Example sentences of "they [verb] 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 | When they announced that Hodge was playing , this Leeds ‘ fan ’ behind me groaned and said that he hoped he 'd have his leg broken ! |
| 10 | When the responses to almost 20,000 questions had been put through VGA 's computer , they revealed that men and women executives have more talents in common than most people imagine — and some considerable managerial differences too . |
| 11 | The moment they realized that Dad was in , they let me go . |
| 12 | After dinner they agreed that Rodney should not wash up . |
| 13 | They agreed that countries with fiscal and current-account deficits should reduce budget deficits and increase private savings . |
| 14 | But male compositors made it easier for them to do this , and justified the division of labour , when they agreed that women could not attain all the skills of the trade . |
| 15 | They agreed that John should let Margaret know that any intervention by her in the debate on immigration would be considered ‘ unhelpful ’ , and should extend an invitation for her to sit on the platform on the Friday afternoon for the Leader 's speech , sitting as far away from Ted Heath as it was humanly possible . |
| 16 | When they were in their room together they agreed that Sister Dew was ‘ a bit of a trial ’ and that seemed to draw them together . |
| 17 | Then they agreed that Mr Stewart should have the use of the church from twelve to two pm and the United Free Church service to begin at two o'clock . |
| 18 | Greece was obliged this spring to accept the new country 's admission to the United Nations with ‘ Macedonia ’ in its name , and the New Democracy rebels swallowed their fury when they realised that voting against the government would cause an election their party would probably lose . |
| 19 | They realised that people were sneering at them . |
| 20 | John and Joan Waters had hoped that , once they realised that Derek had the support of other members of his family , they would leave him alone . |
| 21 | They presumed that Jaq was honing his soul serenely in expectation of sacrifice . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Indeed they argued that girls developed sub-cultures which were more passive and marginal than those of boys and involved doing things such as sitting around in their bedrooms worshipping pop stars . |
| 25 | These " Whiggish Jacobites " , as they referred to themselves , produced a number of pamphlets in which they argued that William , through various acts of despotism , had broken the contract he had made with the nation in 1689 , and thus forfeited his right to obedience . |
| 26 | They argued that decentralization could not be divorced from the increasing pressures which industry was facing , nor indeed from deindustrialization itself : that while location factors might indicate why movement took place from area A to area B rather than from area Y to area Z ( though the technical arguments above disputed even that ) , they gave no help in explaining why there was movement in the first place . |
| 27 | Later , in their survey of new teachers in school , they argued that teachers who were insecure in their subject material adopted |
| 28 | They argued that development would eventually take the Third World through its own demographic transition to low rates of death and birth . |
| 29 | They argued that sinners were quite unable to attain salvation through their own merits or through the long process of confession , repentance , and partial purification , and that justification or redemption was obtainable only at a stroke through the gift of faith from God made possible by Christ 's sacrifice . |
| 30 | They argued that categories such as crime and mental illness ( and they could have added child abuse ) do not occur naturally , but are products of social definition . |