Example sentences of "they [verb] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | They argued that hemispheric differences only emerge at later stages of processing beyond immediate registration . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They report that rooted cuttings , pinched out twice during growth , make very attractive and of course functional houseplants . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | They suggest that sociological perspectives are shaped more by historical circumstances than by objective views of the reality of social life . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They suggest that tropical forests be translated into zonal parks or exchanged for poor-world debts . |
| 14 | They suggest that peculiar factors may account for the high levels recorded on a limited number of ground-based instruments . |
| 15 | They suggest that social classes have been replaced by a continuous hierarchy of unequal positions . |
| 16 | They suggest that clinical psychologists , with an understanding of psychological aspects of disability , may have a role to play in the development of services for older people with disabilities , and in training other health service professionals in how to respond to problems of disability in older people . |
| 17 | They found that young mothers seemed to give health visitors a more idealized version of how they treated their babies than the account they gave to Elizabeth Newson , who was not seen to have any authority over them . |
| 18 | In view of the problem of the masking of environmental heterogeneity , they found that small plots of 40 x 50 m were the most profitable in terms of time and information gained ( even though they recorded only 500 common tree species in 35 families ) , and that for phytomass studies small plots were adequate . |
| 19 | They found that low concentrations ( 1%-5% ) of ethanol significantly stimulated acid secretion and cell respiration . |
| 20 | Furthermore , they found that different sections of the black population were employed in very specific sectors . |
| 21 | Surveying 1,000 teachers in 112 schools and every secondary head in Scotland , they found that extreme incidents of indiscipline , such as physical or verbal abuse of teachers , were rare . |
| 22 | They say that financial institutions ' troubled assets , such as loans for property and highly-geared companies , will take years to sort out . |
| 23 | They say that gentile women who marry Jewish men become more Jewish than Jews . |
| 24 | They say that fair elections in Punjab and Assam are impossible — and so the outcome will be decided by bullets , not ballots . |
| 25 | They say that social workers who attend seminars and lectures on the subject do not realise that these ideas are being promoted by Christian Fundamentalist extremists who believe that all abuse is demonic in origin . |
| 26 | They realise that improved techniques may disprove today 's theory , and so they no longer use the terms , true and false , right or wrong , but only value a theory for it 's usefulness at the time . |
| 27 | They conclude that differential rewards are functional for society , that they contribute to the maintenance and well-being of social systems . |
| 28 | By close attention to variations in surface texture and polish , they conclude that certain statues dedicated to later rulers , like Rameses II , are in fact reworkings of earlier portraits of Amenhotep III . |
| 29 | 17.5 These points are relevant both to programmes of study and to assessment , since they show that linguistic forms can not be corrected or assessed independently of their purpose . |
| 30 | They believed that high levels of government spending were pre-empting resources that could have been used more productively in the private sector , that high taxes were stifling private enterprise , and that the abolition of the complex system of government regulations , interventions , and subsidies would unleash a new wave of private initiative and energy . |