Example sentences of "[coord] that they have [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes they possessed knowledge about sex , but could not admit that this was sexual , or that they had those sorts of desires . |
| 2 | It is hard , after a lifetime of sharing disappointments and problems with a parent , to find that they are no longer capable of sustaining conversation , that their memory is failing or that they have little interest in things outside their own immediate situation . |
| 3 | ‘ He told me they had auditioned a lot of people back home and that they had five names in America that they were auditioning , and I was the first that day . |
| 4 | But on the whole it seems true to say that the minors and the ladies were at their lord 's disposal , and that they had little chance of resisting what he did ; but that none the less the lords were limited by custom , and even a king would be expected to consult his counsellors when he disposed of an heiress , as Henry I promised to do in his coronation charter . |
| 5 | From a local survey they found that many girls of this age were very frightened in labour , which made it worse , and that they had little idea about coping with a tiny baby . |
| 6 | They added that they were working for the government undercover and that they had enough evidence to ‘ make the charge stick ’ . |
| 7 | To those observers looking on it seemed hard to believe that the average IQ of the room 's inhabitants was 149 , and that they had more honours between them than a collection of top class civil servants — and to think that they had been reduced to such a pitiful state as this . |
| 8 | Other researchers , such as Clarricoates ( 1978 ) and Stanworth ( 1981 ) , found that teachers tend to spend more time talking to boys , and that they have more difficulty remembering girls ' names . |
| 9 | Note that we are assuming that both sets of firms sell their output at the price p t and that they have identical real wage elasticities of demand ( - α ) : that is , the firms are identical in every respect other than the timing of their wage contracts . |