Example sentences of "they [verb] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They fear that such schemes could lead to disciplinary action against sub-standard teachers and to the beginnings of a merit pay system . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And they fear that ten months on , the circumstances that led to Anna 's death still exist . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | They argued that these sections of the law were intended to hinder the organization of opposition parties . |
| 9 | They argued that these conditions were not satisfied and , therefore , that there was no legal difficulty in remedying adverse effects in the UK . |
| 10 | They argued that some groups can consciously or unconsciously put up barriers to the public discussion of issues . |
| 11 | They recommended that two wings be added to the infirmary , one at each end . |
| 12 | Deception was inadvertently assisted by the British Standards Institution in 1960 , when they recommended that all records with a vertical element in the groove modulation should have the word ‘ Stereo ’ on the label . |
| 13 | They insist that all talks are now off . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They proposed that these anomalies , which seemed to be arranged symmetrically on either side of , and roughly parallel with , the ridge crest , were not a result of variations in the intensity of magnetization , as earlier suggested , but rather a consequence of the direction of magnetization . |
| 16 | They report that rooted cuttings , pinched out twice during growth , make very attractive and of course functional houseplants . |
| 17 | One must ask whether the University is aware that such a thing is possible , or do they know that such contacts are sought in order that a class should appear without any justification . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | They suggest that sociological perspectives are shaped more by historical circumstances than by objective views of the reality of social life . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They suggest that tropical forests be translated into zonal parks or exchanged for poor-world debts . |
| 22 | They suggest that peculiar factors may account for the high levels recorded on a limited number of ground-based instruments . |
| 23 | They suggest that social classes have been replaced by a continuous hierarchy of unequal positions . |
| 24 | Furthermore , they suggest that some researchers who have reported correlations between emotional support and health in the absence of life events might in fact be picking up a correlation between chronic strain and support . |
| 25 | Some emphasise fibrosis as the dominant feature , but Goulston and McGovern indicate that contraction and hypertrophy of the muscularis mucosae are the essential features of stricture formation , and they suggest that these lesions are reversible . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They found that low concentrations ( 1%-5% ) of ethanol significantly stimulated acid secretion and cell respiration . |
| 30 | From a local survey they found that many girls of this age were very frightened in labour , which made it worse , and that they had little idea about coping with a tiny baby . |