Example sentences of "[vb -s] that they [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokesman for the DS says that they ca n't comment on individual cases but in general anyone who is out of the country for whatever reason is then deemed unavailable for work and ca n't be in receipt of benefits . |
| 2 | The Minister says that they can not bear it , but perhaps the Duke of Edinburgh has more feeling . |
| 3 | The supervisor says that they can not wear gloves . ’ |
| 4 | She says that they must n't become complacent . |
| 5 | It states that they will even undertake not to influence their national central banks , which means rule by bankers . |
| 6 | Taking them to the surgery for routine checks ensures that they should not associate this with unpleasant stimuli . |
| 7 | In the faintest of whispers the parents try to give comfort , try to quieten : for a moment it seems that they might even have to stifle . |
| 8 | There is more of a case for liberating animals from the wild when it seems that they will not meet the pitiless test of nature . |
| 9 | So I said erm if we say increase to five pounds now , they do n't have to , but it means that they 'll probably have a significant unit holding , you know , to compensate them . |
| 10 | Hardly any Iraqi combat aircraft have been destroyed , which means that they may still try to intervene in the land battle , or to hit harder than Scud missiles can at Israel and Saudi Arabia . |
| 11 | The narrowness of the path means that they must always play ‘ follow the leader ’ , and begin to learn something about position and ordinal number . |
| 12 | It also means that they can not feel the contractions , so the midwife has to tell them when to push , which can take longer . |
| 13 | Marx maintained that , with the possible exception of the societies of prehistory , all historical societies contain basic contradictions which means that they can not survive forever in their existing form . |
| 14 | This allows them to generate a plausible pronunciation for a non-word like ‘ blasp ’ , but means that they can not pronounce many irregular words correctly . |
| 15 | And the detectors ' stability means that they can even measure radiation from the faint cloud of dust around the sun which produces the zodiacal light . |
| 16 | The ability to provide unsecured loans , albeit on a limited scale , means that they can now guarantee to honour their members ' cheques . |
| 17 | The exclusion principle is crucial because it explains why matter particles do not collapse to a state of very high density under the influence of the forces produced by the particles of spin 0 , 1 , and 2 : if the matter particles have very nearly the same positions , they must have different velocities , which means that they will not stay in the same position for long . |
| 18 | These Part II privileges are " subject to explanation and contradiction " — which means that they will not apply where an editor or programme controller has refused the plaintiff 's request to publish a reasonable statement in reply , or has done so in an inadequate manner . |
| 19 | Only 12 per cent of the ‘ No ’ voters — 6 per cent of all voters — admitted that they were voting against the president , and this by no means implies that they would necessarily have otherwise voted ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 20 | In many ways it should be the last consideration , though some people have such strong likes and dislikes that they can neither explain nor ignore ! |
| 21 | It maintains that they can only benefit if it secures the return to Turkey of the so-called Lydian hoard : Lydian , Archaemenid Persian and other Anatolian artefacts dating back to 600–500 BC which , it contends , were looted in 1960–66 from tombs in the Ushak region of Turkey . |
| 22 | Derick Wilson , the Labour councillor who lobbied fellow members to reject the licencing restrictions , claims that they would badly damage Edinburgh 's tourism image . |
| 23 | Now we do n't know the long term effect of that , but the experience with the protocol violators suggests that they wo n't come to any great harm , but obviously the number is small . |
| 24 | Experience suggests that they will only pay wages comparable with those in industry when circumstances force them to do so . |
| 25 | Our study shows that the guidelines are acceptable to and suitable for use by general practitioners and suggests that they can substantially reduce referral levels and reduce patients ' exposure to radiation . |
| 26 | However , Dr Adams manipulates the remaining children , as he knows that they can telepathically communicate with Tommy , Michael and Jenny , to get the three of them back . |