Example sentences of "and [vb -s] that they " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an example , take someone who tries to give up smoking and thinks that they have lost the fight completely when they want their first cigarette . |
| 2 | ‘ From now on , it 's healthy eating , ’ she announces to her underwhelmed offspring and insists that they and their father go jogging and serves up watercress soup for tea . |
| 3 | We ordinarily say of causal circumstances and causes that they make their effects happen , but we do not say , and will deny , that effects make either of the two causal items happen . |
| 4 | We also say of causal circumstances and causes that they explain their effects , in a sense in which effects do not explain the causal items . |
| 5 | They could remember a world which they had known and recognized compared to the fragmentation of their work and lives that they were now experiencing . |
| 6 | The author has compared the type of O. decipiens with the other specimens of O. crassidens and could find no significant differences , and concludes that they are conspecific . |
| 7 | For according to Althusser , Marx takes the notions of certain practices as primitive , and assumes that they will be present in all societies . |
| 8 | The Convention continues the distinction that has been traditionally drawn between rights and obligations , and assumes that they can be effectively distinguished . |
| 9 | He says that to me and then he turns round and says that they were all taking the piss out of Gemma because she 's got thunder thighs and she has n't , that 's the whole point ! |
| 10 | The wear on horses ' teeth from thirty thousand years ago clearly shows signs commensurate with what we know as crib-biting and confirms that they were domesticated even then . |
| 11 | A close comparison of all the details of the heads reveals no differences , and shows that they were struck from the same die . |
| 12 | TIM PEACOCK joins them on the road and discovers that they 're dab hands at snooker , Ian T Tilton gets them in the frame . |
| 13 | TIM PEACOCK joins them on the road and discovers that they 're dab hands at snooker , Ian T Tilton gets them in the frame . |
| 14 | Tillich recognizes the former point , when he refers to the mystical approach to nature , which is to be found in the works of St Francis of Assisi , Protestant mystics and German Romantics , and states that they illustrate an attitude almost indistinguishable from the principle of identity . |
| 15 | Amendment No. 5 deals with the assets of the undertaking and states that they should not be disposed of within five years after privatisation . |
| 16 | Uncertainty over their whereabouts and fears that they will enter the art market |
| 17 | Early antiquarians and archaeologists were greatly hampered by an almost complete lack of dating techniques for the sites and finds that they recorded and excavated . |
| 18 | The pioneering scheme , run by Age Concern Cleveland , provides escorts for elderly people in the hospital 's accident and emergency department and ensures that they are settled at home after discharge . |
| 19 | 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 ! |
| 20 | Wright 's magnificent second goal was just the icing on the cake before a near 30,000 crowd , and proves that they will certainly be in with a shout when the title race really hots up . |
| 21 | Someone adopts two of these creatures and urges that they too be named . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The similarity of their design to cup-and-ring patterns is striking and suggests that they may have had a ritual function . |
| 24 | He takes as his starting-point the preconceptions of liberal legal and political theory , and suggests that they be pushed to their logical conclusion to fashion a programme for the reconstruction of the state and the rest of the large-scale institutional structure of society . |
| 25 | This indicates that the events are caused by the low-energy particle precipitation and suggests that they may be involved in the production of polar cap density ‘ patches ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The report recommends that children should learn to write clearly and accurately in Standard English , and argues that they can be helped in this by learning to use descriptive technical terms to talk about language . |