Example sentences of "they [verb] [that] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unions are concerned because they fear that even if the in-house bids for the Civil Service work are successful , jobs could still be lost . |
| 2 | All members are believed to have the life-force within them , and they insist that only within themselves will they find what Christians call God . |
| 3 | So it seems unfortunate that they report that relatively few shops are prepared to work this system . |
| 4 | They report that nationally 70 per cent of the population thought Woonerven to be attractive or highly attractive . |
| 5 | Little did they know that shortly after the conference their services would be required in the lounge of a local public house by a group of frustrated dykes and an infuriated publican . |
| 6 | ‘ You mean how did they know that today was a big one ? ’ |
| 7 | They suggest that relatively junior and often youthful staff do not shirk opportunities for taking responsibility when the opportunity is there and they , in fact , associate responsibility and autonomy with a high degree of job satisfaction . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , if we adjust the above findings , they suggest that almost 40% of the public feel that mentally handicapped people should be segregated from the rest of society ; around the same proportion would dislike the idea of a mentally handicapped child being at the same school as their child and around 70% feel that mentally handicapped people should not be allowed to marry and have children . |
| 9 | They found that even small amounts of capsaicin increased the perceived strength of the solutions . |
| 10 | They found that even very small dosages of fluoride may cause ‘ normal ’ blood fluoride levels to surge to potentially harmful values . |
| 11 | They found that even three-year-olds were able to use the matching rule in a task which involved judging whether an agent had meant to achieve a particular result . |
| 12 | They found that even within Islington there were wide differences in offence rates . |
| 13 | And when they got there , they found that both anticipation and anxiety had overestimated the occasion , for like the reception at the Hôtel de Ville , the dance was nothing but a stifling , uncomfortable , noisy , joyless crush . |
| 14 | They found that neither the new port at Gdynia nor Free City status was of much use to them . |
| 15 | Using a magnetometer , they found that only in the bones of the sinuses was magnetic remanence more than twice the background level — and in those bones it was up to 13 times background . |
| 16 | They found that only about half would have voted Labour if they had been registered . |
| 17 | They found that more than six out of 10 children with emotional and behavioural problems were regular smokers . |
| 18 | When Nick Davies and Mike Brooke placed 10 g-sized model ‘ reed warbler ’ cuckoo 's eggs in reed warbler nests , they found that about half of them were ejected , whereas none of the model 3 g normal-sized ones were . |
| 19 | When Peter Townsend and his army of researchers monitored low incomes in the sixties and seventies for their massive study , Poverty in the United Kingdom ( Penguin , 1982 ) , they found that about a quarter of the unemployed were drawing supplementary benefit . |
| 20 | ( 1989 ) , in their study of the evaluation of NHS nursing homes ; they reported that approximately 70 per cent of the nursing home population showed mild/severe dementia . |
| 21 | They reported that as many as 17 percent of Panjabi ( U ) workers in Bradford work for Panjabi speaking employers . |
| 22 | I 've had another word with Personnel and they say that even though I ca n't have any more full-timers , I can have a part-timer to help me with making the sandwiches in the morning and clearing up last thing at night . |
| 23 | Now they say that even when they get a new manager , they could not return to the traditional pattern of advice workers advising and the manager doing the rest . |
| 24 | They say that once having used miscue analysis , they internalise its approach , and never listen to a child read in the same way again . |
| 25 | They say that too many sick people are being sent to prison again and again instead of being treated . |
| 26 | But they say that around £100 million is needed to ensure such projects are economically viable in the short term . |
| 27 | ‘ They say that more than thirty people are dying every week now . ’ |
| 28 | They say that aside from getting a few noses out of joint at Microsoft Corp , enough people felt BillyGram was a silly name and would prevent it from being taken seriously . |
| 29 | They hope that neither Europe nor America will want to make such sacrifices to defend farm subsidies which they can not themselves afford . |
| 30 | They hope that today 's announcement of a £650 reward will bring them closer to catching the murderer . |