Example sentences of "they [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jamaicans usually claim to be able to understand everything said in Standard English ; it comes as something of a shock to many of them to find that English people can by no means always understand them . |
| 2 | The odds stacked against them show that industrial action today needs a leap of the political intellect . |
| 3 | The complete lack of cognitive improvements leads them to suggest that cognitive impairment is intrinsically associated with long-term morbidity in schizophrenia . |
| 4 | Rumours that the increased duties to be levied on gin were but the beginning of a general excise , an indirect tax that would hurt the poor much more than the better-off , fuelled the crowd 's antipathy towards the government : " If we are Englishmen … let them see that wooden shoes are not so easy to be worn as they imagine . |
| 5 | Seventy three per cent of them believe that inadequate resources are a key issue facing higher education , according to the survey , which was conducted by Gallup and commissioned by NATFHE , the university and college lecturers ' union . |
| 6 | At this or any stage it may be that one or both of them finds that initial attraction is not supported by later experience . |
| 7 | Some 42% of them thought that economic liberals were best at handling the economy ( against 18% who thought social democrats were ) ; and 50% thought unions should be independent of social-democratic parties ( though 39% thought the opposite ) . |
| 8 | Student leaders say they fear that young people could be brainwashed by the organisation . |
| 9 | Some people get very upset about the idea that there might be any causes operating in the social world ; they fear that causal influences on human action rob people of their freedom of choice and dignity of action . |
| 10 | They fear that increasing raids from bordering Mozambique just a few miles away , together with the lack of any local security , has turned the area into a no-go zone . |
| 11 | There are five chicks living in the nest and they fear that bad luck will follow if they remove it . |
| 12 | They fear that unexpected turmoil on the peninsula could easily trigger massive capital flight from South Korea . |
| 13 | When pressed for concrete experimental results to validate their claim , they announced that supporting data had already been obtained , in the belief that they would be able to obtain it in future . |
| 14 | They concede that municipal monopoly of schooling has let down generations but they come back with ideas that seem to me to be sensible and subtle but also politically popular . |
| 15 | Although the US Joint Chiefs of Staff in March 1946 seemed to regard the Far East as the most likely arena for a Soviet–American collision , they agreed that Soviet expansion from its borders westward or to the south could result in a conflict with Britain into which the United States might finally be drawn . |
| 16 | At a recent meeting between the two bodies they agreed that countering habitat loss is a high priority . |
| 17 | They presumed that compulsory education up to the age of 16 would automatically provide both a regular supply of suitable undergraduates and an enlightened public who would understand why universities are important . |
| 18 | But they deny that car-park money or the like is finding its way into the pockets of players . |
| 19 | 's ( 1965 ) three dimensions and in a survey of heads of household in Illinois , found that socioeconomic status generally accounted for more of the rural-urban variation than either occupation or residence , and then rejected Bealer 's approach when they argued that future work should concentrate on single-dimension variables . |
| 20 | They argued that existing maps and digitized files from them are unable to meet these needs at global or regional scale and only remote sensing could help in the short term : the availability of stereometric data from the French SPOT satellite has already led to proposals for automated creation of global digital elevation models with a spatial ( XY ) resolution of about 30 m ( Muller 1989 ) . |
| 21 | They argued that hemispheric differences only emerge at later stages of processing beyond immediate registration . |
| 22 | In a negative sense , they argued that active citizenship was a healthy return to old values which had been submerged by passive reliance on the ‘ nanny state ’ . |
| 23 | Many who belonged to the GLC traditions could see no reason to trust any institution of the local state , or to risk becoming dependent on it ; they argued that independent self-organization was the only way to effect changes in our lives . |
| 24 | They argued that scientific progress and understanding could not be conceived of as a static process ; with the advance of research into passive smoking , different conclusions might one day become apparent . |
| 25 | Yet the programmers and the educational technologists are undoubtedly right when they insist that current trends and changes in education require more systematic thinking , whether or not we always adopt on every occasion their particular model for it . |
| 26 | They report that rooted cuttings , pinched out twice during growth , make very attractive and of course functional houseplants . |
| 27 | Certainly the rhetorical approach does not dispute the general theoretical aims of the social representation theorists , especially when they emphasize that social beliefs are rooted in the life of groups and that dialogue is crucial for their creation and maintenance ( Moscovici , 1983 ) . |
| 28 | They suggest that sociological perspectives are shaped more by historical circumstances than by objective views of the reality of social life . |
| 29 | Other surveys conducted among student populations in the US have more or less confirmed Professor Kellert 's basic preference criteria , though they suggest that additional factors such as longevity , slow reproductive rate and rareness also make an important contribution to an animal 's popularity . |
| 30 | They suggest that tropical forests be translated into zonal parks or exchanged for poor-world debts . |