Example sentences of "[vb -s] that they [modal v] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tim Whittome thinks that they will help to make matters a bit easier . |
| 2 | He says that they could have turned the company around . |
| 3 | At present it seems that they will wish to lead their own purchasing of intelligence and perform research analysis ; they should develop sufficient statistical and epidemiological skills to conduct surveys and evaluate small projects on service developments and contractual monitoring , and have the expertise to commission larger pieces of work . |
| 4 | Sprague de Camp also says that the sharpness of the Tyrannosaurus ’ teeth hints that they may have eaten meat softened by decomposition . |
| 5 | From this it appears that they would have to become unrecognisable as potatoes before they could have been said to have perished . |
| 6 | When they did make extensive use of it for coinage , however , the high zinc and low iron content of the coins indicates that they must have used metallic zinc rather than cementation . |
| 7 | Some exports are seen , and the pool of cheap labour and resources means that they may begin to pose a competitive threat . |
| 8 | ( Sun , 24 September 1975 : 26 – 1 ; in Erdmann 1982 : 99 ) ( implies that they should have known better than to cross gloves with Joe Louis ) |
| 9 | Older women are sent daily signals that they must struggle to preserve their attractiveness . |
| 10 | John Bowers , an agricultural economist at Leeds University , estimates that they will have to pay double the true ‘ conservation value ’ to protect sites — the rest goes on compensating for lost grants and agricultural subsidies of various kinds . |
| 11 | Any changes which are not disclosed may cause the court not to sanction the scheme if it decides that they would have influenced shareholders on how to vote . |
| 12 | Dr Lesley Hawkins , Director of Services at Surrey University 's Occupational Health Department , has tested ionisers and believes that they can help to relieve asthma and allergies , but there 's no evidence that they can cure diseases such as arthritis and rheumatism . |
| 13 | This may be so , but Japan 's overwhelming success in electronic product areas less obviously related to their own market requirements suggests that they would have triumphed anyway . |
| 14 | The similarity of their design to cup-and-ring patterns is striking and suggests that they may have had a ritual function . |
| 15 | If children are beaten with a stick by their parents when they transgress , he suggests that they will tend to avoid transgressing on those occasions when their actions are not concealed from their parents . |