Example sentences of "they [verb] that [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They fear that bankers may now reckon to get a better return by selling off firms ' assets quickly than by keeping debtors alive . |
| 2 | Villagers in Bendel State hide their television and radio sets on treetops because they fear that radioactivity will be transmitted via the electronic media . |
| 3 | After dinner they agreed that Rodney should not wash up . |
| 4 | But male compositors made it easier for them to do this , and justified the division of labour , when they agreed that women could not attain all the skills of the trade . |
| 5 | They agreed that John should let Margaret know that any intervention by her in the debate on immigration would be considered ‘ unhelpful ’ , and should extend an invitation for her to sit on the platform on the Friday afternoon for the Leader 's speech , sitting as far away from Ted Heath as it was humanly possible . |
| 6 | They deny that classes can be defined in terms of their functions for capitalism and instead stress the importance of the market situation of those in particular occupations . |
| 7 | They argued that decentralization could not be divorced from the increasing pressures which industry was facing , nor indeed from deindustrialization itself : that while location factors might indicate why movement took place from area A to area B rather than from area Y to area Z ( though the technical arguments above disputed even that ) , they gave no help in explaining why there was movement in the first place . |
| 8 | They argued that development would eventually take the Third World through its own demographic transition to low rates of death and birth . |
| 9 | They argued that enterprises would not reduce their prices but simply would accumulate stocks of finished goods , financing this by the issue of bills of exchange . |
| 10 | Bearing in mind the continuing need to protect British interests and to support friendly states in the Middle and Far East , they recommended that steps should be taken to build up RAF Transport Command 's capacity to provide greater strategic and tactical air mobility . |
| 11 | Designed to reduce back and neck strain and Repetitive Strain Injury ( RSI ) , they insist that chairs must have seats that are height adjustable and backs that are height and tilt adjustable . |
| 12 | They insist that Muslims should be subject to Islamic rather than British family law — a privilege they enjoyed in India under the Raj . |
| 13 | They proposed that AEA should be re-organised into strategic business units which should be encouraged to prove what they could achieve under a strategy described as ‘ pushing the limits ’ . |
| 14 | They proposed that mother should have reasonable contact and that father should have no contact . |
| 15 | They expect that overdrafts would rise an average of about £15,500 upwards . |
| 16 | In their conception , they suggest that memory should not be envisaged as a series of seperate stages ; sensory , short-term , and long term memory stores . |
| 17 | And they suggest that improvements might well be achieved by taking these factors into consideration in the process of specification , design , construction , installation , commissioning and maintenance of buildings and their services . |
| 18 | They say that America would have done better simply to import the Canadian system of national insurance financed by taxes . |
| 19 | They say that supermarkets will overestimate next year 's requirements and then force farmers to discount . |
| 20 | They say that tenants should have their rents linked to the condition of the property they live in . |
| 21 | Although the authors see some advantages in a system within the local authority , they conclude that claimants would be better served by independent tribunals and feel Social Security Tribunals are well placed to take on the task . |
| 22 | They hope that marriage will make life better for the woman . |
| 23 | They show that learning can result from changes in the effectiveness of synapses . |
| 24 | They believed that emotions should be let out and then mastered ; there was their Protestantism , fighting the good fight , the insistence on going their own way , ; their fear and dislike of cities ; their psychological as well as actual isolation from the body of mankind ; their awareness of the stigma of art ; a distrust of the intellect when fed on abstractions ; a desire to get ‘ beyond ’ art to a kind of heaven and a paradoxical belief in art activity as a means of shedding psychic sickness . |
| 25 | They believed that society ought to be ordered , not according to how sinful men wished to live , but in accordance with God 's divine commandments . |
| 26 | They believed that inflation would go up and that interest rates would go up , which would clearly lead to higher unemployment in Yorkshire and Humberside . |
| 27 | of people in that wider community told a Harris poll that they believed that Labour would raise the basic rate of tax , 57 per cent . |
| 28 | The Western banks regarded Romania as a good risk : cynically , they judged that Ceauşescu would keep the lid on the pot in Romania in a way that Gierek had manifestly failed to do in Poland . |
| 29 | It should be emphasised that these opportunities do not constitute ‘ language development ’ nor do they ensure that development will take place . |
| 30 | Did they feel that women could n't be militant ? |