Example sentences of "that they [verb] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time may well have come when the taxpayers of our country need their own union to ensure that they receive better value for their money — rather like local authority ratepayers ' committees . |
| 2 | Recognising that relocation may have a worse effect on married staff than on single workers , it is not unusual to find that they receive higher allowances . |
| 3 | Cracks under 1mm are acceptable , up to 2mm they require minor repair ; above that they require further investigation by a builder or structural engineer . |
| 4 | He believed that they had greater capacity to do so than previous generations and hence would be less in need of support from the state when they reached old-age — there was therefore no need to establish complex insurance machinery . |
| 5 | Some of the professionals believed that they had greater patience than their able-bodied colleagues , and often pointed out that their patients and clients had greater confidence in them and were more likely to take their advice . |
| 6 | It therefore seems directly consistent with the theory that candidates were forbidden to try to persuade the voters that they had better policies or attitudes than other candidates : a directive which had distinctive consequences for the pattern of the contest . |
| 7 | The early bipedal hominids were smaller than us so it is not surprising that they had smaller skulls , but there are no good grounds for supposing that men have gradually been evolving into creatures of greater and greater intelligence . |
| 8 | While nothing definitive can be concluded from such meagre data , the fact that such examples do seem to suggest different impressions than the to infinitive to speakers of various dialects indicates that they deserve closer attention , especially in the light of a further examination of the passive voice . |
| 9 | Some tasks may be logically more complex than others in the sense that they subsume simpler tasks . |
| 10 | On the negative side it should be recalled that many Belorussian nationalists were more pro-Western than specifically Belorussian in their emphasis , while many others became so identified with the Bolshevik Party that they shed earlier inclinations . |
| 11 | Executives have discovered that they achieve better results in the workplace if they fall in love with a colleague , according to an American report . |
| 12 | Already , third-world countries such as India are complaining that they face tougher loan conditions than Russia . |
| 13 | The latest report on the employment of black graduates also concludes that they experience greater difficulties than white graduates in obtaining employment ; in addition , the jobs obtained appear to be inferior to those gained by white graduates ( CRE , 1987 ) . |
| 14 | Conversely , the Profitboss accepts that they have greater skills in packing , driving and cleaning than him . |
| 15 | Some of these ideas are , that girls are more , social , and ‘ suggestible ’ than boys ; that they have lower achievement motivation and self-esteem ; that they are better at rote learning and repetition , and worse at higher-level cognitive tasks , involving responses inhibition and analysis ; that they are more ‘ auditory ’ and less ‘ visual ’ ; and that they are more affected by heredity and less by environment . |
| 16 | Clearly Select Committees will have an important role to play in further developing the presentation of these reports to ensure that they provide greater accountability . |