Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] they [am/are] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes it is argued that even if researchers do not really believe in the religion that they are studying , they will get more information if they pretend to do so — if , in other words , they use covert , rather than overt , methods of investigation . |
| 2 | They are usually so directly continuous with the tergum that they are regarded as postero-lateral outgrowths of that region . |
| 3 | Not all these are easily or indeed ever available to outsiders , but they should still be considered as potential sources of data , bearing in mind that they are produced as by-products of social , economic , and political processes . |
| 4 | It 's becoming sort of fairly topical erm where there , and it is , more perhaps related to the fear of crime than the actual crime itself , where , people are afraid to go out for fear that they 're going to be personally attacked , whether it be you know , answering the door at night in their own homes , or actually , you know , going to their cars . |
| 5 | And what is the misogyny that they 're putting out that you talk about ? |
| 6 | ‘ We do need to talk to the tutors and point out that the patterns of study that they are providing are not meeting the demands of the market , ’ Mr Armitage stresses . |
| 7 | If fundholders were to be a lever for change in the reorganised National Health Service there is evidence from this study that they are achieving this objective . |
| 8 | Staff , though , do need to have the time and resources to so keep up with their field of study that they are immersed in its conversations . |
| 9 | it is n't an indication that they 're going to be applying for any other jobs that come up . |
| 10 | The onus of rebutting the presumption in 5 is not lightly discharged and the fact that shares are expressly made participating as regards either dividends or capital is no indication that they are participating as regards the other — indeed it has been taken as evidence to the contrary . |
| 11 | It 's an indication that they are working on it and what may seem to be an accepted fact one day can be vehemently denied the next as the bereaved person comes to terms with the loss . |
| 12 | He , that he 's now a Director of this Ipswich Buses and I do n't think you can get a better man to do it because he is heart and soul in transport , he , the things that he brought in , the different innovations that he brought in were good , I mean he brought in , he brought in all this erm operated vaults and all that sort of thing and all this electronic gear that they are working now . |
| 13 | Schools and universities are told with increasing shrillness that they are failing in their duties , but there is no agreement about what those duties are . |
| 14 | Well it is three hundred and twenty thousand pound that they 're paying to this person that should not have been there in the first place , he walked on there , he built places there without planning permission and I think if the council had played their cards right , they could have got him off without paying out this three hundred twenty thousand pound . |
| 15 | Mr. Lawson applies that description to people like me , who believe that tobacco advertising and sponsorship of sport are immoral and have precisely the effect that they are intended to have , which is to recruit young people into smoking . |
| 16 | Lionel Elvin , Director of the University of London Institute of Education , had , as a member of the Robbins Committee , framed its recommendations for the teacher training colleges ( as they were called before the committee 's recommendation that they be renamed colleges of education ) to be brought within the universities ' ambit . |
| 17 | The universe , in fact , is expanding ( although that 's another talk really ) and for the present purpose the important thing is that they 're moving away at a speed which increases with their distance and so if we can measure the speed that they 're moving away from us , then we can find their distance , and that takes us to the edge of the universe . |
| 18 | We will have to offer an alternative to the crap that they are peddling . |
| 19 | Too many diets also have the disadvantage that they are associated with a drop in metabolic rate ; that is in effect , the rate at which you burn up food . |
| 20 | Oversized books suffer from the serious disadvantage that they are housed in a separate sequence from the main stock , and are invariably less well used . |
| 21 | Occasionally children require some additional recognition that they are behaving well apart from their parent telling them that they are good . |
| 22 | It accords them a privilege from action for defamation , on the condition that they are made honestly . |
| 23 | I think it provides very good value for money , er , I think it will give Shropshire workers some of the protection that they 're lacking from the statutory instruments that are being removed , and from the labour market conditions they face , and erm , maybe er , a , a , some successful operations by this er , low pay unit would , would , would improve , improve the position in Shropshire , and maybe er , get employers to , to improve the er , conditions and wages that they offer , so I would certainly support er , option two . |
| 24 | those long-term projection type issues as to what is the general vision , direction that they 're going in , and therefore what should we as a group be recommending to our manufacturing colleagues that they should be manufacturing . |
| 25 | This aborted attempt at developing an integrated approach illustrates that most statutory and local authorities in Wales recognise the need for , and benefits of , a coastal strategy for Wales , but that various key players ( especially the development agencies ) are unwilling to integrate their statutory objectives with those of others in the interests of achieving sustainable development , without being given a clear ministerial direction that they are required to do so . |
| 26 | I very much hope that they are engaged in the work and committed to it , but I do n't want them to believe it 's real ; and the word involvement to me implies an inability to stand apart from the role-playing . |
| 27 | So maybe things are very slow erm but I think there is hope that they are changing . |
| 28 | What I 've said is that I 'd like to see the existing C P O's become divisional staff at the division that they are working now so that the divisional commander can allow them to stay there holding hands with the new civilian C P O for up to six months if necessary because it then becomes a local decision as to when the when the two have that umbilical cut . |
| 29 | I do n't I do n't know that I 'd fancy doing , I mean I did like biology , but I do n't think I 'd specifically want to do the biology at the level that they 're doing it up there , cos it 's too much of a jump from what I 've ever done before |
| 30 | E and also you know that course that they 're doing for employment officers , that B tech course . |