Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] that they [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both groups purport to find their principle validated within the criminal law but both tend to assume that they have found the master principle and seek to defend it at every turn . |
| 2 | After some time though people begin to realize that they have spent minutes , hours , even days , without consciously thinking of the person who has died . |
| 3 | During much of the book you do not feel anything for the androids , but as you see their struggle for survival and begin to sense that they have gained the feelings that humans are losing , you realise the irony of the book . |
| 4 | They seem to think that they 've got to prove how manly they are . |
| 5 | ‘ Too often chief executives fail to recognise that they have embarked on a major project until they are well into it and it had run into difficulties . ’ |
| 6 | Many category 2 queries , however , are from people who have done a fair amount of ‘ homework ’ , but have been unable to find out all they would like to know , or wish to check that they have made the right interpretation of their reading . |
| 7 | And they , it basically says , there 's erm , replenish , or rotate stock , and they sort of tick or sign to say that they 've done it . |
| 8 | We need to see that they have taken it into account . |
| 9 | Whether you agree or disagree with what they do , you have to accept that they 've worked out a very complicated system of values . |
| 10 | The available for work condition is interpreted to mean immediately available , and women have to demonstrate that they have made adequate arrangements for the care of dependants . |
| 11 | The task of dealing with intentional explanations is also linguistically demanding in that children have to show that they have maintained the reason/result distinction by using a linguistic construction which is appropriate to the intentional mode , such as : |