Example sentences of "they [verb] that [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way , following Marx , they contend that if military expenditure and involvement in society and politics has increased , then it must in some way be functional for the survival of capitalism as an economic system . |
| 2 | So when the Jews arrived on board from a mainland where they had been despised , systematically humiliated and imprisoned , they discovered that although this ship was legally still part of Germany , flew the swastika and had large portraits of Hitler in its public rooms , the Germans with whom they had dealings were courteous , attentive and even obedient . |
| 3 | They believe that if socialist revolution has not arrived today , it will come tomorrow . |
| 4 | They reckon that if each machine brought in $192 a day ( a claim the Las Vegas experts call unrealistic ) , and if the owners let the state pocket 90% of it , the state could earn more than $196m a year ; and it could put the money towards education . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , they claim that if syntactic analysis is guided by semantic cues then the relative difficulty of different syntactic forms should not be constant . |
| 6 | Second , they argue that because human intervention is involved in the production of transgenic plants or animals , they have somehow ceased to be biological and thus patentable . |