Example sentences of "they [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Student leaders say they fear that young people could be brainwashed by the organisation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They fear that such schemes could lead to disciplinary action against sub-standard teachers and to the beginnings of a merit pay system . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But they fear that next year it will be more difficult to take such action , when European Safety Standards , less stringent than Britain 's , come into force . |
| 6 | There are five chicks living in the nest and they fear that bad luck will follow if they remove it . |
| 7 | They fear that unexpected turmoil on the peninsula could easily trigger massive capital flight from South Korea . |
| 8 | And they fear that ten months on , the circumstances that led to Anna 's death still exist . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I thought they drunk that all day , |
| 12 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 13 | Although politicians tended to steer clear of acknowledging this aspect of policy too publicly , in their more candid moments they admitted that this cure for inflation went hand in glove with a rise in unemployment above NAIRU . |
| 14 | They realized that each element had its own spectrum , a pattern of bright lines ( from which the ubiquitous sodium lines could be distinguished ) ; and they used the spectroscope to detect two new metals , caesium and rubidium , which they were then able to isolate . |
| 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 | They judge that this form of organisation permits the cooperatives to obtain advantages of scale at the level of administration , coordination and planning while retaining the benefits of relatively small operating units i. e. maximum scope for democratic accountability ( Campbell , 1980 , pp. 12–13 ) . |
| 20 | '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 . |
| 21 | They argued that such gifts could influence the buyer 's objectivity , and that they should be restricted to such nominal items as calendars , diaries , pens , etc . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | They argued that one role of the state in capitalist society is to save capital from itself . |
| 24 | They argued that hemispheric differences only emerge at later stages of processing beyond immediate registration . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They argued that these sections of the law were intended to hinder the organization of opposition parties . |
| 28 | They argued that these conditions were not satisfied and , therefore , that there was no legal difficulty in remedying adverse effects in the UK . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They argued that some groups can consciously or unconsciously put up barriers to the public discussion of issues . |