Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] [verb] that they " in BNC.

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1 The Iranian authorities countered that they had repeatedly asked the Turkish government to present evidence for such claims .
2 One day later the Ringaskiddy residents announced that they intended going to the High Court to seek an order enforcing the asbestos dumping regulations .
3 When the multinational firms saw that they were international , the minds of the people followed them . ’
4 The rural masses showed that they could want .
5 By the middle of January 1918 the Labour leaders knew that they were sitting on a potential volcano .
6 None of the Labour leaders felt that they should disobey the ruling of Conference that they should return to opposition : and some of them , most notably Morrison , were obviously relishing the prospect of the return to party politics .
7 In mid-July the Croatian authorities announced that they did not have the resources to cope with any more refugees unless substantial help from abroad was forthcoming .
8 It is now up to the mainstream physicists to show that they can organise themselves to the point where they can justify their basic funds , and the extra money that has now been set aside for them ( This Week , 3 February , p 287 ) .
9 In all probability , many knights and barons joined in building these churches , and the English citizens boasted that they were the ‘ barons of London ’ .
10 The delegates representing the civic committees indicated that they had no wish to see a split in their ranks , and unanimously endorsed Walesa as Solidarity leader , but rejected his suggestion that the civic committees be opened to other political parties — a manoeuvre interpreted as an attempt by Walesa to broaden his base of support .
11 On Oct. 4 settlers on the Golan Heights announced that they intended to convert an army post into a settlement for Soviet Jewish immigrants within two weeks .
12 At least the British players demonstrated that they fully deserved to be on the same court — much against many people 's expectations .
13 The German authorities denied that they promised any of payments or leniency towards the two Hamadei brothers held in a German prison [ see pp. 38455 ; 38695 ] .
14 The German authorities announced that they would request his extradition in connection with his alleged collaboration with international terrorists and in particular the 1983 bombing of the French consulate in Berlin [ see p. 33039 ] .
15 Even without this problem , it should be our objective to advance negotiations , contract drafting and due diligence as far as possible with the preferred bidder before the remaining offerers realise that they have been unsuccessful .
16 Just over a half of the part-time farmers said that they used or would use off-farm income for the farm .
17 While the French police eventually traced the pieces to Osaka , lack of cooperation on the part of the Japanese authorities meant that they were not returned to France until June 1990 , and then only on the condition that they were returned to Japan by December of that year .
18 In the belief that all ‘ accessory food factors ’ were likely to be amines , one of the early researchers suggested that they be called vitamins , that is vital amines .
19 The sooner the Liberal Democrats accept that they too need a pre-election deal to avoid extinction , the sooner some viable opposition to the Tories can begin to be created .
20 The following institutions state that they act as appointing authorities .
21 Size of establishment is associated with number of training programmes ( see Table 4 ) as one might expect it to be , although there are differences to be noted within authorities of similar size : while none of the large libraries said that they engaged in no planned training programmes , they did not fall into Category I ( Category I was 30 or more programmes and was a very broad grouping , with several libraries mentioning well over 100 programmes ) .
22 Responding to criticism from neighbouring countries , including Russia , the Chinese authorities said that they had always exercised restraint in nuclear testing and that China was still committed to a complete ban on nuclear testing within the framework of effective nuclear disarmament .
23 Only slowly did the various industries realise that they had to better the ‘ lot ’ of their workers and reduce the occupational risk .
24 Most of the disabled professionals believed that they had more knowledge of disability than their colleagues .
25 After the weekend , the Unionist Whips decided that they had taken things far enough , having wasted an entire week of parliamentary time and given their supporters a sign of the vigour with which the fight was being waged .
26 Their exaggeration of the small tasks betrayed that they were more involved with Moran than in what they were doing .
27 Within a few hours , a team of very brave men descended into the crater and entered the workings where the disaster had begun ; the danger of further subsidence from the surface and the extremely unsafe condition of the underground workings meant that they were knowingly putting their lives at risk .
28 Reports from the clergy in some of the affected dioceses show that they were perplexed by the variety and number of the movements emerging at this time .
29 When station redcaps were self-employed , there were many of them , but when the federal authorities insisted that they should be employed by their companies their numbers rapidly dwindled .
30 Relations with South Africa deteriorated further [ see p. 39178 ] when on Dec. 1 the Angolan authorities announced that they were holding the crew of a South African plane which had made an emergency landing in Luena , Moxico province .
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