Example sentences of "[verb] that it would [verb] them " in BNC.

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1 Sri Lanka broke off diplomatic relations with Israel on April 20 , 1990 , announcing that it would restore them when Israel recognised the PLO , withdrew from the occupied territories and agreed to participate in an international peace conference .
2 In London during the Great Plague people chewed on the root , believing that it would protect them from the disease .
3 They estimated that it would take them four months to build the cells , the measuring equipment and constant temperature baths .
4 The turbo-alternator manufacturers reckoned that it would enable them to cut between six and nine months off delivery dates , and the boiler-makers reckoned the standardisation of boilers to supply steam to the standard units would also speed up construction .
5 They also sensed that it would help them to make sure that managed competition was made to work ; they feared that , if it failed , politicians might opt for a government-run programme that would cut them out entirely .
6 Christy O'Connor Jnr played on the second morning and Jose Maria Canizares in the afternoon and although they did n't give me any points I felt it was important that they got a chance to taste the atmosphere and feel a part of the proceedings , as I thought that it would help them going into the singles .
7 Only last year we saw how building workers who left the Union of Construction , Allied Trades and Technicians when its leadership fell into the hands of the far left were prevented from joining the General , Municipal and Boilermakers union , even after the GMB had indicated that it would welcome them .
8 It was estimated that it would take them two to three weeks to get to the Falklands and therefore , theoretically , the decision could be rescinded if there were some kind of diplomatic breakthrough .
9 Although the buoyant Lewis camp have not given up hope of staging the Holyfield fight here , they estimate that it would cost them a massive £17.5m purse to do it .
10 Meanwhile , the unruly people of Rome , currently opposed to the Pope , suggested that it would suit them better to confirm the imperial crown upon Barbarossa .
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