Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Federal judge refused the plaintiffs ' request for a restraining order to open the late April pre-session meeting , saying they failed to demonstrate that real deliberations and decision making were taking place . |
| 2 | They tend to deny that older people may have issues and agendas that they may wish to discuss , and they ignore the fact that many older people have the ability and interest to organize matters for themselves . |
| 3 | Inevitably this affects their attitude to these people so that they tend to assume that all their visits are time-wasting . |
| 4 | They want to assert that homosexual relationships are just as valid as heterosexual ones and that it is perfectly ‘ natural ’ for some people to be homosexual if their inclination is in that direction and that those who profess distaste for homosexuality are denying them human rights . |
| 5 | They further assert that this value is consistent with eyewitness accounts . |
| 6 | They further suggest that regional planning would limit any unconstrained growth arising from operating what is essentially a reimbursement system . |
| 7 | All respondents agreed that Personal Search would permeate every aspect of Religious Education in a Catholic school ; they further agreed that appropriate areas of study for the attainment targets in Personal Search were identifiable in current Religious Education programmes but would need to be retextured in terms of exposition and presentation . |
| 8 | Then , just as suddenly , they seemed to remember that this was a serious occasion , they were on their way to a funeral , the funeral of a great man , the chairman , their founder and benefactor , and they fell silent again . |
| 9 | If they 'd done so , if they 'd insisted that local authorities did provide the sites they are supposed to provide I believe there would now be sufficient pitches for all travellers and that they would n't be used for illegal parking erm at the level that there is at the moment . |
| 10 | They seem to think that all they need to do is fetch God and all will be well . |
| 11 | Because they have shown that the Devil of the New Testament is influenced by sources other than the Old Testament they seem to think that this somehow undercuts the authenticity of the Christian Evil One . |
| 12 | They seem to think that teenage mothers ca n't look after children properly . |
| 13 | They are polytheistic in that they seem to believe that many gods exist , but monotheistic in that they command obedience to only one of these many gods . |
| 14 | They began to realise that many procedures had been wrongly carried out in the management of the case , in particular that the Social Work Department were not implementing the decisions of the Children 's Panel . |
| 15 | Examination of the courses they attended suggested that these were not uniformly suitable for wives and that more courses aimed at helping wives to substitute for husbands in an emergency would be useful . |
| 16 | They managed to prove that that attitude is n't the right one . |
| 17 | They did feel that increased participation by subordinates may be a more effective way of motivating people but that time limitations made this impossible . |
| 18 | legitimate to think that how that they did think that this was a short-term goal in order to achieve their long-term objectives . |
| 19 | And I 've had some conflicting information recently because , not very long ago they did say that any part time hourly paid lecturing in a college would have no effect on pension . |
| 20 | However , they did find that personal service workers tended to give different answers to the questions about autonomy at work . |
| 21 | Moreover , while they do show that official statistics tend to underestimate the amount of crime , it is likely that victim studies also under-record the amount — mostly because people can only report having been victims of crime if they know that they have been victimised . |
| 22 | They do show that primary qualities , as we experience them , are on an equal footing with secondary qualities , and are simply perceptions or ideas in the mind . |
| 23 | They do suggest that professional mental health workers will need to draw heavily on feminist frameworks in the future , as they try to understand and treat women who need to access the mental health system in a major way , as well as those who experience transitory difficulties in lifestages such as childhood , adolescence , childbearing , adult crises , and old age . |
| 24 | these figures do not show that black people are more prone crime , but they do suggest that black people who offend are more likely to go to prison . |
| 25 | However they do acknowledge that many children can be more confident and more assertive than others , but that this is due to them receiving unconditional love . |
| 26 | They do say that essential oils will often work quicker than a tablet . |
| 27 | But them I have seen , and they do say that this third man was called back into the church by one of the brothers , at the end of the evening , for some last purpose , after which the brother came out with him to thank them all , and bid them goodnight . |
| 28 | They fail to appreciate that all elderly people are constantly aware that they are approaching the last great event in their lives : their own death . |
| 29 | They 've yanked that big juicy $422m CAD 2 contract to supply the US Naval Facilities Engineering Command away from Intergraph Corp because of a protest lodged by competitors Centel , Sun and Autodesk . |
| 30 | Where he might have been standing still had not the eagles lunged at him , as if moments before it fell they had sensed that some danger was there and had sought to protect him . |