Example sentences of "they [verb] that [adj] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of the European Parliament have endorsed EC Commission plans for an ‘ immense ’ programme for testing chemicals for their environmental risks — but they fear that this will lead to a proliferation of tests involving animals . |
| 2 | Now that the national museums no longer have their purchase grants awarded separately from grant in aid for running costs , they fear that those will be further whittled away and they will be even less capable of competing for major masterpieces . |
| 3 | They suggest that this may be through the perceived control an individual has over his goals , as compared to that when goals are externally assigned . |
| 4 | They suggest that this may partly be due to a failure to sustain the successful community based health education activities of the early and mid-1980s . |
| 5 | They show that little can be done for , which is not done with the people . |
| 6 | They speculated that this may be related to the fact that patients are referred with chronic or refractory conditions that have proved difficult to treat in general practice . |
| 7 | There was a glimpse of barbed wire stretched across the water and they guessed that this must surround a cattle-wade , like the one in the little brook near the home warren . |
| 8 | Under s20(4) a local authority may provide accommodation for any child within their area if they consider that this would safeguard and promote the child 's welfare ( s20(4) ) . |
| 9 | While Ministers might like to please the voters by abandoning VAT on fuel , they know that this would be disastrous abroad . |
| 10 | Many disabled people believe that encouraging a disability culture can only reinforce negative images of ‘ disability ’ — that is , they have not questioned the tragedy view of disability and when they think of a disability culture they assume that this must mean art forms which only present the negative side of disabled living . |
| 11 | Above all they believe that that must be said of Christ which is to be said of no other human being . |
| 12 | Patricia Whitaker-Dowling , David Wilcox , Christopher Widnell and Julius Youngner at Pittsburgh University have shown that interferon can prevent viruses from getting inside animal cells , and they believe that this might be the first line of defence set up by the interferon system in response to viral attack ( Proceedings of the U.S . |
| 13 | employees will only admit weaknesses if they feel that this will not be held against them . |
| 14 | They claim that this will ‘ break the harmful power of the nuclear family ’ and they have given the Government until next Friday to agree . ’ |
| 15 | They concede that the Church 's policy of rotating the Moderator every year can pose some difficulties for broadcasters and newspapers in terms of availability and profile , but they argue that this can be overcome and does not explain all the recent exclusions from discussions . |
| 16 | The Lebanese being quite short and Waite being quite tall , I guess they thought that this would show if Islamic Jihad was treating him right . |
| 17 | The CC C P Par army was a quarter the size of the K M T and had little money and no tanks , therefore it needed mobilization of the peasants in the villages , they needed the peasants to volunteer to join the P L A and to protect their own property so they thought that this would be an incentive for them . |
| 18 | They thought that this could reduce duplication and ensure better utilization of resources as well as guaranteeing greater consistency across different branches of the same service . |
| 19 | However , they conceded that this might prove expensive and not particularly effective in the battle against dishonesty . |
| 20 | That is , although they generally rejected the idea that people might be ‘ converted ’ to homosexuality through seduction , they suggested that some might be tempted into other corrupt activities : |