Example sentences of "[adj] that they [vb mod] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not threaten me personally , but they made it clear that they could kill us all . |
| 2 | It is for someone to support the person whilst they try to unravel their thoughts in such a way that it becomes clear that they can say anything , no matter how bizarre or odd it sounds , because that will be the way they sort out their feelings in order to cope with them . |
| 3 | Because the majority of college lecturers are probably afraid that they might lose their students if they abandoned lectures whilst the rest of their colleagues retained them as the primary teaching method . |
| 4 | Somewhere in the back of my mind I think maybe I was afraid that they would find you although I had heard from you by that time and knew you could not possibly be there at the bottom of Loch Craig . |
| 5 | I 'll be afraid that they can see my tummy . |
| 6 | In fact , their necks are so mobile that they can keep their heads in the same position while a branch sways in the breeze underneath them . |
| 7 | The bond was so strong that they would feel her presence all their lives . |
| 8 | Who could hate her so much that they would send her something like that ? |
| 9 | The Bohemians thought of the halls as catering essentially for the masses but they were delighted that they could take their place beside them as part of what Vachel Lindsay was to call ‘ a jocular army ’ . |
| 10 | Anyone who wants the Ring does so because they are convinced that they could use it in order to destroy Darkness . |
| 11 | They walked regardless of the weather : on early spring mornings when the sky was remote and pale as a plover 's egg ; on stormy autumn afternoons when they felt they could reach up and touch the lowering clouds that covered the land like a bruise ; and on frozen winter days when the sky was a white membrane stretched so tight that they could imagine it cracking with the cold . |
| 12 | If you fill your factory with machines so sophisticated that they can make anything that any blueprint tells them to make , it is hardly surprising if sooner or later a blueprint arises that tells these machines to make copies of itself . |
| 13 | No the guests will not be in costume , we thought it was unfair that they should make them in costume . |
| 14 | Some vendors are promising that they will provide it on their own , others such as Quark are linking to specific vendors ( Scitex in this case ) while still others such as Aldus are merely providing an open interface to anyone who cares to take their files on board . |
| 15 | This new , private property would be , according to Engels and Morgan , in the hands of men , unlike the communal property of the gens , which was controlled by women , since they controlled the gens ; this was because Engels believed since men would be responsible for production at this stage it was natural that they would control what was necessary for production . |
| 16 | As such , it is natural that they should regard their place of work as an office , in which their duties are carried out , but to which they have no other loyalty . |
| 17 | So it 's more likely that they 'll make it compulsory . |
| 18 | If theorists attempted this task it is likely that they would find themselves following in the footsteps of the more deterministic elements of Durkheim 's sociology , which have not the aspects they have favoured so far ( Deutscher , 1984 ; Farr , 1984 ) . |
| 19 | a bit more resigned , there 's another , there 's another sort of erm possibility , I mean if they sold their house quickly of course then , you know they 'd come down here obviously and they 'd try and look for something , but it 's not likely that they 'd sell their house that quickly |
| 20 | It is likely that they will ask your organisation to provide this cover . |
| 21 | Not only did they enjoy , indeed relish , healthy sexual appetites , they made it obvious that they would satisfy them where and when they felt like it , on their Own terms . |
| 22 | It is so high and cold that they can raise nothing but the hardiest kind of vegetables … it is the only fishery the Nez Perce have and they go there from all directions … |
| 23 | He was n't even sure that they would want him . |
| 24 | Reassuring themselves that the train had broken down , both men felt confident that they would find nothing untoward on the line . |
| 25 | These men tend to be more confident that they can make their desires known to their partners , whereas those who did n't enjoy their introduction to sex are among the most likely to say that they ca n't express what they want . |
| 26 | Yes , Elizabeth Howell of Exploring Parenthood , certainly that is the case , both with parents and with people like teachers or child care workers , who are in locus parentis for many hours of the day , and our sense is very much that if the adults around children can feel supported and confident that they can acknowledge their own fears and anxieties that they will then be better be able to transmit that measured response to the children in their care and it was very interesting last week , I heard from an educational psychologist in the north of England who said that a group of teachers had asked from several schools to come together to think about the resources that they needed to set in place in order to deal with the children 's behaviour , and after the meeting , at which they were able to express their anxieties , they then returned to their various areas and when the psychologist contacted them a couple of days later they said we felt sufficiently supported by knowing that others are struggling with the same issues and that we could acknowledge our concerns about it , that we now feel able to get on with the job of helping the children , and I think that was a very good example of adults finding a way to acknowledge their own anxieties and thereby to increase their effectiveness in dealing with the children that in whose care they have . |
| 27 | ‘ We are confident that they will prefer our immediate all cash offer to the SeaCo board 's highly conditional alternative to purchase half the shares at some unspecified future date . ’ |
| 28 | We are confident that they will find nothing in the application which is ‘ incompatible with the statutory objective or the general principle of the Act ’ . |
| 29 | Both the district and unit team were confident that they could increase their share of the market , based on their entrepreneurial record , spare capacity and efficient units . |
| 30 | So even though we have a lot of tricky stuff to get right soundwise , the crew is so great that they can do it pretty much without us . |