Example sentences of "[verb] that they [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the drivers are exciting , and people who are stuck in this pattern of behaviour often have an incentive to stay in it — they feel that one day they will succeed , they will finally be perfect , they will at last please everyone ; they will prove that they can get everything done more quickly than everyone else , and they 'll know that they can undertake anything under the most difficult conditions . |
| 2 | Now the audit industry was in favour of that at the time because it saw itself as able to get its fingers into local authority audit so they were prepared to accept that they could do it then , it 's only now er when it 's proposed on what 's been their traditional prerogatives , they er er they audit of banks and private sector er er companies that they balk at the proposition and say ooh it 's horrendous we ca n't do it . |
| 3 | They need to know that they can give you your professional , their professional attention they will not make it compulsively , the majority party of what went wrong this is you were no longer the majority party . |
| 4 | Bond owners might like to know that they can use her Knitmaster Chunky ribber-carrying cases for their machines — the bags are the perfect size for the Bond Classic . |
| 5 | It was expected that they would interview him later today . |
| 6 | The Government wish that such increases were not happening , but realise that they can do nothing about them . |
| 7 | When I say that parents will receive this information , I must make it clear that it will not be available on application to those parents who realise that they can obtain it . |
| 8 | He was very friendly with erm who was in charge of the Extra Mural Board and erm then possibly because of this connection erm we were asked by the erm Ministry of Defence to provide lectures and courses for erm units of H M Forces stationed in the area and erm so a panel of lecturers was erm formed and erm they used to go out , the , the units used to have their own Education Officers , usually a sergeant or perhaps a second lieutenant and erm they used to come into the office and say that they 'd like somebody to go out to their Searchlight Unit or A A Unit stationed somewhere out in the sticks and er lecture on this that or the other and erm we were supposed to try and fix them up and erm the panel erm , it had quite a number of erm people on it that erm , I ca n't remember who they all were , I know that erm you 'd hardly believe this but there was a chap named Mr and another chap named Mr |
| 9 | Government employees were given the day off to swell the crowd , and Mr Hun Sen emphasised that only his party could guarantee that they would keep their jobs . |
| 10 | This does not , however , mean that the peasantry were contented , nor does it prove that they were particularly prosperous ; rather it suggests that the peasantry found that they could secure their aims more effectively by passive resistance and the exploitation of their economic power than by violence . |
| 11 | The three countries agreed that they would withdraw their co-operation even if the Warsaw Treaty summit now went ahead . |
| 12 | We hope that when the others are erected that they will consider themselves left out and perhaps join in . |
| 13 | I know that they combine a macho enthusiasm for selective violence with a rigid adherence to middle-class morality , but you are n't seriously suggesting that they 'll suspect me of cutting Paul 's throat because I go to bed with his wife ? |
| 14 | ‘ We never expected that they would attack us from behind — from Ethiopia , ’ said Dr Justin Arop , SPLA representative in Nairobi . |
| 15 | 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 ] . |
| 16 | The military blocked everyone in on campus and the police announced that they could shoot you without asking questions . |
| 17 | I know that some have already taken the plunge and purchased shares in privatised utilities , and I trust that they will encourage their colleagues to do likewise . |
| 18 | In his 1927 Manifesto to intellectuals Barbusse argued that they should do everything possible to help the birth of a new society . |
| 19 | Will the vast sums of money which are being asked for by the Governing Bodies of Sport mean that they will price themselves out of the market or will television continue to pay as they compete for audiences ? |
| 20 | Sure enough , Joseph Chamberlain and others proceeded to do just that ; and sure enough , it was the Canadians who patiently but persistently explained that they would have none of it . |
| 21 | There was a time in the history of the Liberal party when it trusted people with their own money and believed that they could make their own decisions . |
| 22 | He says that they should leave it as it is . |
| 23 | When her father formed the view that the car he and her mother had bought her for her eighteenth birthday was more roadworthy than Cara 's outwardly smart but inwardly not so clever vehicle , it was decided that they would use her regularly serviced Volkswagen Polo for the trip . |
| 24 | Donleavy had thought seriously about the chance encounter with Hurley , and , on balance , had decided that they might turn it to account , although … |
| 25 | We are er overseeing them , as we do with other contractors , but it is , it is the district and it 's their own contractor and we hope that they will improve their performance . |
| 26 | In my view , the steps that the Government have taken , and are proposing to take , will in no way diminish the handling of the cases ; indeed , I hope that they will speed it up and make it more effective and efficient . |
| 27 | Whenever I see coloured people in Porteneil , buying souvenirs or stopping off for a snack , I hope that they will ask me something so that I can show how polite I am and prove that my reasoning is stronger than my more crass instincts , or training . |
| 28 | She signalled that they should lower their voices and follow her round the building to a new window smashed through the wall of the cottage . |
| 29 | The trading employees in India were not paid salaries in the modern sense of income they could live on ; they got small retainers , starting at perhaps £5 a year , and it was taken for granted that they would supplement their retainers by trading , sometimes acting as agents buying the goods that would eventually be exported by the Company ( though this could easily lead to fraud ) , but more often dealing for their own account . |
| 30 | Erm th there 's just a comment I 'd like to make that they have said that they would place it on that figure report on our . |