Example sentences of "they [verb] that [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They fear that such schemes could lead to disciplinary action against sub-standard teachers and to the beginnings of a merit pay system . |
| 2 | Members of the European Parliament have endorsed EC Commission plans for an ‘ immense ’ programme for testing chemicals for their environmental risks — but they fear that this will lead to a proliferation of tests involving animals . |
| 3 | Now that the national museums no longer have their purchase grants awarded separately from grant in aid for running costs , they fear that those will be further whittled away and they will be even less capable of competing for major masterpieces . |
| 4 | I thought they drunk that all day , |
| 5 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Having some information on helplines in other areas and countries , they realized that such a service in London would both take the pressure off them and be an asset to the community . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Well , in the nick of time they realized that all that Anna was wailing about was some French floozy the prince was n't even particularly attached to ( a crony of Anna 's , a censorious old toad who lived in hotels and got everything half wrong , had spilt the beans to her ) . |
| 10 | And they realized that all their efforts in controlling quality by inspection and so on had failed . |
| 11 | Finally the NCC is also entitled to designate Sites of Special Scientific Interest , where they deem that this is necessary in view of the flora , fauna , geology or physiography of the area . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When Protestants did accept that they enjoyed material advantages over the Catholic population , they argued that these were their just rewards for loyalty . |
| 15 | They argued that these conditions were not satisfied and , therefore , that there was no legal difficulty in remedying adverse effects in the UK . |
| 16 | They argued that these sections of the law were intended to hinder the organization of opposition parties . |
| 17 | They argued that some groups can consciously or unconsciously put up barriers to the public discussion of issues . |
| 18 | They argued that most of girls ' lives were not conducted on the street in any case , and that it was necessary to study them in their homes instead . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They recommended that this aspect should not be changed . |
| 21 | They insist that all talks are now off . |
| 22 | Yet when he and other top men at GE are asked why the company has only one foreigner on its 19-member board of directors , they insist that this is no obstacle to making the company truly global . |
| 23 | They insist that this group is ‘ nominal ’ , rather like Christians who go to church for the comfortable feelings they get , but who never put their faith into practice . |
| 24 | God , they have said , is ‘ being ’ or ‘ being itself ’ ( by which they mean that all else has to be ‘ something ’ , whereas God as pure being simply ‘ is ’ ) . |
| 25 | Even in its inchoate beginnings , pop culture was forced to turn to the sexually divergent or avant-garde , for it was only in the spaces that they inhabited that this new world could be recognized and could develop . |
| 26 | But there were those who remembered the cruel days of Aenarion 's court in Nagarythe and they doubted that any child who grew up there could be entirely wholesome . |
| 27 | They doubted that this act represented any substantial change in policy and did not regard it as sufficient to confirm Pakistani non-alignment in light of the continuation of strong military links between Washington and Islamabad . |
| 28 | They proposed that more open-ended questioning and more pupil talk were vital in reading acquisition . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They have to reveal all , and if something goes wrong how are they to know that all that information will not be handed back to the secret police from whom they are trying to escape by seeking asylum ? |