Example sentences of "they [vb past] that this [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | However , they conceded that this might prove expensive and not particularly effective in the battle against dishonesty . |