner et al , in their case-control study of leukaemia and lymphoma diagnosed during 1950–85 among young people in West Cumbria , concluded that the excess occurred among children whose fathers had high levels of exposure to radiation before the child was conceived , and perhaps particularly in the preceding six months ; they suggested that some cases were the result of paternal germ cell mutations , and that this could explain the excess in this geographical area . |
| 8 | But the Angevin kings regarded Stephen as a usurper : they considered that such districts were not covered by the disafforestment clauses . |
| 9 | In the event the visitors explained why they considered that both points were without merit . |