Example sentences of "they [vb base] that [noun] " 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 | They fear that welfare is being privatised : if charities build shelters for the homeless and philanthropists feed the poor , the government saves money . |
| 3 | They fear that ministers intend to downgrade their economic role and enhance the powers of local enterprise companies . |
| 4 | Villagers in Bendel State hide their television and radio sets on treetops because they fear that radioactivity will be transmitted via the electronic media . |
| 5 | The present limit for adult viewing is 9pm — but they fear that children as young as 12 are still viewing after that . |
| 6 | They fear that Mr Charest , but not Ms Campbell , will be a match for them in the provinces where it matters most , Quebec and Ontario . |
| 7 | Some of Mr Kravchuk 's advisers are exploiting his vanity , perhaps because they fear that Mr Kuchma 's reforms will put an end to the opportunities for easy profits offered by the current chaos in the economy . |
| 8 | They fear that responsibilities and attitudes once a prominent part of a teacher 's life may no longer be regarded as essential ; they fear an erosion of the teacher 's role and status , and see changes as signalling moves to squeeze him out of concerns that were and are rightly his . |
| 9 | In other words they deny that education is necessarily a means to an end , and argue instead that either the content or the processes of teaching and learning can have intrinsic educational value . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Thus , they contend that losses resulting from the automatic prohibition of mergers above a certain size are unlikely to be substantial , and are more than likely to be offset by the benefits arising from the creation of a climate of greater certainty and competition . |
| 12 | They perceive that gains involve risking capital in the acquisition of chargeable assets and that the incidence of their realisation is usually irregular , particularly in the case of businesses and land . |
| 13 | They insist that planners do not and can not have the scale and quality of knowledge and foresight to regulate prices and output effectively . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They insist that Muslims should be subject to Islamic rather than British family law — a privilege they enjoyed in India under the Raj . |
| 16 | They mean that slum clearances still lack completion ; that low standards of living still persist , and that the lessons taught in the school and clinic , and good social habits , do not always survive the pressure of bad home circumstances when young people have passed from supervision . |
| 17 | By this they mean that people both avoid intruding upon each other 's territory ( physical territory , a particular field of knowledge , a friendship ) and also seek to enlarge the territory of others — in Lakoff 's terms , make the other person feel good — presumably on the assumption that the same will be done to them . |
| 18 | There are many people now , by no means all scientists , who habitually talk of the parameters of a situation rather than describe what is happening , of infrastructural problems when the trains are late , of the sexually dimorphic aspect of Homo sapiens when they mean that men are generally larger than women . |
| 19 | In fact , they seem to get a good price for their equity , because they only sell when they sense that investors feel lucky . |
| 20 | They expect that overdrafts would rise an average of about £15,500 upwards . |
| 21 | They report that 21% withdrew before completing their higher education course , but only 12.5% withdrew because of failure in assessed work . |
| 22 | They report that costs have increased by 3.5% over the past year to £8,327 . |
| 23 | They forget that New York has to share the blame for ‘ the Nige ’ , although he 's obstinately unfamous here . |
| 24 | But they forget that flowers are sent not only as a mark of respect for the dead , but also as a gesture of sympathy to the living , suffering widow , to bring some of the hopeful beauty of nature to soften the bleakness of one of the saddest days of her life , and to show her how much the one she loved was also loved by others . |
| 25 | They forget that Picasso was a brilliant draughtsman , composer , colourist . |
| 26 | They forget that Picasso was a brilliant draughtsman , composer , colourist . |
| 27 | They suggest that engorgement of the lymph nodes with fluid evokes frequency stabilisation . |
| 28 | They suggest that women fit into the secondary labour market for five reasons : |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They suggest that specialist teams are blown off course , that their promise to create a new order of services is confounded by the established order , that their activities are shaped by a " politics of the tenable " rather than a politics of good practice . |